Ludacris is impressed: "I didn't even know (Bush) could be that funny."

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Jeopardy's Alex Trebek, a guest of CNN, seemed to be enjoying the night: "I thought the two presidents bit was fantastic, a marvelous bit. I asked Wolf Blitzer – because he has attended about 20 of these – whether all the presidents have such a good sense of humor about poking fun of themselves, which I think George Bush does. It's a great quality."

Blitzer thought Colbert was "very funny. I thought it was great. He was a little on the edge."

Actor and rapper Chris "Ludacris" Bridges was impressed with the president. "I didn't even know he could be that funny."

Isaiah Washington, who plays Dr. Burke on Grey's Anatomy, thought Bush and Colbert "hit a home run."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-04-30-bush-dinner_x.htm

[long_green]

1. Funny? Ludacris should watch some Katrina video

now THAT'S funny.
I'm not upset, though. Ludacris, like 50 cent and too many other rappers (by no means all), is for sale. Heck, he's got a lot in common with the reporters at that dinner.

[pretzel4gore]

3. don't be too hard on him...

he can't like bush, or busheviks, or repukes, or any of that - but he still has a job to do, and he probably doesn't get much advice...and remember, alot of Colbert's jokes are contingent on knowing the background story (for example, does Ludicris know about scalia's obscene gentures? alek trebek would, but Ludicris lives among people who distrust the media at best, and prolly only look when it concerns them; also Plame, and the fitzgerald investigation. Would Ludicris even care about the doings of those who persecute/imprison vast numbers of his brothers etc?)

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[rhino47]

11. So what are you saying?

That because he is African American Ludicris does not follow current events?You implied he lives among people that are so self involved they do not watch the news?Also to judge his empathy or lack there of is repulsive.You do not know what is in his mind.Your post smacks of racism.

[pretzel4gore]

14. nonsense..I'm defending Ludicris

you guys say he's venal, or grasping, or just ignorant-I say he sees the real world fulla self serving assholes running around LYING to each other and he has plotted a course through the minefields that avoids dangerous rocks. To accuse me of racism just devalues the currency, because the only reason I KNOW ABOUT lotsa this republican't crap is from time spent here and listening to AAR etc, which i doubt Ludicris has the TIME to do! (btw when i posted i knew it 'smacked' of racism, or elitism or whatever-i was just suggesting we go easy on Ludicris, who played 'Skinny Black' in Hustle and Flow, which MAYBE influenced my opinion of his 'worldliness' regards the 'glitterati')
it's a mindfield, all right, and lookit how i have gone on the rocks! and this is a forum filled with like minded liberal types! and people say 'let's judge Ludicris strictly, and he dam well better know every goddam detail of what the upper class twits do, which was the grist for Colbert's comedy, or else!'

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

10. He made a comment on the way in...

...and I'm too lazy to go pull the tape and transcribe it word-for-word, but this is close enough:

When Ludacris arrived, he got pulled aside for a question or two and said something like "They let so few of us in, I need to see what's going on, you know?"

So if he was there to file a report and the report was that Bush is a funny guy, I guess all I can say is "And Ludie, yer doin' a HECK of a job."

I dunno...Ludacris may be Mother Teresa, giving his time and money to worthwhile causes and such, but my gut tells me that his primary concern, above all else, is Ludacris.

:evilgrin:

[Sannum]

2. Oh my god, is that album cover real?

:wow:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

8. Yep...O'Reilly loved showing it...

...when he was calling for Pepsi to withdraw their endorsement deal (and for his viewers to boycott Pepsi if they didn't).

[NoPasaran]

4. I'll give Bush his due

He was pretty funny, although of course his remarks were scripted. I like him better when he's working off the top of his head, or wherever it is that things like "I'm the Decider" or "Is our children learning" come from.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

7. I thought Bush's funniest moment...

...was when he walked by Colbert at the end of the event and nodded without shaking his hand. That spoiled frat boy look on his face? PRICELESS!

:evilgrin:

[Metta]

5. Uh, he has writers.

It's all a distraction from his small, malicious, cold, hard heart and his policies which they manifest. A betrayal of human birth.

[peekaloo]

6. Correction to Isaiah Washington's baseball analogy:

Bush hit a sacrifice fly while Colbert hit the game winning, come from behind grand slam.

:-)

[justgamma]

12. He does know that the funny one

was the fake Shrub, doesn't he?

[dajoki]

13. I used to think...

he was funny--Now he's just an embarrassment.