Colbert Roast
Hah! Yesterday I made a short blog post about something I noticed on the news - the White House Correspondents Dinner where there was a short celebration of how incompetent Geroge W Bush is. What I didn't realise then, but do oh so gleefully realise now, is that they had another speaker: Stephen Colbert.Colbert hosts a show on Comedy Central in the US which follows on from the Daily Show (he used to be a reporter on that show too). It is a spoof of right wing shows in the US on channels like Fox News. It's a spoof. When he applauds the president for not listening to fact and logic and going with what is in his gut, he is mocking Bush and the press that support him. It's a spoof. I wonder what part of it's a spoof the organisers of the dinner not understand.
Colbert went for the jugular and lines like "I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq." were met with gloriously embarrased silence and occasional forced laughter. It was a joy to behold.
The video is here and here and here.
If you can't be arsed to watch it, there's a report here.
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