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Irony Meets Reality as Stephen Colbert Lands in Iraq
Cat's outta the bag! Well, the cat was already out of the bag, thank you very much, Lady Alaska, but now it's official. Stephen Colbert will be broadcasting The Colbert Report from Camp Victory in Baghdad next week. [NYT]
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Comment by El Matardillo: Iraq is perfectly safe for Colbert as there are no bears. 3 Responses | Other threads
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Stephen Colbert Halfheartedly Cleans Up Jon Stewart's 'Benjamin Button' Mess
After Jon Stewart kicked Viacom's synergy machine out of whack by anointing Benjamin Button the Sleepytime Picture of the Year, a Colbert Report corrective was the least Comedy Central could arrange. More » -
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5 Seasonal Classics to Help Stephen Colbert Craft a Hit Holiday Special
Stephen Colbert brought a preview of his upcoming Comedy Central holiday special to Good Morning America today, revealing a glimpse at a stirring interfaith celebration uniting Catholics, Jews, unsightly turtleneck devotees and a raft of other persuasions. But the brief sample of Colbert prying Hanukkah secrets from Jon Stewart isn't quite enough to make anyone forget how far a holiday show really needs to go to achieve immortality. From the head-exploding ambition of the Star Wars Christmas Special to the suave, sweatered croonings of Solid Gold, there's a golden era of genre excellence that even a talent like Colbert will find himself stretching awfully far to approximate. Follow the jump for five seasonal landmarks worth the effort, and godspeed outdoing any one of them. More »
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By STVComment by StaringatScreen: God damn, Kristy McNicol was hot. 5 Responses | Other threads
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Vicious Cross-Network Melee Leaves Stewart, O'Brien and Colbert In Critical Condition
For those of you requiring context for the disturbingly violent cross-network brawl between Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart you're about to witness, a feud recently erupted between O'Brien and Colbert over their dueling claims of having made Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee candidacy viable (ignoring, of course, The Chuck Norris factor). More »
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By MarkComment by britneyspearstears: Did anyone see Conan break the ring spinning world record the other night? The above skit and aforementioned, great television! more » | Other threads
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'Let My Writers Go,' Sings A Heartsick Stephen Colbert
Though the strategy of occasionally pointing to the joke-void on one's blank TelePrompTer screen is certainly a valid one for calling attention to the struggle of one's striking writers, sometimes a more dramatic display is necessary, lest even the most loyal TV audience begin to tune out the oft-intoned message of solidarity. More »
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By MarkComment by VirusWithShoes: @jeweltones: Yay! Let's form a support group, and silently, but succintly, take over ColbertNation from within! He did handle the baritone... more » | Other threads
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hollywood strikewatch
Stewart, Colbert Going Back To Work
With Conan, Jay, Jimmy, and the rest of the late night gang announcing they're reluctantly headed to back to work without their striking writers, it seemed inevitable that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert wouldn't be far behind. They've released this joint statement on their January 7th return: "We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence." A more disappointed than ambivalent WGA has already issued a reminder that writerless versions of the shows aren't going to fill the Colbert and Stewart-shaped holes in our lives: "Comedy Central forcing Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert back on the air will not give the viewers the quality shows they've come to expect. The only way to get the writing staffs back on the job is for the AMPTP companies to come back to the table prepared to negotiate a fair deal with the Writers Guild." [AP, WGA.org]
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By MarkComment by OldTowneTavern: This is a bone-headed decision. Having the hosts disappoint their audiences night after night while trying to fill out... more » | Other threads
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Nick Hogan "Blogs" For First Time Since Supra Crash
OMG, we can't believe Nick Hogan's blogging again on his MySpace page and didn't even talk at all about his "P***y magnet" Supra. Like, OMG, he doesn't even mention anything about Stephen Colbert! Full text of Hogan's post:"omggggg its been forever since i blogged...hell i dont even know what blog means but i guess its where you write stuff for people to read
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It seems that Air America host Cenk Uygur, who you may remember as the man seeking $65 million worth of publicity from Stephen Colbert over the comedian's use of a not-so-suspiciously similar Star Trek joke, might be getting his Klingon-Off after all: "Renata Luczak, a spokeswoman for Colbert, said the comedian had no immediate comment but will most likely address it on the show. As a mock conservative pundit, Colbert has often engaged in mock feuds." [AP]
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By MarkComment by NotReadyForPrimeTime: @Glass_Family: "Klaatu barada nikto" was actually the first thing I thought of when I watched the clip. However, The Day... more » | Other threads
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Publicity-Shy Air America Host Wants To Sue Colbert Over Ownership Of Fairly Obvious Klingon Joke
Since we're never ones to ignore the announcement of a perfectly good, publicity-attracting, $65 million nuisance lawsuit against a high-profile show business personality, we note Air America radio show host Cenk Uygur's declaration of legal war against Stephen Colbert, whom he accuses of stealing a joke that no two individuals, save perhaps millions of Star Trek fans familiar with the Klingonian code of honor, could possibly have arrived at independently. You can watch him plead his case above; hopefully, this ugliness can be settled out of court, perhaps with an invitation by the Colbert Report camp for Uygur to join their Trekkie host in a Klingon Joke-Off reminiscent of the Metaphor-Off that salvaged Colbert's relationship with Sean Penn. More »
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By MarkComment by Fuzzy_duffel_bag: @shag_carpet_bomb: I took "OJ Style" in its original context, meaning that this dude is threatening to slit Stephen's throat, nearly... more » | Other threads
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Stewart, Colbert, Creepy Elvis, And A Naked Cougar
· YouTube is calling Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert to testify in the suit the comedians' corporate overload Viacom filed against them, perhaps hoping to get one of the hosts to crack and admit that they're secretly uploading unauthorized clips of their shows to the site to spite Sumner Redstone. More »
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