Craig Ferguson roasts President Bush
By SilentPatriot Sunday Apr 27, 2008 12:00pm
The featured guest of this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner was late-night talk-show host Craig Ferguson, and although his act was less searing than Colbert's legendary roasting, he did manage to get some good shots in.
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The Scottish-born Ferguson found middle ground between the tepid impersonations of last year's entertainer, Rich Little, and the merciless satire that Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert delivered in 2006.
Ferguson, who became a U.S. citizen in February, asked Bush what he was going to do after leaving office, then suggested, "You could look for a job with more vacation time." The president has drawn criticism for the amount of time he has spent away from the White House during his presidency.
Vice President Dick Cheney, Ferguson said, "is already moving out of his residence. It takes longer than you think to pack up an entire dungeon."
I wonder if Ferguson held back a bit out of fear his newly-gained citizenship would be revoked?
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hey, you know what's funny about george w. bush?
not a goddamn thing.
Nothing about Bush or Cheney is funny. Ever.
WHAR'S THE DUBYA EM DEES?
Haw haw haw I dick around all day on the taxpayers' dime haw haw!
"I wonder if Ferguson held back a bit out of fear his newly-gained citizenship would be revoked?"
With the Bush Administration, anything is possible. However, I think its much more likely that Ferguson fears being waterboarded by Cheney's henchmen and with Cheney he would order it done on anyone just for kicks.
Every thing's funny when you don't have a conscience.
Haulin' Oates @ 1:
That's fucking right. Next time let Charles Manson MC this awful hypocritical shit.
Hahahaha! Hohohoho!
Bloomberg is reporting that Japanese investors - distinct from a FCB - are giving up on US Treasuries.
I saw O.J. Simpson, Phil Spector, Robert Blake, Susan Smith, and Scott Peterson(out on a weekend pass) at a front table laughing their asses off at the the macabre President.
Ferguson kisses the asses he has not the ones he wishes he had.
How come the videos don't work?
[The wmp vids work for me. I don't have QT on this computer, so I can't check those. Are you having trouble with QT? Sitemontor]
Personally, I think Ferguson realizes where he is. He knows he is to entertain for the King and his court just as a court jester would have done in the days of old. Ferguson, just like the court jesters were meant to be funny but if they dared to insult or embarrass the king in public it was "off with his head". King George would have had no problems giving such an order as we all know.
Ferguson was pretty good, I thought. Was Bush asleep there...seemed he had to have a couple of the jokes explained to him.
Ferguson got in more than a few good shots. He skewered Bush and Cheney a bit but he laid into the press on numerous occasions. He got Faux news and the NYT good. Colbert was more biting but no where near as funny in that setting. Ferguson pulled it off really well. He was funny and he spoke truth to power.
Haulin' Oates @ 1:
Exactly....this whole thing should have been boycotted and ignored. What a crock.
Hows Colbert's career going these days?
Since the Legendary Roasting?
Matthew @ 13:
Yep, as usual george doesn't understand the spoken word (nor the written word, but I understand he actually read a book during his 8 years).
Vote the GOP Bums out!
I think I'm missing something. Didn't we have something like six of these yearly correspondents' dinners since Rich Little last year? Including like three in the last two months alone? What was that dinner where they got Rove to (badly) rap?
L.A. Confidential @ 16:
Well if things continue going the way they are going; he may just be our first President ever elected off of write in ballots.
Well it's a toss up between him and Elvis.
Oh, the hilarity. My sides hurt just watching that.
Sure is nice to be the worst president ever....to bankrupt this country...piss on the Constitution...gut environmental protections...and still be able to sit there and laugh it up without a care in the world.
F*cking piece of shit.
MooseUpNorth @ 19:
The other ones were full of gay prostitutes posing as comedians.
The video isn't downloading.
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videos don't work for me either. None of them on the page, not just this post.
Edward @ 23:
Don't worry Technology is going to save the world.
(Sarcasm)
Edward @ 23:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLG_5ybmf34
You can watch it here.
Bush was actually pretty funny in "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay".
A roast for Bush?!
I thought you meant he was finally going to be executed.
Nothing funny about War Criminals.
He's probably already received a couple 100 death threats from Drugbaugh and O'Racist disciples.
>Hows Colbert’s career going these days?
>Since the Legendary Roasting?
His show got an actual Peabody, ... unlike the twit O'Reilly who claimed he had 2 Peabodys, both never awarded.
The Idiot in Chief isn't smart enough to be funny.
