This is good, this is really good. The way he blatantly makes fun of this guy is the best media coverage of a mass violent act I've seen because not only does Stephen disregard the common notion to concede in sadness to a terror attack, he ridicules the man and brings personal shame to someone who tried to ruin many people's lives
I agree that it's a good response, and that humour is a great way to disarm the fear that can accompany attacks like this, but Stephen was only able to go to a place of comedy because there were no fatalities in this attack. A body count changes the rubric.
Mass public ridicule may be one of the most effective deterrents to terrorism and mass killing, even, if not especially, if actual lives are lost. People who kill other people en masse do so EXACTLY because they wish to elicit fear and grief. Killing lots of people is, unfortunately, a rather easy way of becoming (in)famous, and the treatment the sort of people who would do such a thing receive in the public eye, as people with the power to cause suffering and who should be feared, doesn't do anything to deter them. It actually encourages them further! Emotionally, it might feel wrong to make light of a morbid situation, but if you think about it, it's the only response (other than no response at all) that actually undermines the intentions of the terrorist. Terrorists seek to manipulate the public's emotions and provoke a disproportionate response to what is actually a minuscule threat (according to the CDC, a half of a million people die every year in the U.S. alone as a result of smoking, including 40,000 just from second-hand smoke exposure... terrorism is a basket of kittens in comparison). In the event that a terrorist act failed to be prevented, the best way to retaliate is to make sure the committer isn't remembered for what he sought out to accomplish. It's basically psychological warfare.
IM so happy HILLARY Terrorist didnt kill or hurt anyone IM like most people lets talk about the terrorist not the people how want to kick them out TRUMP is a weirdo
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Really, this is more like a feel-good story to me. It shows how resilient our city is, and how much we've all grown throughout the years. No one was killed, all injured are out of the hospital, and the bastard is in jail. Pretty good turnout.
Might I just add that as a Muslim, I've never been more worried and depressed that in such a crucial time a Muslim just comes out of nowhere and tries to harm innocent people. I hope he's prosecuted to the fullest. Also great to hear no one got seriously harmed.
no, don't feel bad, he is not you and he doesn't represent Muslims. And we are not all Trump supporters that think someone with a different religion or skin color is a terrorist. God bless and love us all.
I actually like Jon chiming in from time to time (sometimes a little too much tho) and especially when he just starts singing "cold bloooded" after Colbert just burned someone.
Maybe Ahmad was opening a new restaurant in Chelsea, and he overcooked the chicken, so as to not look like a fool, he pretended it was a terrorist attack.
The FINGER??? Oh my GOD!!! Without that blur there, the world would've went to shit in a second! Parents would murder and rape their children and all the world's nukes would've launched at once! Thank God, the blur that was covering something everyone knows and doesn't care about was there!
I was born in Florida, lived in Mississippi, and now in Michigan, but my heart has only grown fonder for New York City. I take these attacks there personally, like they were against my own town or my own family and my own friends, and I know I don't feel alone in that. I may not live there, but I love you, NYC. We're with you.
I wanna salute the "thieves" (note: they're not actually thieves if they're just picking up something someone threw away) who reported the rest of the bombs. And the people who spotted the guy and let the cops know where he was.
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That point has always left me puzzled. Why does the media trust the terrorists to give us an honest answer for their responsibility? Of course they're gonna say yes to everything that advance their agenda regardless of who did it.
Love John Batiste and Stay Human. John has such a funny speaking voice... his little comments from the side always sound like some sort of caricature of a black person from around the 1920's. It's a very strange dynamic in a show that is so topical. :)
I love to see that mainstream networks are allowing their talent to ignore false equivalencies. Colbert. Seth Meyers. Jimmy Kimmel. etc. it's not just cable shows now. the demo that watches, is the demo of America's future. and all these comedians are saying what we all think.
"...name another city where someone will punch you in the face just for saying hi on the street." London. At least, it was in the 80s and 90s. Not that I didn't love living there.
