[JerseyDvl]

Let Stephen Colbert know what you thought of his act. Almost 25,000 lefties have signed the petition and I just know they would love to hear from FReepers too :)

[JerseyDvl]

BTTT

[Semper Paratus]

Why can't they get somebody funny like PJ O'Rourke?

[in hoc signo vinces]

Colbert is an arseclown, just like the other arseclowns that support him.

So, if chuckles and his fellow bozos wish to sign a petition and show their support...Let them. They're just providing the pharmacuetical industry fodder for additional anti-depressent and anti-phsycotic drugs.

Kooks all. Colbert will get his, Jon Stewart will get his, Katie Couric will get hers...all will get their comeupence in time.

[Tzimisce]

Stephen: you're not funny and never have been.

Let's hope they extend Affirmative Action to mundane funnymen so you'll always have a job....

[milwguy]

Steven Colbert was as critical of the press as he was of the President, and when a comedian is invited to speak before the White House Press Corps, why would one think he would not lampoon both? I am very conservative and watch Colbert on a regular basis, and find him hilarious. People need to get a life before they get so outraged that a guy would have the temerity to criticize the elitist in the media, and a president who, although I support him, seems to have lost his way. It is ok in your view for the President to get up and make fun of himself, but not for Colbert to do the same thing?

[antiRepublicrat]

Some people have no sense of humor. Bush gets the jokes because Bush is President -- there's not always an agenda. It's like all those people who were mad at the "That's My Bush" sitcom by the South Park creators, thinking it was a plot against Bush, when we know the series was in creation before the election and would lampoon whoever became President.

Besides, I'll always like Colbert for his convention coverage, where at the end of the Democrat convention he said in a depressed tone, "That's three days of my life I'll never get back."

[wolfcreek]

I found the Daily show after 9-11 when, I really needed some cheering up. Stewert and Colbert were lifesavers for us. My rule is to NEVER take a comedian seriously.

[pawdoggie]

I thought that Colbert (unintentionally) did us all a big favor. I don't think that the President really knows the depth of the hatred many (if not most) Democrats and other Leftists feel toward him. IMHO, Mr. Bush tends to think that every attack against him is "political", meaning that those attacks are not really personal, nor are they truly intended to hurt or insult his reputation or character. It's unlikely that the President believes that the same Democrat Senator or Congressman who shook his hand only the day before actually believes that he (President Bush) is a greater threat to America than Kim Jong Il and UBL put together, or that the same reporter he was kidding around with just this morning privately believes that he is blithering idiot of the first order. Maybe something like Colbert's performance can help remove the rosy coloring from the Presidential glasses.

[sam_paine]

I listened to part of his schtick on the web. I got to his part about 32% approval being like the glass half full. And that he wouldn't drink it because the "last 32% is just backwash anyway." In other words, the last third that still supports Bush has to be a bunch of D&*(S*&&s.

No thanks.

Actually, he flubbed the jokes and got tongue tied. I wish Bush had walked over to the mike and said, "It's ok Stephen, the press won't mind if you flub a few words here or there."

[ProCivitas]

Stephen Colbert is consistantly hilarious while also having a substantive point usually. Same is true of Jon Stewart, Dennis Miller, Garrison Keillor, P.J.O'Rourke, Chris Rock, and The Onion. One doesn't have to agree with their opinions to appreciate the calibre of their material.

Would someone here please recommend a few good Conservative comedians/humorists? Miller, O'Rourke, Keillor,and Rock often have some conservative content. And who was that fellow who hosted Tough Crowd on Comedy Central? He is sharp.

[MagnoliaB]

Stephen Colbert has been hanging around his anti-Semite Jew friend Jon Stewart too long.