Colbert and the WH Correspondents Dinner

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ohmigod what were they thinking. its like he's taking a tommygun to the room

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Sunday, 30 April 2006 01:50 (twenty years ago)

is anybody else watching this???

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Sunday, 30 April 2006 01:51 (twenty years ago)

Dubyas tlooks like he wants to take a nailgun to him

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Sunday, 30 April 2006 01:53 (twenty years ago)

his lips are pursed very tightly.

oh! there was a chuckle.

right now they've split the screen between Dubya and Colbert's "audition videotape" for the WH Press Sec. job

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Sunday, 30 April 2006 01:55 (twenty years ago)

video starred Helen Thomas!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Sunday, 30 April 2006 01:58 (twenty years ago)

that was the funniest 30 minutes of a guy bombing I've seen in awhile.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Sunday, 30 April 2006 02:00 (twenty years ago)

wait so did he kill
or did he bomb? me confused
(and did not see it)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 30 April 2006 02:06 (twenty years ago)

Hooray for the rebroadcast!

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Sunday, 30 April 2006 02:18 (twenty years ago)

Well, I fuckin' loved it!

― Mama Roux (Mama Roux), Sunday, 30 April 2006 02:19 (twenty years ago)

That was one tough crowd.

And the W impersonator was one of the creepier humans I've seen in awhile.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 30 April 2006 02:41 (twenty years ago)

he killed AND bombed - I mean, his routine was awesome and hilarious, but it was clearly too much for the audience.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Sunday, 30 April 2006 02:50 (twenty years ago)

how can i see this? what time zone are you guys in? is it on cable or something?

― josh in sf (stfu kthx), Sunday, 30 April 2006 03:03 (twenty years ago)

On CSPAN right now, for those of us on the west coast.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Sunday, 30 April 2006 03:04 (twenty years ago)

Someone get this up on YouTube, please!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Sunday, 30 April 2006 03:10 (twenty years ago)

East coasters - Colbert is being introduced on CSPAN right now.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Sunday, 30 April 2006 03:23 (twenty years ago)

streamling live at http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

hopefully available tomorroww on the site, also

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Sunday, 30 April 2006 03:36 (twenty years ago)

the audience response is so awkward!

― flea market economy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 30 April 2006 03:40 (twenty years ago)

that clip wasn't very funny

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Sunday, 30 April 2006 03:48 (twenty years ago)

Colbert didn't seem to go down too well. They looked so bored. I thought it was pretty funny but hardly

My girlfriend's roommate was trying to sneak in to this with her bloke but i'm not sure it would have been worth the effort.

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Sunday, 30 April 2006 03:55 (twenty years ago)

Stephen Colbert must carry his balls in a backpack.

Someone who's familiar w/ the institutional history of the event, has anyone been that consistently derisive to a President 10 feet away before? I don't mean, "heh heh little chuckle at your expense."

"Deckchairs on the Hindenberg" alone was worth staying up for.

Or, along the lines of "don't worry, sir, the metaphorical glass of your support is still 1/3 full. I wouldn't drink though, it's usually backwash."

― Hunter (Hunter), Sunday, 30 April 2006 04:05 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe he said all that, standing like six feet away from Bush. My entire family watched this and howled with laughter. There were a few dud jokes, and the clip was overlong, but the majority of it was terrific. The audience couldn't have been more dead, though. It was like a repeat of Jon Stewart at the Oscars - mostly funny material, but an audience that's totally not ready to laugh at its own flaws laid bare.

― reddening (reddening), Sunday, 30 April 2006 04:22 (twenty years ago)

that was fucking awesome

i don't think the audience was dead, or un-amused, just silently thinking 'holy shit'.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 30 April 2006 04:28 (twenty years ago)

the ending was just so horribly ironic, though - Bush seemed to genuinely congratulate him, as if to say, you just did pretty well at what i've been working on my whole life

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 30 April 2006 04:29 (twenty years ago)

i wonder if bush has any idea that colbert is satire.