Dammit, i can't take the constant applauding and screaming! Will this ever stop or will these shows eventually just consist only of people clapping and screaming?!?
If they make us scared the they win comedy is exactly what we need and besides it was a complet failure of an attack how ma you bombs did he have and he couldn't kill a single person. If terrorists don't instill terror then they fail
I disagree.I went there and the people were friendly,maybe because of the amount of sugar they have over there.Seriously,how much sugar do you guys have over there?Anyway even though the main point of that trip was a TED talk,it was the least interesting part of it.
I don't know which writer on the show keeps dissing New Jersey, but I hope they realize Stephen lives (or used to live) in New Jersey while he was on the Colbert Report..
I believe this is the first terror attack I've ever heard of where it was mocked 2 days later. This was a serious threat that luckily didn't kill anyone, but we're all just joking about it. I think that's because it's a failed terror attack, nobody was critically injured and nobody died so it's easy to make fun of it soon after.
Ridicule is the opposite of the fear that terrorists (of any kind) want to cause, so it's the best reaction, as long as it's not insensitive to the victims and their families. In this case, the few victims were only mildly harmed, so the ridicule is perfect.
There is more than enough to blame on that douchebag Trump without making anything up. Every time he opens his mouth, out comes more evidence that he's a hopeless dickhead.
A born and raised New York visiting almost ANYWHERE... their first reaction, "wow it's so CLEAN here!" I would know, I'm that New Yorker :) Still can't imagine living anywhere else (unless to retire).
This is so wrong, you are actually asking people to not react towards a terror attack, just let it be. Shit happens, don't ask for any punitive action, just relax, we are worse than this.
really like the bit, but i would have prefered if you didnt say his name and didnt show face. many people like him do it for the attention and they get it this way.. would love if just leave out name and face next time :P
I love how Colbert and other liberals try so hard to ignore the big elephant in the room, not even so they can refute it. I suppose I can understand why he doesn't want to acknowledge it since its messy business and this is relatively minor incident but I just hope the elephant doesn't crush everyone in the room while they're all too busy trying to pretend its not there.
Did he just play off an attempted terror attack as light-hearted comedy? I get that the attack wasn't succesful and you don't want to give him the guy what he wants by spreading panic, but the carefree tone is really jarring.
I get that, I just think it didn't have to be as cheery, a bit more dark humor if you know what I mean. But ultimately I'm glad nobody has been seriously hurt and Stephen got to joke around about it.
This was definitely the right thing to do, the point of terrorism is to cause terror, which you can't when New Yorkers are being badasses and making fun of the attempt. Also, Colbert is a New Yorker himself, I don't mind him joking about his home
Eh, this kind of sounds like Stephen is telling terrorists to step up their game if they attack again. There's something kind of weird about mocking him because his terrorist attack didn't do enough damage.
Jay Zenitram Most of these attacks aren't even ISIS, they're just people from America who are crazy fans. But the point isn't that this is going to make more stuff happen, just that it's weird to mock a psycho for not managing to kill people.
Krombopulos Michael I think mockery is the perfect response to this stuff. It definitely beats an "I'm shitting my pants" response. But anyway, my point was that they are already intent on blowing you up, lack of motivation isn't their problem.
Jay Zenitram I think making jokes is fine and all and I'm glad we're belittling people like this (like he said, nothing wrong with terror-shaming), it's just the fact that the joke is saying "haha, what a loser, he didn't even ruin our lives by killing people" is a weird issue to go after. I think it's because if you sort of say "we don't respect him because he failed to kill anyone", then by that logic, it means we do have some kind of respect for the ones who actually are successful in their attack.
