Colbert Skewered Gun Nuts On His Show And Glenn Beck’s Website Doesn’t Seem To Realize It Was Satire
Stephen Colbert devoted his entire show last night to giving gun nuts — defined as people who oppose any and all restrictions on gun ownership, ever — a righteous mocking disguised as “a thoughtful, sensitive conversation about guns” he called “Stephen Colbert’s Double Barrel Blam-O-Rama.” Featured in the hilariously biting bit was James Yeager, an obviously unstable CEO who recently took to YouTube to say that he would “start killing people” if gun safety legislation were passed.
Perhaps most funny of all is that Glenn Beck’s website, The Blaze, appears to be not in on the joke, praising Colbert for the way he “skewers” Piers Morgan on the obviously satirical show, apparently somehow still not aware that Colbert is a parody of a right-wing windbag.
Can’t say that I’m really surprised. Anyway, here’s part one…
Here’s part two…
And here’s part three…
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That people hired by Glen Beck don’t understand the concept of sarcasm is perhaps less than surprising.
my favorite part was the Colbert Shimmy
It helps that Beck’s audience probably lacks the self-awareness to recognize when they’re being satirized. Those people wouldn’t recognize satyr as it applies to them if it unzipped and half-mast smacked them in the face.
When Glenn Beck did a very solid series of Swiftian parody ads that illustrated the dangers of Agenda 21, Alex Jones said that Glenn Beck had sold out to the globalists.
I’m amazed that it has been over a decade of this persona and it still fools people.
Colbert or Beck?
as great as the non-guest segments were, not even Colbert could get me to think Piers Morgan is an alright dude.