Stephen Colbert roasts… and roasts… and slow-roasts the President. That’s gutsy comedy. UPDATE: Reactions, responses. (link via Alan at Arts and Faith) Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Stephen Colbert Related Frederick Buechner on the role of the religiousHiatus!! (or Through a Book Project Darkly)
Not just the President. Most of the press looked physically ill. Pretty sad when a comedian does their job better than they can.
When you sling this at the press:
“Over the last 5 years you [press] people were so good. Over tax cuts, WMD intelligence, the effect of global warming. We Americans didn’t want to know and you had the courtesy not to tell us. Those were good times, as far as we knew. But listen let’s review the rules, here’s how it works. The president makes decisions, he’s the decider, the press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put it through a spell check and GO HOME. Get to know your family again, make love to your wife! Write that novel you got kicking around in your head; you know the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know, fiction!”
Ouch.
Spidey, Autobots, and Bourne. That’s a tasty-sounding summer, indeed.
But when I looked at this summer, I saw Superman and thought that would satisfy my filmic longings. Sigh. I just hope they’re all not disappointing.
cars was also a disappointment. we can say that’s b/c it was pixar and we have such high hopes for pixar.
still, it was disappointing.
anyway, agree with you on the whole list.
except i really doubt they’ll do a simpsons movie. but then again, maybe that’s where they put all their talent.
You doubt they’ll do a Simpsons movie? They’ve already showed clips from the film at Comic-Con. And they apparently finished recording the voice work for it a while ago.
More here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_Movie
And here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462538/
The summer film season was bad enough that I only saw one film (Superman — yawn), and wanted to see only one other (Cars — which I’ve hear good things from friends, so I’ll have to see).
Nest year, I have hopes for Harry, Transformers, and Simpsons. I liked Oceans 11, but thought Oceans 12 was a smug, unorganized mess.
Still, from the looks of it, the only thing that isn’t a remake or an adaptation is, again, Pixar. IMO, they are what is left of Hollywood’s soul at the moment. With Brad Bird at the helm, my hopes are high.
erin brokovic is going to be in it? whoopdefriggindo…
sorry.
as excited as i am for a simpsons movie, the more star guest vocalists, the less excited i’ll be. w/ the exception of grammar as sideshow bob, of course. and here’s to hoping they can bring troy mcclure back. i really liked him. wonder where he’s been…
have you seen the trailer? have you heard word on it? i feel like mary magdelane: i believe. help my unbelief.
I’ve seen the teaser trailer, and I saw a scene from the film that played at Comic-Con. It was a sketchy, unfinished scene in which the Simpson household is stormed by an angry mob. Maggie has a duel. It was pretty cool.
Someday, someone will have to sit me down, pry open my eyelids, and explain to me why any of the Spiderman movies are anything other than dreck. Or maybe I’ll have to drag my eyes over the A&F discussion sometime.
And, yes, I did love the comics as a kid.
But Bourne does look like the best of the bunch. As for the rest, when is Hollywood going to stop going repeatedly to the same well? I think I’m excited about the Pixar film more for the fact that it’s not a sequel than that it’s made by such a quality house.