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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+82Unlike at television show studios with a live audience, there were not any microphones scattered around within the audience to record their reaction. If you've ever been an audience member at a TV show, you'd see literally dozens of microphones hanging off the ceiling above everyone's head, not to mention that they usually have guys come out before taping to get everyone into a "mood" and encourage them to laugh and clap, saying that it would help people watching at home appreciate the humor or whatever. Then of course you have the flashing signs that say "APPLAUSE".
Guess what, none of that exists at some convention hall where they taped this dinner. The only times you heard anyone laugh on the video was when the laughter was so loud that Colbert's own microphone picked it up. Numerous times the camera cut away to the audience, and many of them were seen laughing (or at least having a good time), yet all you heard was deafening silence. - wisenheimer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+57Here's the whole thing, slightly higher quality:
Part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcIRXur61II
Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN0INDOkFuo
Part III: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJvar7BKwvQ - sethj, on 10/12/2007, -3/+52He wasn't just scathing the President - he went after the media and everyone else in DC. Which when you're standing in front of those people of course they aren't going to find it funny.
Colbert is either extremely stupid or he has the biggest balls of anyone on the planet. I'm thinking the latter.
edit: Oh.. and the video at the end wasn't that good. :/ And the president(s) had a good skit as well. - deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -8/+55I think this might be the first legal thing I've ever downloaded with BitTorrent.
- circa1015, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45Heinousjay, despite your misguided attempts at sarcasm, comedy and humor ARE forces that can change the world, especially satire. Also, I don't think you understand the way that these correspondent dinners usually are run. Comedic poking is nothing out of the ordinary, and especially isn't inappropriate.
- LabattsBlue, on 10/12/2007, -5/+46Part I:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g8vCqvIuec
Part II:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FBDPCyiFqY - JC4P, on 10/12/2007, -13/+52No seeds make me a sad panda
- PDAIsAOk, on 10/12/2007, -7/+46I got a fever, and the only medication is more truth. Gotta love Colbert
- RealSurreal, on 10/12/2007, -7/+46colbert you are my hero, because you have balls and we need people like you thank you colbert! this made my day
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+46What we really need is more sanctimonious whining by Bush supporters.
- deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -14/+48Bush is attacking privacy online and promoting more control of the Internet by big business. This story is technology related on that basis alone.
- Tiles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32Planting?
- jboogie, on 10/12/2007, -10/+39I would digg it if his mom was hot. ;)
- SNACKeR, on 10/12/2007, -8/+35"This was a political protest poorly disguised as a comedy performance." - exactly.
Humour is the conduit through which Stephen Colbert funnelled the most pithy, scathing, lengthy attack on the most powerful man in our world that I have ever witnessed. He did it mere feet from the president, in front of a VERY influential audience.
To me, whether it was funny or not, or is techologically relevant, is immaterial. This is a defining moment. - Simen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30Just wanted to add for the curious new audience that there are currently
649 seeders
2187 peers
That should be sufficient, no? - jboogie, on 10/12/2007, -15/+40the "audience" (bush administration) doesn't get a lot.
- koberman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27you can watch half of it here: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/29.html#a8104
- gklitt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26I have a feeling this torrent is going to become *much* more popular in the next few hours...the digg effect for torrents is good not bad! This is why BitTorrent works.
- ronmexico, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30The audience is reporters, not the Bush administration.
- teeks99, on 10/12/2007, -10/+33Have you looked at the debt lately? Maybe the government needs to work on balancing its own checkbook before it tells me how to do mine.
- fuzzmello, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24"we"? you think no liberals fought and died for those freedoms?
- DJMac317, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24watched it last night live on cspan, I thought I was hysterical, however, the audience didn't seem to get it. Needless to say if you're a colbert fan, you must download.
- kevinrosesmom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21So that's what happens when a torrent gets "dugg"? The opposite of the digg effect!
- drizek, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Just wanted to repost this near the top, alternate download link for the torrent:
http://isohunt.com/download.php?mode=bt&id=11023245 - GreatBunzinni, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22For your information, there are a ton of files being distributed through bittorrent that don't violate your country's copyright laws. Please don't start spreading the idea that downloading a file is ilegal, independent of the country you live or the nature of that file.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23That's why they call it a ROAST, you freakin' idiots!
- Lewisham, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24Apprently you need an audience to laugh in order to realise when things are funny.
- opps12, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19i hate when stories like this get buried, this totally front page worthy....grrr kevin give us the unbury option already!
- erissiva, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18I love you Stephen.
"Oh, and enjoy that joke while you can. None of your kids will know what glaciers are."
I guarantee you these people were sh*tting bricks on their assistants as they left, wondering how they didn't know he would be there, or calling to find out who let him in. - NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21I couldn't care less if this is technology related. If it's on the front page why the hell does it matter where it comes from?
- nbulgaria, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21Colbert rocks!
- LeFrenzy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17I cannot wait to see the sunday new york times front page!!!
- Lewisham, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18He disguised nothing. He took it to the whole room. That takes balls.
- blahblah, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Heinousjay, the only way you could get people to sympathise with your backward republican views would be to first, pretend that you aren't one, and second, pretend that you actually formed a cogent thought when expressing that rational discourse has actually been jeopardized because of Stephen's comedy performance. "Throwing insults" is not what happened. The "threat" to rational public discourse is indeed the media who's job it is to provide this discourse, and so far, they have been failing miserably. That the only time Bush is even aware that there are people out here who think he is doing a bad job is when a comedian has to tell him is very scary indeed.