Yes, it's funny when everyone is more or less okay and no one died, but is it really funny? It might not be a "big deal" because no one was killed but is it really no deal at all? Or were we just lucky that the guy was an incompetent domestic terrorist? His intentions were to maim and kill people. Just remember that the Boston marathon bombers used homemade pressure cooker bombs that killed 3 people and injured 264. Of course not panicking and not over-blowing the situation is the right way to react but to not take it seriously isn't. We're all happy everyone is alive, but it doesn't always turn out that way. Of course we've had worse happen, we had 3,000 people die in one day. Of course in proportion to that this is nothing. But no one dying this time doesn't make us better people, that makes us lucky f***ers; Minnesota was not as lucky this weekend. As a New Yorker born and raised and having lived here my whole life, and just blocks away from WTC on 9-11-01, all I can say is stay cool NYC, keep on keeping on, but don't be arrogant.
only in new york would people try to steal a bomb
This is good, this is really good. The way he blatantly makes fun of this guy is the best media coverage of a mass violent act I've seen because not only does Stephen disregard the common notion to concede in sadness to a terror attack, he ridicules the man and brings personal shame to someone who tried to ruin many people's lives
I agree that it's a good response, and that humour is a great way to disarm the fear that can accompany attacks like this, but Stephen was only able to go to a place of comedy because there were no fatalities in this attack. A body count changes the rubric.
Yea, wouldn't want him to be throwing these kinds of jokes around with people losing their lives but situationally this was brilliant.
Mass public ridicule may be one of the most effective deterrents to terrorism and mass killing, even, if not especially, if actual lives are lost. People who kill other people en masse do so EXACTLY because they wish to elicit fear and grief. Killing lots of people is, unfortunately, a rather easy way of becoming (in)famous, and the treatment the sort of people who would do such a thing receive in the public eye, as people with the power to cause suffering and who should be feared, doesn't do anything to deter them. It actually encourages them further!
Emotionally, it might feel wrong to make light of a morbid situation, but if you think about it, it's the only response (other than no response at all) that actually undermines the intentions of the terrorist. Terrorists seek to manipulate the public's emotions and provoke a disproportionate response to what is actually a minuscule threat (according to the CDC, a half of a million people die every year in the U.S. alone as a result of smoking, including 40,000 just from second-hand smoke exposure... terrorism is a basket of kittens in comparison). In the event that a terrorist act failed to be prevented, the best way to retaliate is to make sure the committer isn't remembered for what he sought out to accomplish.
It's basically psychological warfare.
this is a good bit from Colbert, turn the guy into a joke and not a scary martyr.
Well he already does this with Trump.
At this point, I'd rather hear about a terrorist than Trump.
IM so happy HILLARY Terrorist didnt kill or hurt anyone IM like most people lets talk about the terrorist not the people how want to kick them out TRUMP is a weirdo
I always thought he was just telling us to stay human, I never realized that's the name of the band. lol
lol staying human as opposed to... not staying human?...
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Really? i didnt even know that. seems obvious now
Really, this is more like a feel-good story to me. It shows how resilient our city is, and how much we've all grown throughout the years. No one was killed, all injured are out of the hospital, and the bastard is in jail. Pretty good turnout.
Might I just add that as a Muslim, I've never been more worried and depressed that in such a crucial time a Muslim just comes out of nowhere and tries to harm innocent people. I hope he's prosecuted to the fullest. Also great to hear no one got seriously harmed.
***** Thank you.
+Fatumo Mohamud he wasn't that bad-he gave away free chicken!
ak p That's what breaks my heart. You never know who will try to harm you.
no, don't feel bad, he is not you and he doesn't represent Muslims. And we are not all Trump supporters that think someone with a different religion or skin color is a terrorist. God bless and love us all.
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"The official New York City Bird is the Middle Finger." Hahaha, love it!
I almost feel bad for the terrorist. He went through all that trouble just to mildly annoy people and get mocked on national television.
The official Bird of NY.... Somebody edit Wikipedia!
