there are those who have guts, and then there's Bush and his cronies.

Colbert's video was funny and witty at first, but then it got inane like that fumbling the car keys routine and then lapsed into throwing mud and seeing what sticks.

Humor is a tricky thing. It isn't humorous when it gets mean and biting.
Good humor should be enjoyable by all in the room, it's just good manners.

Do we always have to be out for blood on Bush all the time? Cannot we be gractions and creative enough to develop material that he could get a good chuckle over like they did with Reagan?

Can't I vote for both? I think Colbert's performance was incredibly gutsy, and I give him tremendous credit for that. But I have never found Colbert at all funny. I think he's utterly untalented as a comedian. The monologue was slightly funnier than his usual shtick, but the video segment was just as awkwardly bad as his show.

Whatever, Mapleleaf.

Great comedians say things that some people are going to find incredibly offensive. George Carlin even did a routine on how you couldn't do comedy without offending someone.

It's not an issue of always being out for blood. It's just an issue of Colbert being hired to do a job, and he did it. If they didn't want him to do his job, they shouldn't have asked him to do it. Or if they did want him to do the job but wanted him to adapt it to his audience, they should have asked him to "tone it down." Of course, I don't imagine for one minute Colbert would agree to that, in which case those doing the asking should have either withdrawn the offer or agreed to let him do it his way.

The only way I would find fault with what Colbert did is if the job was offered to him on the condition that he wouldn't say anything potentially upsetting to the administration and he lied and agreed to that condition. Otherwise, I say it's a case of "buyer beware."

I wouldn't be surprised if some idiot watched just enough of the Colbert Report to see his character supporting Republican ideals and thought that was the real guy. Wouldn't be the first time someone didn't realize his character on the show is just a character. :P

It was great watching Bush get fucked over and had to sit there and take it like a sport. Just like the rest of the country has been fucked and we've all had to watch.

remember, we're supposed to be Living in Fear, America. GWB says so. If we start speaking up we'd be ... um ... Americans.

Ivan, that's Colbert's M.O. He's not really a conventional comedian, more a straight man whose comedy comes purely from his absurdist political satire.

It's a comedy that lampoons reality, rather than a few bits at a nightclub.

However, I will admit the video he showed was all slapstick towards the end.