That’s profound. You dirty, dirty boy/girl.

That said, it is truly enjoyable when Colbert becomes befuddled by, say, a quicker wit. Brown was far from that, instead it was a fair show all around.

Btw, conflating/rejecting personal taste of fun with/for an understanding of humor is much the same as rejecting cuisine for fast food joints – “it’s food, so it must be good”. But luckily taste differ.

I see your point. I can say that I did understand why it was supposed to be funny, but I just wasn’t humoured by it. I feel the same way about fart jokes too, and the Three Stooges (an old Cheers reference, if anyone’s old enough to remember it!) And I concede that the fact that I sympathize with the person and the subject matter probably didn’t help

Robbie,

I watch Colbert almost every night, and find him hilarious most of the time. I wasn’t critiquing Lori’s interview like it was “real”, I was critiquing the fact that she could probably have done a better job at responding to his humour. To be fair, his interviews have never been my favourite part of the show (his extremes feel a little awkward to me), although some are excellent. In fact, some of his best interviews are with people who can keep him off base a bit with their own humour .. Richard Brandson, Neil Young and Neil DeGrasse Tyson are few.

It takes a genius to nail a genius. Any takers out there? Phil Plait? Phil Plait?

I watched Gary Kasparov hand Bill Mayer his butt on a platter. I like Bill, though he is sometimes just as woo-wooish as any right winger, such as when he became hysterical about the decline of honey bee populations. Apparently, Bills research staff missed references to similar declines in bee populations in the late 19th century. We’re not the ONLY cause of environmental disruptions. Sometimes it’s a natural consequence of crowding(viral origin).

Even mosquitos (male) have some pollinating capability, so we’re not all going to starve because bees are having difficulties.

I really like Steven, but maybe that’s because I really appreciate his extremist parody.

The more a guest can pull the rug from under Steven, the more they get to be serious. So, Phil, if/when you get on his show, be VERY, VERY quick,,,
,,,and laugh a lot,,,

GAry 7

If you didn’t find it funny then, by the definition of the term, you didn’t get the humor.

Doesn’t mean you’re stupid. You just didn’t get it. If I were to hazard a guess I’d say you didn’t get it because the issue being satirized was one you feel strongly about and so it made you uncomfortablet. Yeah?

About the “stepping on” comments, that is how he usually handles these congressman & lobbyist interviews.

There are certain guests which he allows to speak more, such as the historian lady he had on tonight and Neil deGrasse Tyson. His style works especially well when the person being interviewed has a quick wit and can get in their comments between his lines of sarcasm.

Pete

Anyway, we humor-loving types live happier, anyway, so join us!

If you can’t laugh at yourself – who can you laugh at? Let the ID folks, UFO nuts and Bigfoot groupies be the humorless jerks no one wants to talk to!

I “get” him just fine, thank you very much. The fact that I didn’t find this particular bit funny has nothing to do with not “getting” it. It has to do with my NOT FINDING IT FUNNY. There are lots of jokes that I also don’t find funny, although I “get” perfectly well what it is about them that makes other people laugh. Maybe you just don’t “get” humour! (sorry, that’s cheeky, but at some level, the accusation is the same as yours)