People always talk about how the American political process is dominated by just two parties, but did you know that our US Senate has a socialist senator? That’s right, his name is Bernie Sanders and he hails from the free loving hippie commune Ben & Jerry’s state (aka Vermont). Sanders recently appeared on The Colbert Report and explained why the United States should morph into Finland.

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Stephen Colbert didn’t have to do a whole lot of work on last night’s show as he had politicians doing most of the talking for him. A day after Clinton and Obama debated in Pennsylvania, they both appeared on The Colbert Report. It was known all week that Senator Clinton would appear on the show in some form, but Obama appearing via satellite was a surprise. And the fact that Obama appeared at the end of show kinda trumped Hillary’s in person appearance and probably took away whatever she was trying to gain from her visit.

Colbert was not given a chance to make either presidential candidate look foolish (they pretty much just did that on their own-especially Hillary). Their appearances were totally scripted to have them in control of the dialog, Stephen was the one playing along which is totally uncharacteristic to what he normally does. It was definitely a little disappointing but interesting to see them both on the show.

Even John Edwards swung by to pretend that he is still relevant, despite being out of the race for 3 months and still not having made an endorsement. John does “Ed’s Word” and once again pushes his poverty agenda to both Clinton and Obama, leaving a window open that he may still endorse one of them. Anyways, nice to see that Stephen got a night off last night!

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The writers strike is finally over! After watching over a month of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report episodes without writers, yesterday they finally came back! I have to hand to them, they did a great job without their full time writers, but something was definitely missing. As funny as Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are, it’s tough doing fresh comedy 4 nights a week without writers.

And hell, people like Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien had been doing 1 hour shows 5 nights a week without their full time writers. It’s been interesting but 5 weeks of this was enough. Welcome back to all the writers, nice to see you again!

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Anyways, since Mike Huckabee is a social conservative and former baptist minister, I felt I owned no better t-shirt to wear than my God Bless Playoff Beards shirt (from ADBTEES). I told Mike Huckabee that I loved him on The Colbert Report, he really does have a great sense of humor to go along with his social policies that would set us back to Medieval times. At a rally in Jacksonville, he asked one man who said he already voted for him if he could go vote for him again since this is Florida and all (yeah that’s a felony but it sure was funny!).

Mike Huckabee’s two big slogans are “I Like Mike” and “Us Against Them.” The first one is pretty straight forward but the second can certainly mean a lot of things. And as displayed by that last picture, it’s really never too early to get polarizing messages out to our youth.

I will say this, Huckabee had a larger and louder crowd than Rudy 9/11 had, but there was also far less media since Bush was doing his State of Disunion speech. Anyways, based on this small sample I project Mike Huckabee will finish 3rd today in Florida. Good news for Giuliani is that all his hard work in Rudy Country should pay off by finishing ahead of that pesky Ron Paul.

And again, with the hockey playoffs coming up, I encourage you to swing by A Drunk Buffalo T-Shirt Company and pick up a God Bless Playoff Beards shirt. And Mike, in the slim chance you win the republican nomination; make sure to keep your promise to make Stephen Colbert your running mate!

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In case you missed last night’s Colbert Report, here is the exciting conclusion of the 3 part series involving Colbert trying to give his self portraits within a self portrait to the walls of history. First Colbert visited the Smithsonian where he viewed historic items such as Abraham Lincoln’s hat, George Washington’s army uniform and Helen Keller’s watch. The last one allowed for a classy joke where Stephen asked, how did Helen Keller tell time? That was awesome, I haven’t heard a Helen Keller joke since high school.

Ultimately the Smithsonian did not accept Stephen Colbert’s self portrait; deflated and in despair he then went two blocks down to the National Gallery. There he viewed portraits of American icons such as Jack Kerouac, Upton Sinclair and Andy Warhol. In the end Stephen visited the Hall of Presidents and to his delight his portrait was accepted to be displayed just one room away from George Washington’s portrait, in front of the bathrooms! That’s right, Washington’s National Gallery has agreed to allow Colbert’s self portraits within a self portrait to be their bathroom decoration for 6 weeks. So like Stephen said, it’s never been a better time to take a whiz in Washington!