― flea market economy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 30 April 2006 04:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh, Bill Kristol might not have had enough time to dig it, but I'm pretty sure after a solid half hour of nut twisting, W knew it was satire--and more.

I don't think "JUS' FUNNIN'!" would patch things up.

Scalia was in good humor.

― Hunter (Hunter), Sunday, 30 April 2006 04:42 (twenty years ago)

That was fast.

As Colbert walked from the podium, when it was over, the president and First Lady gave him quick nods, unsmiling, and left immediately.

Asked by E&P after it was over if he thought he'd been too harsh, Colbert said, "Not at all." Was he trying to make a point politically or just get laughs? "Just for laughs," he said.

Among attendees at the black tie event: Morgan Fairchild, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, Justice Antonin Scalia, George Clooney, and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter of the Doobie Brothers--in a kilt.

Which Doobie you be?

― Hunter (Hunter), Sunday, 30 April 2006 04:52 (twenty years ago)

Someone who's familiar w/ the institutional history of the event, has anyone been that consistently derisive to a President 10 feet away before? I don't mean, "heh heh little chuckle at your expense."

Flashback to 1996 and Don Imus.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 30 April 2006 05:22 (twenty years ago)

"What are you [reporters] thinking, reporting on things like NSA wiretaps and secret prisons in eastern Europe? Those things are secret for a very important reason -- they're super-depressing!"

Even MENTIONING secret CIA prisons in that situation: wow.

― xero (xero), Sunday, 30 April 2006 05:30 (twenty years ago)

you can download it from www.crooksandliars.com

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Sunday, 30 April 2006 06:30 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe they laughed more at Bush than at Colbert. No wonder the press is in the state it's in.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 30 April 2006 09:01 (twenty years ago)

I turned it on last night just as it was finishing, but a V.O. said they'd be rerunning it today. I missed the exact time, but somewhere around noon eastern.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 30 April 2006 12:23 (twenty years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_g8vCqvIuec

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8FBDPCyiFqY

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 30 April 2006 12:55 (twenty years ago)

I don't think that was that bad at all. There were pauses, but it's a public speech, not a teleprompter monologue. Public speaking has pauses, from my experience.

Anway, thank goodness for the court jesters.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 30 April 2006 13:09 (twenty years ago)

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― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 30 April 2006 13:11 (twenty years ago)

steven colbert is a goddamn genius. worst audience ever.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 30 April 2006 14:31 (twenty years ago)

WOW! this guy is a hero...

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 30 April 2006 14:59 (twenty years ago)

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20060430/capt.dchg11204300355.bush_correspondents_dchg112.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 30 April 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

They're into it for the first eight minutes and then just stop laughing when he gets to the photo-op line. Love the reactions from Bush.

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 30 April 2006 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Erm but are standing ovations the done thing at this dinner?

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 30 April 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

AP write-up

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20060430/i/r3282836043.jpg?x=380&y=314&sig=wLCAfurk134DK5RBvNZ93w--

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20060430/capt.dchg11404300454.bush_correspondents_dchg114.jpg?x=380&y=249&sig=1RbHOyakmXgnIAT8N01HLA--

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20060430/capt.dchg11604300453.bush_correspondents_dchg116.jpg?x=301&y=345&sig=2LDBuUJba6oVIZHwoWrqEQ--

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 30 April 2006 16:10 (twenty years ago)

best: the McCain line (that was cold)

worst: the Helen Thomas/Press Sec. audition (which was closest in feel to his actual show, which isn't all that funny)

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 30 April 2006 16:18 (twenty years ago)

worst: the Helen Thomas/Press Sec. audition (which was closest in feel to his actual show, which isn't all that funny)

Usually repititve jokes that go on and on bore me to tears, but the bit with Colbert's car-keys had me cracking up the entire time.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 30 April 2006 16:21 (twenty years ago)