- Pigglesworth, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16I'm sorry ramiro I don't understand your point. Yes the video at the end was stupid, but the reason this his "routine" was funny is because it is a political protest. I wasn't laughing at what he said, I was laughing at the fact he was saying it in front of Bush and the other hundreds of hard line republicans in the room, none of whom were laughing. Brilliant!
- stmiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I doubt Bush has ever watched the Colbert Report. He was laughing for the first half of Colbert's speech, then he didn't look so happy after that. I think this is the first time he's heard him.
- Wamzlee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14"its like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor by the way, because your grandchildren won't know what a glacier is"
Best line ever! - tbikkle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13here's an alternate torrent for those of us having trouble accessing mininova:
http://isohunt.com/download.php?mode=bt&id=11023245 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Its the balls.
- SkaAgent11, on 10/12/2007, -11/+24You're an idiot. President Bush has nothing to do with the fact that we have freedoms in America; he's responsible for the possibility of the opposite. Bush didn't write the Constitution and had nothing to do with the idea of the bill of rights. Iraq was not about defending our freedom (Saddam was NO threat to us) and ANY president would have gone after Al-Qaeda after being attacked by him.
The ***** "liberals are pussies" argument is a little trite by now. - zenmouse, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17I'm sorry otherland, you come off as a rational, well spoken person, but your blatent need to label everyone is really pretty offensive. You talk about "libs" as if anyone who isn't Republican are stoner hippies that run around saying how the troops and the army all suck, as well as America. While that may be true of some extremists, most "libs" are protesting the war itself, and support the troops as people, but not the cause they're fighting under. You see, the tactic this administration is using is the same that you're repeating: if you don't support the war, you're against this country.
Yes, we are at war, yes there is the threat of terrorism.. but if you take a look around, it's not like this administration is doing anything but taking advantage of the 9/11 attacks just to have carte-blanch authority to fight a never-ending "war on terror," which translates into "war on anyone who doesn't do things the american way."
Not saying it's wrong to be a republican, but before you go saying how brainless the "libs" are, why don't you check how brainwashed you're becoming? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16"it's nothing like his show"
Because on his show the camera is on his side. He gets the great angles so that he can turn to, the close ups, etc. Here, it is just him and a podium. Thats all he has to work with, and he did a damn fine job. - neurogenesis, on 10/12/2007, -16/+29Incorrect. The story has been posted as a "funny" article. Not as a technology one.
- Roguecop, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14'...there is now democracy in Afghanistan, there is democracy in Iraq, there is democracy in Palestine...'
Seriously, what the hell are you smoking?
Democracy in Afghanistan? Yeah well the extremist who actually run just about every community and the heroin dealing criminals who operate in the wide open, would like to thank the Bush admin for this half assed attempt...
Democracy in Iraq? Do you live on the same the planet as us? The country is in chaos, on the verge of civil war.
Democracy in Palestine? You must mean the terrorist group who now runs the country. Ah yes, the 'other democracy'.
You cannot build, over night, a stable democracy on the ruins of a corrupt one. And a country like the U.S. simply cannot implant its values and ideals into others, especially in those who's culture and idiology is remarkably incompatible with ours...like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palastine...
Furthermore our efforts in Afghanistan while ostensible noble and entirely justifiable were woefully incomplete and terribly disrupted by the Iraq debacle. Drug crime is rampant and the Taliban is reasserting itself day by day. Bin Laden is regarded as a legendary hero by much of the population there. A sad fact.
The actions in Palastine, are a result of Israel and the international community not the U.S alone(unless we poisoned Arafat, which is very possible). And the faction that control the country now has left little doubt in the past of its animosity toward Israel...
Either one of two scenarios will likely emerge in Iraq according to the Pentagon. A three way split of religous totalitarian regimes in a constant state of dis-stability or a brutal dictator just like Sadam Hussain will keep a lid on the factions in much the same way as before, holding the country together in oppression. Either was evil was replaced by even more loss and evil...what have we accomplished but a much a greater disaster and more hatred, maybe deserved for the U.S.
This is the reality, live in Foxnews land all you want, it does not change it... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"Talk about people who cant take a negetive comment!"
Yeah, like people who repost comments that other people voted to bury. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Colbert pwned the president. Anyone who likens Bush's presidency to the Hindenburg AND right to the guys face in front of a 2700 person audience and on live TV PWNED the president. I hate the word Pwned, but the guy pwned like no other.
- ronmexico, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16You guys obviously don't know the history of these events. Every year they poke fun at whom ever is in office. It's not a "defining moment" for anything, it's just a fun night the press corps puts together each year. Perhaps you remember Cedric the Entertainer doing last year's event.
- zenmouse, on 10/12/2007, -7/+19It was a facetious statement you dolt. I always love to see any element of humor beyond blatent sarcasm on these comments, because invariably some idiot is going to take it seriously and make some inflammatory comment, thinking how smart he is and how dumb the original poster was.
Oh, and just in case you couldn't figure out Colbert either, he's not really a media-hater. He's being facetious. Just want to help you since you seem to be having a hard time with this concept ;-) - mc_hambone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Well, Colbert's humor can be subtle, and not "laugh out loud" funny. He IS though one of the great satirists around today, because of the way he takes the "conservative right" argument and turns it on its head. I have no doubt GW's thing was funny, but for Colbert to say the stuff he was saying in front of GW and his entourage takes major cajones, and I'm sure GW would not have said the same things in the same way (as harshly) as Colbert.
Stephen Colbert makes me proud to be a Charlestonian. - artanis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12The sad thing about conservatives is they post the same thing over and over again and then complain when they're modded down.
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