Think I'll start working on my list and get shopping. I'll spend my rebate on 6 months supply of food.
That way I can avoid the stampede when reality catches up to the masses.
And say no thanks you can give your food rationing cards to someone else.
I may be wrong, but I believe he is a republican.
For me what is truly sad about all this is that the correspondents were laughing.
The joke's on us.
Abbybwood @ 35:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAWrXTn5Www
"I wonder if Ferguson held back a bit out of fear his newly-gained citizenship would be revoked?"
Ferguson should have his citizenship revoked for choosing to emcee an event with Criminals and Murderers like Bush and Cheney.
Same goes for the White house correspondents or the "fluff brigade" as I like to call them. They would wet themselves before they would ask a tough question!
The only exception being Helen Thomas, and I can only hope she had more respect for herself than to attend this sickening love fest
How can anyone with a conscience could sit by while these two laugh and joke about their inept and criminal behavior while in office is beyond comprehension. lest we forget, their behavior has led to countless deaths in the illegal Iraq war and the destruction of our constitutional rights and our economy here at home!!
I really don't find anything funny about any of it..... but I'm not a correspondent!
He no colbert, but he's doing a good job.
Btw - this event makes me sick to my stomach. It's the ultimate in co-option. All the journalists who go there and laugh when someone tells them they should watch over the gov't... haha.. yeah we're all laughing. or crying... well, what do you care? Oh you don't?
That crowd is the worst. Wow, he gave them a feel-good at the end. WTF. He did a good job until the end.
Meh. The joke that is George W. Bush stopped being funny a long time ago.
There are some gigs that you should not take, this is one of them.
We are well past the point where anything about Bushco can be observed with humor.
You are either with the barbarians, or you are against them.
That is the way they view it.
Who pays for these stupid correspondent's dinners? Why do people go to them? I really don't think I could sit through people laughing about incompetent behaviour that has affected so many.
At the end of the year, does your employer throw a big party and then you all go around the table and say things like "hahaha remember when Jim gave that person the wrong medication and they died? hahahaha that was a good one!" or "hahaha rememeber when Nancy lost that big account and we had to fire 20 people? hahahaha hilarious". Yeah, mine doesn't either.
Appropriately he went after the media as much as he did Bush. Bed partners indeed. Not a bad gig for the new citizen. Not bad.
What's somewhat amusing is that the Seattle times called Colbert's satire merciless. I don't think it was necessarily merciless as it was just that easy to do. It was actually more pointed at the press for their inability to do what he was doing with even a shred of seriousness. No wonder they called it merciless, he did in twenty or so minutes what they have been unable to do for seven years now. Hopefully they will remember what it is they provide to the people of your country as well as ours up here in good ol Canada. Our news providers are not much better.
Colbert - brilliant. This guy - crap.
I don't see how it's ethical for the media and government to be so close anyway. It's bad enough that media is expected to churn a profit, but they also mix and mingle with those they're supposed to cover?
Go figure.
No MC Rove?
Fanon @ 41:
Fanon,
How true. How true.
I suppose it has everything to do with America's fragile ego. Since our people are the most eruditely uneducated, well-versifiedly hoodwinked and open-mindedly intolerant people on the planet we’re confused about how great we truly are. We should be proud! We’ve the most mealy-mouthed, considerately gullible, spoiled brats per capita of any other nation. (Essentially we’re a bunch of six year olds wearing suits, wrestling on the playground, battling about who’s the better pal to the other kids on the playground and who can kick whose ass.)
Other than that I’ve not a clue.
WTF?
Bush laughs about Barney humping the Popes leg and everyone else laughs along?
Your last line says it all.
"I wonder if Ferguson held back a bit out of fear his newly-gained citizenship would be revoked?"
How could the rule of law be supercede by the will of a man? Isn't that what the declaration of independance was supposed to thwart? Being at hte mercy of one man or a group? (cartel?)
Something about this dinner reminds me of "Springtime for Hitler."
thepoetryman @ 47:
Hey, I take offense to that. I have traveled extensively and lived abroad a considerable part of my life, and I am sorry to report that the percentage of idiots and/or assholes is fairly constant among the globe.
The main difference, is that for some reason the assholes in this country have achieved a fairly significant amount of fire power... and I am not talking about rednecks with guns, but of the "strategic projection" persuasion, which is a problem.
Every country/culture on the globe, without exception, manages to breed over entitled, petulant, selfish, lazy jackasses once a specific level of wealth and prosperity is achieved.
