I needed to laugh and smile. Stephen Colbert and sometime guest/Melania impersonator Laura Benati delivered. To be honest, in the aftermath I hadn’t even considered Colbert doing a skit like this and had pretty much left the topic in the rear view mirror. I really should have been on the lookout for this given the number of memorable spoofs/take downs Benati has done with The Late Show host over time. They CRUSHED it!
I want to make this short and sweet and let you get to the good part. We are told Melania the Movie pulled in seven million at the box office this weekend. I won’t bore you with reports of bulk sales to inflate the numbers like they did with Don Jr’s book (What was the title? Please Love Me Daddy?) or anecdotal reports of ‘sold out’ theaters with only a few butts in seats. No, let’s stick to the fun stuff as reported by The Daily Beast. It includes a clip of the segment but just the part where “Melania” gets introduced.
Rather than make this lengthy with quotes (there ARE after all so many worthy of note) I’ll just state simply that early in the exchange Colbert says she had a big release over the weekend and “Melania” sternly replies “Oh no, Stephen, no! I’m not here to talk about the Epstein files” – and ends with combining a dig at the “Be Best” nonsense with Trump himself getting a made up Peace Prize with “Melania holding up a statuette to crow about “The FIFA Oscar for ‘Be Best’ actress.”
Everyone deserves a good laugh so I urge you to check out the linked article and the clip. Also, I’m including the clip here but preceded by a few minutes of lead-in by Colbert that are disturbing yet humorous too in a weird way. What struck me was the actual Melania speaking in that hideous accent. It makes you ask how, having lived in this country for three decades now her accent has gotten worse? Most people, even without the benefit of a voice coach which Melania could easily have paid for once she was Trophy Wife #3 gotten less thick. It’s incredible to me, like she’s some southern gal with money who thinks it’s “hot” to pour on the accent. Anyway I think the lead in is worth the few minutes but if you want to cut to the truly fun part it starts around three minutes in.
Well, if this didn’t make you laugh (it did with me) I hope it at least made you smile.
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AS much as Drumpf and the rest of that group want to make a success of this sow’s ear, there’s a little bit of reality that should never be forgotten.
Even if the AVERAGE ticket price was $5, a $7-million box office take means all of 1.4 MILLION people parked their asses in a movie theater to watch the First Immigrant’s little fluff piece. Estimates suggest that the US population over the age of 18 is a bit over 266 million. And, doing some of that mathemagic stuff (that even Jethro Bodine would get but would baffle the ever-loving s#!+ out of MAGAts), that means that less than 0.526% of the adult population paid to watch the propaganda piece (assuming, of course, they hadn’t been given a ticket by some right-wing stink tank to boost the box-office stats).
More fun, though, is the idea that the above-mentioned ticket price is a lowball guess. The average ticket price is probably closer to the $10-15 mark (at least for regular, non-matinee performances) which means there could’ve been as few as 466,000 people–ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY–plopped their asses in seats to “enjoy” the spectacle (meaning as little as 0.19% of the adult population witnessed the horrors).
“If they were the best he could come up with I shudder at thought of how bad those that got passed over might be!” Mebbe even less if you factor in those who went to see it twice, not believing their eyes/ears the first time together with those who favored a warm theatre to being outside or even at home in those temperatures.
There may have been people who saw it more than once.
After all, masochism is a recognized psychiatric disorder.
Still laughing! She is priceless!