Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Jon Stewart praises Colbert's White House gig
Jon Stewart has done a segment crowing about Stephen Colbert's virtuoso performance at the White House Correspondents' dinner, where he heaped hilarious abuse on the President and the tame press-corpse. Hey, anyone notice that the NYT and many other press outlets have decided to entirely ignore Colbert's performance? Cowards.
"It was balls-alicious," Stewart said. "Apparently he was under the impression that they'd hired him to do what he does every night on television" -- that is, make fun of conservatives, public officials, and the press in the guise of an O'Reillyesque talk show host.Link (via Digg)"We've never been prouder of him, but HOLY ----," Stewart added.
He also described the annual dinner as "where the President and the press corps consummate their loveless marriage."
Update: James Roe sends in the video of Stewart's "ballsalicious" monolog.
posted by Cory Doctorow at 01:27:24 PM permalink | Other blogs' comments
