Colbert hosts the WH Press Core Dinner
 

I hope theres a video of it up soon. I watched the whole thing live on MSNBC. It was one of the most uncomfortable, hillarious experiences ever captured on film. Bush was incredibly pissed. The video skit was pretty dumb, but the live stuff was insane. He ripped everyone, but the Bush stuff who was sitting 2 chairs to his immediate right was just beyond describable.

many people will go out of their way to rip Colbert; i can see that coming. Who the hell booked him to begin with??

Someone who watched the Cobert Report and thought he was being serious.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

its being replayed on CSPAN1 now.

Thanks for the heads up... just changed it over.

yowch this looks painfully long, looks like Colbert wont take the stage for another hour.

Good things come to those who wait.

For those of you without cable...(really cool, just discovered this site, appears to be NSFW)
hxxp://www.channelchooser.com/

Just click CSPAN1.

President Bush says Laura his better half and according to the polls... so does America - Colbert

dola,

Holy shit not safe for work is right, wonder how long this site will be around before it gets sued? i think i just found HA's favorite new site.

I was listening to some of this in the cab after we left the cocktail party. It sounded incredibly uncomfortable. Very little laughter from what I could here, just some pained silence.

And I have a feeling the White House Correspondents Association knew exactly who they were booking when they got Stephen Colbert.

The 'two Bushes' is pretty funny :D.

Actually I recall a similar incident early in Clinton's presidency with Conan O'Brien. He got the dreaded "and in conclusion" mock applause, ironic since that's what Clinton got from the delegates (for going on too long) in his '88 DNC speech. Oh, that "in conclusion" applause is mighty uncomfortable...

From what I can gather you're not supposed to roast politicians as viciously as you might a fellow actor/comedian, but personally I get a kick out of seeing everybody squirm. I hope I can catch a replay of this.

This is really good.


-Anxiety

I always enjoy the President's speech on the WH Press Corps Dinner... always pretty funny.

lol, im liking the 2 Bushes too.

Well, here comes Colbert :D.

Hmm... Bush actually looks pissed BEFORE Colbert gets on the stage... he must not like the Report! ;)

Wow... this is great. He is in total character right now and most of the Press Corps doesn't seem to get it (or aren't the target audience).

this website is the greatest invention ever

That had some brutal moments. I seriously can't believe that he stayed in character even though nobody would laugh for minutes at a time. It actually made it funnier.

damn, he made some real low blows...the non-retired generals joke was like wow

this cspan feed was so much better too, many more cutaways of Bush and the folks he was panning. Scalia took it surprisingly well.

Yep... he NEVER broke character, except for when he said he should reherse his jokes. It was absolutely hilarious to see the Press Corp wonder what the Hell was going on.

Wow! Just watched the last 20 minutes of that and I have to say that Colbert has some balls. I can at least respect him on that level. That was the most classic stuff I had ever seen. People didn't know how to react and he kept plugging away through his material. I have to see the whole thing.

They've just mentioned that the whole thing is replayed tomorrow at 12.30pm, i assume that's ET. The DirecTV schedule for cspan doesn't seem to be right.

Thank goodness I was flipping through the stations, normally I would watch whatever was TiVod. I don't normally watch this channel but noticed Colbert was on so figured, Meh, what the heck...

This guy has to have the biggest set of stones in human history. No one knew how to react and hell, neither did I. Bush's reaction (or lack) was priceless. When it was over, you could sense how pissed he was... shook some hands and got the hell out of there.


I was wondering the same thing... that person is probably without a job right about now :rolleyes:

Antmeister and I are gonna watch it again at 9:30 our time (Pacific).

late dola,

Yay, it started. Seems like people are entering the hotel, so it might be a while before Colbert is actually on stage.

Here we go.....the complete Colbert performance. (site semi NSFW)

1st half -
hxxp://video.freevideoblog.com/video/AAC7FA18-2DDC-4D3E-B1BB-9D6CBD83E27F.htm

2nd half -
hxxp://video.freevideoblog.com/video/C91DDBB4-28AD-4E6F-BD52-822BC77DF696.htm

Yea, it takes about an hour before Colbert takes the stage. The 2 Bushes is probably worth sticking around for, its right before Colbert.

The Colbert speech is up on youtube in three parts, titled "Colbert Roasts Bush." If you search for Colbert, it should be easy to find.

I'll stick around for it.

LOL, did Ludacris just say he showed up because he heard it was a big deal and had to do research to find out what was up? LOL, who exactly gets invited to these things anyway?

I thought it was pretty tame by Correspondents Dinner standards. Nothing will ever top Don Imus' roasting of Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal.

too funny

Colbert is a hell of a talent. Liked him okay on The Daily Show. But on his own he makes Stewart look like a hack.

Didn't watch this, but read some quotes. The man's got stones.

Are you serious? I find that without the moderating influence of Stewart that he is almost unwatchable after his shtick tires after a couple of episodes.

At least he did the reseach. :)

Damn, henry, that channellchooser thing is a helluva find. Though very very nsfw.

Yeah, I think he's serious, because I agree with him 100%.

Colbert >>> Stewart

I respect Stewart, but he's a product of his writers, and after watching him since his debut I've grown tired of him.

stewart=old and busted
colbert=teh new hawtness

dola

looks like channelchooser.com is a dutch site, so i have no idea what the legality is over there.

Hilarious.

That audience is still REALLY quiet. Wow....how awkward.

I'm pretty sure they knew exactly what they were getting when the brought Colbert on. That really is the idea behind the event.

I'll have to watch a replay.

It wasn't really that funny after watching the whole thing, I mean...it was mostly the irony that gets you and the fact that he's just blasting dude. Still, it was classic to see how awkward that audience looked and how strong their abilities were to laugh at themselves, because it's not as if he gave them a choice.

Wow. I've never seen this annual dinner before. The guy has balls. It's like if you had an incredibly hilarious and ascerbic friend allowed to spout off at the prez without rebuttal. Just great.

"He doesn't just stand for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers, and rubble, and recently flooded city squares."

Brilliant.

Any comedian on TV is helped by his writers. But if you watch Colbert's interviews, he comes up with hilarious stuff on the spot, in character.

I think Colbert plays a heavier role behind the scenes as well, if only because I'm sure he gets a miniscule budget by comparison.

I watched this whole Colbert thing at the dinner, and it really wasn't as bad a "burn" as I was expecting. I don't follow politics at all, so I'm sure half the jokes went over my head, but I think that's part of the problem. For it to be a really harsh shot at the president, it would have to make a guy like me say "Ouch!"

Maybe to people who know anything about current politics, this was hardcore stuff, but it didn't look like much more than an uncomfortable circlejerk to me.

With that said, some of what Colbert said was pretty funny.