This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.

Mal ,'Ariel'


Natter .44 Magnum: Do You Feel Chatty, Punk?  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


flea - May 05, 2006 5:46:51 am PDT #5513 of 10002
information libertarian

In my 36B incarnation, that weirdo bra would contain me. In comfort? Possibly not.


Hayden - May 05, 2006 5:52:21 am PDT #5514 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

he wasted a great oppotunity by being "a bully," and should have used it to "tell [Bush] things he needed to hear."

Like, say, "heckuva job, Bushie"?


erikaj - May 05, 2006 5:55:36 am PDT #5515 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

Did they not know the Colbert persona? Belzer was gonna do one during the Clinton years, but they backed off of him, Belz says because "Ooh, Belzer's gonna say dick. Of course I am. That's what I *do*."


Frankenbuddha - May 05, 2006 6:00:50 am PDT #5516 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

My favorite response to his speech yet is Richard Cohen's at the Washington Post. Not only was Colbert "so not funny," he wasted a great oppotunity by being "a bully," and should have used it to "tell [Bush] things he needed to hear."

Um...

Oy, I just read that chucklehead's article. Dude, if you have to preface your commentary with "I'm a funny guy", the chances of you actually being a funny guy are slim and none.

And, as I've noted, slim left the building.


Sean K - May 05, 2006 6:09:38 am PDT #5517 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Dude, if you have to preface your commentary with "I'm a funny guy", the chances of you actually being a funny guy are slim and none.

Even though it wasn't George Will who said that, I keep hearing it in George Will's voice, who is about the least funny and most dour person I can imagine.


Trudy Booth - May 05, 2006 6:15:47 am PDT #5518 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

George Will could go with, "I am an unintentionally funny guy."

But, you know, not George Will.


Jesse - May 05, 2006 6:17:46 am PDT #5519 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I should go to Victoria's Secret sometime soon (free panties! They always get me with the coupons in the mail), so I'll see if I can try that bra on, for research purposes.


Topic!Cindy - May 05, 2006 6:18:54 am PDT #5520 of 10002
What is even happening?

Huh. Joss cosplaying Joss.
Or so he'd have us believe.
Adorkable. Just when I think I'm *so* over him, he proves me wrong.


tommyrot - May 05, 2006 6:22:45 am PDT #5521 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Conservatives Drive Bush's Approval Down

This quote amused me:

''I think he's the dumbest president we've ever had,'' said Mark Rauzi, a conservative voter from Gillespie, Ill. ''I disapprove of a lot of the stuff he's doing. This war was a big boo boo and he won't admit he did wrong.''


JZ - May 05, 2006 6:26:09 am PDT #5522 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

My favorite response to his speech yet is Richard Cohen's at the Washington Post. Not only was Colbert "so not funny," he wasted a great oppotunity by being "a bully," and should have used it to "tell [Bush] things he needed to hear."

Cohen was supremely eyerolly. It's particularly amusing to hear that the most powerful human being on the planet is capable of being bullied by a basic cable half-hour comedy host (unless, of course, Colbert is actually the most powerful human being on the planet and Bush is just the planet's biggest pussy).

I also fell in love with a guy on a message board I read yesterday who laboriously explained that Colbert is not edgy or daring and in fact is just as bad as the people he's mocking, as evidenced by the fact that before he interviews a guest on his show, he runs out into the audience for gladhanding and fawning. A couple of people tried to explain the concept of satire, and what it means for a comic actor to create a character, but it was rather hopeless. This guy, like Cohen, started out by explaining, also laboriously, what a great sense of humor he has and how well he understands Teh Funny.