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Sunday, April 30, 2006 12:00 AM

Colbert's smart bomb

Why attendees at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner panned Colbert.
K.L.

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  • Sunday, April 30, 2006 07:47 PM

    They liked the first couple of minutes.

    If you watch the audience from start to beginning it's quite telling. Colbert started out soft and got big laughs. It was hilarious to see the growing discomfort on everyones' face (except for Laurence Fishburne) as the jokes got more pointed. They wanted more "sometimes Bush makes up words" humor. What they got was "Bush has lied and abused the power of his office and you assholes have been complicit the whole time" kind of humor. Most comedians would have softened their act when meeting the President face to face, and I guess that's what they were thinking when they signed him up. That's what I thought he would do. I'm so glad I was wrong.

    —Ryan

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