The rerun is on now, just got to Bush and his double.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 30 April 2006 16:24 (twenty years ago)

maybe he's ill-served by sitting in a chair most of the time? the guy's a great physical comedian. i lol'd at the car keys, but the single best moment was "Joe Wilson is here... and his wife, Valerie Plame, *beat*, *what-have-I-done-hand-over-mouth*"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 30 April 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

just watched it on CSPAN Weekend.
Mostly boring. I don't see what the big deal is. I can understand sorta why the dude I met last night @ the Big Hunt still in his tuxedo said it seemed to run long.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Sunday, 30 April 2006 17:02 (twenty years ago)

I much prefer the show. He's a lot funnier when he doesn't have to try & aim at mostly humorless imps who all dwell inside an airtight dome. Funniest part of the routine was describing Washington DC as a Mallomar, and that still wasn't lolsworthy. Audition videotape left me cold.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Sunday, 30 April 2006 17:05 (twenty years ago)

the mccain thing was pretty sweet. he sold the line well.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 30 April 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Colbert flipping off Scalia on live tv = fairly funny.
Colbert trying to keep composure after flipping off a Supreme Court justice on live tv = very funny.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 30 April 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

I was pretty impressed. Whether it was just for laughs or not, he more or less told the whole room to fuck off (and literally, in the case of Scalia). And to call the president's 32% supporters "backwash" to his face? Ballsy. This had the look of dead-serious satire to me, rather than comedy.

― not sure about pickles (Jacqui Pickles), Sunday, 30 April 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

good material, good delivery, bad audience. the vid ran way too long. the material would've gone over way better had it been delivered by a washington type rather than a new york comedian. harder to maintain the "all in good fun we'll be playing golf next week" tone which is necessary in these dinner things when you're an outsider.

keep in mind also that these people think andy borowitz is the height of comedy.

― T0m Lehr3r (Pareene), Sunday, 30 April 2006 17:40 (twenty years ago)

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― Fluffy Bear Hearts Pleasant Plains (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 8 May 2006 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Ten Bucks says the dude who designed this won't be moving to Taylor's Falls any time soon.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 8 May 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone have any links to Jon or Colbert's reactions the next day on their respective shows? I was out that night and missed them.

― Laurah (laurah), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:15 (twenty years ago)

"Ballsalicious"

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 8 May 2006 18:07 (twenty years ago)

I AM GOING TO HAVE NIGHTMARES FOR WEEKS NOW

― Dan (Gah) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 May 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

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― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 8 May 2006 19:04 (twenty years ago)

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― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 8 May 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

MONTHS EVEN

― Dan (My Eyes) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 May 2006 19:11 (twenty years ago)

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― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 8 May 2006 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Dan, meet me at the asylum, third padded white cell from the left. (Jeff - your name is all over my future Klonopin addiction).

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 8 May 2006 19:22 (twenty years ago)

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― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 8 May 2006 19:24 (twenty years ago)

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― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 8 May 2006 19:25 (twenty years ago)

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― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 8 May 2006 19:38 (twenty years ago)

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― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 8 May 2006 19:39 (twenty years ago)

COlbert rises to the top on google video

http://video.google.com/videoranking

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 04:48 (twenty years ago)

I finally saw the whole thing there last weekend. Gotta say it's amazing his timing was only as off as it was given the Power Frost being directed at him from the dais and audience, especially when you're accustomed to collegians who will howl at your setup lines.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:24 (twenty years ago)

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/24/delay-colbert/

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

nothing surprises me anymore

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 22:38 (twenty years ago)

Are the commenters there really stupid/blind enough to not realize that Republicans have a sense of humor too?

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 22:41 (twenty years ago)

they may have a sense of humor, but come on, that does seem a little weird - relying on a parodist of the right to validate the right's talking points...? I mean, what?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 22:42 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it's weird at all - by adopting Colbert and pushing his persona (sans context), they get to be in on the joke too.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 22:44 (twenty years ago)

I think Delay may actually not be aware - after all Michael Moore send campaign contributions taht were accepted by candidates for things like "Satanists of America"

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Thursday, 25 May 2006 04:10 (twenty years ago)

There's a big difference in some anonymous drone cashing a check and a fundraising promo that had to be approved by numerous people.

