who's into the colbert report?

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:55 pm

Not bad, but a little over the top sometimes, a little SNL at times too. I like the interviews, because he truly will say anything. No softballs tossed on that show.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:41 pm

I try to catch it every night. I usually fall asleep trying to watch the 11:30 show so I watch it again at 8:30.

Dude has me ROFL more often than not.

Mike the Lab Rat · Post by **Mike the Lab Rat** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:24 am

This guy is a little TOO into Colbert.

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:36 pm

Big time fan. Better than Daily Show.

Luther · Post by **Luther** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:28 pm

Who cares what Jim Colbert has to say? Plus, this should be in the golf forum.

Rip City

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:55 pm

Bizzarofelice wrote:Big time fan. Better than Daily Show.

Your average infomercial is better than that shit.

Colbert is probably the best thing on CC hands down.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:26 pm

Diogenes wrote:
Bizzarofelice wrote:Big time fan. Better than Daily Show.
Your average infomercial is better than that shit.

If you take it seriously, it might be looked upon that way, but it's not. It's satirical news comedy.

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:34 pm

No, it's just unfunny and tedious. Mencken, O'Rourke and the like are actual satirists. They combine wit and commentary. Stewart is mearly a buffoon playing to the lunatic fringe and the feeble minded.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:41 pm

Diogenes wrote: Mencken, O'Rourke and the like are actual satirists.

Yeah. In the 80's.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:44 pm

Diogenes wrote:No, it's just unfunny and tedious. Mencken, O'Rourke and the like are actual satirists. They combine wit and commentary. Stewart is mearly a buffoon playing to the lunatic fringe and the feeble minded.

Yeah, it's TV satirical comedy, as opposed to satirical articles and books. O'Rourke writes books and articles, he doesn't do a 30 minute political comedy show that doesn't pretend to be anything else but light satirical comedy. It is what it is.

Good thing for you there is Cspan, huh?

H.L. Mencken wrote:"Democracy is the theory that holds that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

"The liberation of the human mind has been best furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe - that the god in the sanctuary was a fraud."

"A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century."

"Husband: A No. 16 neck in a No. 15 1/2 collar."

"Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another."

John Stewart wrote:The Oscars is really I guess the one night of the year when you can see all your favorite stars without having to donate any money to the Democratic Party. And it's exciting for the stars as well because it's the first time many of you have ever voted for a winner.

"Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a man during a quail hunt ... making 78-year-old Harry Whittington the first person shot by a sitting veep since Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, of course, (was) shot in a duel with Aaron Burr over issues of honor, integrity and political maneuvering. Whittington? Mistaken for a bird.

"This past weekend, the Democratic National Committee made it official -- electing former governor and one-time shoe-in Howard Dean as their new party chairman. As a doctor they're hoping he can reattach the ass handed to the Democrats in the past election. ... You know, there's something stirring about the peaceful transfer of no power."

Oh yeah. That Mencken is a laugh riot.

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:30 pm

Mister Bushice wrote:Oh yeah. That Mencken is a laugh riot.

I'd try to explain the differance between wit and slapstick to you, but it would go over your head. Stick to the Dully show and the Three Stooges.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:55 pm

What's to explain? Dry wit ala Mark Twain, trying hard to remain intellectual while pretending to be "down" but not even defined as comedy, as opposed to biting, in your face modern day satirical comedy that doesn't pretend to be anything else but. Mutually exclusive categories of humor, IMO. I can appreciate both, I just don't laugh at Mencken and O'Rourke, it's not intended as that type of humor.

Sucks for you that you can't appreciate a little pointed, well aimed comedic satire now and then, low brow or otherwise.

And I'll take a few shorts of the Three stooges any day over the cartoons and articles in an issue of the National Lampoon or Harpers, unless I'm at the Dentist and have no choice.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:55 pm

Don't argue with Dio. He's a lot smarter than you and way more intellectual.

What, you don't believe me? Just ask him.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:57 pm

Mister Bushice wrote:
Oh yeah. That Mencken is a laugh riot.

I hear he can slay a room with his seltzer bottle routine.

Hey Dio, there's this outraaaaageous new bit by these up and comers called "Abbott and Costello".
They have this gag called "Who's On First?" Dude, it's a real knee-slapper!

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:00 am

Mikey wrote:Don't argue with Dio. He's a lot smarter than you and way more intellectual.

Your best post ever.

Rack.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:37 am

Martyred wrote:
Mister Bushice wrote:
Oh yeah. That Mencken is a laugh riot.
I hear he can slay a room with his seltzer bottle routine.

Hey Dio, there's this outraaaaageous new bit by these up and comers called "Abbott and Costello".
They have this gag called "Who's On First?" Dude, it's a real knee-slapper!

Cheap slapstick trash.

RadioFan · Post by **RadioFan** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:08 am

I like some of it.

Don't watch it on a regular basis, but some of the segments are humorous.

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 2:16 pm

Diogenes wrote:I'd try to explain the differance between wit and slapstick to you...

but you haven't advanced to the 5th grade quite yet.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 2:38 pm

Bizzarofelice wrote:
Diogenes wrote:I'd try to explain the differance between wit and slapstick to you...
but you haven't advanced to the 5th grade quite yet.

Definately

Mike the Lab Rat · Post by **Mike the Lab Rat** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:08 pm

Sudden Sam wrote:Dio thinks Bob Hope was funny.

Hey, hey, HEY! early Bob Hope WAS funny!

So were Martin and Lewis.

Dammit.

Mike the Lab Rat · Post by **Mike the Lab Rat** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:43 pm

Benny Hill.

Now THAT is not funny.

Sure, the Brits have given us wonderful comic geniuses (the guys in Monty Python, especially John Cleese, spring to mind), but almost nothing can wipe away the truly foul, execrable stain on comic history that was "The Benny Hill Show."

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:29 pm

Sudden Sam wrote:Dio thinks Bob Hope was funny.

Link?

Go watch American Pie for the 1,000,000th time and STFU.

And props on Bace's mad spelling skills. To bad he's a takeless clueless twit.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:17 am

Sudden Sam wrote:Colbert is hilarious. Great show.

Dio thinks Bob Hope was funny.

Bob Hope WAS funny, you fucking uneducated, uncultured hillbilly.

And SO is Benny Hill, btw

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:36 am

The key word being WAS. the "on the road" movies, but later on he mailed it in with a bunch of corny jokes that were not funny

Benny Hill is funny if you like Pee-pee humor, and sexual innuendo. Nothing too deep there.

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:22 pm

Sudden Sam wrote: Sorry Dio, not into the sophomoric, straining for laughs humor of today's "comedies".

I thought you said you liked The Dully Show.

Correction noted.

Uncle Fester · Post by **Uncle Fester** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:36 pm

Colbert is probably the best thing on CC hands down.

You mean since they cancelled "Let's Bowl."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er4SNmScUPU

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:56 pm

Dio making commentary on what is and isn't funny is funny, in and of itself.

What next, is he going to offer up spelling and grammar classes?

Uncle Fester · Post by **Uncle Fester** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:49 pm

I think his next seminar over at the community college is called, "Writing Understated Message Board Posts in Pleasing Typefaces."

Current enrollment is at 0, but that should change once they add some hottie pics in the course description along with the improved size 24 bolded font.