Jon Stewart and Stephen T. Colbert’s The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear is barely a day away. Here we sit. Sad and disturbed about not being able to go.
It’s a fact that we can’t walk amongst our fellow sanity restorers in Washington D.C. tomorrow. But we sure as hell can Keep Fear Alive by bringing up old shit.
Let’s stir a pot of old beans, yes?
Stephen Colbert then: 2006 Speech at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner
Colbert was a young pup. Still a babe in the eyes of the half-hour cable TV show satire gods. Also, still very much in the shadow of The Daily Show. That’s when Stephen T. Colbert stood up at a White House dinner, in front of then president George W. Bush and did not hold back one inch.
Stephen Colbert now: 2010 Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Security Opening Statement
In the month of September 2010, Colbert was called before Congress to “describe his experience participating in the United Farm Workers’ “Take Our Jobs” program, in which he spent a day working alongside migrant workers in upstate New York.”
Stephen Colbert gives his opening statement during a hearing of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Security (from C-SPAN 9/24/10 coverage).
Both Colberts spoke from the humerus and the heart. Both are dangerously fearless.
There is no physical difference between them. Except that the latter has an extra 4 years of comedy seasoning.
Aftermath
He was asked to leave the hearing. A few congressmen thought he was wasting taxpayer money. We immediately consider the amount of time Congress has burned on whether a few guys juiced playing a game of baseball. Others(Jon Stewart) have noticed this in a handy montage:
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After all is said(zod knows no one could shut up about it for weeks) and done, we’ll just call this hooha over Colbert “ruining Congress” a wash.
Bonus!
All 2 hours and 10 minutes of the hearing is available for watching.
Bonus bonus:
On October 8th, 2010, Colbert mocked his appearance on David Letterman. Huffington Post has video of this.
Colbert acknowledged the critics who asked why he was allowed to testify by making fun of it himself. Letterman broke the ice by asking if “anybody with a TV show [can] go down and testify?“
via Reddit: The clip from Colbert’s testimony that the media is not showing. , cspan video,
