Stephen Colbert wins Grammy for Comedy Album thanks Jesus at the 2010 Grammy Awards

examiner.com ^ | Feb. 1, 2010 | Réne Girard

[RGirard]

Comedian Stephen Colbert won a Grammy last night at the 2010 Grammy Awards show for Best Comedy Album. The album is entitled "A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!" After taking the stage, Mr. Colbert told the audience: "This is a Christmas album, so obviously I should thank Jesus Christ for having such a great birthday."

His comment seemed a little tongue-in-cheek and was met with mild laughter from the audience. He should indeed thank Jesus Christ, who is truly the greatest gift of all, but of course his remark was most likely said not in thanks, but in the interest of comedy ...

[article includes video of contenders and acceptance speech]

[RGirard]

[Mengerian]

What a smug a$$. Yuck it up now, funnyboy. Hell awaits you.

[svcw]

Jackass

[AsYouAre]

I believe his a devout Roman Catholic.

[AsYouAre]

his = he is

[ejonesie22]

God always has the last laugh...

[a fool in paradise]

Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, and Barack Obama also won Grammies.

When is Stephen going to brag about having a Nobel Peace Prize?

[King Hawk]

Cool now...uh, nope still waiting!

[xenob]

I'm not a big fan, but before you jump to conclusions. (yeah, I know I'm on FR)... Look at some of his past interviews... One example..

Stephen Colbert on Religion
Would your family all sing carols on Christmas Eve?
Sure, we’d process through the house, and we still do it. My family is 50 people now — nieces and nephews and that sort of thing — and we process from the youngest to the oldest. The youngest puts the baby Jesus in the manger on Christmas Eve and we sing “Silent Night.” It’s very traditional.

Does faith still play a big part in your life?
Very much. I am highly variable in my devotion. From a doctrinal point of view or a dogmatic point of view or a strictly Catholic adherent point of view, I’m first to say that I talk a good game, but I don’t know how good I am about it in practice. I saw how my mother’s faith was very valuable to her and valuable to my brothers and sisters, and I’m moved by the words of Christ, and I’ll leave it at that.

But you do teach Sunday school?
I teach the seven year olds. I’m the catechist for their first communion.

[Tzimisce]

....so a big liberal douche bag won a lefty popularity award: big deal.

[Mengerian]

That makes his remark even more abhorrent. Kerry and Pelosi are practicing Catholics too. I'm sure Colbert is a lefty baby-butcherer lover.

He's dead to me after what he did to George W. Bush at the White House correspondents' dinner a few years ago. He crossed the line and threshold of comedy and decorum with his acerbic tongue and vitriol.

[ejonesie22]

Neat thing about God, he has all the time in the universe...

And can deliver better than anyone...

[RGirard]

thank you for sharing all that ... he must be a liberal believer, and not just a liberal ... lukewarm but not cold

[daletoons]

I guess Colbert won't get an Academy Award for his election night performance, since he wasn't acting. http://daletoons.blogspot.com/2009/01/inderision-08.html

[hoe_cake]

thanks for the post...which reminds me not to judge least I be judged.

[Mengerian]

How true. Great find, too!

[techworker]

I tend to agree, as I was watching that last night I said to my wife... I don’t think he meant it to be a joke but it came across as awkward. Half the audience laughed and he had this puzzled look on his face as if to say, well I didn’t quite mean it that way.

Of course he did say it, so I guess we’ll never know what’s inside of him.

[Sans-Culotte]

I assume the remark was in reference to Kathy Griffin's acceptance speech at some awards show in which thanked "everybody but Jesus, who had nothing to do with winning the award" a couple of years ago.

Neither Colbert or Griffin were funny in their references to Jesus.

[votemout]

I guess in your version Jesus is bereft of humor.

[votemout]

That’s one assumption. My assumption is he made a Christmas album and thank Jesus for the opportunity. We goot people on here assigning people to hell, showing why only half the audience laughed. Lighten up.