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Sunday, May 01, 2011

Obama channels his inner Colbert
Posted by Jill | 8:20 AM
This is some funny shit. He should do this more often.



Except there are idiots out there who will take this as an admission that he was born in Kenya.

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Saturday, February 14, 2009

Set your DVRs, this is gonna be good
Posted by Jill | 9:42 AM
I can't wait:
Wanda Sykes, a standup comedian and actor known for her tart commentary on current events, has been chosen as the entertainer at the annual White House correspondents dinner in May.

Sykes, an African-American, is expected to get the chance to make fun of President Barack Obama.

It is a tradition that the president attends the black-tie gala, which attracts about 2,000 people, including the White House press corps and Hollywood celebrities.

Sykes says she already is planning ways to poke fun at the president, including about his reputation for being "a little long-winded."

If I'd gotten down on my knees and prayed for some comedy gold I couldn't ask for better than the funniest woman in America.

Here's a taste of the kind of things we're going to hear. And more:




And with last year's comedian:




And more and more and more.

But Wanda Sykes is more than just funny, and this is why having her at this year's event is so important (and how much would you love to see her do the event in this costume from Ellen DeGeneres' Halloween 2008 show):


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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

He's not Stephen Colbert, but then, who is?
Posted by Jill | 6:01 AM
Have I ever mentioned how I loves me some Craig Ferguson? Of course I'm a sucker for the speech cadences of the land of kilts and haggis (sorry, Liss), which go a long way towards turning a recitation of The Brothers Karamazov into a riotous comedy. And of course he has those craggy, Basset Hound-y good looks. But I think Ferguson ascended from being just another goofball into Comedic Valhalla with his brilliant riff on the media treatment of Britney Spears in the context of his own recovery from alcoholism.

Nothing will ever again hit the absolute perfection of Stephen Colbert's wicked skewering of both George W. Bush and the media at the White House Correspondents' Dinner a few years ago. Last year they decided to play it safe with the spectacularly unfunny Rich Little, and learned that really bad comedy can lay as big a turd in the punchbowl as Colbert's scathingly dry indictment of the whole room did the year before. Sure, there's the mandatory Shecky humor; the bad jokes that seem to come right out of the Borscht Belt that are missing only the snare drum. But if they're not going to have the guts to bring in Marc Maron to do this gig, I think Ferguson found a way to skewer the media and the administration at a level they could understand.

So without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Craig Ferguson (and don't miss the Rumsfeld montage in Part II):







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Monday, August 20, 2007

Dubya
Posted by Anonymous | 8:42 AM
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
--H.L. Mencken.

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