David Letterman On Political Life Now
By Nicole Belle Wednesday Jan 09, 2008 1:46pm
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I'm so happy that David Letterman was able to work out a deal with the WGA, because I missed the show very much and let's face it, this political season is just ripe for political satire. Here's a little mash up of comedy bits from Letterman's show, including a Mitt Romney cliché counter and my personal favorite, Great Moments in Presidential Speeches
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Dave for President!
I can't download the clip for either format.
Turn in your coins... http://blueherald.com/2008/01/turn-in-your-coins/
Yeah, C&L videos aren't working for me this afternoon. Please place this appropriately on the Prioritized List of World Problems...
We interrupt our regular news programming to bring you ....
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another missing white girl!!!
Bush has racked up a shit load of material for David to use in his "Great Moments in Presidential Speeches" segment. Every time he speaks he screws up. I never stay up late enough to see Letterman but often Joe Scarborough will show that segment from the night before. Hopefully he'll start that again.
Kerry gave one hell of a speech today endorsing Obama.
Albatross @ 4:
Don't worry. The kids will fix it all the problems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekSxxlj6rGE
It's working now.....wasn't that funny though.
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[2nd sitemonitor-so the previous apology was a lie? Thanks a lot-Sitemonitor]
pissed off patricia @ 6:
Oh joy! I can't wait to see another Dem candidate to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, only to find his cojones and own voice years after the fact.
I say enough of these blue bloods trying to pretend they care for the little man. Give me a politician who has to experience the same shit as the rest of the middle and lower classes in this country have to go through. I guarantee that will give hopeful candidates their very own cojones (or ovarios, whatever the case might be) and they will get the fire on their belly *BEFORE* the election.
In the season of political satire, the union has to go on strike. What will we do to maintain sobriety during the last year of the Bush administration?
Sure hope Dave's show was funnier and better put together than the others that had to go back to work. The...oops sorry, it's now called A Daily Show is still funny, but it seems choppy and sloppy. It doesn't roll, although it is the best that came back that I have seen. The Colbert Report? It's terrible.
Acting Patriotic @ 3:
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha god i love it! give me sick humor any day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pissed off patricia @ 6:
yeah the douchbags got plenty of nothing!
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I for one am just sick and tired of C&L's outright favoritism. How dare you give so much love to Dave and not even mention Leno!
Equal time! Equal time! (for the scab).
Not. (Just a call back to yesterday's bias charges.... Thanks for the post:)
I'm a Colbert man myself. He's funnier with the writers, but he is funny regardless. Letterman is the best. Thanks for the laugh and post Nicole. Humor is necessary to break away from the bleakness of the truth. But the Truth is still the most important and some people are hesitant to fully pursue that and it peace me off.
L.A. Confidential @ 15:
Sorry
You can tell Letterman can't stand Bush whereas there isn't a Republican ass Leno won't kiss or softball. One of the reasons I watch Letterman and never watch Leno.
Letterman is funny. I needed the laugh!!! Cliche counter was hilarious. It just starts going off at the end. rapidly. lol.
OT, but apparently Glenn Beck had some 'roids removed and the procedure went awry. He's ok but seems to have found Jeebus or something - I have no idea what the hell he's talking about.
WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTO AT THIS LINK
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/01/10/beck.healthcare/index.html
Hey, you were warned...
Leno loves the Republicans and doesn't care about the common man. It is all about himself as far as I can tell from his personality. Letterman feels the pain of others a bit, and his comedy comes from that. Leno uses comedy to shine the light on himself and his "quick wit" etc.
Thanks for the humorous but true video , way past my beddy-time.
The other day Letterman had a good one:
"The folks in NH are so sick of the campaigning that they changed their motto from 'Live Free or Die' to 'Just Shoot Me'"
what political season HASNT been ripe for satire?
Acting Patriotic @ 3:
Awesome!
The Romney clip was dead on. Only a Bushbot would fall that shit again......yet 1/3 of the country still supports Bush. Be afraid, be very afraid.
L.A. Confidential @ 15:
Funny, that didn't sound anything like the voice we heard on the U.S. version. False flag anyone?
Live Free or Die?
How bout the line of 2007?
Don't taze me, bro.
Romney's approach to the White House is like any rich Republican's approach. It's an investment. Invest millions of your own personal fortune because if you win the payoff could be in billions in no bid government contacts to companies you hold stock in. just ask Cheney whose Halliburton stock has risen 3000% since he took office (literally) and started a war. The future of this nation, her people and our future security depends on keeping another self-serving, crooked lawless Republican out of the White House.
Bud @ 22:
Gee, I didn't know his head was a roid. Something new every day.
Ron @ 29:
No kidding. Maybe not a false flag but knowing the way Boosh Co twists and distorts everything to fit their agenda and goals it's no surprise people are questioning the original story released by the Pentagon.
