I can only guess why so few (in the front tables) at the Correspondence Dinner did not laugh. For myself, I can only offer the following of why I did not laugh at Stephen Colbert as I watched his presentation.
One does not laugh when they are stunned and their jaw is dropped.
One does not laugh when the delivery is so incisive and deliberate and unrelenting that one does not want to miss the next thrust of the stiletto, the next nuanced rip, the next revealing gesture, the next slap to the bully’s face.
One doesn’t laugh when they’re awestruck.
When I watch Lennie Bruce I do not laugh. I pay attention.
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05.03.06 | 4 Comments
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Stevie rocks my world.
My friend and I were watching the video tonight. She sat there and kept saying, in amazement at his words, “They’re gonna kill him. He’s gonna turn up dead.”
My favorite part was how the room slowly drained to a complete silence as the laughter just died.
My least favorite part is the fact that it didn’t change the world.
I mean, que unrealistic of me, right? It was the same feeling, though, that I had after the Presidential debates. I watched the first one betw Bush and Kerry, my jaw dropping more and more. “Okay, so this guy’s a complete numbskull,” I thought, “and now everyone will see and no one will vote for him again.” Then I turned on the radio and television the next morning to hear all these people – seemingly live, human people whose brains had not been eaten by zombies – commenting that Bush hadn’t done too bad, not too bad, no. Seriously commenting on what I’d seen as a fricking landslide/joke.
Ah, this world.
My favorite part was how the room slowly drained to a complete silence as the laughter just died.
My least favorite part is the fact that it didn’t change the world.
I mean, que unrealistic of me, right? It was the same feeling, though, that I had after the Presidential debates. I watched the first one betw Bush and Kerry, my jaw dropping more and more. “Okay, so this guy’s a complete numbskull,†I thought, “and now everyone will see and no one will vote for him again.†Then I turned on the radio and television the next morning to hear all these people – seemingly live, human people whose brains had not been eaten by zombies – commenting that Bush hadn’t done too bad, not too bad, no. Seriously commenting on what I’d seen as a fricking landslide/joke.
Ah, this world.