colbert crushes bush to his face! my new hero!!!

Post by **Freakaloin** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:14 am

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp ... 1002425363

omg!...

Post by **kapitalkev** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:19 am

holy shit ! ! !

"He compared Bush to Rocky Balboa in the “Rocky” movies, always getting punched in the face—“and Apollo Creed is everything else in the world."

Post by **Hannibal** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:43 am

Ballsy.

Post by **R00k** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:08 am

That's hilarious.

Post by **R00k** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:15 am

You can get the video here

er, that one doesn't include a lot of the jokes mentioned in the article, some of the beginning is cut out.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:46 am

yeah, still funny though

I think "ballsy" about sums it up.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:25 am

i'm a bit confused here - what exactly was the occasion he was speaking at?

Was Bush really there?

Why was Colbert allowed to speak?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:50 am

http://css.ilovetheworld.com/APColbert.wmv

better vid...cuts off only the first joke about the black SUVs and the NSA.

Edit: Julios -

Colbert is speaking at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Broadcasted live on C-Span and I'm sure they'll replay it a few times tomorrow.

Bush is really there - only feet away while Colbert is ripping on the administration and media for 20+ mins. (He looks over right at Bush half the time he's insulting him).

I'm not too sure why they invited Colbert to speak(?). Although obviously glad he did.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 8:27 am

thanks ctrlnuke - bout to watch the vid u linked

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 8:55 am

that was fucking surreal -

best part was all those confused and uncomfortable primates in the audience...

the video skit at the end was terrible tho... wtf was colbert thinking? perhaps it was meant to be some sort of subversive influence thingie but as comedy it sucked.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 8:59 am

[xeno]Julios wrote:that was fucking surreal -

best part was all those confused and uncomfortable primates in the audience...

the video skit at the end was terrible tho... wtf was colbert thinking? perhaps it was meant to be some sort of subversive influence thingie but as comedy it sucked.

Yeah, my favorite part of the speach was when he looks right over at Bush talking about the 32% approval rating - and not to look at in terms of the glass being half full/empty, but that the glass is 2/3rds empty.

The skit at the end sucked, but iirc Clinton did a skit with the same woman when he was in office. So maybe a tribute? I'm too lazy to look for the link right now, may update later if I can find it.

Post by **Dave** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:04 am

[xeno]Julios wrote:that was fucking surreal -

best part was all those confused and uncomfortable primates in the audience...

the video skit at the end was terrible tho... wtf was colbert thinking? perhaps it was meant to be some sort of subversive influence thingie but as comedy it sucked.

If you've watched whitehouse press conferences very often, you'd understand why it was funny

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:09 am

Dave wrote:
[xeno]Julios wrote:that was fucking surreal -

best part was all those confused and uncomfortable primates in the audience...

the video skit at the end was terrible tho... wtf was colbert thinking? perhaps it was meant to be some sort of subversive influence thingie but as comedy it sucked.
If you've watched whitehouse press conferences very often, you'd understand why it was funny

i've seen em before - the press conference itself was so so - it was the overdrawn chase at the end with the stupid NOOOOOOOO

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

NOOOOOOOOOOO

which really sucked for me

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:18 am

ctrlnuke wrote:...The skit at the end sucked, but iirc Clinton did a skit with the same woman when he was in office. So maybe a tribute? I'm too lazy to look for the link right now, may update later if I can find it.

Nevermind, I was wrong. Here's what I was thinking of - Clinton's 2000 Whitehouse Correspondents' Dinner: http://politicalhumor.about.com/library ... svideo.htm

The woman only has 1 line in the very beginning.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 11:02 am

[xeno]Julios wrote: i've seen em before - the press conference itself was so so - it was the overdrawn chase at the end with the stupid NOOOOOOOO

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

NOOOOOOOOOOO

which really sucked for me

Sorry Jules, but that was just about the best part of the video for me.

His jokes don't seem to fly with an audience unfamiliar with his work, yet he still managed to find their collective funny bone at times.

Post by **MKJ** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 12:25 pm

hahha thats great :olo

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 12:29 pm

that was fucking awesome. some very astute satire right there.

Post by **menkent** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 1:10 pm

hah, very awkward laughter there. great stuff.
and bush didn't seem to be laughing at all.

Post by **Monster w/ 21 Faces** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:52 pm

Colbert owns, especially since he's the voice of Phil from Harvey Birdman.

Post by **R00k** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 3:55 pm

This is just surreal. I can't imagine how Stephen Colbert was allowed to speak. He definitely didn't make any friends in the room.

Maybe it's part of the president's attempt to ingratiate himself with the public again, but I'm thinking it backfired a little if that's the case.

And the glacier joke was slipped in there very nicely.

Post by **Freakaloin** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:25 pm

i think he got to speak cuz the dumbo repubs actually thought he was a conservative comedian...

Post by **Canis** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:34 pm

R00k wrote:This is just surreal. I can't imagine how Stephen Colbert was allowed to speak. He definitely didn't make any friends in the room.

Maybe it's part of the president's attempt to ingratiate himself with the public again, but I'm thinking it backfired a little if that's the case.

And the glacier joke was slipped in there very nicely.

I was thinking something similar.

I loved the chocolate city joke. Fucking hilarious!

Post by **losCHUNK** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:52 pm

yeh they were pretty win

didnt like the skit at the end tho, thought it was very shit indeed :/

Post by **Monster w/ 21 Faces** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:31 pm

I didn't get the chocolate joke.

Post by **R00k** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:34 pm

chocolate = black people
marshmallow center = white people