The “balls” references are a play on one of Colbert’s standard schticks while “in character” (self-flattery about his ballsiness).
Nobody is suggesting that he’s going to wake up in Gitmo one morning (though he would be prudent to double-check that he can prove every income tax deduction he’s ever claimed).
You know, we really need to make it a little more official. Therefore, let 29 April 2006 be hereafter known as:
“The Day The President and The Media Were Tea Bagged by Stephen Colbert”
Damn, I’d be pukin’ after about the 4th.
having meatballs? 
Interestingly, by just using the SDMB search function on “lieu + balls” only 10 hits turn up.
[nitpick] That would imply he was suuuuure busy. Probably more accurate to say “The Day the President and the Media Tea Bagged Stephen Colbert.” [/nitpick]
Balls so big, they make a WHOOOSHING sound…
Am I being whooshed? Are you saying that the President and the Media shamed and degraded Colbert by listening to him?
My personal favorite was Steven Colbert’s Balls For Kids.
“Would you kill Bambi?”
[shot of hunter holding a deer skull]
[shot of terrified child]
Has Colbert ever made use of AC/DC’s classic song about testicles and/or ballroom dancing, “Big Balls”? He ought to.
I can’t stop laughing every time I read this.
Naw, it was a rather ephemeral nitpick (the best kind!). I think that wiki has the definition wrong, at least, I’ve always understood the verb “tea bagging” to refer to the act of a person tonguing someone’s balls. Much like “blowing” or “going down on”.
And I think that’s probably all I’m gonna say about that one
Well, shit. That changes everything.
I guess I better get the whole “who does what to whom” conundrum figured out before I start throwing that phrase around again.
That’s because they are so big, one thread can’t contain them
Oh, man! I haven’t laughed this much in the Pit in a very long time. First 'humpy’s mistep (understandable, but effing hilarous), now this. The best part: if NI had just read the post *three * below his we wouldn’t be here.
Thank you, NI.
Stephen Colbert… he’s the guy who does the voice of Phil Ken Sebben in Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law, and was that teacher in Strangers With Candy, right?
I’m not familiar with any of his other work (it not getting broadcast in these parts unless you have Pay TV), so would someone like to give me the edited highlights of what The Colbert Report is actually about?
Largely, mocking right wing media sources.
Sorry, my bad.
I thought it was Jon Stewart who started this obsession with Colbert’s balls. Apparently, it was Colbert himself who hyped his own balls and all of you were glad to lick and polish them.
Well, as long as you are not deceived and are acting in full consciousness, as fully responsible adults, I shall draw the curtain…
Just so you’re clear on this, it’s Colbert’s character who hypes his own balls in parody of the kind of self-congratulatory blowhards (read "Bill O’Reilly) who he is satirizing. It’s supposed to sound ridiculous and pompous. That’s the whole point.
New Iskander, don’t let the left-addled types get to you. I, for one, know that you are the undisputed king of truthiness.