Stephen Colbert at the WHCA Dinner

[tongodeon]

Stephen Colbert's speech at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner is the very definition of BALLS. It takes enough guts to do live comedy. It takes BALLS, specifically STEPHEN COLBERT'S ENORMOUS BALLS, to stand in front of the people he makes fun of every day - some of the most powerful people in America - and deliver comedy so close

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[opadit]

Daily KOS provides a transcript.

[jwgh]

Scalia seemed to find it hilarious.

[fizzbang]

Some of that is undoubtedly the mic setup, but there's a fair amount of (blog-based) reporting that the general responses were nervous applause at best, and that the response since then has been to marginalize the whole thing.

Where the line falls between mic setup and audience discomfort is hard to tell for sure, though.

[tongodeon]

When they applaud at the beginning and get up at the end you can hear crowd activity at normal volumes. I think the room was dead.

[tongodeon]

Ah, yes, C-Span. The logo in the lower right corner.

[matrushkaka]

transcript for deafies