Stephen Colbert at the WH Press Dinner
30 04 2006
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Stephen Colbert was a speaker at the White House correspondence dinner last night, attended by celebrities, politicans and the President. Colbert presumably made a few enemies in the upper echelons of the administration during the show (assuming that the handlers explained the jokes properly).
No matter what happens to America, she will always respond by staging the most powerful photo opportunities IN THE WORLD!
The beauty is that he was able to say what 68% (and climbing) of the population wants to say, directly to the Presidents face. And he got paid for it.
If you don’t watch the Colbert Report (11:30p EST, Comedy Central), you should. The combination of The Daily Show and Colbert are the most subversive and ‘truthy’ shows on television.
[...] Some choices from Saturdays WH Press dinner: Mrs. Smith, ladies and gentlemen of the press corps, Mr. President and first lady, my name is Stephen Colbert and it’s my privilege tonight to celebrate our president. He’s not so different, he and I. We get it. We’re not brainiacs on the nerd patrol. We’re not members of the factinista. We go straight from the gut, right sir? That’s where the truth lies, right down here in the gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up. I know some of you are going to say I did look it up, and that’s not true. That’s [right?], but you looked it up in a book. [...]