Colbert New Comic-in-Chief

scottzak writes "Hail to the Chief! Stephen Colbert addressed the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday (attended by the President, the elite of Washington politics, and the White House Press Corps) and told the truth. Jaws dropped. Eyes popped. The live audience gasped. Scalia laughed his ass off. You want to see a brilliant comic display some real courage? Look no further. Enjoy the reaction shots, and Colbert's audition for Press Secretary job." The BBC covers the act just prior to Mr. Colbert's, where the President and a look-alike took turns making fun of his speaking skills.

Comments

I don't get it.

[zorkmid]

I know I'm going to run afoul of all the mindless sycophants but I'm not seeing either courage or brilliance. It was a few minutes of mediocre comedy central shtick. It was a roast. Everyone and his lame and near sighted mother is taking pot shots at Dubbya. The only "risk" Colbert took was getting food poisoning from the awful food they usually serve at functions like this.

Good Grief. Has it come to this that a smarmy comic is getting accolades for his great courage?

Disclaimer: Not a republican. Not a democrat. I loath both wings of our crappy single party system equally.

Re:I totally agree

[killjoe]

LOL what a fecking republitard. Hey buddy you know why his rating is in the pits? Let me tell the you real reason. Whe he started the war I made a doll resembling him out of straw. Then I stuck a needle in that doll every month. Not only has this act driven Bush's popularity into the pits it's also prevented an attack by Al-quada in the US. Has Al Quada attacked us? well then it works!.

Colbert was doing the wrong act

[EQ]

It was supposed to be self deprecating humor, not beat up Bush and the Press night.

See the Bush act - mocking himself (and it was pretty funny). All the others pretty much did the same, except Colbert with his attack act.

Thats why the room went silent and Colbert basically bombed his appearance. And yes he bombed - that's what you call it when people stop laughing at a comedian. Only partisans from one side would see it even remotely funny - most see it for what it was, ripping a guy when you're not supposed to. (Most posters here excepted - since Slashdot does lean left, to them the ends justifies the means).

All that aside, this is the real issue:

So how is this article News for Nerds, other than a good troll by Zonk? I want to read "looney lefty" rants I'll go to DU, Indymedia, Daily Koz and the like, and if I'm in the mood for "raging rightwing" rants, Little Green Footballs is the place. Slashdot should stay out of that - stick to political issues that have "nerd impact". This definitely didn't.

Whats next, a post about how much Al Franked hates Bush, or Bill O'Reilly blowing his own horn - or (shudder) Rush Limbaugh's jail deal?

(Ugh! No LIMBAUGH on Slashdot - Slashdot must remain a Limbaugh Free Zone)

Nerds are politically of all stripes, and this had no bearing on freedom issues or net issues or regulation, etc. It was not NEWS FOR NERDS - not even close. It was just a bad attempt at comedy by a second rate comedian in the wrong venue for that sort of thing.

Zonk should be ashamed at trolling like that.

Those are some incredible special effects!

[moultano]

Oh, there's a nice unbiased source.

I'm amazed at how well they were able to mimic Stephen Colbert with that computer animation! Forget gollum, that clearly deserves a technical oscar. And Bush, man oh man, he wasn't on screen long, but that was an incredible likeness. The crowd stuff was a little lame though. They didn't laugh enough to be realistic. Were it not for that, and the fact that this is such an unbelievable video from such a biased source, I might have even believed it actually happened!

Is This Really Slashdot Worthy Article?

[dammy]

Your leftist slip is showing, this has zero to do with technology or anything remotely interesting to Nerds. Get over the 2000 and 2004 elections, your dream boy(s) lost, get over it already.

Dammy

Re:Wasnt that funny

[WgT2]

So, I guess that means you don't respect trains:

• They're full of power.
• Incapable of ethics.

Does that mean you don't respect them enough to out of their way?

Re:Mmph

[Nasarius]

Oh yeah. My search terms were education and liberalism.

Wow. You've never read a poll or a news article in your life, have you?

Colbert

[pleasegetreal]

Sorry, he just wasn't funny.

Re:Except it is

[On Lawn]

The problem with that is Stewart clearly takes himself seriously, and hides behind the skirt of sarcasm.