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SolRo - 2014-04-12

We'd have glassed the heartland in the minutes after declaring war if not for the precious corn syrup fields.


Riskbreaker - 2014-04-12

This fat fuck is still alive?


John Holmes Motherfucker - 2022-02-26

Not anymore.


infinite zest - 2014-04-12

I think I remember a time when Rush was like "too real" with his "truths" for middle America to wrap their "little minds" around. Maybe I'm wrong. It's ironic that he's criticizing a man who originally based his shtick around people like himself.


That guy - 2014-04-13

...hmmm. No, it's not at all.


Prickly Pete - 2014-04-12

We're all completely clear that he's doing a character too, yes?


Seven Arts/H8 Red - 2014-04-12

Yes, the Ambiguously Gay Duo narrator.


SteamPoweredKleenex - 2014-04-12

At what point does a character become who you are? I mean, I knew guys who were perfectly ordinary, fine to go to a cookout with, or just hang out shooting the shit.

Then they went into sales. One sold advertising. Another sold cell phone contracts. Another sold cars.

They all became fucking assholes. Salesmen was who they were for work, but eventually, it became who they were 24/7. Limbaugh, I think, started off as a fairly left-wing and failed DJ who discovered extreme conservative talk radio could make him a millionaire. At this point, I think "the act" is so ingrained that even if he has a "real Rush" he keeps hidden, it makes no difference.

Besides, he only claims he's "entertainment" when he's put his foot in it so far that even his sponsors consider switching over to Hannity.


Kabbage - 2014-04-12

I spent my college years living in the douchiest hipster hovel in all of Boston, and I can attest to the fact that if someone plays a part long enough, they become it.

People ironically acting like the people they hate, then realizing that got them respect and attention.


infinite zest - 2014-04-12

I think it can be summed up by the whole #cancelcolbert thing, which is how I found out about this.. someone told me their facebook friend said they cancelled Colbert and he was going to be taking over for Letterman and I was like "bullshit.." anyway, at least half is true.

He stayed in character enough to still BE the Colbert Report's Stephen Colbert, calling in token Asian friends and not surrendering under the expected apology: someone at Comedy Central fucked up big time, but it wasn't Stephen. I don't think he'll carry on his Colbert Report persona to Late Night; even if there is some snarky political satire in the mix.

Letterman himself said he's guilty of being partisan in reality, but basically takes the target offering the most jokes.


Nominal - 2014-04-12

What's the douchiest hipster part of Boston? Central Cambridge? Upper Brookline?


Hooker - 2014-04-13

He's doing a character, of course, but it's not a satirical character. Rush's character depends on his audience believing he's sincere; Colbert's depends on his audience knowing it's an act.


Hooker - 2014-04-13

Which means that, in answer to Kleenex's question, it is still him; he's responsible for the things he says. Colbert's also responsible for what he says, but in a different way.


Kabbage - 2014-04-13

@Hooker Allston circa 2008. Pretty sure some really awesome stuff happened like four or five years prior, and by the time I showed up, it was just hipsters waxing nostalgic about Moment and Desert Sea while complaining incessantly about Passion Pit.


John Holmes Motherfucker - 2022-02-26

He destroyed America's political culture for money. I don't care if he was only kidding.


SteamPoweredKleenex - 2014-04-12

So after years of being lampooned and not getting the joke, or worse, trying to be funny themselves, Conservatives are now just losing their shit over satirists who can eviscerate their "ideas" and make them look stupid without even trying. Case in point, they're now trying to make poking fun at a political ideology (and I use that term loosely) the equivalent of racism:

http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/stephen-colberts-vile-po litical-blackface

Which shows they don't understand racism, either. No surprise there.


Jet Bin Fever - 2014-04-12

Colbert is anything but a "SO-CALLED" comedian, you fat fucking fuck.


RockBolt - 2014-04-12

You'd think they would be excited that Colbert won't be embarrassing congressmen and pissing all over Super PACs on a daily basis anymore


Hammer Falls - 2014-04-12

Someone's a bit bitter, since Colbert is merciless on him any time he's mentioned on The Colbert Report.


John Holmes Motherfucker - 2014-04-13

I've only recently come to love the Report, and now I'm going to miss it. Colbert can do an interview while playing a character and getting big laughs, and still have it be the most informative interview on television that day, asking all the right questions. He makes it look easy, but it probably isn't.

A lot of Colbert's fans (including Joyce Carol Oates, who I follow on Twitter) aren't happy with this decision, and the loss of the Report is a hit, but this is one of the smartest guys on TV, and there's no telling what he can do. A few years back, he played a murderer on a cop show, who was also a brilliant forger, and who was more sympathetic than creepy.. He nailed it.

Nobody ever hits the ground running in this situation. Conan started out weak, and so did Jimmy Fallon. Colbert's first few months on the Late Show may not be an unqualified triumph. But this is going to be fun to watch.


EvilHomer - 2014-04-13

I don't know, I think Colbert jumped the shark years ago. Early Report was dead brilliant, but now he's just phoning it in. He became a victim of his own success, and I fear this will just further cement his slide into Letterman-esque mediocrity.


RockBolt - 2014-04-13

Actually for me last year I thought Colbert was doing better than Stewart. I think some of that can be chalked up to the Daily Show not getting Stewart's full attention with the movie he's working on, but Colbert has really been doing a lot of excellent and important segments. I think Oliver showed that the Daily Show can live on when Stewart decides to do other things, but I don't know anyone else who could step in and continue on with the angle Colbert was doing, and I'll be missing it for a long time.


John Holmes Motherfucker - 2014-04-13

>> I fear this will just further cement his slide into Letterman-esque mediocrity.

How Evil Homeric of you.!


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