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> The annual White House Corespondents Dinner last night was pretty
> funny. Its being rebroadcast on C-Span. Bush spoke side by side with
> his comedic double -- who provided an inner world satirical view of
> Bush. Some was pretty ripping, even though this portion was a White
> House skit.
Video clip of the second half of Colbert's performance:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/29.html
The page includes a link to the C-Span rebroadcast,
but it yields a "Page Not Found" error message. Hmmm...
Complete (but imperfect) transcript on
DemocraticUnderground.com:
http://tinyurl.com/q8t47
> Stephen Colbert -- former Jon Stewart alumnus and who now follows
> Stewart's Daily show (Colbert, a brilliant interviewer, satirizes
> O'Reily types, by feigning being one. 50% of his routine was quite
> funny and skewering of Bush -- though it got only mild laughs from
> the correspondents -- apparently too embarrassed to laugh too hard
> at swords that went deep into the President who was sitting right in
> front of them. Or, perhaps if they are not already Colbert fans,
> and seeing him for the first time, they needed a digestion period to
> fully absorb the nuances of Colbert's satire. (The other 50% of
> Colbert's routine was a bit weak, but still the premeise of the
> jokes showed promise -- but needed some refinement to rise above
> mediocre humor. )
This echoes my take. I'm not a huge Colbert fan, but
he did get off some good ones. The video presentation
of the faux press conference and its aftermath (which
takes up most of the Crooks and Liars video, unfortunately)
was quite weak, however, and ended the dinner on a really
flat note.
My favorite line:
"And though I am a committed Christian, I believe that everyone has
the right to their own religion, be it Hindu, Jewish or Muslim. I
believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your
personal savior."
Second favorite:
"By the way, before I get started, if anybody needs anything at their
tables, speak slowly and clearly on into your table numbers and
somebody from the N.S.A. will be right over with a cocktail."
Earlier in the evening, before the dinner program began,
C-Span reran several speeches from previous dinners,
including Clinton's absolutely brilliant performance
from 2000, the one with the video of him wandering
around the White House with nothing to do.
The pants-wetting line from that speech: He introduces
it by saying (rough paraphrase) that the special prosecutor
is falling down on the job, because he, Clinton, is not
currently the subject of any investigations.
Then:
"For instance, you may have noticed that in the last
few months I've lost ten pounds.
[ominously]
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