Colbert for President

[sapi]

NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert announced his candidacy for president on "The Colbert Report" on Tuesday night, tossing his satirical hat into the ring of an already crowded race.

"I shall seek the office of the President of the United States," announced Colbert on his Comedy Central show, as red, white and blue balloons fell around him.

Colbert had recently satirized the coyness of would-be presidential candidates by refusing to disclose whether he would seek the country's highest office — a refusal that often came without any prompting.

Shortly before making the announcement, Colbert appeared on "The Daily Show" (the show which spawned Colbert's spin-off) and played cagy, claiming he was only ready to consider a White House bid. He entered the studio set pulled by a bicycle pedaled by Uncle Sam and quickly pulled out a bale of hay and a bottle of beer to show that he was "an Average Joe."

Colbert said his final decision would be announced on a "more prestigeous show," which turned out to be his own.

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On the off chance that this turns out to be true, I'll be too busy laughing to notice

[naut]

No thanks, at least the current guy is actually funny.

[Whacker]

Wonder what his policy is on nukuler energy?

[CountArach]

I love it, he's running for both parties!

Colbert '08! To the House!

EDIT: OMG! It's true!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen...esidential_bid

On the following episode of his show, Colbert signed both the Democratic and Republican nomination forms on the air. ABC News commented that "Republican White House hopefuls have been debating who among them is a real Republican. That's a debate where Colbert can definitely distinguish himself from the rest -- he is totally unquestionably fake."

[sapi]

Okay, I'm going to have to get a hold of that

[Geoffrey S]

Linky

[Ronin]

considering the other choices....he might actually win!

[Brenus]

Oops… I thought it was a reference to Colbert, Prime Minister of Louis XIV, who rebuilt France after the Fronde… Sorry, wrong thread…

[CrossLOPER]

Oops… I thought it was a reference to Colbert, Prime Minister of Louis XIV, who rebuilt France after the Fronde… Sorry, wrong thread…

He'd actually be a good choice, given a few updates of course.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Legally he can't run...it's pretty funny though.

[AntiochusIII]

Legally he can't run

Why not?

[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

[Lemur]

Take off the partisan blinkers and watch him again. He's a very skilled comic, and his targets are much broader than Republicans. Ever since the Democrats took control of Congress, he's been needling them.

Like any good comedian, Colbert goes after hypocrisy and power. Don't let your attachment to a particular party deny you a good laugh.

[Xiahou]

Colbert isn't funny.

Seconded... or is it thirded? I don't know that it really has anything to do with partisanship in my case- he's just dull and predictable imo. Someone find me a clip of him that's actually funny- I dare you.

I'll admit, I've watched very little of his show.... I mean, who watches shows that they think are boring? He's about as original and fresh as SNL currently is.

[Crazed Rabbit]

I didn't say I never laugh.

I'll admit I haven't had access to comedy central the last few months. But when I watched him, even when he did poke fun at the dems he did it in a stereotypical way to jab the republicans as well.

Sorry, I don't like being stereotyped to be laughed at.

CR

[naut]

...SNL...

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.

I guess I don't like the slap-stick elements in SNL and Colbert Report.

What's really disconcerting is that I'm agreeing with Republicans, :ahhhhh:.

[Navaros]

Colbert is simply asinine. Colbert is never funny except for when he goes to interview people at their own place of work or homes. When he does that, sometimes he can be truly hilarious. He used to be funny when he did that on the Jon Stewart show, too.

However, while giving monologues on his own show, or whenever he has guests come on his show to be interviewed every time in the last 5 minutes of his own show, then he is always 100% asinine and 100% unfunny. To make matters worse, on his own show he only ever is funny during interviews with congressmen, who are very dry, lame interview subjects which drag down the comedy potential of those segments immensely. If he had a show of nothing but conducting those type of interviews with interesting guests, then he would have a comedy goldmine on his hands. Instead of the unfunny, complete drivel that his current show is.

"The Word" segment has never, ever had anything even remotely funny on it and is probably the most stupid, pointless, biggest waste of time, filler segment ever put onto any so-called "comedy" show.

It's like Colbert knows how to be funny (as evidenced by his hilarious interviews on others' territory from the Jon Stewart show and when he interviews congressmen on his own show), but 99% of the time he chooses not to be funny (as evidenced by any time he is saying absolutely anything on his own show; other than interviewing congressmen in the field. Yet, not in the interviews he has with the guests who come to his own show even if they too are politicians.)

His segment on the Jon Stewart show implying he would run for President was a classic example of all of this. There wasn't a single funny thing about any of that. It was just dumb and boring.

It is also offensive how both Colbert and Stewart use their shows to propagate leftwing propaganda.

[Xiahou]

I think Navaros may actually be onto something. I vaguely remember thinking Colbert was amusing back when he was a correspondent on the Daily Show. On the other hand, I thought the Daily Show took a nosedive in general after Kilborn left.. maybe that's just me though.

[naut]

His segment on the Jon Stewart show implying he would run for President was a classic example of all of this. There wasn't a single funny thing about any of that. It was just dumb and boring.

I'd have to disagree, because what he was getting at was funny. The indecisiveness and roundaboutness (yes I can make up words too) of politicians in announcing their running for Presidency. It was funny, but not haha - laugh out loud - funny.

I agree with the rest of what you said.

Edit:

It is also offensive how both Colbert and Stewart use their shows to propagate leftwing propaganda.

FoxNews use their shows to propagate right-wing garbage, but you don't see me getting offended.

[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:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

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.

[Ronin]

It is also offensive how both Colbert and Stewart use their shows to propagate leftwing propaganda.

There is Fox and others that propagate rightwing propaganda too...and those even have the gall to call it "news"

at least Colbert makes no bones about the fact that what he does is entertainment....from then on you pick and choose what you want to watch

as for the rest I have to agree.....Colbert is nowhere near as funny as Stewart or Lewis Black to name another one of my favorite comics....the man is just not even in the same ballpark.

[Watchman]

Sorry, I don't like being stereotyped to be laughed at.

Maybe you should stop being Republican then.