Wanda Sykes spiced up the White House Correspondents' dinner by attacking Rush Limbaugh. Very brave of her, taking on Limbaugh in front of a crowd that's 98% liberal. When Stephen Colbert mocked Bush to his face - that took guts.
Right you are, Crabbie, but I still like Wanda Sykes' routine.
I'm often amazed that Colbert doesn't get more adulation: he's way funnier then Jon Stewart, and I'm simply amazed at the way he manages to stay in character so consistently. And he does it 4 days/week, too!
Colbert brought it. He said everything in front of, and TO Bush that people had been shielded from saying for years. Bush blanched and squirmed and smirked and was massively uncomfortable. Colbert did not relent. Brilliant. That guy has wontons.
Wanda Sykes was in a waaaaay easier position. All she had to be was funny. She shoulda talked about gay marriage A LOT as long as she had the podium.
Fairness doctrine!! Liberal radio doesn't work because of exactly the type of vitriol and lies that gets spewed out here by the shrills, not to mention the the vituperations aimed at differing views.
Wow, the love and grace displayed by the Wanda Sykes crowd at the WHCD are just amazing. Wishing death by kidney failure on a person you disagree with is a standard of love we can all eschew.
You just have to love her willingness to just deny reality too (or was that just lying?), pretending that desiring your political opposition to fail at their drive to implement disastrous policies is the same as wishing the whole country to fail and people to lose their jobs and homes.
And the soldiers in Iraq. The soldiers in Iraq? What about the soldiers in Iraq? Did she have something to say? She left that thought incomplete because that is as deep as her thinking goes.
The joy and laughter displayed at her remarks is reprehensible.
As for Colbert, if you count an attempt at humor about every thirty seconds, you got about one guffaw about the Iraqi government, and a couple snickers and the other 11 or 12 attempts went flat. It was the most boring attempt at comedy I have seen in a long, long time.
Colbert tries to be intellectual, but at least when Dennis Miller falls flat (far less frequently than Colbert did) its usually because it actually went over people's heads not because it just wasn't funny.
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Right you are, Crabbie, but I still like Wanda Sykes' routine.
I'm often amazed that Colbert doesn't get more adulation: he's way funnier then Jon Stewart, and I'm simply amazed at the way he manages to stay in character so consistently. And he does it 4 days/week, too!
I love that Colbert!!!
Notg even close to being funny.
Thought Colbert was an utter bore and Sykes just a wanna be comedian.
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Colbert brought it. He said everything in front of, and TO Bush that people had been shielded from saying for years. Bush blanched and squirmed and smirked and was massively uncomfortable. Colbert did not relent. Brilliant. That guy has wontons.
Wanda Sykes was in a waaaaay easier position. All she had to be was funny. She shoulda talked about gay marriage A LOT as long as she had the podium.
But wait! Rush will be able to stretch out one minute of Wanda Sykes to at least 3 weeks of his shitty show.
He's like Voldemort: Don't say his name! Except Voldemort doesn't have a radio show that's primarily egotistic and lying.
Fairness doctrine!! Liberal radio doesn't work because of exactly the type of vitriol and lies that gets spewed out here by the shrills, not to mention the the vituperations aimed at differing views.
Look at you and your big words! Too bad they are nonsense. Cram it, clown.
Wow, the love and grace displayed by the Wanda Sykes crowd at the WHCD are just amazing. Wishing death by kidney failure on a person you disagree with is a standard of love we can all eschew.
You just have to love her willingness to just deny reality too (or was that just lying?), pretending that desiring your political opposition to fail at their drive to implement disastrous policies is the same as wishing the whole country to fail and people to lose their jobs and homes.
And the soldiers in Iraq. The soldiers in Iraq? What about the soldiers in Iraq? Did she have something to say? She left that thought incomplete because that is as deep as her thinking goes.
The joy and laughter displayed at her remarks is reprehensible.
As for Colbert, if you count an attempt at humor about every thirty seconds, you got about one guffaw about the Iraqi government, and a couple snickers and the other 11 or 12 attempts went flat. It was the most boring attempt at comedy I have seen in a long, long time.
Colbert tries to be intellectual, but at least when Dennis Miller falls flat (far less frequently than Colbert did) its usually because it actually went over people's heads not because it just wasn't funny.
Amen Lbyron. Justlike your comment will fly over the haters on this post. Good work.
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