Yep! Very rarely, they were too polite to address how insane Stephen's comment was.

Because most of the time, they agreed with how batshit it was!

People are insane now. They weren't 10 years ago.

I spend the morning listen to a woman talk about herself to her friend. Every sentence was a tidal wave of how difficult and awful and demanding her life was, how nobody could understand her struggles, but then also how she was the most empathetic understanding and self-aware person in the world. How she is so happy and wishes others could be happier like her, but she'll never be happy because she can't have the things everyone else has. She has so many great amazing friends, but she can't really be who she really is around them or they won't like her. Oh, and this is all in the context of her YouTube channel she's trying to monetize.

Our world is so far gone that people's self-conceptions/identity has become hyperreal on an everyday basis.

And I'm over here like, petting my dog sipping a black coffee thinking how this lady is like every other person I have met the past few years, her little speech is basically every other person on youtube or a podcast these days. NPC who thinks they are the main character and everyone else is the NPC.

And I think 10 years ago, would anyone have socially tolerated this crap? No, they'd have avoiding this person like the plague. Now they are like, folk-heros and everyone aspires to be like them. Shit's wild. Not even Colbert could pull off the hyper absurdity that so many folks now just embody everyday.

And we wonder why the world is like this... well because the people in the world are like this and people like them for it.

Happen the same thing with Starship Troopers.

He timed his contract expiration to match Letterman's. He really wanted to take over the Late Show, a move that paid off.

Literally Poe’s Law in action, but applied to real life where the sarcasm is extremely apparent.

I was really really shocked when Bill O'riely brought him on. That's when I thought they really don't get the joke. I don't think they ever did until he started The Late Show.

It was outrageously parody. Just look at the episode on coffins.

INT vs WIS, for the nerds.

People who are smart in one way are usually not smart in every way.

Trump just did it in his correspondents dinner speech where he said he was going to run again in 2028.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/29

I'm not sure this is trolling in any way

Which are not organised by the White House

The purpose of those dinners is to roast the President

Back then presidents had thicker skin. The job of the WHCD entertainer was to make fun of the sitting president to show what freedom of speech is all about. The job of the president was to take it and smile. He wasn't invited because they thought he supports Bush. He was invited because they thought he was funny.

He was invited by the WHCA, not the White House or Republicans. They knew what they were getting.