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 25 May 2006 11:14 (twenty years ago)

And of course this happens at the start of Colbert's 2-week vacation.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix/66721.htm

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 06:55 (twenty years ago)

ugh

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)

ugh aussi, but CONTEXT? It sounds like one of his funnies but he DID go to Hampden-Sydney.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Colbert's commencement address at Knox College.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 21:07 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

So, how do they follow this up?

With Rich Little, of course! (more from the CC blog)

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

I hope Little tears a strip out of 'em!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

I hope he does his whole speech as Bob Hope.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

plenty of golf jokes! ahoi, polloi!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

"We don't need to have a blogfest and a partisan slugfest after the dinner. We don't need that."

Yea, nothing that will make the journalistic mainstream look out of touch

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Quite frankly having a slugfest after any sort of dinner sounds great to me.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

Don't overeat during dinner, you want to save room for the slugfest.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

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Mmmm!

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

A friend of my once shamefully admitted that he had an erotic dream starring Joyce DeWitt, aka Janet from Three's Company. This was long after the show was off the air.

― joygoat (joygoat), Friday, 19 January 2007 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

That was totally and completely in the wrong thread, by the way.

― joygoat (joygoat), Friday, 19 January 2007 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/wanda-sykes-takes-presidents-critics-white

― pen(istentiary) (stevie), Sunday, 10 May 2009 11:25 (seventeen years ago)

obama killed at this. wanda sykes was ehh ok.

― gabbneb being gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 10 May 2009 14:54 (seventeen years ago)

Ok, so who are his writers?

― my features are so intense (kenan), Sunday, 10 May 2009 16:17 (seventeen years ago)

Jonah Goldberg was Not Amused.

― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 May 2009 16:30 (seventeen years ago)

frank rich's column today:

IF you wanted to pick the moment when the American news business went on suicide watch, it was almost exactly three years ago. That’s when Stephen Colbert, appearing at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, delivered a monologue accusing his hosts of being stenographers who had, in essence, let the Bush White House get away with murder (or at least the war in Iraq). To prove the point, the partying journalists in the Washington Hilton ballroom could be seen (courtesy of C-Span) fawning over government potentates — in some cases the very “sources” who had fed all those fictional sightings of Saddam Hussein’s W.M.D.

Colbert’s routine did not kill. The Washington Post reported that it “fell flat.” The Times initially did not even mention it. But to the Beltway’s bafflement, Colbert’s riff went viral overnight, ultimately to have a marathon run as the most popular video on iTunes. The cultural disconnect between the journalism establishment and the public it aspires to serve could not have been more vividly dramatized.

― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 10 May 2009 16:51 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

Hodgeman was pretty great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW7OPByRGDY

― all art is propaganda (kenan), Sunday, 21 June 2009 06:19 (seventeen years ago)

haha Dune

― kingfish, Sunday, 21 June 2009 06:55 (seventeen years ago)

Liked the inhaler gag, too.

I would have missed the Conan the Barbarian question (and aced the rest), but I think Conan was a jock, anyway.

― all art is propaganda (kenan), Sunday, 21 June 2009 06:57 (seventeen years ago)

gah, what a punchable face that guy has

― more tang than an astronaut (bug), Sunday, 21 June 2009 06:59 (seventeen years ago)

(Currently downloading a deluxe edition of Wrath of Khan. His speech truly did inspire me.)

― all art is propaganda (kenan), Sunday, 21 June 2009 07:00 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

Damned if I'm gonna watch the monologue to know, but I've read that one of Jimmy Kimmel's jokes was roughly "Obama wanted the dinner to happen at the Kennedy Center but the Republicans wanted the Hilton, so they negotiated and came up with a compromise and here we are at the Hilton."

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 April 2012 17:37 (fourteen years ago)

Obama: “What is the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull? A pitbull is delicious.”

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 29 April 2012 17:51 (fourteen years ago)

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