Pressure cooker bombs? I thought it was the Samsung phone
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Yeah.. only iphone users are stupid enough to say that because they believe their phones are the best.
the concept of the music band is excellent. they are very synergetic with colbert appearance
Nope. Still hoping they turn off Jon's mic
I love their music, but Jon
needs to stop talking :)
I actually like Jon chiming in from time to time (sometimes a little too much tho) and especially when he just starts singing "cold bloooded" after Colbert just burned someone.
Friiiiday, Friiiiday, Friiiiiiday
Maybe Ahmad was opening a new restaurant in Chelsea, and he overcooked the chicken, so as to not look like a fool, he pretended it was a terrorist attack.
Lol.
.. good times and bad times, I've seen them all and my dear, Colbert's here... 💕@NYC
Love you Colby
Did they just blur the middle finger? :D :D :D
oh America. you....you again....
You can't show the finger on network tv.
Yep. And this goes on even though every five year old child has seen that gesture at least once.
This is CBS USA. What did you expect?
The FINGER??? Oh my GOD!!! Without that blur there, the world would've went to shit in a second! Parents would murder and rape their children and all the world's nukes would've launched at once! Thank God, the blur that was covering something everyone knows and doesn't care about was there!
Official bird is the middle finger...that's such a golden line
I was born in Florida, lived in Mississippi, and now in Michigan, but my heart has only grown fonder for New York City. I take these attacks there personally, like they were against my own town or my own family and my own friends, and I know I don't feel alone in that. I may not live there, but I love you, NYC. We're with you.
colbert for president.
This guy is awesome and always hit it on the head. I am glad he made fun of that a-hole ... Perfection!
Same thing happened here in Kathmandu, Nepal . IED like Pressure cooker bombs found in 6+ schools this morning.
😳 Gosh!
Did they find them before they detonated?
Well one or two did but it was early so nobody was injured. The police caught the people who planted those bombs. said they were making a statement
i wish "americans" werent so selective with the compassion...sounds scary. what a world
the punching you in the face thing is true!
When you "terror-shame" someone, there really are no boundaries!
I wanna salute the "thieves" (note: they're not actually thieves if they're just picking up something someone threw away) who reported the rest of the bombs. And the people who spotted the guy and let the cops know where he was.
colbert does a bit about new york, batiste plays up tempo version of classic new york song. love this show.
"I dare you to name one other city where someone punch you in the face just for saying hi on the street"
Have you ever been to Paris ? A lovely place.
try "bonjour" instead
"Rahami" means compassion in Arabic. How's that for irony?
Afghans speak Pashto and Dari. Now analyze the shit out of colbert in Latin or Greek.
Jing Li Yeah, but Muslims often have Arabic names. Comedian Aziz Ansari is from India, but his name is Arabic for "Might of the Companions".
Tal Moore it doestnt work that way. im a cultural muslim.
eg. Malala en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai
It does work that way. I'm a semitic speaker.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein
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FYI pressure cooker real good to make beef brisket
We NYers have seen it all; lived it all.
Funny, same exact joke "if you see something steal something" as Samantha Bee (both filmed around the same time)
I think hers was more like if NYers see something on the curb, they take it
Thank you NYPD!
You may now return to your regularly scheduled stop and frisk policy.
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THE CABLE BALLS ARE BACK!
I wonder if ISIS is going to take credit for this failed attack. They're usually not that picky. I guess they're just facepalming: "Ffs Ahmad".
LOL. Oh, Ahmed.
That point has always left me puzzled.
Why does the media trust the terrorists to give us an honest answer for their responsibility? Of course they're gonna say yes to everything that advance their agenda regardless of who did it.
#OhAchmed
They would take responsibility if he was dead.
They notice any explosion on the news and leave out a tweet saying they did it
I fucking love NewYork,
Signed a Muslim.
Love John Batiste and Stay Human. John has such a funny speaking voice... his little comments from the side always sound like some sort of caricature of a black person from around the 1920's. It's a very strange dynamic in a show that is so topical. :)
Thank god no one was hurt.
