Colbert, Still Digesting His Correspondents' Dinner Reception (WaPo)

Colbert, Still Digesting His Correspondents' Dinner Reception

By Lisa de Moraes
Tuesday, May 2, 2006; Page C07

At this annual black-tie dinner, Stewart explained to his viewers, the White House and the correspondents who cover it "consummate their loveless marriage."

This year, according to news accounts of the clambake, the president and first lady were unamused by Colbert's remarks to the estimated 2,600 people who attended. In his speech, Colbert, a former "Daily Show" correspondent who now follows Stewart with his own program, "The Colbert Report," advised Bush to ignore his lousy approval ratings because they were based on reality "and reality has a well-known liberal bias." Colbert also made no friends in the crowd when he advised them to remember the rules of covering the White House: "The president makes decisions . . . the press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions." In your spare time, he advised them, "write that novel you got kicking around in your head -- you know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know -- fiction."

Colbert called it "the greatest weekend of my entire life." What some reported as a tepid reception to his patter was actually "very respectful silence," Colbert joked on his show last night. "The crowd practically carried me out on their shoulders" -- albeit before he was ready to leave, he added.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/01/AR2006050101558.html?nav=rss_print/style

... that's the whole bit about Colbert, it's in the TV reviews section.

Way to go Stephen.

Poor babies can't take the criticism. Wah wah wah. Truthiness hurts, I guess.

of way.

His smile was flattered last night, at the beginning of the show.

The audience went crazy for him.

ZZZZZZzzzzz --

but did see the speech and was jumping up and down with every quip! He's brilliant!

Biography for Stephen Colbert

Height
5' 10½" (1.79 m)
Spouse
Evelyn McGee-Colbert (? - present) 3 children
Trivia

An alumnus of the Second City and Annoyance Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. Graduated from Northwestern University in 1986.

Provided the voice of Ace for "Saturday Night Live" (1975)'s "The Ambiguously Gay Duo" segments. The voice of Gary is provided by fellow "The Daily Show" (1996) correspondent Steve Carell.

Is deaf in one ear.

The youngest of eleven children.

Is married with three children.

Is a huge Lord of the Rings fan and has an encyclopedic knowledge of the series. Specifically recorded an entire biography of LOTR character Aragorn from memory when Viggo Mortensen appeared on The Daily Show. Mortensen kindly sent Colbert a platter full of LOTR characters carved out of chocolate.

Most of the shows he has been a part of are on Comedy Central. These shows are "Exit 57" (1995), "The Daily Show" (1996), "Strangers with Candy" (1999) and "The Colbert Report" (2005).

Was included in the Peabody Award given to the "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Indecision 2000" and "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Indecision 2004" for "Offering biting political satire, these scintillating segments had something droll and amusing to say about almost everything and everyone associated with American politics and the presidential election."

Personal quotes

"The media tries to portray you as an angry candidate. Doesn't that piss you off?" "Because clearly everybody was captivated by it. I think that's an argument why he should be President, because he can capture everyone's attention. Listen, George W. Bush was a cheerleader. I'm sure he screamed like that when he was at Yale, and I don't see why that disqualifies someone from being President. But George Bush did it in a human pyramid."

"We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do. Because we get it off the A.P. feed, and then we don't have to write anything for the next five minutes. We can just roll the tape."

"Since there's not more news than there used to be, but there's way more time, and more channels doing it all-the-time, so that analysis has become much more than news ... They really have to fill and they go, '(Expletive), we'll just have analysis for the next three hours,' because there's no more new on the story. And then ... the first person with a semi-cogent thought, they go, '(Expletive), I'll say that too.' And then that analysis becomes accepted dogma because analysis is the bulk of what you're getting. You're not really getting any more news."

"You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians. ... I'm a huge news junkie. I love what the news does. And we're a shadow, a reflection, of what's happening in the real news."
It's a sin of omission, is what it is. You're not giving people the whole story about truthiness. It's like Shakespeare still being alive and not asking him what 'Hamlet' is about." - on his mock "crusade" against the Associated Press regarding his claim that coined the word "truthiness"

"The fact that they looked it up in a book just shows that they don't get the idea of truthiness at all. You don't look up truthiness in a book, you look it up in your gut."

I was so proud of him. It looked like he was having a blast, back in the studio with his "peeps". :loveya:

I watched it, taped it, watched it again and again, just to catch all the faces in the crowd as their noses were being smeared in their own bile. Loved the look on Pickles' face when she left -- looked like she just polished off a bowl of turds.

and obviously snubbed Colbert when he shook hands after his performance.:D

We watched it twice here, and thought it was hysterical. A brilliant performance, long past due, and one for the ages, and for us!:woohoo:

BWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAa :rofl:

DU, anniebelle! Sour pickles can't hide the sickly feeling in the pit of her stomach when she hears the truthiness.

Where's that picture of her and smirk at Coretta Scott King's funeral when she was getting some mo' truthiness?

Jon Stewart called it "ballsilicious"...and it was obvious there was lots of backslapping and smiles at Comedy Central Central in Midtown yesterday. It was a total take-out of sacred bulls and bullshit that will stand up strong in the light of history. Colbert joined the ranks of Twain, Rogers, Sahl, Bruce, Carlin, Hicks and others who spoke truth to power and power didn't like it.

These morons expected a one-liner comic...instead they got Truthiness and the irony that is a sick humor, but it's one that monitors and reflects sick times. If they're only seeing the irony and not the humor, then they're the problem...and their complaining shows their true colors.

It's not like Colbert barged in univited...they asked him to perform and he put on an epic.

the bathroom, with a personalized invitation!

handing over his show to Colbert's spot he said that he thought his performance was "AWESOME!" :evilgrin:

Her anger at the WH about the Viet Nam War was very brave.

Read down to the middle of the page to find out what happened to her.

She was a tipping point for the Viet Nam War and she paid dearly for in terms of her career.


http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sfmetro/07.27.98/earthakitt-9828.html

linazelle posted this poem last night. it's brilliant and a perfect ode to the ballsilicious Mr. C.

Bruce Maples Says:

May 1st, 2006 at 9:09 pm
If the powerful sit silent
And the common people cheer
You know all you need to know
About the words just spoken here.

While Cheney plays at Merlin
And Don at Lancelot
Steve Colbert is the Jester
Whose humor masks a shot

To tell King George he’s naked
(the truth at last exposed),
Bereft of moral clothing,
His kingdom all but closed.

“Ha ha — a joke, told by a knave,”
The king and knights exclaim,
“Why should we take him seriously?
Has he our might, our fame?”

And yet, e’en as they doth protest,
And fain to look away,
The bead of sweat, the compressed lips
Do more than they can say

To show how deep the Jester’s words
Have cut into their soul.
They know he speaks the truth — they know,
As faint they hear the toll

Of the funeral bell of history,
And the judgment they deferred,
As, one more time, the Jester
Has the final word.

That was great.

again and again and again. Never being one for poetry, this one sends chills down my spine, puts a catch in my throat and a tear in my eye. Brilliant.

Or maybe I just need another coffee to wake me up. I tend to get a tad maudlin in the mornin' before the day's endorphins kick in. :-)

:-)

We need that person speaking for us too!

Excellent!

for originally posting in another thread.

:hi:

:wow:

Colbert showed that the president's role as a "war president" is simply pretense.
Colbert confronted the press with their complicity in the lies that keep the Bush presidency "soaring" in spite of the weight of the corruption bloating it.

Thank you, Colbert. You showed us how naked this president really is.

seen on TV! Bravo Stephen - you rock! :yourock:

love you, no shit