Lewis Black should be the emcee, and he should hold back NOTHING. Rethugs do not have a sense of humour anyway, so what does it matter if Darth Cheney, and George Idiot the Second get any of the jokes? And, why exactly ARE these "correspondents" all invited to all these bashes like they are bestest friends with the current regime? Are they not supposed to be reporters? What a disgrace.
This shit makes me ill. There's a war going on that
shouldn't be, in which thousands upon thousands
have lost their lives. Our economy is about to
collapse, people losing their homes, their jobs
their minds. Soldiers coming back home to no
real care or benefits. Hunger and famine around
the world is out of control and these elitist
wastes of flesh and bone just sit back and laugh
it up.
Fucking pigs!
I watched this and had to comment on Ferguson's joke that "at least there weren't any sex scandals".
No sex scandals?
A gay prostitute sleeping over at the White House on multiple occaisions isn't a sex scandal?
On second thought, maybe not, as this behaviour is pretty much the norm for Republicans.
But the fact that the Press Corps doesn't consider it newsworthy should end all debate as to whether there is a liberal bias in the commercial media.
The Dude @ 51:
Sorry. Didn't mean to offend, Fannon my friend. I realize there are imbeciles taking over the third rock, but the daddy of firepower lounging on the rock is where I leave my wrath. (My fear is that the rest of the world will soon leave their wrath here as well.)
The sarcasm may be biting, merciless, and tastelessly brutal.
But ultimately it puts a human face on that which is inhuman.
I've had about enough - it isn't fucking funny.
We really cant watch anyone joking with sick war criminals anymore.
What is happening to our country and the world ..
we need real dialogue to achieve a peaceful solution entire Middle East
not the current insane military responses to political problems.
I wonder if this will help...
J Street,' a new organization, hopes to challenge AIPAC's influence over U.S.-Israeli affairs
http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=235
http://jstreet.org/
No, no, no, not God bless America.... maybe try "impeach this nut".
Dana @ 53:
Well said.
I wonder if Ferguson held back a bit out of fear his newly-gained citizenship would be revoked?
Well, Ferguson isnt a political comic like Colbert is (actually Colbert isnt a comic either, he's a writer). But the stuff he said was pretty sharp in addition to being funny. He's a good reason (especially since Conan OBrien will be moving to 1130p) to stay up late. He talks about Britain a lot in his opening monologue and even though ive never been there, his stuff still really cracks me the hell up. Now THATS communication....
Apparently mass murdeering Christian terrorists are amusing.
This is a cabal that thrives on discord, mistrust, deceit, greed, delusion, yet somehow manages to profit from it.
Seeing the camera scan all those dark, cold, empty, and humorless souls throughout that ball room pretty much covered it.
thepoetryman @ 55:
You didn't offend me, tpm, however you apparently offended "The Dude". I am in full agreement with you, having also travelled and lived abroad.
MediaPolitico fucking circle jerk.
Craig's ok tho, did fine considering the crowd. Anyone gets away calling Cheney "Pervy" to his face is fine in my book.
Craig Ferguson probably knows more about being a US citizen and the Constitution than do most of the laughing hyenas in the audience. And certainly all of the jackals on the dais.
Sorry hyenas and jackals. I've nothing against you.
Matthew @ 13:
Saw that on CBS Sunday Morning where they did a profile on Ferguson. Seems like some of the barbs went right over "W's" head. No surprise there.
One record that will never, ever, ever be broken....
Bush is on track to have 499-500 days of vacation in a 8 year span....
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/bushbeat/archives/2008/01/numb_and_number_...
For those keeping score....that equates to 1.4 years...almost a year and a half
Wow...hard work has a whole new meaning...
thepoetryman @ 47:
post of the week. people have confused blind nationalism with patriotism around here and it's gotten quite bad. slapping a flag on your car and griping because people are complaining because your country has the sort of foreign policy we'd expect if we'd let a bunch of drunken lunatics rise to power... that's not loving america. loving america means holding the country to standards. and that's the problem with the lot supporting the war -- they have no standards, they just have this ridiculous certainty that they're great and everyone should be telling them so.
Sorry....let me put that in a better perspective...
If a person is getting 4 weeks off with pay...usually a perk for those who have been with a company for more than 5-10 years, sometimes more...
The amount of vacation days in 8 years for that person (with 4 weeks off) is 160 days....
L.A. Confidential @ 16:
I believe the term used is: "Kicking ass and taking names."
