Sunday, May 21, 2006
Colbert Wins!
This is late by three weeks, but it deserves mention. I would like to announce the first annual Andy Kaufman Award for the funniest really un-funny comedic performance of the past year.
It took me and my crack team of media reviewers .005 seconds to decide: the winner is Stephen Colbert’s 15 minute performance at the Washington Correspondent’s Dinner. The consensus is in:
“A 15-round, cockpunching tour de force of every Beltway sacred bovine gonad last night.” -Driftglass
“A merciless skewering of the Cheney administration and its media lapdogs.” –Billmon
“Refreshing.” –Glenn Greenwald
“Hilarious and scathing.” –Joe Strupp
“Sucked pretty bad.” –Polipundit
“Wasn’t funny.” -Captain Ed
“Colbert…fell flat.” –Michelle Malkin
“Bush Kills, Colbert Bombs.” Allah Pundit
Hah hah! I love Allah Pundit totally unselfconsciously saying “Bush Kills.”
Colbert’s jokes were so brutally delivered, with barely an ironic twist at the end, that I thought the secret service might be called to arrest Colbert for assaulting the president. Colbert unearthed every sick, court-cases-still-pending activity of the administration and brought it up in a joke that’s real punch line was just that he had actually brought it up. The audience laughed sporadically and uneasily. They laughed far louder at Bush’s self-deprecating jokes about mispronouncing the word “nuclear.” Oh, that George. What a jokester.
Rock on, Colbert! For a brilliant and courageous display of anti-humor and absurdism you have thoroughly earned the Kaufman.
It took me and my crack team of media reviewers .005 seconds to decide: the winner is Stephen Colbert’s 15 minute performance at the Washington Correspondent’s Dinner. The consensus is in:
“A 15-round, cockpunching tour de force of every Beltway sacred bovine gonad last night.” -Driftglass
“A merciless skewering of the Cheney administration and its media lapdogs.” –Billmon
“Refreshing.” –Glenn Greenwald
“Hilarious and scathing.” –Joe Strupp
“Sucked pretty bad.” –Polipundit
“Wasn’t funny.” -Captain Ed
“Colbert…fell flat.” –Michelle Malkin
“Bush Kills, Colbert Bombs.” Allah Pundit
Hah hah! I love Allah Pundit totally unselfconsciously saying “Bush Kills.”
Colbert’s jokes were so brutally delivered, with barely an ironic twist at the end, that I thought the secret service might be called to arrest Colbert for assaulting the president. Colbert unearthed every sick, court-cases-still-pending activity of the administration and brought it up in a joke that’s real punch line was just that he had actually brought it up. The audience laughed sporadically and uneasily. They laughed far louder at Bush’s self-deprecating jokes about mispronouncing the word “nuclear.” Oh, that George. What a jokester.
Rock on, Colbert! For a brilliant and courageous display of anti-humor and absurdism you have thoroughly earned the Kaufman.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 1:38 PM 
