NEW "The Colbert Report" coming on NOW 11:30 p.m. ET

:P

:rofl: I am damn near giddy!

and The Colbert Report! :toast:

Press Corp dinner."

Chirping crickets! "VERY respectful silence. The crowd practically carried me out on their shoulders, although I wasn't actually ready to leave."

"There's no other word for it." LOL

:applause:

:rofl:

:hi: :hug:

those of whom he was making fun, they'd be laughing their ASSES off, like his audience tonight

really mad he didn't spend more time on the roast though....already gone

why is he making fun of Clooney?

even if he's making fun of making fun of....too meta for me

Clooney is an obvious target. In irony, of course.

spend more time on himself, though somebody else made the excellent point that the real Colbert wouldn't do that, while the OReilly/Colbert WOULD

I want more of that roast.....could dine on it forever

I bet some of his guests will bring it up this week.

... just as he hauls out those Emmy and Peabody awards periodically. His onscreen persona will name-drop shamelessly, and mention how much all the movers and shakers absolutely loved his speech ... and how Laura Bush couldn't wait to get out of the room, to phone all her friends and say what a great job he'd done!

And I'm sure Clooney, who was in the audience Saturday night, laughed his ass off at Colbert. I just know it. No one can convince me otherwise. B-)

Clooney production in the near future either!

the particular audience members' response as the camera plays on them

I already mentioned Jake Tapper's very guarded response to the Hindenburg reference. the little toady. From Salon to ABC ho in one short step.

I bet they exchanged telephone numbers. And Clooney considers him a hero.

Colbert went boldly where no one has gone before.

Crickets! ROFL!! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

got to see wolverine and sharonrb and catchawave and bunnyplanet all at once! :rofl: great time!

I saw the pics ... Catch had me there in spirit ... wish I could have been there for real though. Looks like a good time was had by all!

:hug: and a :grouphug: to you all!

today? what did he do?

he should. We have become a very fickle bunch around here ... Hero today ... zero tomorrow and no middleground. We have become a place of little tolerance to anything that doesn't fit our agenda ... at the moment.

My take ... it's a long fight ahead of us. I am not throwing anyone from the lifeboat just because they fart ... know what I mean? This too shall pass.

Hey, did you ever get to have that great long, hot bath or what? :)

he fucked up BIG time tonight, especially in his choice of guests

this was a seminal moment, and he threw down on the wrong side of this one.

not throwing him from the train, but Colbert did a very important thing, and he's helping throw the whole episode down the memory hole

very disappointing

and tell him what you think ... and tell him to revisit it with the "average guy's" point of view expressed this time.

Keith is reasonable that way, usually.

will you write it for me?

I'm very lazy

i didn't catch the beginning, but he's doing a nice long report on the immigration proetests.
i'm just saying, you need to keep perspective. :)

hell else covered that on MSNBC tonight. so i'm happy with him, and it;s only 10 min into the show. .

missed it earlier.

Gotta have my Keith and some of these too :loveya:

i like this show!
:loveya:

Had Dana Milbank on (who was his usual obnoxious self) and barely mentioned Colbert. Was the first time I ever watched Keith, and I have to say, I was very unimpressed...

Keith is one of our best allies ... don't count him out just yet.

BUT...isn't it our job as progressives to call it as we see it?

he really really messed up tonight, as I said to you above, especially by picking that scumbaggington Milbank, whose JOB it has become to denigrate the likes of Conyers

did you see that thread?

well, one of them anyway. But, as I said in the one post I made about it before, I didn't see the show tonight. I will catch it right after Colbert in the rerun though. If I don't hear something reasonable, I will follow my own advice and shoot him an email about it.

We ARE Keith's base and he knows it. He will consider what we say I think.

Milbank ... remember the guy that had the guts to show up on Olbermann's show in an orange hunting vest after Cheney and the shooting ... then apologized for it the next day? Milbank has no visible balls ... just stubby little teeth. He is a regular on Keith's show, but he is often the fly shit on the windshield of the show too.

Be disappointed that you didn't hear what you wanted by all means ... then make your voice heard by the person that disappointed you.

stubby little _______

I wish I hadn't heard the entire Colbert exchange. better that he'd ignored it, than by having Milbankrupt on at all.

why him?

Keith needs some new blood to report on these things ... stir the pot ... change it up a little, but often, as he says, there are things that his producers force him to do. Make the case and see if we can effect a change. It could happen couldn't it? :hug:

stubby little teeth ... I think I will use that to refer to him in the future as well. It fits!

