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colbert crushes bush to his face! my new hero!!!
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:14 am
by Freakaloin
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:19 am
by kapitalkev
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."
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:43 am
by Hannibal
Ballsy.
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:08 am
by R00k
That's hilarious.

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:15 am
by R00k
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.
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:46 am
by Massive Quasars
yeah, still funny though
I think "ballsy" about sums it up.
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:25 am
by [xeno]Julios
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?
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:50 am
by Guest
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.
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 8:27 am
by [xeno]Julios
thanks ctrlnuke - bout to watch the vid u linked
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 8:55 am
by [xeno]Julios
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.
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 8:59 am
by Guest
[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.
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:04 am
by Dave
[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
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:09 am
by [xeno]Julios
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
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:18 am
by Guest
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.
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 11:02 am
by Massive Quasars
[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.
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 12:25 pm
by MKJ
hahha thats great :olo
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 12:29 pm
by HM-PuFFNSTuFF
that was fucking awesome. some very astute satire right there.
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 1:10 pm
by menkent
hah, very awkward laughter there. great stuff.
and bush didn't seem to be laughing at all.
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:52 pm
by Monster w/ 21 Faces
Colbert owns, especially since he's the voice of Phil from Harvey Birdman.
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 3:55 pm
by R00k
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.

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:25 pm
by Freakaloin
i think he got to speak cuz the dumbo repubs actually thought he was a conservative comedian...
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:34 pm
by Canis
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!
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:52 pm
by losCHUNK
yeh they were pretty win
didnt like the skit at the end tho, thought it was very shit indeed :/
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:31 pm
by Monster w/ 21 Faces
I didn't get the chocolate joke.
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:34 pm
by R00k
chocolate = black people
marshmallow center = white people