surreal

Colbert does comedy at white house dinner -- >the video is here. (oh- wait: >full video.) Oh man. Thanks to the Acrobat for the link!

"Speaking truthiness to power"? .... "truthiness"? are those people channelling my absurd word-mungings?

Perhaps something will "happen" to Colbert but likely it's already happened to whoever scheduled him to be onstage. They know better than to throw anyone on jail (at least at first... wait a few years and we'll see) Instead dirty tactics will come to bear.

Another source: YouTube of the entire thing... very fast to download.

update: Thank You Stephen Colbert site, made because no one can figure out how to send him fan mail.

I'm so blown away I watched it all a second time. Colbert is a hero. I hope people have transcripts of that (ah - yes... excellent transcript here) and translate it into other languages... though it's hard to translate jokes. I think any translation of it would have to have a lot of annotation and explanation.

Comments

[Lisa Hirsch]

Colbert invented the word "truthiness." See the Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness.

[Lisa Hirsch]

Ah, I didn't get it quite right, serves me for posting without reading the whole entry.

[minnie]

watched this yesterday. genius! i lik ehow he did the scicilian flip off to scalia.