Damn Yankees
Remember that scene in Old School when the wedding band is performing what sounds like Pat Benatar's "Total Eclipse of the Heart"? It sounds like the song, but they're cursing in choice spots ("I fuckin' need ya more THAN EVA!!" YES, I LOVE it!!!) and make it absolutely HILARIOUS!! Well that group is The Dan Band and I LOVE 'EM!! That being said, imagine that I was getting married (turn of the decade, I know, but a girl can dream) and hired them to play my wedding. Some way, somehow, I found the 30G's (yes, 30) and booked them for my wonderful day. So they're playing these songs and doing what they do, the very thing that made me book them in the first place, and suddenly I get pissed. I'm pissed off cuz for some reason I thought they were a serious wedding band and the joke songs would be few and far between. Now since I KNEW what they were about, what right do I have to get upset for them performing JUST as I paid them to do? You got it, no right at all. Herein lies my point.
The f'n white house had it comin'. You don't hire political satirist Stepen Colbert, former Daily Show correspondent and current host of The Colbert Report thinking you're gonna get a bit that any old comedian would do. Say it with me, Bush, pol-i-tical sat-ire. That means making fun of politics, dude, you should know that, you went to Yale, didn't you? Anyway, Colbert delivered a STELLAR set at the Annual bl-bl-bluh dinner and I thought it was f'n hilarious. Filled with very poignant (say it with me again, Bush) political satire, Stephen did his thing. Doesn't look like he was met with as much enthusiasm in reviews as he thought he would be.
Fellow reporters were pretty quick to toss around words like "inappropriate" and "poorly received" while others chose to remain silent on the subject. Well, Stephen, I salute you. You did what you always do and I personally think you were at the top of your game at that dinner. They paid you to perform your (one mo' 'gin) political satire and you did JUST that, kicked up a notch and brought to the SOURCE. And I love you for it. So while your "colleagues" are saying that you took things over the edge, let them know that when they're the keynote speaker at the next Annual bl-bl-bluh Dinner, they can say and do whatever they choose but as far as you're concerned until then, you ROCKED.
If my blog's not enough, Troy Patterson agrees with me as well and he's internationally published (and gets paid). We're here for you, Stephen, and don't want you to go anywhere. If the stuffed shirts at the White House didn't know what they were getting into, that's on them, they've now learned a lesson. You've just got another experience to add to your collection, enjoy. Look at it like this: Remember when Chris Rock hosted the Oscars? He was funny, right? Borderline awesome. He was just never invited back to do it again.
The f'n white house had it comin'. You don't hire political satirist Stepen Colbert, former Daily Show correspondent and current host of The Colbert Report thinking you're gonna get a bit that any old comedian would do. Say it with me, Bush, pol-i-tical sat-ire. That means making fun of politics, dude, you should know that, you went to Yale, didn't you? Anyway, Colbert delivered a STELLAR set at the Annual bl-bl-bluh dinner and I thought it was f'n hilarious. Filled with very poignant (say it with me again, Bush) political satire, Stephen did his thing. Doesn't look like he was met with as much enthusiasm in reviews as he thought he would be.
Fellow reporters were pretty quick to toss around words like "inappropriate" and "poorly received" while others chose to remain silent on the subject. Well, Stephen, I salute you. You did what you always do and I personally think you were at the top of your game at that dinner. They paid you to perform your (one mo' 'gin) political satire and you did JUST that, kicked up a notch and brought to the SOURCE. And I love you for it. So while your "colleagues" are saying that you took things over the edge, let them know that when they're the keynote speaker at the next Annual bl-bl-bluh Dinner, they can say and do whatever they choose but as far as you're concerned until then, you ROCKED.
If my blog's not enough, Troy Patterson agrees with me as well and he's internationally published (and gets paid). We're here for you, Stephen, and don't want you to go anywhere. If the stuffed shirts at the White House didn't know what they were getting into, that's on them, they've now learned a lesson. You've just got another experience to add to your collection, enjoy. Look at it like this: Remember when Chris Rock hosted the Oscars? He was funny, right? Borderline awesome. He was just never invited back to do it again.
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