Someone helpfully made Steven Colbert’s roast (or hilarious incineration) of President Bush available on YouTube.
YouTube – Colbert Roasts Bush 1-3
UPDATE: But then it was eventually removed from YouTube at C-SPAN’s request. However, it’s now popped up on Google Video – apparently with C-SPAN’s permission. You can watch it here.
I’m about to settle down and watch it. Did not fail to notice the President’s body language and “screw you guys, I’d like to go home and go to bed, but Laura won’t let me” expression as Colbert was called to the podium.
LATER:
Yes, that was pretty amusing, with plenty of laugh-out-loud moments. And plenty of good lines – I don’t think Colbert left anything out. I hope Mark Smith (chairman of the White House Correspondents Association) still has a job in the morning for booking Colbert. I bet he had thousands of emails waiting for him when he got in.
The embedded link leads to the first of 3 sections. The very funny fantasy sequence with Helen Thomas is in the last one. It’s interesting watching and listening to the crowd react – he gets a decent amount of applause, but you can tell that people are holding back a little. When the camera goes to the crowd, check out how many are smiling behind hands held to their mouths. However, Antonin Scalia seemed to find Colbert’s Siciian shout-out (complete with gestures) worth a belly-laugh.
And of course, thank God for Helen Thomas. Why DID we invade Iraq?
“At the recent White House Correspondents Dinner, master comedian Stephen Colbert performed magnificently. With the rapier of wit and the mace of truth, he respectively skewered and censured the presidency of “dum’ass botch”.
Talk about wonderful lagniappe! Mr Colbert made that nincompoop’s lap dogs in our national conventional media run for cover with their tail between their legs. And that’s not all Mr Colbert accomplished.
Tucked away in his address to the dinner’s flabbergasted attendees, like a ticking time bomb, there was an “easter egg”, which we had absolutely . . . here “we” is a polite nod . . . NO right to expect. Like the Easter Bunny in a mischievous mood, Mr Colbert camouflaged a bon mot, so profound as to approach philosophical.
oh, before I reveal Mr Colbert’s casual accomplishment, I should like to preface with a cave– . . . ”
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.he who is known as sefton
http://hewhoisknownassefton.blogspot.com/2006/04/rehabilitation-of-and-by-and-for-right.html
. . . oh, yeah, I should add that the full title for that post is “rehabilitation of and by and for the right wing” . . .