Scots Taffer on 3/5/2006 at 11:51
As well nobody should, you stupid hairy faggot.
It's called an opinion. Jesus. I don't need validation from others in order to hold it.
I laughed a couple of times, but it certainly wasn't over the line as Fox News are saying, which is sensationalising the whole thing - giving rise to the Bush haters to go LOLLORZ HE WAS SO FUNNY RIPPING ON HIM IMAGINE DOING THAT RIGHT NEXT TO HIM? When the whole point of the roast is to be self-deprecating in the first place, I mean watch Bush's segment with his "double" - it's just as funny as Colbert's segment even though Colbert has a whole batch of hard-hitting political motives in there, and that's perhaps the problem. He wasn't subtle enough.
Morte on 3/5/2006 at 12:16
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haven't seen it yet, but the consensus seems to be he bombed. of course, the hollywood consensus was that john stewart bombed at the oscars and l've heard he was hilarious.
He did nothing of the sort. Considering how talked about and well-liked this thing has been, his audience loved him. It's just that that audience wasn't in the room.
BEAR on 3/5/2006 at 14:15
Of course it wasnt subtle, hes playing devils advocate, its not really supposed to be subtle. If you dont live in america or your not really informed about american goings on (which you have no reason to be), you wouldnt find that funny. Thats why it seems asburd that you're even commenting on it, its only funny if you see people like him everyday that are actually serious. Its even more funny when he has them on his show and they still cant figure it out. His "better know a district" are pretty damn good as well. Usually I dont much care for the interviews, but he does a good job on those.
Agent Monkeysee on 3/5/2006 at 15:04
Everyone in this thread needs to take a cue from Colbert and play it cool :cool:
BEAR on 3/5/2006 at 19:08
IM COOL, WHO'S SAYING IM NOT COOL :mad:!!!!
I started to make an analogy saying that british people would be pissed if I said british humor wasnt funny just because I didnt think it was funny, then I realized you guys get american humor probably as well as americans where as americans really dont get british humor, so whatever. I think Colbert is funny and yeah if you dont agree you can burn eternaly in the pits of hell, no big whoop.
The whole point of Colberts humor is to take somthing thats already retarded, and show how stupid it is by exaggerating it, which can be subtle but usually isnt.
Then again, I've watched him on the daily show for years before this, so Im more attuned to their type of humor. Jon plays the liberal and the correspondants usually play devils advocate, but whatever. I just think its hillarous in itself that he was even there, he's popular with people like me but I didnt expect to see him there at all.
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Myoldnamebroke on 3/5/2006 at 19:50
Can you not just accept that different people find different stuff funny? At no point has anyone said 'I didn't rate this ONE ACT by ONE COMEDIAN therefore American humour is rubbish'. You don't really need to leap to his defense, or that of American comedy in general.
BEAR on 3/5/2006 at 20:42
Interesting that. I started typeing and thats what ended up comming out, I dont even feel that strongly. Scots seems like a bright guy, dunno why I yelled at him. Forgive me scots?
Scots Taffer on 3/5/2006 at 21:52
I am a bright spark! :idea:
Wyclef on 5/5/2006 at 01:47
The bit with Helen Thomas wasn't terribly funny and dragged on for far too long, and the most biting of the jokes (e.g. "aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares [...] powerfully staged photo-ops)" were too predictable. Even so, I thought his delivery was excellent, and there were a few lines that had me utterly LOLLIN':
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I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.
^^^ One of the few jokes that was both unpredictable and breathtakingly brazen (the intersection of those two sets is small)
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John McCain is here. John McCain, John McCain, what a maverick! Somebody find out what fork he used on his salad, because I guarantee you it wasn't a salad fork. This guy could have used a spoon! There's no predicting him.
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GREGORY: No, you're not finishing. You're not saying anything! You stood at that podium and said . . .
COLBERT (interrupting): Ah, that's where you're wrong. New podium! Just had it delivered today. Get your facts straight, David.
Oh, and there was the Gannon button, of course. Nice touch.
