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Comedian Stephen Colbert testified this morning before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law:
David Corn tweeted that “Colbert is making a mockery of this hearing.” I don’t think they needed Colbert for that.
Oddly, however, I didn’t find the testimony funny.
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Why did he accept? His gig is to go where no other comedians go. That said, I wouldn’t have invited him.
I just heard a bit on the radio. It was “monologue funny” in my opinion, but without the laugh track or natural audience, it felt wrong. There’s a reason comedy albums are not jokes told in a silent room.
They had Colbert testify before congress because they needed a distraction from the scandal that Christopher Coates testified to at the real important meeting. The one held by the U.S. Civil Rights commission. What Coates said was he was told not to investigate or try to prosecute cases where a minority broke a civil rights law. Coates was told by Asst. AG Loretta King not to ask attorneys at job interviews if they could apply the law without racial bias.
