On 5/3/06, Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:
> > What's amazing is how much the media, and particularly
> > Fox News, have consistently referred to how "bad"
> > Colbert was. Chris Matthews said he was "just
> > terrible." I enjoyed the hell out of it.
> >
> > -B.
>
> As did I:
>
> <http://redstateson.blogspot.com/2006/05/colbertd.html>
>
> But from what I saw, and based on my years in the clubs, Colbert did bomb,
> in the sense that the audience wasn't fully with him or found much of his
> material distasteful or unfunny. Doesn't mean the material wasn't great --
> much of it was. Hacks like Matthews base their perceptions on what a
> well-heeled audience does or doesn't do, as opposed to assessing the
> material itself. The NY/Beltway crowd aren't critics or even comedy
> aficionados. They serve domestic power, and act/speak accordingly.
>
> Dennis
>
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