# Colbert and Kent State **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 14, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258 "2006-03-14T01:33:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258/1 "2006-03-14T01:33:04Z")
He just made a joke about “brave national guardsmen” and “hippies” when Neil Young was on the Daily Show. My vocabulary fails me. What an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258/2 "2006-03-14T01:34:52Z")
Steven Colbert? Have you never watched the show, or are you just being facetious? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258/3 "2006-03-14T01:35:06Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > He just made a joke about “brave national guardsmen” and “hippies” when Neil Young was on the Daily Show. > My vocabulary fails me. What an asshole. It’s an act. It’s precisely the kind of joke I’d expect from someone parodying self-important pundits like O’Reilly or Hannity. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258/4 "2006-03-14T01:35:20Z")
Isn’t that the whole point? You may as well pit Homer Simpson for being stupid. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258/5 "2006-03-14T01:37:22Z")
Of course it’s ajoke, but it’s about as funny as a holocaust joke. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258/6 "2006-03-14T01:42:31Z")
How do you get 50 Jews in a volkswagon? 2 in the front, 2 in the back, 46 in the ashtray. ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258/7 "2006-03-14T01:48:43Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > How do you get 50 Jews in a volkswagon? > > 2 in the front, 2 in the back, 46 in the ashtray. Iran is looking for comedians such as yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258/8 "2006-03-14T01:49:50Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > How do you get 50 Jews in a volkswagon? > > 2 in the front, 2 in the back, 46 in the ashtray. Wow . . . and I _like_ tasteless jokes. I think that’s the most offensive thing I’ve ever heard . . . ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258/9 "2006-03-14T01:54:34Z")
Please don’t compare Kent State and the Holocaust. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258/10 "2006-03-14T01:54:36Z")
So I guess it really wasn’t as funny as a holocaust joke? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258/11 "2006-03-14T01:57:43Z")
> [@Larry Borgia](#): > > Please don’t compare Kent State and the Holocaust. Being Jewish, I figured I could. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258/12 "2006-03-14T01:58:03Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > How do you get 50 Jews in a volkswagon? > > 2 in the front, 2 in the back, 46 in the ashtray. [You’re on your own now, sir. This can only end in tears.](http://www.sonic.net/mnitepub/pccafe/reviews/anastasia/bartok.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258/13 "2006-03-14T01:59:38Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > How do you get 50 Jews in a volkswagon? > > 2 in the front, 2 in the back, 46 in the ashtray. This makes the baby Godwin almost cry. ---
**Author:** ![xbuckeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9e8a1a/32.png) [@xbuckeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xbuckeye)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258/14 "2006-03-14T02:05:52Z")
I just saw the repeat and thought it was mildly funny. You have to understand that most of Colbert’s viewers are too young to have experienced Kent State anywhere but the history books, songs, and stories from Ma and Pa. Besides, I grew up near there and our second favorite Kent State joke was “Don’t go there…you’ll get shot!” Funny? Not really, but it is usually the first thing you think of when you hear the name. I rarely find myself laughing out loud at Colbert, but this joke is on par with his schtick. Holocaust joke? Like 4 people died! Verses 6 million people? I think that takes it a little far. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258/15 "2006-03-14T02:12:23Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Being Jewish, I figured I could. Dude, I don’t care if you’re Elie fucking Wiesel. It was a dumbass comparison. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258/16 "2006-03-14T02:24:49Z")
> [@choie](#): > > Dude, I don’t care if you’re Elie fucking Wiesel. It was a dumbass comparison. I’m a Jewish guy whose nephew asked a survivor “Who wrote on your arm?” and whose wife knew someone killed at Kent. I apologize for offending any other Jewish folks. And fuck Colbert. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258/17 "2006-03-14T02:30:15Z")
It’s a parody, nimrod. The joke is not the joke itself, the joke is that Colbert’s _character_ (who is based on blowhard pundits like Bill O’Reilly) is a callous asshole. You’re supposed to be laughing AT him, not with him. You might as well pit Cartman on South Park. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258/18 "2006-03-14T02:38:57Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > You might as well pit Cartman on South Park. If anyone deserves a pitting it’s that little fucker. He killed two people, cut up their bodies, and fed them to the victim’s sone, his nemesis. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258/19 "2006-03-14T02:42:42Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > If anyone deserves a pitting it’s that little fucker. He killed two people, cut up their bodies, and fed them to the victim’s sone, his nemesis. That episode is on right now. SPOOKY! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258/20 "2006-03-14T02:44:33Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > If anyone deserves a pitting it’s that little fucker. He killed two people, cut up their bodies, and fed them to the victim’s sone, his nemesis. Remember Stan and Kyle mention “We better not piss off Cartman ever again.” Don’t pit him man, it could be really bad. 😉 Jim [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colbert-and-kent-state/348258.md?page=2)