Stephen Colbert

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Broadcast live on C-Span this weekend, Stephen Colbert managed to pull off a massive coup giving the closing speech at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. He managed to insult the entire audience full of White House Press Correspondents who simply don’t know where to look or when to laugh. And best of all, he gives the President a total roasting, when he’s not even sitting less than ten feet away. I don’t understand why the WHCA didn’t expect that he might pull such a stunt. He manages to take shots at the Bush Administration, at the Associatied Press, at national media in general and of course George W. himself. Stephen Colbert’s balls must be massive indeed.

It seems that this video has had a huge impact on them internets, generating hits like “The Chronic-What!-Cles of Narnia”, but interestingly general media is apparently in two camps about his speech (that is, if they covered it at all). One camp, like I did, found his jokes the most cutting when the silence in the room was deafening. Some saw these moments as evidence of a comedian bombing. I guess Tucker Carlson will never quite got the joke after his reaming from Colbert’s mentor, Jon Stewart.

Catch Stephen Colbert’s performance here on YouTube in three pieces before it get’s pulled. Alternatively there’s a edited version here on Google video. And finally a transcript of the entire speech can be found here.

Sorry for all the links but it’s an exciting story.