I’m getting a lot of these: “Are you nuts? Colbert was genius (though his taped bit was too long). Watched it live on C-SPAN, and saw that he bombed in the room. But he was busy skewering everybody in the room, hence the tepid response. He could have gone for easy laughs but instead went for the jugular. Brave fellow.”

I like him on his show a great deal. I don’t think this is love for Bush keeping me from getting the joke. I just think he was bad–and way too long.