Get punch if you just say hello lol
That Colonel joke xDD
that was strange, in a bad way. very strange
I've never seen a burning dumpster in NYC
Exactly! No big deal anymore. It's everyday crap.
New York is just a dirtier, louder, meaner, broken-er version of L.A. But we still love it.
Steve, you're from South Carolina.
Best tweet from this is the one mentioning all the people calling their loved ones to assure them that 23rd and 6th is not actually in Chelsea.
I love to see that mainstream networks are allowing their talent to ignore false equivalencies. Colbert. Seth Meyers. Jimmy Kimmel. etc. it's not just cable shows now. the demo that watches, is the demo of America's future. and all these comedians are saying what we all think.
Yup. Sounds like us.
Wow they have to censor the middle finger lol
Would love to live in New York!...
I'll stick to my city where people are friendly thank you very much.
LA?
I'm still holed up in Seattle, where we're still in a struggle with our biggest enemy-Raining
LA lol - where the drivers welcome you by riding your bumper, cutting you off, and giving you the bird.
Jerk?!! It's a fuckin mad dog!!
"...name another city where someone will punch you in the face just for saying hi on the street." London. At least, it was in the 80s and 90s. Not that I didn't love living there.
We have had to deal both Trump and Hillary we can deal with anything.
Dammit, i can't take the constant applauding and screaming! Will this ever stop or will these shows eventually just consist only of people clapping and screaming?!?
this is sickening.. No regard for those injured, makig an obvious terror into comedy
If they make us scared the they win comedy is exactly what we need and besides it was a complet failure of an attack how ma you bombs did he have and he couldn't kill a single person. If terrorists don't instill terror then they fail
they drank you and pumped you into their bloodstream to get out of the hospital.
Stephen, like 75% of New Yorkers Cook. Unless they live in Manhatten, because then that number's probably 40% -ish
its a joke...
Exaggeration is very commonly used in comedy.
Its ya boi.
They caught him AND tried him already!?
+Kelvin Lee First time I've met someone that's an idiot AND has no morals. Oh wait, trump.
It's 11 herbs and spices. not 7.
Lmao vnek lincoln
Another city where people will smack you for saying hi....most of Scotland's towns? The scots are angry buggers XD
I disagree.I went there and the people were friendly,maybe because of the amount of sugar they have over there.Seriously,how much sugar do you guys have over there?Anyway even though the main point of that trip was a TED talk,it was the least interesting part of it.
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Glasgow.
I don't know which writer on the show keeps dissing New Jersey, but I hope they realize Stephen lives (or used to live) in New Jersey while he was on the Colbert Report..
I believe this is the first terror attack I've ever heard of where it was mocked 2 days later. This was a serious threat that luckily didn't kill anyone, but we're all just joking about it.
I think that's because it's a failed terror attack, nobody was critically injured and nobody died so it's easy to make fun of it soon after.
Ridicule is the opposite of the fear that terrorists (of any kind) want to cause, so it's the best reaction, as long as it's not insensitive to the victims and their families. In this case, the few victims were only mildly harmed, so the ridicule is perfect.
*I'm surprised he didn't blame that one on Trump.*
I like your profile picture
99thTuesday Thanks mate!
Cheers!
There is more than enough to blame on that douchebag Trump without making anything up. Every time he opens his mouth, out comes more evidence that he's a hopeless dickhead.
Any big city people will take things off the street. But why do they litter?
new York sounds gross
It is. But it's FUUUN! ;)
***** Of course. Duh.
Jerzygirl sorry, but the way he described it makes it sound gross.
A born and raised New York visiting almost ANYWHERE... their first reaction, "wow it's so CLEAN here!" I would know, I'm that New Yorker :) Still can't imagine living anywhere else (unless to retire).
