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So I searched some old Colbert diss threads on here and that cheered me up, thanks comradesrat-salute-2

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[–] radio_free_asgarthr@hexbear.net 38 points 3 days ago (4 children)

He has been washed for so long. I really liked him on the Colbert Report, but everything I saw him in after that he was not really funny. Maybe it was just that I was in Middle School when I watched the Colbert Report.

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 42 points 3 days ago

I don't think I've ever personally witnessed someone get so washed so fast as Colbert did. Like yes, he and Stewart were and are libs, and I've moved pretty far left since I was watching them during the Bush/Obama years, but I still watch a lot of lib comedians and he hasn't been one of them for a long time because he's just sucked.

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 24 points 3 days ago

Colbert was better as a satirical character of the right than as his own self. Much like Stan kelly The actual artist is a typical lib but the cartoon is who we love.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

it was pretty easy to stick it to bush, and with most of the media running cover for the wars for a few years before the Report premiered, it didn't take much to seem better. An actual radical would've blown our minds.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 24 points 3 days ago

We didn't have podcasts back in the day. If punk vocalists hadn't released spoken word albums leftism could have completely skipped a generation.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My belief is that his career was carried by some underpaid writers on Comedy Central. They didn’t follow him to CBS, so he was exposed for being unfunny

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I saw Aubrey Plaza post something like 'Colbert is the best and the world is going to be worse without him on TV' followed by a plug for her TV show and aiiint that america for you and me

[–] Orbital@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

The entirety of this

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Colbert Report was kinda needed back in those days, along with Jon Stewart's Daily Show. They reminded me that I wasn't insane.

I also respect Colbert for his work on behalf of migrant workers.

Yeah yeah I know, he's a dumb lib 🤷 But at least he had some kind of morality at a time time when fewer and fewer folks on TV did.

I don't know much about him nowadays. I've lived overseas since 2010

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Would have been nice if his new show was more like the Colbert Report. Not necessarily in the character but rest of it

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

Yeah but these guys all wanna be Carson so fkn bad

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The only way he can make me happy is by going back to doing animation VA

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

HA HA! DANGLY PARTS!

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Holy shit, I didn't know about this. He's in the venture bros? Massive problematic fave of mine. Ya live and ya learn...

[–] spudnik@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

I saw that but I've never actually watched it

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago

Time flies...

...but fruit flies like a banana

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Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

His Lord of the Rings movie is going to suck

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Don't put the bad vibes on it. I need this.

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

Got a whole queue of Middle Earth-themed posts for when it drops.

"Just got run off the trail by some faunts on horses from the east. Had to swerve to avoid them. Probably 2-3 punks in their eleventies. We need new decrees on this."

"Why is no one talking about the rise in crime since the fall of Barad-dûr? I live in Isengard and now I have Huorns encroaching upon my property if I don't fight them off."

[–] Spike@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

They will vote to defeat Sauron

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

100000000000%

I’m already disappointed.

[–] Flaps@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

Never forget skibidi biden 🫡

[–] PolyethylenePt2@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

I do the same thing with a lot of things ngl. Like I'll come here and search some threads about kkkanada or eu-cool when I get tired of people acting they're some sort of progressive utopia

[–] Orbital@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

The whole political vibe is just How Liberals Wish It Was and Please Don't Make Liberal White Men Uncomfortable

Another data point in the study of "most people believe what they want to believe" and another is all the time I've wasted talking to climate deniers*

*them obvious, me wanting to hope that reason will break through somehow

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I might be a little soft on the dude but I don't totally hate him. I dunno I just guess there are worse TV guys out there to hate. I just never sort of think about Colbert. I'm just sort of ambivalent. Unless he did something shitty I didn't hear about like support genocide?

[–] Orbital@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

He's a leading voice for Orange Man Bad liberal "thought" and now there's a narrative like he's a resistance martyr or some shit

I don't hate him personally but I can't really respect any participant in the political conversation who can't or won't realize that the price of empire is blood, injustice, poverty and a human future. Affably welcoming ghouls onto your platform is also uncool

didn't book down on it thoroughly but he did insist on saying "the Palestinian territories" when he had Ta-Nehisi Coates on (also a LIB but currently saying some correct things about Palestina)

[–] microfiche@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Isn't there some clamoring for him to run for our next president? We really could use another celebrity president.

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

or at least a celebrity governor

[–] microfiche@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

We need Fred Thompson more than ever.

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

he's going to rename the gulf of america to the bay of belfalas

[–] ComradeRat@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

Ive given up on elections doing anything good, now i just hope for them to at least be funny

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I used to watch Colbert back when I was more of a lib must have been like 2015 or 2016 but I outgrew him after like 2-3 years.

[–] Hermes@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He was decent on whose line

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

Ooh, say it again!

Jackanape!

[–] BGDelirium@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Someone on this site must have his book "I Am America, and So Can You!" or something like that.

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

I used to have it, never read it, and found out a family member was a conservative piggy because he saw it on my shelf and said he hated him. Then it spiraled from there.

[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

I do! I completely forgot, it was given to me as a gift, I don't recall ever really looking at it

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

i had 2 copies because 2 family members knew i loved him on the daily show way back when and they independently sent me that book for my birthday one year.

i don't think i ever actually looked through the whole thing though

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I forget which one is Kimmel, which is colbert and one is oliver. Then there's that other guy. They're all just guys who are bad


[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

There's Jimmy, Jimmy, Jon, John,

... AND STEPHEN!