Lord, who in the world thinks this idiot is funny?!
I was wondering how he was going to top the Rich Little (yawn) laugh-fest. Glad to learn that though he did not hit the high water mark set by Stephen Colbert, he was still willing to subject the BushCo criminals to something other than kid glove treatment.
Sharing laughs with a murdering criminal--how creepy and cowardly.
Peoples Front of Judea @ 70:
And don't forget his courageous stance taken against the "Threatdown" bears pose to society. Definitely something the MSM refuses to touch prefering top pander to the shark menace crowd.
LanceThruster @ 72:
That was kid glove treatment.
hug the moon @ 75:
I didn't see it but I'll take your word for it. I just think it's funny that after Bush had his @ss handed to him by Stephen Colbert, they have to go out of their way to find someone who won't make our pReznit cry.
I fail to see the humor when a president who loves torture tries to be funny by dancing on the graves of over 4000 people who he has killed.Similarly here: Ferguson reminds me of the cabaret comics in the Weimar Republic who wanted to stay on the good side of the Reich.Not funny. I never so much as listened to one second of his routine.
Everyone who went, everyone who performed, should be ashamed of themselves. Entertaining Satan is NOT a good gig.
L.A. Confidential @ 16:
Pretty good actually.....but I think it's high-time he and Jon Stewart stop from having people on the show that continue to spout the propaganda that has destroyed our country the past 7 or more years. Let's have some new voices and new ideas going forward, not the "kill everyone who doesn't go along with us" crowd.
Nothing quite as satisfying as seeing a couple of war criminals and mass media propagandists yucking it up over cocktails. Excuse me while I throw up.
Gosh! How hillarious. They should have sacrificed a baby for the ultimate yuck yuck fest.
Sickening.
I find nothing about Bush humorous or lighthearted. This SOB has virtually destroyed my country, and turned it into a dark-ages aristocratic shit-hole. Rot in hell you GOP pricks!
Weak.
Lost his chance to punk W and Dick the Dick!
My fourteen year old son and I both laughed at W's late laugh (he who laughs last is the last one to get teh joke) about Barney and the Pope. On the second viewing, I laughed at Ferguson patiently waiting for someone to explain the joke. My son laughed because being fourteen, he knows a boob when he sees one.
Jim, I think he's funny. Fair enough. You probably didn't think Marc Maron was funny but I wonder if you might be one of those PUWNSOH (Progressive Utopians With No Sense of Humor.)
I guess no one got the If people were expecting Ferguson to be Colbert (was the WHCA any less the sycophantic bastards or Bush any less onerous when Colbert was on? How dare he do this dinner, grumble grumble... oh well?) and do the same exact thing, uh... then this bit would have really sucked. How do you punk a lameduck that's already been rightly punked? I guess people didn't get some his kidding on the sly (dungeons, "liberal media bias," Cheney's pervy love of being hated, and I know the Glasgow Airport/Glaswegian sectarianism joke flew over heads. Same for the LA Times cutback joke.)
The NYTimes got it nicely in nuts though.
I loved Colbert, but I liked Ferguson. Hands down, he's the best monologue artist on late night. His monologues are brilliant free form and even some of the most poignant I've seen in years (I note the shows where he talked about his dad passing and where he talked about his alcoholism.) His style, even when annoyed or pissed, isn't one to blowtorch.
With that said, what do you expect from an association dinner (which it is, it isn't the sermon on the mount or the Gettysburg address) for an organization made up of some of the worst sycophants bar a good few like Helen Thomas?
Delete the "I guess no one got the" cut and paste flub starting paragraph 2.
What #1 and 2 said can't be said enough:
Nothing about bush and cheney is funny. Nothing.
wow!
with all of that nose rubbing,
i thought that maybe he and bush did
a few bumps in the back room,
i mean,
how can bush laugh after all
of that
killing he has done.
I liked Craig. I liked Colbert more, but I like Craig.
It's just hard to laugh about any of this shit. The right is going to install McCain and you know it. We're in deep shit kids.
Seelieme @ 78:
Or Satan's spawn, like Tom Petty did a few years back. Try as I might, I can't ever forgive the guy for that, even if he did receive a cool paycheck for whoring himself and his craft for only a coupla hours.
Funny enough, but Truth to Power?
Not.
The gratuitous kick at the NY Times and the 'cranky, magnificent bastards' comment at the end was a transparent ass kiss. This guy will be popping up on Fox as a commentator real soon.
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