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― J0rdan S., Monday, 22 October 2007 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link
its on comedy central
― deeznuts, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:28 (sixteen years ago) link
its almost as though he's parodying the idea of the all-powerful right-wing demagogue!!
― and what, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:28 (sixteen years ago) link
thank you sargent
how is this different from archie bunker for president, which norman lear was horrified by?
― and what, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link
A second spin-off Important things with Demitri Martin was announced in October 2007.
OOOHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I hate this silly boy!
― Abbott, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah Martin is real winky-winky cutesy-cutesy most of the time. I will not watch this show.
― Clay, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:31 (sixteen years ago) link
xxp ok you had me for awhile, good job. show's over folks
― tremendoid, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i'd estimate about 30% of the show now is just him smirking while the audience cheers
SAD BUT TRUE. *le sigh* Both shows would be a lot better without a live studio audience.
― Abbott, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
rush limbaugh has a sense of humor!!!! this means he cannot be parodied, made fun of, or villified!!!
― deeznuts, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link
rush limbaugh has a sense of humor - this means if you mean to vilify him, try a little harder than making a content-free ironic copy of his schtick & cutting straight to the t-shirts & magazine covers
― and what, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link
hey geniuses have you noticed that conservatives aren't actually mad at the colbert report? like, at all? if colbert is sticking it to oreilly so hardcore how come its all jokes & backslaps with those two while bill spends about 4 days a week whining about keith olbermann?
― and what, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:37 (sixteen years ago) link
who has many many flaws, but at least doesnt hide behind some jokey character to say what he wants to say
― and what, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link
comedians hiding behind jokey characters c/d?
― tremendoid, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
ko is a newscaster, not a comedian, for one thing. are those 19 yo girls mostly liberal or conservative, or are they so brainwashed by colbert that those terms cease to have any meaning at all?
― deeznuts, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
fwiw i dont necessarily find colbert 100% funny all the time (especially not recently), and i dont want to argue for his politics or strategies, i just think its sort of interestingly typical of a kind of "pundit culture"
― max, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:43 (sixteen years ago) link
if you wanna play the 'just a comedian' card go for it, its dudes claiming colbert is a brilliant political satirist who i got beef with. judging from his show he's not much a comedian either though.
― and what, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:44 (sixteen years ago) link
ps im sure as hell not arguing that colbert is "sticking it to bill o'reilly hardcore," altho ethan you have to admit that his speech @ the press dinner was great
― max, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link
You HAVE to. DO IT NOW. DO IT
― Abbott, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link
the bravest joke at the press dinner was the mccain zing
― and what, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link
he's a comedian who has brilliant political points to make and makes them on a regular enough basis for me to admire. i don't even think it's possible to be a brilliant political satirist 4 days a week on TV fwiw. alot of killing time, meta fluff, and silliness that doesn't put me off cos i think most of it is funny.
― tremendoid, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:48 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Abbott, Monday, October 22, 2007 7:46 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
i think i just got a boner
― and what, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
/deeznuts
tru
― deeznuts, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:50 (sixteen years ago) link
stephen colbert shreds
― hstencil, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, Stephen Colbert is really funny and his show is funny, it's a parody, everyone knows that, whatever, move on already.
― Dimension 5ive, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:29 (sixteen years ago) link
i find myself looking more forward to colbert than stewart, and i never thought that'd happen.
also, plz keep a lid on abbott pervitude -- she's wonderful and cute and i bubble with enthusiasm myself sometimes, but the burgeoning consensus of OMG HOTT needs some tupperware and a space in the freezer.
― kenan, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:33 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, yes, capn save-a-what-have-you
― kenan, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I view it all with a detached amusement. It is hell of strange and...um...bemusing. *shrugs to the high high sky* Thz for the backup bday boy.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:35 (sixteen years ago) link
ok I actually am not in agreement with a lot of ethan's criticisms on this thread. Anything that becomes popular enough without being overly complex is going to have a large fanbase of "dittoheads" so I really don't see that as valid.
What I think is worth discussing is if anything colbert does is necessarily worthwhile commentary on politics or even media anymore; it seems like they nailed it on the first episode with "truthiness" and have basically been going over the same ground, over and over and over, ever since, with increasingly bigger tires. Colbert's joker is watered-down topical Dada, it's like Jackass News with a little less juvenile enthusiasm and a veneer of political gutsiness that it doesn't deserve.
I have to strongly disagree that his "points," such as they are, are brilliant. I think he is competent at satire, but really he's an excellent improv comic settled into a single character that's working very well because the country as a whole cannot get out of this rut.
I think that because people 17-30 can't see how to get out of said rut, they take some comfort in Stewart, Colbert and crew making laffs out of the situation, and the problem is that that comfort is just making it easier to not actually go out and "speak truth to power" as maybe we ought to be doing. Instead of, for example, lying down and just watching our parents go vote for Hillary and Fred Thompson and shit and being glad we don't have any friends who are in the fucking war.
These guys don't have a point except to belittle the government and the media, and fine, but to imagine that that serves any purpose beyond the ha-ha-fat-kid joke that it is seems to me to be kind of dangerously disingenuous and most certainly far, far too trusting of comedy central's real motives and interests.
(hence all the hem-and-haw re: daily show partisan bias and softball treatment of real fucking winners like john bolton or newt fucking gingrich)
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:46 (sixteen years ago) link
but OTOH to blame two comedians on late night cable for my dim, bleak outlook on my own generation is even greater disingenuousness in itself. clearly it's time to go out and get angry at everybody over 40 again OH WAIT
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:49 (sixteen years ago) link
What can I do "speak truth to power"? Because I truly do not know and this ineffectual state is extra depressing sometimes.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:49 (sixteen years ago) link
if you wanna play the 'just a comedian' card go for it, its dudes claiming colbert is a brilliant political satirist who i got beef with.
name ten brilliant political satirists from 0 B.C. to the present without google: GO
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:50 (sixteen years ago) link
here I'll help 1)Petronius 2)Juvenal 3)Swift
all you gotta do is seven now
bierce
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
twain
shakespeare
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:52 (sixteen years ago) link
biz markie
vonnegut voltaire
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Tombot 2/4, I don't know that Shakespeare did a lot of satire and I love Biz more than anybody I know but umm no
xpost voltaire yet vonnegut no
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:53 (sixteen years ago) link
yet=yes + beer
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
ray stevens
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
free vodka for anybody with the nuts to say "mort sahl"
Yes weren't v. big political satirists IIRC.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Bahaha I guess a guy reading a paper on stage is not too different than TDS (re: Mort Sahl).
― Abbott, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:55 (sixteen years ago) link
yakov smirnoff
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link
mencken
― omar little, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Franken
― nickn, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 01:01 (sixteen years ago) link
george lucas
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 01:01 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.speakersla.com/2006-07/images/capitol-steps-large.jpg
(The Capitol Steps)
― nickn, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 01:03 (sixteen years ago) link