When Colbert did this during the Bush years, I genuinely believe that they had seen the Colbert Report, didn’t get the main conceit of the character, and thought they were getting a conservative comedian. I assumed that they would then learn the importance of careful research into someone’s material before hiring them…

Yeah, you could call Bush many things. Dumb, war criminal, inept as a president, but you could not call him cowardly. The man got up there every day to face the music and have shoes thrown at him. 45 is such a huge coward that it is a huge embarrassment to the country. Right wingers tell me he is so much more brave…

I don’t believe it for one minute that anyone really thinks that Wolff was remarking about Suckabees appearance or sexuality.

She didn’t make a single joke about anyone’s looks - and it would be so, so easy to do so. She didn’t, every single thing she said was just the truth, worded with a punch line, or just the straight up truth (Flint still had poisoned water!!!).

At least a certain orange skinned variety.

That to the nth power. I read that and wanted to physically hurt Mika. Yes, because that seemingly innocuous remark is the most disgusting defense of patriarchy. Female bodies exist for other people’s benefit, exploitation, and often pleasure, according to this. Well, nuh uh.

Then, it turned out to be a double zinger.

This joke alone was well worth the price of admission.

Fucking THANK YOU. I’m a good person! I do good things! I hate injustice! I don’t need a fucking husband or kids to validate all of my feelings and experiences. Sick of over-privileged women using their platforms to remind the world that I am a lesser being because I have failed to procreate.

Of all the hot takes, this one annoyed me the most:

I don’t remember the WHCA apologizing for Colbert’s speech, and I couldn’t find any mention of it on the Wikipedia page. Did I miss something?

That was the irony, they had seen it but thought he was a conservative. They didn’t get that it was satire.

I hope this does for Michelle Wolf’s career what it did for Stephen Colbert’s.

I was only passingly familiar with Michelle Wolf before her blistering performance at the WHCD. Now she is my everything. The pearl-clutching by the very media outlets she savaged is somehow hilarious and pathetic.

I felt the same way when they hired Colbert - who got some push back after, but not quite this much.

She had the choice of either doing as expected and complimenting the emperor’s new clothes, or telling him that his dumb ass is butt naked.

Bull SHIT. She spoke truth to power. Rock on, MW!

This is why people on the right and left hate this shit.

Yes, because Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Larry Wilmore and Hasan Minaj all gave such softball, unifying performances.