I’m very late on this, behind virtually every blogger in America, but if there’s any chance that you haven’t yet watched Stephen Colbert’s performance at the White House correspondence dinner, click above to get it.
Even though all of it is devastatingly funny, it’s much more courageous and important than it is funny. He stood there, a few feet from the President, and engaged in the most scathing satire of conservatism and this administration that anyone could imagine.
With lines like “we all know that reality has a liberal bias,” it was clear that many people in the room had no idea how to react. It is actually painful to watch some parts of it because he is speaking so much truth to power that you have to keep thinking he’s going to be killed or at a minimum forcibly ejected.
People in the blogosphere are comparing him to Mark Twain and the best American political satirists and I think they are spot on.
Colbert is as funny as people who use the term “spot-on” are interesting. Or genuine.
A national poll conducted by Quick Research Group determined conclusively that not only is Stephen Colbert unfunny, he is pathetically unfunny. Embarrassingly unfunny.
His address to the White House press core was not offensive because of his politics, but because of his wasting the time with a video presentation that ranks of there with the worst SNL flop in their most unfunny year.
See the poll results at: http://richardquick.blogspot.com