'Late Show' Lampoons John Kasich For 'Fargo' Film Rant

For everyone who watched the Friday night edition of the "Late Show" with Stephen Colbert, the surprise and hilarious treat was a sketch that lampooned Ohio Gov. John Kasich for the rant he wrote in his book "Stand For Something" about the disgust he and his wife had after watching the quirky film "Fargo."

Stephen Colbert, who will forever be remembered for his searing take down of President George W. Bush at a White House Correspondents dinner with Mr. Bush sitting just feet from him,  hasn't been a friend to Mr. Kasich on either of his two guest appearances on the popular CBS late night anchor show featuring actors and musicians among other guests.

Colbert's first guest, Steve Buscemi, who is well known for his many riveting roles on TV and at the movies, starred in the Cohen Brother's production of "Fargo," a crime drama set in Minnesota in 1987. The plot of the film involves a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into debt and is so desperate for money that he hires two thugs to kidnap his own wife. One of those thugs was played by Mr. Buscemi.

Colbert, who moved to the Late Show on CBS from his Comedy Channel show where he played a right-wing pundit identical to Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, handed John Kasich's book "Stand For Something" to Buscemi, then asked him to read passages written by Kasich on how the film disgusted him and his wife so much that he tried to get Blockbuster Video to ban it.

Buscemi read aloud Kasich's story of renting it, watching it and being revolted by it. The two then did a sketch with Buscemi, whose bad-guy character that eventually gets ground up in a wood chipper being the tipping point for John Kasich, using Kasich's own words as the script. It was a hoot.

Unfortunately for Gov. Kasich, he does stand for something, but as his long record tells shows, it's the wrong stuff. Meanwhile, as one of the three amigos remaining in the race for Republican presidential nominee this year, he finds himself far behind league leader Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in second place. Kasich was in Wisconsin today, ahead of next Tuesday's primary. With only one first-place finish in 30 races so far—he won his home state of Ohio with less than 50 percent of the vote—polls show he's a shoe-in for third place. With 18 more state primaries to go, the smart money isn't being bet on John Kasich winning those either. His plan, as reports on what Camp Kasich is planning, is to try to steal the nomination when Republicans convene in Cleveland in July.

The 63-year old term-limited governor is ripe for picking, and some reporters did that this week when the former Congressman and Lehman Brothers banker was caught eating pizza with a fork. Colbert and Buscemi didn't include that faux pas this time, but there's little doubt that Colbert's supper smart writers took notice since it happened in the Big Apple.

"In 2006, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and inducted into the United States National Film Registry for preservation, making it one of six films to have been preserved in their first year of eligibility.[5] The American Film Institute named it one of the 100 greatest American movies of all time in 1998," according to Wikipedia.

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