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The shows were definitely different without the writers, but being they were the first in months, they weren’t necessarily less entertaining, particularly The Colbert Report which relies heavily on Stephen Colbert staying in character.

Colbert was bewildered as to why there weren’t any words on his teleprompter. He was then told it was because of the writers strike. Colbert acted surprised and said “my understanding is that this little magic box, it reads my thoughts and it lays them on the screen right there.”

Being that it was their first show back, they both used the writers strike as a source of material. And with so much time off, I suspect they have lots of ideas to carry them through several shows. But the longer this drags out, the harder this will be for them, especially since many actors and politicians will not cross picket lines to appear on their shows.

Anyways, welcome back guys! I’ve missed ya!

Daily Show image from MSNBC.

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Since they’ve been off so long they’ve missed out on making fun of so many different things. There’s been men coming forward saying they’ve had sex with ‘anti-gay’ senator Larry Craig, President Num Nuts doing his job (nuff’ said there), the idiocy of the run-up to the Iowa caucuses and so much more. It’s great that they’ll be back in just a few weeks to bring the insanity back to normal.

The writers strike is still going on so tentatively they will be coming back without their writers, although they are hoping that a deal gets worked out with the Writer’s Guild of America. If a deal doesn’t get done they will mostly be winging their shows by having extra guests and interviews.

Personally, I think it will be interesting to see their shows without their writers. They themselves are members of the writer’s guild but it will be difficult to do 4 shows a week with little internal help. They’ll have to rely on having great guests and using their own smarts and sharp wit to put on great shows. I’m looking forward to seeing this!

It’s unfortunate that the Dems have put the hammer down on Colbert’s “Better Know a District” segment. Come on guys, give him some material here!

“America’s Anchors” image from this joint.

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Yesterday morning, Stephen Colbert called in to some radio show to discuss his not being allowed on the South Carolina democratic ballot with “Brown Haired Guy That’s Not Steve Doocy” and who I am coining “Radio Guy That’s Not Brown Haired Guy That’s Not Steve Doocy.” Brown Haired Guy That’s Not Steve Doocy told Colbert that maybe next time he should take his candidacy more seriously in which Stephen replied “Listen here Brown Haired Guy That’s not Steve Doocy…!”

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Zesty nacho cheese Doritos image from this place.

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Here we see Stephen Colbert on Meet The Press with Tim Russert back on October 21st discussing his presidential bid (sponsored by delicious and zesty nacho cheese Doritos). Last night, Tim Russert, along with NBC nightly news anchor Brian Williams moderated a democratic debate at Drexel University on MSNBC. Problem was, Stephen Colbert was the only candidate that did not attend, along with Mike Gravel, but he does not count since he is polling much further down than zesty nacho cheese Doritos themselves.

One can only assume that Stephen Colbert is using the “Fred Thompson Model” of presidential candidacy, one in which you do not show up for debates and do as little as possible in your bid to be president. It’s working pretty well for Thompson, often saying as few substantial things as possible is the best way to get elected president-see George Bush. I mean seriously, if you say lots of substantial stuff you are bound to piss people off and thus they will not vote for you. So it’s either better to not say substantial things or not be a substantial person.

Anyways, Stephen Colbert is polling in a statistical dead heat with Joe Biden for 4th place, only behind Hillary, Obama and Edwards. An Edwards spokesperson recently called out Stephen Colbert in South Carolina for taking money from the delicious makers of zesty nacho cheese Doritos. In reality, I believe John Edwards is just jealous that he does not have a zesty mouth watering explosion of flavor sponsor like Stephen Colbert has with zesty nacho cheese Doritos.

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