If a Comedian Makes a Joke in a Desolate Wood, Is He Still Funny?

Mainstream press coverage of the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner last Saturday virtually ignored the presentation of Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert, who performed a gut-bustingly hillarious routine that was scathingly critical of the Bush administration.


As netizens debate whether the Colbert media blackout amounts to a conspiracy, one point remains crystal clear: the desire of all major networks and newspapers to suppress this routine, while at the same time playing up a comedic bit between George W. Bush and a Bush impersonator.

They say that because of the second Bush White House, satire is dead.

But when media supression becomes so naked, could conspiracy theory itself be on life support?

(Listen to the routine yourself at the Democracy Now website. It comprises approximately the last fifteen minutes of the broadcast.)