Reply #53: Colbert was nothing short of phenomenal [View All]

[demobabe]

It may not have seemed like it to everybody - different people have different opinions of what is funny. I remember a paper we had to write on humor in my college English class. We read a short story from Truman Capote, and there was one guy in the class - who was quite intelligent - didn't write the paper because he couldn't see the humor in the story. It wasn't "Dave Barry" enough for him.

I'm careful to judge humor because often humor I don't find funny is very well received by a lot of people and vice versa. And that's fine.

What really amazed me about Colbert's performance is that he was actually saying these things - it was tense, unpredictable - and he had Dubya as his captive the whole time. There was no escape.

There he was, saying these things to a guy who has absolutely no sense of humor - especially when it comes to criticisms of him. This in a time where a guy went to jail for making a joke about a "burning Bush" in a bar. His whole schtick was a huge risk.

And this comes on the day where we're looking at reporters being able to be jailed as spies regarding sensitive government information.

I also don't think it's fair to judge this performance against his show where he has all his props and video monitors and produces short segments. This was a long form, which required completely different pacing, and therefor was slower with each punch delivered methodically.

THIS was all out war, and I'm just hoping they don't make Colbert pay for this one.