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Stephen Colbert - Chevy Chase Roast

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    the daily show Steven Colbert.
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    Interesting fact,
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    Colbert is a rare French cheese
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    usually found under the foreskin of the untalented.
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    Here he is, ladies and gentlemen, Steven Colbert!
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    Ahh, geez I'm
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    i'm kind of at a loss here I dont know what to say. I know that
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    these roasts usually involve a fair amount of good natured ribbing.
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    But, ah, when i was asked to do this i was informed that this
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    was actually gonna be honouring Mr. Chase
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    and i am appauled at some of the things i have heard said about this man.
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    And i don't really mean out here, i mean backstage.
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    Some really hideous, hurtful,
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    hate filled things
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    you could never take back.
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    And i just, i will not be
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    party to it, i'm sorry, i've got to draw a line because who am I
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    to attack Chevy Chase. I don't know Chevy Chase.
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    I have never met Mr. Chase, I'm actually, I'm uncomfortable calling him
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    Chevy. The only thing i think of when I look at this man is there,
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    but for the grace of god go I.
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    why would I tempt the Comedy Gods to strike me down like this
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    To leave me pale and pear shaped
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    a humourless husk of my former self
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    haunting the halls of Hollywood like some sort of
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    walking, waking cautionary tale, shapeless
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    and odorles and colourless, grey on
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    beige, a comedy lemprige of sucking
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    the joy out of everything I touch.
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    I won't do it.
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    Over the decades Mr. Chase and his fellow
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    original Saturday Night Live sketchateers
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    have found fame and fortune
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    making us laugh. But for some of these people it went
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    to their head. We know that Dan Akeroid has tried the dramatic arts
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    of course Bill Murray very famously overreached with the razors edge, but
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    this man never forgot what
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    got him wherever it is he thinks he is.
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    He never, ever attempted to do any
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    thing that was in any way different than the last thing he did
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    and that is so refreshing in its sameness.
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    On this night I'd like to offer a little bit of warning to the
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    rest of the people who have to come up here and talk about this good man.
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    Before you attack him, think.
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    there may come a day in your darkest hour when you
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    are a shadow of your
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    albeit paper thin self.
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    And when that day comes I hope you are cheered up by something Mr. Chase so famously said:
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    He's Chevy Chase
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    and you're not
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    And if that doesn't cheer you up
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    I dont know what will.
Title:
Stephen Colbert - Chevy Chase Roast
Description:

Stephen Colbert roasts Chevy Chase
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Video Language:
English
Duration:
03:32
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