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Yikes! I thought journalists were supposed to be literate folks. Irony, even wielded in a "humorous" way, isn't ever really "ha-ha" funny. It isn't supposed to be. It has depth of thought behind it. It has resonance. Done well, it has WEIGHT. It's supposed to make you think a bit more than you might about where the humorous edge comes from, at least a little more so than a simple pratfall would.

Saying Colbert isn't funny is like admitting you only appreciate "three stooges"-level humor. Mayne you're evolved enough to understand "Animal House" or a Cheech & Chong movie, and so chortle a bit.

But then again, the Bushies are not known for wry or droll wit, and apparently neither is the press corps. Maybe so-called "highbrow humor" such as Colbert's is only understood in the Blue states? Has any one done a collective IQ comparison of this sort? Frightening isn't it, how primitive the sense of humor of the compassionate conservatives and neocons and religious fundamentalists seems to be. Maybe if we were all as SMART as Mr. Colbert, the nation would be in such a terrible state.

nothing made me laugh harder this week than see stephen colbert send up the bush administration and the mainstream media's "good doggie" coverage of the past 6 years.

finally, someone to speak truth to power and right to their faces!

the mainstream media, for the most part, has become spineless and utterly moronic. the emperor most certainly has no clothes.

and they can't seem to handle a good look in mirror.

Alright, I'll admit upfront I'm trolling, just like you guys do. But you deserve a little insight on the joke you've become. A second rate comedian working on a 3rd rate cable outlet recites a few sophomoric zingers and you'd think sliced bread was invented! The President already - Preemptively - ripped himself a new one before Colbert even got on stage. That's the "get it" you don't "get". There it was - Preemption - the idea the Dems backed from the beginning. That's the joke my friends.

All I see here is sour grapes and bitterness. You're talking about the fall, but all you've got is Biden's pitch to divide Iraq in 3. Ha! And of course Hillary waits in the wings. Wait'll she gets out there on the campaign stump.

Until you have something considerably better, the joke's still on you.

What's interesting in these letters are attempts to stick up for Colbert in the sense that his heart was in the right place but maybe he wasn't all that funny.

Yikes. I know I laughed repeatedly, even though at times I felt sad at how true it was. Because then I'd find myself roaring with laughter again. Yeah, outloud laughing. Colbert's performance doesn't need new editing from a more polished network than C-Span. Spare us! It stands brilliantly on its own. What it needs is folks who snap out of a cultural paradigm of delineating funny as smirky, jokey, or just light.

Even debating whether he was funny reminds me of Democrats shutting themselves up about inequality when the Republicans raised the onerous accusation "class warfare." Some mysterious protocol suddenly seeps through everyone's pores and... voila... silence. Ultimately, the rules for me to laugh may be undefined, but they're certainly different than what puts a smile on columnist Richard Cohen's face. And Colbert was working my funny bones throughout.

Remember Jon Stewart and Tucker Carlson on Crossfire? Carlson tried to defang Stewart with the same sorry gimmick -- "you're not funny." Like Stewart, Colbert won't be anybody's monkey either. Thank you Jon Stewart for exposing Carlson to be the turd that he is, and Colbert for revealing the MSM to be as much of the dicks on his show as they are on their own!

I must put my two cents in here. Not that anything else needs to be said about Stephen's wonderful, fantastic and powerful commentary on Bush and the right wing(not left wing as Bush/Rove insist and have sold to most Americans) MSM who just roll over for the Bushies.

I want to add my two cents not becuase more needs to be said about Mr. Colbert's true reality performance but just because I want to add one more to the total count of those who are in complete and total support of his revelation of so much truth to so many who just cannot comprehend what Bush/Rove have done to them.

The MSM in America is a failure and that is exactly why they are losing subscribers to the internet.

YOU DUMMIES in the MSM are totally blind and without a clue.

Mr. Colbert thank you a million times more for your Courage and Patriotism for speaking the truth and giving voice to more than 200 million Americans, the silent majority, who have been so voiceless for so very long.

Run for any political office you choose Stephen including the presidency and I WILL VOTE FOR YOU. I guarantee... I gar-on-tee...

Bob DAmico

Just another feeble attempt by the Right Wing to marginalize and diminish Colbert's brilliant take on current affairs.

Colbert's performance was funny,brilliant, relevant and en pointe.

For the Bush administration and its sycophants it was also uncomfortable, humilating and painful.

In twenty minutes, Colbert succeeded in accomplishing what six long years of Bush rule could not. Show Bush for the "Major in Stupid" that he has.

Which brings me to my point re Bush. If you're smart about only stupid things then essentially, you're wilfully stupid; and what's more, you can never be smart. Because you've already become an expert at what is important to you...

Colbert showed us who has majored in stupid; moreover, he showed just how stupid that is.

This guy is just AWESOME when it comes to 'truthiness' and I am deeply saddened that I have not yet seen the video of his speech on Saturday. Hope I can get my hands on a copy of it before Big Brother permanently erases it from our culture, which I don't think will happen though...I almost stopped watching the Colbert Report after seeing him mince words w/ Robert Greenwald about his WalMart shockumentary, then I realized wait. He's just kidding. This guy is possibly the most genius satirist the world has ever seen! THANK YOU STEPHEN COLBERT. I pray you don't fall victim to an Austrian 'rendition' and keep up the good work!! Oh and after reading all these other posts commenting on Stephen's genitalia, I've got AC/DC's "We've Got Big Balls" stuck in my head!!! :P