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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Of the many countries participating at the Vancouver Olympics, add Colbert Nation to the list. On Monday's "The Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert announced his show has become the primary sponsor of the U.S. Speedskating team. The team's largest annual cash...
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Photo by Mike-Chicago Next month, Second City alumni will converge on Chicago to help celebrate the comedy theater's 50th anniversary. In honor of the occasion, the theater will host three days of performances, panel discussions, and screenings on December 11-13 with big comedy names like Stephen Colbert, Alan Arkin, Martin Short, Harold Ramis, Jim Belushi, and Steve Carell. Tickets range in price...
Media Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
CNN : (CNN) -- Stephen Colbert may have lost his bid as an underdog presidential candidate last year, but he still wants to represent America any way he can. The "Colbert Report" host said that his viewers. the "Colbert Nation," will now be the primary sponsor for the U.S. Olympic speed skating team when the squad goes to the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada. The announcement...
No Fact Zone.Net (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Life seems to have been a bit of a roller-coaster ride for Stephen Colbert fans in the UK lately. FX UK picked up The Colbert Report, then ruthlessly dropped it; access to the shows online seems to come and go without explanation; and I’ve heard that workarounds for viewing even the embedded clips are [...]
Berto: Philosophy Monkey (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins paid a visit to Stephen Colbert last night to promote his latest book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. As it was to be expected, the visit quickly turned into a hilarious debate in which Colbert beautifully illuminated the misconceptions presupposed by those who don't get evolution, and hence opened the door for Dawkins to clarify :) The...
War On You (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore has a new film coming out — Capitalism: A Love Story — and he appeared on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report to promote it. The show’s ironically conservative host, Stephen Colbert, defended capitalism and the bailouts of late 2008, which led to a mock debate between them. At first, Wall Street was actually [...]
Notes from a Different Kitchen (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word - Blackwashing www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Protests Canadian viewing link here . [via the Comedy Network]
jambox (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Tonight I’ll be debuting my new musical project The New York Cycle at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. TNYC is me, Jody Shelton (Jody Shelton Band) and Peter Gwinn (The Colbert Report) - each month we’re writing a brand new 30 minute musical inspired by a different part of New York City. So far we [...]
Abroad in London (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Take a look at this list of nominations for Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Series... Notice anything striking? Late Night With Conan O'Brien • NBC • Broadway Video, NBC Studios, Conaco Mike Sweeney, Head Writer Chris Albers, Writer Jose Arroyo, Writer Dan Cronin, Writer Kevin Dorff, Writer Andrés du Bouchet, Writer Michael Gordon, Writer Berkley Johnson, Writer...
Indecision Forever (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
Obviously the debate over health care reform has gotten out of hand. But if Stephen Colbert can have a reasoned discussion about it with himself, then there's really no reason the jack-booted fascists can't sit down and hash out their differences with the communist baby-killers. The Colbert Report airs Monday through Thursday at 11:30pm / 10:30c.
Streetsblog (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c [...]
Texas Oasis (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
Stephen Colbert, in his unique way of hitting the nail on the head, coined the word wikiality , defined as "reality that we all agree on." Ironically, this is explained further in the wiki article " Cultural impact of The Colbert Report. " J-Walk did a post on how many clicks on Random Article on Wikipedia it would take before finding something he was interested in. For him it took...
TV Squad (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
The big debate right now regarding the healthcare plan is the concept of "death panels." Not sure where or when this first came up, though last night, Stephen Colbert pointed out it was from Sarah Palin's recent Facebook posting that brought it to the public. The scary part? The reality competition show that Colbert mentions at the end of the clip is something that we'll probably see at some...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Tonight, our very own Jonathan Cohn will talk health care reform with the sexiest fake conservative on television, Stephen Colbert. It’ll be more informative, more entertaining, and less creepy than any town hall meeting in the land. So, be sure to tune in to “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central at 11:30 p.m.--and don’t forget to prep yourself by watching our other Jonathan’s...
The Nation: The Online Beat (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
A surprising number of U.S. House members still stumble through their "Better Know a District" segments on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report." Not Chellie Pingree, the freshman Democrat from Maine who host Stephen Colbert says "has the cocktail sauce to represent" the lobster capital of the world. Noting that Portland has the nation's third highest concentration of...
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