Resident Media Research Center comedy cop Alex Christy — who absolutely hates Stephen Colbert — sounds a tad bitter in a March 10 post:
As his time as host of The Late Show winds down, CBS’s Stephen Colbert was awarded the Writers Guild of America’s Walter Bernstein Award on Sunday in another example of liberal celebrities giving other liberal celebrities awards for their liberalism. Introducing Colbert, Robert Smigel hailed Colbert as someone who speaks “truth to power,” by which he just meant that Colbert mocks Republican presidents.
Smigel, best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and as the voice of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, recalled Colbert’s appearance at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner, “And as I watched Stephen bomb and bomb and bomb, it occurred to me: Anyone else I’d ever seen do this gig would have ‘read the room,’ would have done something to break the tension, a self-effacing, improv quip, or an exaggerated wipe of the brow, anything to get the crowd on their side. But Stephen just kept going. And I know at some point, he clearly read the room. And he just said to himself, “Fuck the room.’”
Colbert’s attacks on President Bush led Smigel to add, “And he just kept tearing into the president three feet to his right, never breaking character. Stephen Colbert was not going to sell out Stephen Colbert. And that’s the night Stephen went from being my comedy crush to my comedy hero.”
As if Presidents Obama and Biden never happened, Smigel fast-forwarded to the present day, “And we all know what’s going on now. Things are so messed up that now they’re clearly our tangible consequences to speaking truth to power. But Stephen, you’ve always led with integrity.”
Christy can’t prove Colbert or Smigel wrong, so he continued to whine:
Sunday’s WGA ceremony illustrated one thing perfectly: whether it is Smigel, Colbert, or the WHCD, the idea of speaking truth to power means attacking Republicans. The WGA was not going to give anyone an award for their biting satirical critiques of Obama or Biden, but there are millions of dollars to be made and awards to be earned if you attack Bush, Trump, and presumably whoever the next Republican president will be.
Christy huffed again in a March 13 post:
CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed comedian Wanda Sykes to Thursday’s taping of The Late Show for a conversation that was as ridiculous as it was wide-ranging. In the span of just a few minutes, Sykes urged Colbert to team up with Pope Leo and “burn this bitch down” on the night of his final show, demanded that TSA agents be paid while omitting that the reason they go unpaid is because of a Democrat shutdown, and helped Colbert resurrect a wildly misleading talking point about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s food spending.
Sykes implored, “So, the last show what you going to do? You’ve got to go the hell off the last show, like, burn this bitch down. You got to—I mean—”
She also quipped, “I heard they turning it into a Walmart, so don’t worry about it. So, yeah—I mean, you always bring the fire every night. But that last show has to be like, like destruction. Like, yeah.”
Chriwsty ranted in a March 31 post:
The latest chapter in late night comedy’s degeneration into liberal group cathartic therapy was written on Monday as CBS’s Stephen Colbert led The Late Show audience in a “Yes, we can” chant after hyping a balloon at a No Kings rally that featured President Trump defecating fire on the Constitution and wondering if such things could help prevent the rise of fascism in America.
During his ode to No Kings, Colbert hyped some of the signs, “There were protest signs and they were just great. ‘They came for Minnesota and we said, ‘Ope, no, you don’t.’’ ‘Does this ass make my country look small?’ ‘No faux king way,’ ‘The Turd Reich,’ and, ‘Jimmy Kimmel has higher ratings than you.’ I like that one. I really like that one.”
Colbert would reveal that the Kimmel one was actually just a graphic his team made of Kimmel sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez holding a sign. Meanwhile, “The Turd Reich” sign not only featured President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, U.K. Reform Party leader Nigel Farage, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Nazi uniforms—which is one of the hallmarks of anti-Semitism—but also lumped them in with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
Christy went on to complain further that Colbert talked about creating “an angry balloon that looks like it’s pooping fire,” which prompted yet another rant from him:
To call the Trump-fire-defecating balloon childish would be an insult to children. Colbert, his audience, and the protestors may think they are clowning on a fascist with a fragile ego, but they are really simply outing themselves as profoundly unserious people. When the history of the Trump presidency is written, nobody will write that democracy was saved because of that balloon.
Christy seems to have forgotten that Trump posted a video to his social media account showing him dumping poop on No Kings protesters — or that the MRC had no problem with him doing so, and it certainly didn’t call that childish.