***** and the gum on the sidewalks?! what about all the litter along the curbs and drains!? WHERE.
This is so wrong, you are actually asking people to not react towards a terror attack, just let it be. Shit happens, don't ask for any punitive action, just relax, we are worse than this.
Does Stay Human play improv?
New Yorkers are cute.
Was there ever a time when Stephen Colbert was funny?
Yes.
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where is your profile pic from?
really like the bit, but i would have prefered if you didnt say his name and didnt show face. many people like him do it for the attention and they get it this way.. would love if just leave out name and face next time :P
... it really surprised me that i wrote next time without even thinking about it right now. kinda sad
agreed.
guys, stop showing the pictures and names of these attackers
Mocking the terrorist is great, but putting his name and photo on the news is probably what he wanted. Don't give him the attention.
I love how Colbert and other liberals try so hard to ignore the big elephant in the room, not even so they can refute it. I suppose I can understand why he doesn't want to acknowledge it since its messy business and this is relatively minor incident but I just hope the elephant doesn't crush everyone in the room while they're all too busy trying to pretend its not there.
new yorkers r used to danger??? is that how u reply to sept 11?
Did he just play off an attempted terror attack as light-hearted comedy? I get that the attack wasn't succesful and you don't want to give him the guy what he wants by spreading panic, but the carefree tone is really jarring.
no one was killed, this is the right thing to do. take the terror away from them
I get that, I just think it didn't have to be as cheery, a bit more dark humor if you know what I mean. But ultimately I'm glad nobody has been seriously hurt and Stephen got to joke around about it.
This was definitely the right thing to do, the point of terrorism is to cause terror, which you can't when New Yorkers are being badasses and making fun of the attempt. Also, Colbert is a New Yorker himself, I don't mind him joking about his home
Eh, this kind of sounds like Stephen is telling terrorists to step up their game if they attack again. There's something kind of weird about mocking him because his terrorist attack didn't do enough damage.
Right! ISIS is sitting on their dirt living rooms thinking "They're mocking me? Now I'm pissed!" /s
Jay Zenitram Most of these attacks aren't even ISIS, they're just people from America who are crazy fans. But the point isn't that this is going to make more stuff happen, just that it's weird to mock a psycho for not managing to kill people.
Krombopulos Michael I think mockery is the perfect response to this stuff. It definitely beats an "I'm shitting my pants" response. But anyway, my point was that they are already intent on blowing you up, lack of motivation isn't their problem.
Jay Zenitram I think making jokes is fine and all and I'm glad we're belittling people like this (like he said, nothing wrong with terror-shaming), it's just the fact that the joke is saying "haha, what a loser, he didn't even ruin our lives by killing people" is a weird issue to go after.
I think it's because if you sort of say "we don't respect him because he failed to kill anyone", then by that logic, it means we do have some kind of respect for the ones who actually are successful in their attack.
Krombopulos Michael I see your point.
Yes, it's funny when everyone is more or less okay and no one died, but is it really funny? It might not be a "big deal" because no one was killed but is it really no deal at all? Or were we just lucky that the guy was an incompetent domestic terrorist? His intentions were to maim and kill people. Just remember that the Boston marathon bombers used homemade pressure cooker bombs that killed 3 people and injured 264.
Of course not panicking and not over-blowing the situation is the right way to react but to not take it seriously isn't. We're all happy everyone is alive, but it doesn't always turn out that way. Of course we've had worse happen, we had 3,000 people die in one day. Of course in proportion to that this is nothing. But no one dying this time doesn't make us better people, that makes us lucky f***ers; Minnesota was not as lucky this weekend. As a New Yorker born and raised and having lived here my whole life, and just blocks away from WTC on 9-11-01, all I can say is stay cool NYC, keep on keeping on, but don't be arrogant.
no it is
leave on the strett never see it againg = suckers
Team Notification :)
I'm so tired of the drummer's comments.
I like him
do you mean the pianist?
#religionofpeace
1nd
another muslim
"some jerk" he s a muslim stupid colbert