As his time as host of The Late Show winds down, CBS’s Stephen Colbert was awarded the Writers Guild of America’s Walter Bernstein Award on Sunday in another example of liberal celebrities giving other liberal celebrities awards for their liberalism. Introducing Colbert, Robert Smigel hailed Colbert as someone who speaks “truth to power,” by which he just meant that Colbert mocks Republican presidents.
Smigel, best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and as the voice of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, recalled Colbert’s appearance at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner, “And as I watched Stephen bomb and bomb and bomb, it occurred to me: Anyone else I’d ever seen do this gig would have ‘read the room,’ would have done something to break the tension, a self-effacing, improv quip, or an exaggerated wipe of the brow, anything to get the crowd on their side. But Stephen just kept going. And I know at some point, he clearly read the room. And he just said to himself, “Fuck the room.’”
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