If you haven’t seen it, you can watch President Bush and Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents Dinner here at HotAir. I got a kick out of watching it. The irony of this video is that Colbert got almost no laughs, while Bush got plenty.

At first, the left was furious about this (see commenters at this post). The fact that Bush got more laughs than Colbert - Americans must be a sick bunch.

But then their reaction shifted, being that the angry left has little sense of humor anyway (so what if a comedian gets no laughs), and then Colbert was made into a hero. HotAir goes on to speculate that Colbert may have been more calculating than at first appears:

In Colbert’s defense, he might not have been playing for laughs. The dissident posture is very important to our friends on the left; if SC had kept things light and wasted his opportunity to speak “truth” to power, they’d have crucified him for it. As it is, the moonbats will be building statues of him tomorrow. To paraphrase another delusional comedian who wasn’t as funny as he thought he was, better to be Kos for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.

The irony here is that a comedian, rather than taking chances to get laughs, instead played it safe to get no laughs. Sort of turns the idea of comedy on its head.

… Well, okay, I did think it was funny when Colbert noted that Valerie Plame was in the audience and then covered his mouth and apologized to the President as if he had inadvertently revealed her covert identity.

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