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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-16-07 11:39 PM
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I know I am the only one, but
I find Colbert to be sort of boring and just a little too unfunny. Well, there, I said it.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-16-07 11:41 PM
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1. Well...
you're entitled to your own (wrong) opinion... :P
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Droopy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-16-07 11:42 PM
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2. You heretic! Down to the dungeon with you!
Actually, I've only seen him a couple of times because I do not have a TV. But I thought he was pretty funny the few times that I saw him.
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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-16-07 11:44 PM
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3. you are not alone
and here i thought i was the only one
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-16-07 11:46 PM
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4. Wow! Really?
Maye we should start a support group or something.
:rofl:
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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-16-07 11:52 PM
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7. it'll be a lonely group
but at least we won't be alone

:rofl:
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 05:56 AM
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14. I'm joining your club
the right-wingnut routine is funny, but it has become tedious, I'll watch him occassionally and briefly during a round of channel surfing.
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 08:19 AM
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17. welcome
:hi:
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 07:55 AM
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16. My father doesn't really care for satire...
...and so despite having been Colbert's freshman advisor, has only seen a bit of the Report.
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Political Heretic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-16-07 11:47 PM
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5. Colbert is okay but Jon Stewart is my hero!
He makes me laugh almost every time.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 03:49 PM
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31. Welcome to DU, Political Heretic!
Mr. Gray does not like Colbert as much as I do. But he won't read Harry Potter, either, so what does that tell you?
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hisownpetard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-16-07 11:49 PM
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6. Even in poetry, extended metaphors rarely work.
And while Colbert's performance at that Washington Press dinner was phenomenal, I think his
show is getting tired.

Brave of you to go there!
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 12:02 AM
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8. Thank you
The whole running for president thing was just stupid.

A fw of his gags are funny, but they get lost in the whole "Me, Me, Me" thing.

just my opinion :shrug:
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hisownpetard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 12:11 AM
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11. Yup. I agree.
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 11:11 AM
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19. Exactly.
It's a good satire for a couple of shows, but it's hard to keep it going for a whole season, much less several seasons.
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 02:50 PM
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26. It worked in a
short piece on the Daily Show, but is just tedious and embarrassing for a whole show.
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JackBeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 12:06 AM
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9. It can be enlightening to take in account his entire career. n/t
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 12:08 AM
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10. Who is Colbert?
his name rhymes with alert, right?
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 04:22 AM
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12. I do not envy you right about now.
Edited on Mon Dec-17-07 04:22 AM by Jamastiene
I won't flame you for that, but...

:popcorn:
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 05:22 AM
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13. I like him but....
sometimes I wish he'd let his guests speak a bit more
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 08:24 AM
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18. He doesn't have guests
He has props . . . his "guests" are only there as props for his shtick. Though Jane Fonda (I don't have the link, so don't ask:)) avoided that treatment pretty well.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 09:05 PM
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35. LOL I saw Jane Fonda
it was cute :D
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 07:54 AM
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15. Liberal Fascist guards! Arrest that man!!! n/t
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 11:13 AM
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20. I think HE is hilarious, but his show is not.
It's a one-trick pony that left the barn a while ago, in my opinion. :shrug: I miss the hell out of him on the Daily Show, though.
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 11:14 AM
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21. I'll join your club
I thought his sketches on TDS were the perfect forum--and just long enough--for his kind of humor. An entire show? Not so much. (And I miss how he and Jon used to crack each other up.)
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 11:16 AM
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22. Yes!
The one where Colbert was reporting on the Prince Charles sex scandal "from England" where he deep-throats a banana - they both lose it. Kills me every time. :D
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 11:20 AM
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25. OMG that was a great one!
:rofl:

The giggle twins remind me of when Johnny Carson used to lose it, or even better, Harvey Korman and Tim Conway on the old Carol Burnett Show. (Erm, is my age showing? :blush:)
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 02:53 PM
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27. Your cool sig line keeps you young at heart
:yourock:
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 03:01 PM
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28. "No, no, YOU rock, and you KNOW that!"
OMG I'm quoting Disney's "Cars" movie--now I'm regressing! Help meeee.... :hi:
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 03:19 PM
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29. blak catz iz kewl
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 07:13 PM
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33. My recent favorite
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 11:17 AM
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23. I loved him as Mr. Noblet in "Strangers with Candy"
As his fake political pundit personality goes, it depends. Sometimes he is very funny. Other times it gets a bit annoying.
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 11:19 AM
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24. Who or what is this Colbert you speak of?
Sounds like a type of cheese. :shrug:
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hisownpetard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 03:45 PM
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30. I thought you were changing your scrren name to "Garp." No?
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 03:57 PM
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32. eh, everyone has their own brand of comedy and taste
I love Colbert - I think he's brilliant.

Some people don't like satire. Luckily for them, there are Gallagher and Carrot Top.



;)
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 07:32 PM
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34. yeah, me too
I rarely watch him unless there is a "Word" segment

those are usually funny
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