Colbert Report + Iraq = Not Funny
This past week, The Colbert Report has been broadcasting from Iraq in front of US soldiers in conjunction with the USO.
It has not been funny.
Colbert's whole schtick is satire. I suppose it is difficult to satirize a war in front of the people fighting it when you are there to entertain them. However, this is The Report's real failure because Colbert doesn't have to take on the US military or even the war as much as he should be taking on the likes of Rush Limbaugh. Colbert's character is a satire of people like Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Rush Limbaugh. He doesn't need to poke fun at the military so long as he pokes fun at the real life jokes he imitates. So, Steven Colbert should have studied and parodied any USO show from a warzone the afore mentioned clowns have done... But I am not sure any of them have done a show from Iraq (which Colbert could have also capitalized on).
In the end, it all just sounded like the USO wrote his jokes and he was an unfunny military ass-kisser.
The Daily Show would have worked better in Iraq because TDS's liberalism wouldn't preclude it from being funny while still drooling over the military.
It has not been funny.
Colbert's whole schtick is satire. I suppose it is difficult to satirize a war in front of the people fighting it when you are there to entertain them. However, this is The Report's real failure because Colbert doesn't have to take on the US military or even the war as much as he should be taking on the likes of Rush Limbaugh. Colbert's character is a satire of people like Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Rush Limbaugh. He doesn't need to poke fun at the military so long as he pokes fun at the real life jokes he imitates. So, Steven Colbert should have studied and parodied any USO show from a warzone the afore mentioned clowns have done... But I am not sure any of them have done a show from Iraq (which Colbert could have also capitalized on).
In the end, it all just sounded like the USO wrote his jokes and he was an unfunny military ass-kisser.
The Daily Show would have worked better in Iraq because TDS's liberalism wouldn't preclude it from being funny while still drooling over the military.
posted by shane at 6:15 PM
1 Comments:
Take out "+ Iraq" and you'll have a balanced equation. Most of the time the Colbert Report is not funny. I did manage to catch the opening to the final Iraq show last night, and had to turn it off during the first interview segment with the Air Force pilot. The jokes were even worse than usual.
The Colbert Report is a show centered around the main character's hubris mocking right-wing blowhards on the cable news channels and radio, which was kind of funny when it was a two-minute segment on the Daily Show but now seems like the same tedious joke spread too thin. I don't understand why media and viewers continue to fawn over this show, the character isn't interesting and the humor is almost non-existent. The only reason I sometimes will give it the benefit of the doubt and try to get into it is because Jon Stewart has been a passionate supporter of the show and his show is witty, insightful, and poignant. I can appreciate why conservatives might enjoy the Colbert Report so much because it is actually a send-up of the left due to it's poorly conceived satire.
I know Colbert is an intelligent and funny person, I've seen his other work and have heard interviews with Stephen (not the character on the Colbert Report). The Report is only slightly funnier than Mind of Mencia and should be retired all the same to give the slot to other potential up-and-comers in the funny news biz.
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