Letters to the Editor
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oh, okay, *now* i see where the censorious instincts come from...
1. you have got to be kidding, right ?
...right ? i mean you *are* kidding, right ?
2. forget about any idiotic censorship that goes on here, forget about the babbitry of saloonists, *this* makes you 'uncomfortable' ? ? ? *sheesh* as one reader already noted, good art will make you -at least- uncomfortable...
(obviously, the corollary is not true, but it can be...)
3. hilarious, it was simply hilarious... i thought his surprised and stilted reaction was genuine, otherwise he *would* have had some lines along the line of 'look ma, no falafel...', as a previous reader suggested...
either way, so what...
4. oh, for the fucking prudes and priggish thugs in der haus (evidently including mommy joanest), the daily show had 4-5 fucks (and 'fuckity fucks', as i recall) that night as well, did your ears burn ? ? ?
i wonder, do censorious babbits get conditioned so that even the mere bleep sound begats moral anxiety and outrage ? ? ?
hee hee hee
ho ho ho
ha ha ha
ak ak ak
fuckin' assholes...
come the revolution, cursing will be permitted...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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Yep... prude
Jane Fonda handled SC better than 99.9% of his other guests. She knew exactly what she wanted to do and why (remember the drubbing SC gave her at her last appearance). And she did it with class and style. I loved it. As much as I enjoy SC, the tables were 100% turned and he ended up being the most embarrassed/flummoxed "guest" of the Colbert Report I've ever seen. It was poetry in satire.
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A visual joke should be fleeting..
This is also akin to the one sentence too long best man's toast at the wedding. On the other hand, Jane looks pretty good for her age, she has had a lifetime of turmoil and angst - a lot of it self inflicted - a lot of it inflicted on her by people who can't even carry her shoes.
On the third other hand, Cobert has made more than a few guests squirm and turn red. Anyway, I'm just about for nearly anything that Jane does now as I think, over time, the good in her has certainly greatly outweighed the bad decisions she made along the line so I'd be inclined to cut the entire episode some slack and go from there.
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Fonda on Top!!!
Oh For God's Sake! It was funny -- really really funny to see Colbert off balance -- and no, I don't think he was in on the joke. He looked frightened out of his mind and it is always fun to see a "bully" get his comeuppance. Of course Stephen Colbert isnot really a bully, but he plays one on televison. And if at 65 Jane Fonda decides to play a sexy prank on the king of droll political satire, what could be more entertaining? As a 62 year old feminist I loved it, loved it, loved it - saved it and showed it to my 30 year old feminist daughter who laughed her head off too. Jeez, lighten up, Joan -- let's not give creedencde to the old saw that, since we are feminists, we can't laugh at the obviously absurd and silly when it is sexy as well as funny. Jane, grab Gloria and get back on Colbert, I mean that literally! We'd all join you if we could!
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Joan, I couldn't watch it either
It was embarrassing to see a comedian who is letter-perfect and never breaks character completely lose it, though he struggled. That's one side of it. The other is that she should have taken herself back to the other side of the table. She made her point, it was hilarious to start with, and then it turned into dreary performance art, a sad tape loop. I felt embarrassed for both of them, and shame is contagious. You're no prude, and it has nothing to do with prudery--you responded quite naturally to two fabulous performers falling beneath their own standards, one by choice, the other as a sort of victim.
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I think you are jealous :)
Like you, I love Stephen Colbert for his wonderful performance before Bush last year. His obvious embarassment with Fonda throws into even sharper relief his courage and talent at the Press Club dinner. I'm not much of a Fonda fan. I've always found her a little self-absorbed--trying to find oneself at 30 is one thing, but by the last autobiography, shouldn't she have been over her dad?
I don't think he was in on the joke, and that's what made it funny, both for my husband and me. And when he invoked the presence of his wife, it made me realize yet again how silly this family values argument is--as if someone can't be decent and faithful and a liberal.
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I empathise
I had a hard time watching, but thought the whole thing was delicious - and that's a word I rarely use. I actually had a harder time watching Colbert at the Washington Correspondents Dinner. I felt sorry for Bush. That's not to say I don't think he deserved the drubbing, he deserved worse - and I think he still has MUCH more coming. I suppose it may be the "this is going to hurt me as much as it hurts you" thing. I empathised with Colbert in the Fonda skit, but I think I'm supposed to. My squirming may have been what they were after.
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Wouldn't You Have Done It Too?
I agree with both sides on this one. The interview was both hilarious and extremely uncomfortable to watch. But don't you think the reason that so many blogs and the rest of us are still talking about Jane Fondling Colbert three days later is that deep down, maybe some of us are jealous? C'mon, the man is decent, handsome, funny, charismatic, and a seemingly loving family man of deep faith. Given the chance, knowing that it is "only for show" and that there would be no serious consequences other than Mr. Colbert maybe sleeping on the couch for one night, wouldn't you have done the same thing? Bravo Jane Fonda!
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Joan, this blog entry just ads weight...
to the conclusion that you are a trivial, self-obsessed and insecure person. Whatever this comedic incident you refer to, it has no place as a headline commentary at Salon or any news/current events oriented site. I like Stephen Colbert and his comedy but what he does is not news, it is trivia. Thank you again for ruining what had great promise to be an island of rationality and seriousness in a sea of news as infotainment.