I’m sorry. They are.
From the guy who hired Stephen Colbert to talk at the Washington Press Corp dinner without, apparently, having actually seen much of “The Colbert Report,” to the 2000-plus reporters who sat there stone faced while Colbert did KILLER material, they’re all idiots.
It’s not that Colbert wasn’t funny. He was. He made exactly ONE joke that wasn’t politically related: Mentioning that Jesse Jackson speaks with the speed of a glacier, and then added, “Enjoy that metaphor while you can. Your grandchildren won’t know what a glacier is.” They ROARED at that. The material was funny. Colbert’s delivery was impeccable. And if they’d been watching in the security of their homes, they’d have been laughing their áššëš off.
But because Colbert had the balls to do his routine while Bush was sitting right there, they sat there and didn’t laugh–not because Colbert wasn’t funny, because he was–but because they didn’t want Bush to see them laughing.
The degree of nerve that Colbert displayed was inversely proportional to the guts displayed by the Washington Press Corp. They saw Bush wasn’t laughing, so they didn’t laugh. The Washington Press showed a little bit of nerve in the past months, their courage buoyed by Bush’s dropping approval ratings. But when push came to shove, they retreated to being gutless wonders.
Jon Stewart–admittedly not unbiased–described Colbert’s performance as “Balls-alicious.” I agree.
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