:rofl:

:rofl:

And showed the audience, accompanied by... crickets.

:rofl:

PRICELESS!

It's Hard to be a Pimp in this World

And...FYI...It's hard out here bein' a pimp...DUH. :rofl:

he is cracking himself up!

the word - Drug-fueled Sex Crimes

All we want to hear about our stars!

Angelina captivates us with her "baby bump".

:rofl:

and if not WHY? :rofl:

:rofl:

...by not talking enough about his speech.

I hope I'm wrong.

And keep his character going.

rats

switching to Letterman/Leno to see if they have anything to say

Leno mentioned ONLY Steve Bridges, who, I think, found fame on his lame show.

he's funnier on Leno than he was last night

at least Leno didn't play any clips. wonder why

Wild Turkey tossed in your face -- but the omission of Colbert was loud and clear.

even though "Stephen Colbert" would never let us hear the end of it. :)

only because I HAD to see his show tonight.

Leno talking about Steve Bridges now...bet he doesn't mention Colbert

I love Jon Stewart, but Colbert has been more biting and funny for a while now.

Jon is warm and fuzzy to me (nothing wrong with that). Steven is edgier.

tell Colbert that his speech at the Correspondent's dinner was "Awesome!"?

:evilgrin:

Here's a link to an earlier Daily Show thread: <http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1077564>

he was turning his show over to the Colbert spot! :evilgrin:

he is ripping them a new asshole!!

drug fueled sex crimes...thats what we want to hear about our celebrities ..mr clooney...

going on about clooney and darfur...

this is too good!!!

do not miss this!!!

fly

i heard GD was scary, but i've run into the nicest peope so far.
dear fly :hug: we'll have to get together this spring.

and we're not so scary :hi: :pals:

this weekend, and i thought of you.
how's island life? :hug:

"Will bump Frank Rich for Bump"!!

B.D. "What part of COMIC strip don't you understand? Keep it light, like Mark Trail."

:7

The ONLY person in the whole wide world who has ever stood face to face with the Spawn-of-the-Devil-Evil-Son-of-a-Bitch and call him on EVERY little bit of his Bullshit is Colbert. And the crappiest person in the world didn't even get it. They really do live in a parallel universe.

That Colbert is the only person to have ever done this act is just amazing to me.

people were deadly SERIES there, and he had to endure it for HOURS.

that was sweet

this was much more palatable

And it was rather unfocused and didn't necessarily cover EVERYTHING PRETTY MUCH.

and while he sat there

there are TONS of examples, like this, of very focused attacks on the idiot, but here's just one....gotta go to bed

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/cnn_pl1_lowery_csking_funeral_060207f.wmv


I see what you're saying, though

too bad they're the only two that come readily to mind, aren't they?

It'll be interesting to see how 'history' treats it.

"damning with faux praise" -- perfect, because "faint praise" just doesn't cut it anymore, with Stephen Colbert around.

I enjoyed the tickle as it tip-toed through my brain. :silly:

"I was watching MSNBC and CNN. The way they "sort of" report on the Colbert thing is really spooky - hard to explain. I think the Colbert thing has made it so apparent that there are parallel universes. Some people are trapped between them, but we seem to be clearly in the reality-based side (or are we??!?!?). I've seen little clips of the Colbert thing today and it spooks me. It's like that Jim Carey movie The Truman Show."

Not sure what my point is in posting this, but it sure seems like Colbert stuck his head through the Matrix and now everyone's trying to describe it as another passing target of appropriate/innapropriate labeling of liberal gumption ------------- HE SPOKE THE TRUTH! Duh! FUCK! C'Mon ....

Sorry ... this whole deal is just too weird.

Bless you, Stephen Colbert.

The silence is just bizarre.

"...Colbert does it in a different way, a much more humiliating way. Instead of coming out swinging, he uses obsequiousness to shame you, to point out your flaws and errors in a way which people cannot miss. Before you realize it, you're on the the floor, staring up, with his hand on your throat.

When you get beat by Stewart, you know you've had your ass kicked. There's blood on the floor, and he still looks pissed. When you get beat by Colbert, and he beat that room, you know something bad happened, but he's got a smile on his face and you hurt bad, but aren't sure why."

A very good commentary.
About Mr. Colbert
http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2006/05/about-mr-colbert.html