I would so fuck that guy.

he's on my list of people i'd like to get all ferschnickered with

Wine? That's not terribly American.

...unless it was Arbor Mist.

He had me at "Filliam H. Muffman."

He has been SLAYING me lately. That week in Philadelphia had some of the funniest pre-taped stuff I've ever seen in all the years Stewart & Co have been doing it. You know it's genius when you are completely alone, guffawing for five full minutes at a joke, and then the same thing happens when watching the next-day repeat. I pretty much do whatever this man tells me.

@Hez: Who's the Canadian Colbert?

I knew he was the real deal when he said he was a "Fanillow of Manillow." That and "Youre Dead To Me" segments. Bravo, Mr. Colbert; May you soar like your son, Stephen, Jr.

@richardmarxhatesmyhair: Spoken like a true fan.

Colbert is the man -- sometimes watching the show is scary (in a good way) like the old Carson -- it seems like anything could happen.

@Bell County: For full-out chutzpah, it's gotta be Nardwuar the Human Serviette. Except he's not kidding.

Colbert: mensch. Whenever I'm feeling down, I watch this:
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Up here in Diet U.S.A. we have our own comic genius by name of Rick Mercer who is talented enough to get one-on-one chats with the highest politicos in the land while backhanding them with humour, wit and enough political savvy to immobilize their offensive posturing temporarily. And he gets away with it on the national (as in gov't funded) broadcaster, weekly for at least part of the year. Most Gawker folk will not know of him because he is speaking to Canadians and that would be nonsense to you and you may not want to know of him due to a popular project of his called "Talking To Americans".

I like everything about this man except for his shrimp paste recipe in Amy Sedaris' book. It didn't come out like paste at all even when I added more cream cheese. I suspect he left out a secret ingredient or two in order to protect his recipe. Damn him and his old Southern lady ways.

@LaurieBrownSucksALot: How popular? Which Americans?

Viggo Mortensen's cameo this past fall was seriously one of the best moments of my life.

@Bell County: @LaurieBrownSucksALot:
Aw, you can't tell them that and not provide a link!!!

(Above is part 1 of 5, from a full-length special compiled out of years' worth of short segments on one of our fake news comedy shows, This Hour Has 22 Minutes (hence if you see a guy with the number on his mic - BEWARE!).
Like Colbert, Mercer gets access to politicians who think it's going to help their popularity... even desperate Prime Ministers with unwinnable elections ahead.
God love Gomery, indeed. Canada's version of Adscam sunk our last PM (multi-millionaire Paul Martin, shown above at Canadian Tire a few years ago trying hard to play the Everyman) and has made our current one suck up to Mercer more than usual. See below:
And here's Rick telling his favourite anecdote on another show (great punch line):
Admittedly, not the same shtick as Colbert, but popular nonetheless . Many an impressionable young Canosoupian lass has fallen for his exotic, cramped Newfie diction (especially out here in the West) and his weekly steadicam rants, but alas, he is rumoured to be a geigh. My best friend sat next to him at a dinner party recently, and if she hadn't been kinda drunk, probably would have remembered him to have been charming.

I always knew Phil from Harvey Birdman on Adult Swim was awesome and hands down the best character. Sure enough guess who voices him? Mr. Stephen Colbert himself.

@SW-2: Awwww, Nard is a fully awesome guy. We know each other socially and were panelists at a conference for baby journos a few years ago where he did the keynote speech. Primarily a music journalist, he is frenetic, eccentric and kind of exhausting, but when he cleaned it up long enough to ask this question to Jean Chretien after the infamous '97 APEC riots (I was on campus that day, BTW):

The resulting soundbite anointed Nard as a Hall of Famer to even mainstream journalists. But do my bro a favour and link to his awesome website full of clips and archived interviews! [www.nardwuar.com] He still does a show every Friday from 3:30 to 5PM Pacific on our alma mater's campus radio [www.citr.ca] and I have to shout them out because another good bro of mine is the station's music director. Sebastian Bach beat him up and stole his toque and Courtney Love adores him so much she visited him in hospital after he almost died! I can safely say he is one of the only things she and I will ever agree on. Doot doodle oot doot? Doot doo!

I am not 100-percent enamored of Mr. Colbert, for one reason and one reason only: He dissed the Venture Bros., for whom he did estimable voice-work when he was less famous.

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The creator of the best cartoon on television (and one of the best shows on television) reports:

One sour note from the past month (aside from my car getting hit yet again) is that Mr. Stephen Colbert has decided not to reprise his role as Professor Impossible this season, for reasons which probably have something to do with him being all super-famous, super-busy, and no longer in need of a few hundred bucks here and there. We figured this would happen eventually, considering his monumental success in the years since our first season, but we held out hope that the WGA strike would leave him with enough bored free time on his hands that he'd have a go at it. But after getting shuffled around from his assistant to his assistant's assistant to his agent to his manager, one of them finally shot us an email saying: "Stephen has neither the time nor the interest in participating in your project."

Was the "nor the interest" really necessary? I would have bought the "time" part without question, but man...you gotta kick a guy when he's down like that?

Dick move.

@SW-2: @LaurieBrownSucksALot: @Hez: @SW-2: Thank you, sincerely. Unless you ask, you learn zilch about Canoodlia in the States. Or anywhere else, obvs.

@Bell County: Bryan Adams?

@Bell County: I meant that people in the US are self-absorbed xenophobes, not that the world doesn't care about Canada.

@valarmorghulis: You cut like a knife, but it feels so right.

@Bell County: For a moment I felt pretty bad about posting that, but then the laughing fit got the better of me.

@valarmorghulis: @Bell County: As someone who has not only snarked in the face of the actual Bryan Adams, but was ALSO born in the summer of 69, I salute you.

@pureblarney: Where's a link???

Catching the youtube of S.C. singing "The King of Glory" is, perhaps, the highlight of my year.

@nellicat: I watch that over and over and over. The dance is the best part!

@Helman: May I have your sloppy seconds?

@NeverEnough: That is so romantic!

@Helman:
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