Colbert On Osama Bin Laden Killing: ‘Suck My Giant American Balls"
by Tommy Christopher VIDEO
On the first full day that Americans had to digest the news that terrorist leader Osama bin Laden waskilled in a raid by US forces Sunday, it seems only fitting that right-wing fundit™ Stephen Colbertwould have the last word. His show was born out of a roiling kettle of post-9/11 politics, and Monday night, he applied his ample bombast to the remnants of bin Laden’s terrorist followers, declaring “Suck my giant American balls, al Qaeda!”Colbert’s character is an (increasingly affectionate) sendup of bombastic conservative pundits like Bill O’Reilly, far to the right of the man who plays him, but bin Laden’s demise is probably the rare instance where the character and the man nearly agree.
Following his defiant credo, Colbert brought some serious funny, riffing on about 70 years of pop culture, and somehow managing both a Wizard of Oz and a Reservoir Dogs reference in the same bit. The segment caps off with a funny bit about the 2001 shark panic that also provides a slight Proustian ache for that bygone time when all we had to worry about was sharks that would never bite us.
Here’s the clip, from Comedy Central:
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