Clinton vs. Colbert

[filkertom]

This is getting really, really funny.

Comments

[maiac.livejournal.com]

Wow. This is even better than Colbert's feud with Willie Nelson. I just hope that Clinton and Colbert don't sing a duet on the air, y'know?

[gypsylady.livejournal.com]

Have you heard Bill Clinton sing? I hope he's better than his wife but even if he is I don't want to be there to hear this hypothetical duet.

They could do dueling speeches, though. Bill Clinton is a masterful speaker and Stephen Colbert is no slouch in that department, either. I'd pay money to see that!

[maiac.livejournal.com]

I have this vague memory of a newsclip in which Bill Clinton was singing a hymn. It wasn't bad, but he should keep his day job.

Colbert sounded pretty good when he joined Willie Nelson in "On the Road Again" during Nelson's appearance on the Colbert Report.

But yeah, dueling speeches. Oh my. Maybe somebody should suggest it as a fundraiser for Bill's favorite causes!

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

Ideally, they'd just put Bill on sax.

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

That was funny! Thanks for the find!

[imaget.livejournal.com]

What a way to start my day. Thanks so much, FilkerTom.

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

Too funny, but I really wish he'd been wrestled to the ground by a pair of foam-core Secret Service agents.

BTW I have pictures from Duckon up, including two of you.

[umbran.livejournal.com]

Okay, that was a fine way to start my workday. Thanks, Tom!

[pickledcritter.livejournal.com]

"Count me in"! ROTFLMAO! :)

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I wonder if there's anyone in his audience who doesn't "get it".

[tony-goldmark.livejournal.com]

The Colbert Report is the most exciting comedy TV show these days. Because he's on four nights a week, he can construct his running jokes the same way "The Sopranos" constructed plot lines - they unfold over time and keep getting funnier and more relevant, but the show never feels TOO far-out because his rock-solid characterization grounds the proceedings.

Consider last year's Green Screen challenge - it began as a simple throwaway gag to introduce "Better Know A District" for the CA district with Lucasfilm and ILM. Then a few people on the internet started playing with it. Before long, he had an entire contest going on, with a new entry or two every week. Then, on the night the winners were announced, he got Lucas to personally admit that Phantom Menace sucked. Then when the Decemberists essentially ripped off his idea, he called them on it and they challenged him to a guitar-off competition. ("Decemberists - you just fell into my trap.") The Guitar-Off was the last show of 2006, his first full year on the air, like a perfect dessert for an amazing dinner, and it is quite possibly the funniest twenty-two minutes of television I've ever seen.

You know what? I scratch what I started saying. The Colbert Report is the most exciting thing happening in Twenty-first century pop culture, period.