02 May 2006
Colbert
Many of you have heard about/seen Stephen Colbert's brilliant skewering of Bush, as he stood mere feet away from the miserable failure himself, at the White House Correspondent Association's dinner this weekend ( watch it here). Well, now the NY Times has made it a front page story. A taste to get you to watch the whole thing:
"Now I know there's some polls out there saying this man has a 32-percent approval rating," Mr. Colbert said a few moments later. "But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking 'in reality.' And reality has a well-known liberal bias."
That line got a relatively warm laugh, but many others were met with near silence. In one such instance, he criticized reporters for likening Mr. Bush's recent staff changes to "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." "This administration is not sinking," Mr. Colbert said; "this administration is soaring. If anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg."
I have always considered myself a Daily Show fan, and for that reason I paid attention to Colbert's show, which is a spin-off. When I started travelling for business every week last fall, both of those shows were my hotel room must-watch programs. And then I got DVR, so I started to record both of them all week. But it turned out that when I got home, I only wanted to watch Colbert. Or rather, not having much time to watch TV, I picked Colbert over Stewart. Then I just stopped taping the Daily Show. It's an awesome show, but Colbert is better. His humor connects with me on so many levels - from the childish, goofy stuff, to the multi-layered political satire. His ratings will probably just keep going up (he's already kicking ass with the young'uns like me), which is so important because in the post-Bush era (which I think we are already in) we have a lot of national healing to do. Stephen Colbert's humor will help us get there.
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