I’d have to say that the funniest, balls-out, career-making/destroying thing I’ve seen all year was Stephen Colbert’s monologue at the White House Press Corps dinner on Saturday night. On Sunday morning, I downloaded a BitTorrent of the speech he gave and was locked to my monitor, slack-jawed, incredulous and laughing my ass off at lines like:

“Mayor Nagin is here from New Orleans, the chocolate city. Yeah, give it up. Mayor Nagin, I would like to welcome you to Washington, D.C., The chocolate city with a marshmallow center.”
“And a graham cracker crust of corruption. It’s a mallomar is what I’m describing, a seasonal cookie. Joe Wilson is here, the most famous husband since Desi Arnez. And of course he brought along his lovely wife Valerie Plame. Oh, my god!
Oh, what have I said. I am sorry, Mr. President, I meant to say he brought along his lovely wife, Joe Wilsons wife. Pat Fitzgerald is not here tonight? Dodged a bullet. And we can’t forget man of the hour, new Press Secretary, Tony Snow. Secret service name, Snow Job. What a hero, took the second toughest job in government, next to, of course, the ambassador to Iraq.”

The insults and and cracks go on and on and leave the President and First Lady red-faced and visibly offended. The audience seems fluctuates between muttering indignation and not knowing whether or not it’s too inflammatory to laugh along at Colbert’s jokes. It’s obvious that everyone in the room is extremely uncomfortable. This is one video that has to be seen. Stephen Colbert has plenty balls.

Here’s links to low-rez WMV and a slightly higher-rez QuickTime video file. For best quality, you should go for the BitTorrent file, but you’ll need to have a client installed. I recommend Azureus. Lastly, you can always try searching YouTube for clips.