All that was missing was Mom and the apple pie. Wednesday night, Stephen Colbert had a studio audience filled with soldiers, live satellite feeds to bases in Afghanistan and Iraq, pretty girls handing out beer, Joe Biden dressed as a hot dog vendor slinging franks and (as if that wasn’t enough) Yogi Berra. The subject was Obama’s announcement that America was finished fighting in Iraq, and Colbert, as the Comic Opposition, struck just the right balance between cynicism and patriotism. Something tells me it wasn’t very hard for him to book Yogi either.
See the clip here. Yogi doesn’t come on until the end. Nice to see No. 8 getting out again after his fall in July. He looks great.
Love these guys! Great clip.
Is there really a “balance between between cynicism and patriotism”?
Is that like “ironically” flying the American flag?
(Sorry for the double betweens.)
@ profwilliams: it’s almost like a Yogi-ism, those double “betweens”
Last night Colbert had his audience filled with Vets. Both shows were good. And the description of cynicism and patriotism works.
Love seeing Yogi!
Prof. It certainly seems that one can be cynical about the motives of government, yet love the country. Count me as one of those. The American ideals in the Declaration of Independence, and Constitution, the great leaders of science, art and business America has generated make me a proud American. Yet I am cynical as all get out about what our current batch of leaders are doing (or not doing as the case may be).
Nice to see Yogi looking so well. He’s a trooper!