Funny Vibe

Last week's post about funny conservatives was, If I may say, a one of my better miracles of piss-poor timing.

Little did I know Stephen Colbert intended to give a frickin real world example, with beverage, on Saturday night. No need to post a link, I 'm sure you can find your favorite point of view posted on tha IntarWeb somewhere.

Story of my life. Either miss it by being too early, or a day late. Sigh.

Needless to say, I think Mr. Colbert, that Frenchie, torched their scabrous little souls. For twenty minutes, he channeled Lenny Bruce, Bill Hicks, Mark Twain and Hunter S. Thompson to savage the pious scribes in charge of our national discourse. And the President. And he did it using only the undisputed truth as has been widely reported in the media. The man who coined the sarcastic term 'truthiness' stuck to the actual truth, and made it hurt.

Of course they weren't laughing. A roomful of self-important egos in tuxes that wanted to be stroked, not throttled. Stephen King once said something to the effect that satire only hurts when it's good. And when it's great, the horse will buck.

Having a national press that has largely abdicated its largest responsibilities, Colbert took it upon himself , in the best tradition of the Court Jester, to '...comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.' And the comfortable didn't like it, not one bit.

This horse bucked. And Colbert held on and dug those spurs in again. And again. And again.

He wasn't funny? Pound sand, and I'll supply the hammer. He was freakin hilarious. The sadly all-too-common lack of a sense of goddamn humor among the right-leaning is not Stephen Colbert's fault.

And returning to the subject of last week's post, the handsome, friendly, and tall Lance Mannion posted one called simply 'Our Reply'. Well thought out list, that I should have posted if I hadn't been hauling rocks like an inmate all weekend. His commenters also fill in a few blanks, like Mr. Hicks, Margaret Cho and Lewis Black. I would add the ever-present Will Durst.