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.

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

But, you know, not George Will.

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.

Huh. Joss cosplaying Joss.

Or so he'd have us believe.

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.''

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.

unless, of course, Colbert is actually the most powerful human being on the planet and Bush is just the planet's biggest pussy

Well, in my world this is true...

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).

Yeah, plus, just what exactly does Cohen think the President needed to hear that Colbert didn't tell him? Or did he mean that Colbert should have spent all of his time giving it to Bush, insted of taking time to tell Cohen and his friends that they were just stenographers?

unless, of course, Colbert is actually the most powerful human being on the planet

Colbert is sorta' like Aquaman, except his super ability is to talk to and control eagles. So I guess his kryptonite would be bears.

It doesn't surprise me how many members of the mainstream press dislike Colbert's speech, because I actually thought that he hit them just as hard, if not harder, than he did Dubya.