Posted on 05/02/2006 11:38:41 AM PDT by JerseyDvl
So why did the audience sit in stone-faced silence at most of his punch lines. He bombed for a reason, and it wasn't because the mostly left-wing audience don't appreciate a fact-free bashing of our President.
:-)
Although I have to admit I did chuckle at the line about D.C. being a chocolate city with a marshmallow middle.
I guess they didn't like being the butt of the joke. Point to me was, sure he hit the president, but he also hit the mainstream press just as hard. Just becuase he bombed with those who shall not be laughed at, doesn't mean he bombed with us peons watching.
Exactly. I thought Colbert was hilarious, but he had the misfortune of performing before an audience of professional bores.
Stephen Colbert has been hanging around his anti-Semite Jew friend Jon Stewart too long.
He did not hit the MSM at all. He was in character as a conservative, accusing the media of destroying the country. His premise was that conservatives are paranoid. He -- again, in character as a conservative -- suggested to the media that they should stop with their liberal bias -- his punch line being that reality has a liberal bias. That was all aimed at conservatives, not the media.
What particularly made him unfunny was that his premises were all untrue. For instance that conservatives are paranoid about liberal bias in the media and that MSM reports "reality." How is that punch line funny when it's based on a faulty premise?
Oh lighten up: Stuff like this:
But, listen, let's review the rules. Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the Decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know - fiction!
I don't know I'm a conservative but the stuff is funny. Maybe I can laugh at myself I don't know.
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