oooo... Colbert does it again

You can see it HERE. Man I love satire.

I did NOT like seeing Bill O' 'threatening' Stephen yesterday on the Daily Show. And Jon Stewart should have just smacked him down much harder than he did.

What the hell was THAT about, btw.

Just re-visited the link. Whoa.... He is so fantastic at what he does. It's about DADT. I wanted to stand up and cheer. I love his fake Rethug figure.

Someone was analysing it, and it is always he offering asshole arguments as a 'conservative', and then the flips it at the end, and makes the laughter stick in his audiences' throat. This one was perfect. Please watch.

Peter always 'got' his humour. And was delighted with it. He's always 'understood' English more than he could speak it. Or was willing to, he was afraid of making a mistake. I used to play some of this stuff for him over the telephone. And could hear him laughing at all the right places... He got it...

Can't do it today... he wouldn't remember five minutes later....

But he would understand it... we had a stellar artist like that. Who once did a wannabe Nazi, one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. Or 'The Last Days of Mankind' by Karl Kraus, which is a masterpiece, and did all the voices, and made us laugh so hard, it really physically hurt. (It was about WWI....) And, um, to do THAT whole thing takes about seven to eight hours. It was massive. We had to turn off the tee-vee around half-time. BECAUSE it hurt.

That is what satire DOES. It makes you laugh so hard that you hurt. If you are human....

Colbert comes so very close to our Helmut Qualtinger. And that is the highest accolade I can think of. Except Qualtinger could do and become 'anybody'. If you had seen 'The Name of the Rose' on film, you have seen him. He went barefooted in the snow, and caught p-neumonia and died.

So let's just toast consumate artists. And Colbert is up there on my list.