Guys, what about A Daily Show and The Colbert Report?
They're back on television, and sure they're working to rule, but much of the material is still pretty damn funny. They discuss the strike as well as current political events!
I miss "Crooks & Liars" covering it!
I am so ashamed of this dufass dumb ass preznit we have representing us around the world. But I do have to honestly admit....he clearly represents a very large pecentage of the dufass dumb ass populace of this country.
Can we just tell them there is a big fish derby or nascar race on election day, and maybe we can get the White House to represent the other side of the population for the next 8+ years?
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This is political life now...
"10 minutes on this morning's Stephanie Miller Show. Discussing why things like actually counting the ballots in New Hampshire would have been a great idea. And on the lunacy and self-destructiveness of progressives (like this uninformed front-pager over at dKos, and his even lesser-informed followers, such as Markos himself) buying into the conspiracy theory that the dozens of verified, independent, multiple-sourced pre-election polls were wrong, but the unverified and uncounted election results, as announced, are somehow magically known to be accurate."
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5541
"i was in cincinnati the other day. stopped off to get some ribs."
inspiring.
ConcernedCanuck @ 12:
Yeah, Stewart is stumbling, but fortunately for him, there's plenty of material in the news that he can dig up. Colbert can't seem to do much past a few minutes. And Conan started out as a writer for the Simpsons, so he pretty much knows how to write his own stuff.
Acting Patriotic @ 3:
That was so funny.... (fact is stranger than fiction???) Thanks for the link
raw story is showing clips from the daily show and colbert....but please c&l, until the strike is settled, dont show their clips
i love both of those guys, but we must stand tall with the writers
Blue Buddha @ 39:
Firstly, I've enjoyed both shows - especially considering that they're running without writers. It gives them this underdog appeal, where they are trying to fillibuster their way through the slotted time.
I also think it's important to remember why they went back to work: Comedy Central was going to fire the staff members of both shows who weren't writers (producers, editors, the graphic department, and so forth) because they weren't 'doing anything' while the strike was occurring but were still on payroll. So in order to ensure that the rest of the people they worked with weren't left hungry, Stewart and Colbert went back on the air. They were manipulated/blackmailed, essentially, and thus it makes sense that they're bitter about the entire thing.
They do "great moments" from Bush's speeches pretty much every night. Never gets old - it's both funny, and painful.
throw away your TV
"...Stopped off an' got some ribs..."
Here's my question; Who is in his (Bush's) audience that eats that shit up? Someone is obviously telling him to include that in his speech, so it must be playing towards some kind of audience
Letterman's take on Romney's use of cliches was well done but he could also have included Obama'a reiteration [ad nauseam] that he is America's agent of change and hope.
Letterman is not funny, and his show is a contrived, formulaic bore.
is it anti-worker to Tivo a daily show/stewar or colbert?
kudos to Dave for not leaving the writers behind like others who shall go nameless
I had no idea Cincinnati was a big Ribs kinda town, figured it would be Charlotte or Kansas City. But then again where ever Bush goes, he finds a way to work rib eating and brush clearing into the agenda.
joe cantwell @ 37:
translation from Bush Speak:
My motorcade pulled into a rib joint and two Secret Service Agents ran in and bought me some ribs.............in other words I had ribs.....huh,huh,huh.
Uncle Joe Mccarthy @ 40:
Got that right Uncle!
I notice that, as usual, Obama gets away with his sophomoric bullshit.
Erroll @ 45:
Nobody is going to say anything about Obama.
He is the bought and paid for Pied Piper.
The people love it. "Time for a change". (Frenzied applause)
If he can get the citizenry to shut up, lay down, and spend their time hoping, the corporations
have got it made. Judging by the liberal and left wing media and right wing media all flocking to
this charlatan we may as well forget about the future.
Hell, if he was in Cincinatti, doesn't he know he should have got himself some Chili? Dumb fuck can't even order lunch right.
I was half expecting someone in the audience of Bush's speech to shout out: "Whose ribs were THEY?" Now, that would have been hi-larious.
Good ol' McCain. That was a funny spot.
Radically Moderate @ 51:
Just don't hate! Like I said, they were forced onto the air when Comedy Central dangled their entire production team over the heads of Colbert and Stewart. And many of their writers are also 'consultants' on-air (John Oliver, for instance). They're trying to work with the WGA but are currently stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Speaking as a writer (although not WGA) I have to say I have mixed feelings about both Dave and the Daily Show going back to work.
I'm concerned that not staying the course until the Networks sign a deal with the writers across the board might just weaken and slow the whole process.
We all would love to see Letterman and the other shows back on the air.. but should we really do so for individual deals or let collective bargaining do what its supposed to do?
J
the pride we must all feel in having a dunderhead running this nation. what must the rest of the world think of us...don't ask.
Nicole, I agree. I've been missing Letterman too.
Thank you for the post!
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