Colbert for President

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Why not?

He has his own tv show, something about amount of air time candidates are allowed.

[drone]

He has his own tv show, something about amount of air time candidates are allowed.

IIRC, I don't think that applies to cable. Only broadcast TV and radio.

[naut]

Edit: Actually I think he and Bush should switch places.

[Lemur]

That does it, Rhythmic, you are now on notice. Keep saying that Colbert isn't funny, and you will eventually be dead to me.

[naut]

That does it, Rhythmic, you are now on notice. Keep saying that Colbert isn't funny, and you will eventually be dead to me.

Understood. I respect everyone who finds him too be funny. I'd like to know what it is that people find funny about him?

He's similar to John Stewart, but his delivery is not as good. Yes, no?

[Lemur]

Stewart and Colbert practice two completely different forms of comedy. Stewart is traditional comedian, making wisecracks in a very direct way. Colbert plays a character, a sort of high-status idiot.

99% of the stuff coming out of Colbert's mouth is hogwash. The reason this is funny is that in the U.S.A., we have channel after channel of self-important talking heads pretending to deliver news (see CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, etc.). To increase ratings, these channels use pretentious, high-volume, low-IQ presenters. In the last few years the situation has gotten rather ridiculous. So Colbert is actually a dead-on parody of cable news culture.

Satire, meet parody. Parody, meet satire.

[Ice]

Understood. I respect everyone who finds him too be funny. I'd like to know what it is that people find funny about him?

He's similar to John Stewart, but his delivery is not as good. Yes, no?

I like him and Stewart. I just like his routine in general, making fun of the obvious in politics.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Colbert isn't funny.

Maybe for democrats who operate on republican stereotypes he's hilarious, but I rarely laugh.

CR

[CountArach]

Understood. I respect everyone who finds him too be funny. I'd like to know what it is that people find funny about him?

He is such a great parody of "Papa Bear". Personally I like the shots he has at many of the far-right parts of America... like America...

I'd like to know what makes people think SNL is funny too. I'd put it to culture difference, but plenty of people here find it funny.

Ditto, I watched it like twice and laughed only a couple of times in each episode. One great moment when I caught the end of it the other day was when they were talking about Ellen DeGeneres' long-term Girlfirend changing her last name to DeGeneres. They simply said that they celebrated by:

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Eating out.

I couldn't stop laughing for ages.

[naut]

True, SNL has it's moments, but sometimes the wait for them isn't worth it.