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CNN Launches A Comedy News Show
You know the Colbert Report, and how it's really successful? And how other forms of news are less popular and some are dying? CNN noticed that too! So their Headline News channel will soon be airing Not Just Another Cable News Show, a weekly program with a light take on hard news using memorable gaffes from the past week. Time.com Washington editor Ana Marie Cox, of Wonkette fame, and noted Canadian/Huffington Post contributor Rachel Sklar will be commenters. The show, whose concept is stolen from the first segment of the Daily Show and whose title is stolen from the Wayans brothers, begins April 5. [AP]
There's a Monster at the End of This Show
Ousted Obama aide Samantha Power will appear on the Colbert Report tonight. Just one piece of advice: there's no such thing as off the record, on tv. [FishbowlNY]
Ousted Obama aide Samantha Power will appear on the Colbert Report tonight. Just one piece of advice: there's no such thing as off the record, on tv. [FishbowlNY]
ominous foreshadowing
Spitzer Squeezed Colbert In Just Before Career-Ending Whore Vacation
As Stephen Colbert revealed last night, Eliot Spitzer made his second appearance on The Colbert Report on February 12. Which would be the same day he called the Emperors' Club VIP to set up his date with "Kristen", and "just hours" before he traveled to Washington DC to testify before Congress and fuck the hooker who ended his career. He spoke with Colbert about Barack Obama's "trouble picking up working-class women" and his status as a superdelegate for Hillary. ("We have capes, we have leotards, we have special outfits that we wear.") The clip of the interview ("I love my job!") is after the jump. Someone should compare it to his post-whoring CNBC appearance and see if he looks more relaxed. More »
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Colbert Welcomes Back Fave Writers Tiki Barber, Judy Miller
The writers strike ended! Stephen Colbert was so excited, he introduced his entire writing staff at the top of the show, inviting them on-stage and high-fiving each one. Tiki Barber, Mr. Met, Kevin Bacon, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and disgraced former Times star Judith Miller all ended up in the lineup too. We're just glad Judy's keeping busy!
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Chris Beam Will Be Colbert's Next Non-Union Guest
Slate political reporter and IvyGate founder Chris Beam is going to appear on "The Colbert Report" tonight! He emailed all his friends! He's so excited to be crossing that picket line. Scab. (Email after the jump!) More »
logical arguments
Hatemongers like Media Matters, the watchdog site, take stories from the media out of context (the context of people speaking to like-minded people), our enemy Stephen Colbert of "The Colbert Report" points out. It's a compelling argument! For instance, for centuries, Gentile people have been addressing themselves to other good Christians—so is it somehow now their fault if the Jews overhear on the T.V. what they perceive to be antisemitism?
Stephen Colbert Takes On The Liberal Media Hatemongers
Hatemongers like Media Matters, the watchdog site, take stories from the media out of context (the context of people speaking to like-minded people), our enemy Stephen Colbert of "The Colbert Report" points out. It's a compelling argument! For instance, for centuries, Gentile people have been addressing themselves to other good Christians—so is it somehow now their fault if the Jews overhear on the T.V. what they perceive to be antisemitism?
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Katie Couric's Legs Stay Firmly Under The Desk
Newsbot Katie Couric appeared on "The Colbert Report" and it didn't take long before the host was challenging America's third-favorite network news anchor to flash her gams for the camera. Katie demurred; clearly, she's still stung by those bitchy comments from Alessandra Stanley. More »
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Hey, Want to Get Made Fun of on the 'Colbert Report'?
Subscribers to the Williamsburg "brooklynbabyhui" (hui? wha?) Yahoo group recently received a communique from the Colbert Report, which is looking to tape a group of moms for an upcoming segment. Despite the producer's earnestness, we have a hard time believing that the show has anything else in mind than to completely mock these moms to death, but perhaps that wouldn't be the worst thing:Our show, The Colbert Report, is a satirical news program that is partnered with The Daily Show. We are putting together a piece about an At Home Dads support group in Texas and would like to get a little bit of footage and perhaps speak with a similar mothers group in the local area. Just to be clear — we do not need any of these mothers to be "funny"—basically we're just hoping to briefly film a `normal' group meeting. We're hoping to work on this in the next two weeks so if there is a particular meeting that you think might let us attend the beginning or the end of, please let me know.We sure do hope they find someone. May we suggest one of the Babble bloggers? Preferably one with strong feelings about her offspring. More »
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Alex Kuczynski's Vacuumed Ass Sits At The Front Of The Plane
Plastic surgery disaster Alex Kuczynski appeared on "The Colbert Report" last evening: here's the clip. It's amusing (or at least Colbert's end is) and nothing more, but a few things you may want to note: More »
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Media Bubble: It's The Papers That Got Small
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A group of Columbia journalism students allegedly cheated on an ethics exam. There go those cushy Voice gigs. [Radar]
They're not striking just yet at the Philadelphia dailies, although that may have changed by the time this item posts. [NYT]
Daily Show/Colbert Report executive producer Ben Karlin is leaving both shows, will be replaced at TDS by current head writer David Javerbaum. [Variety]
Another "whither newspapers" piece from Jack Shafer. You know what the best part of Jack Shafer's column is? That link at the bottom to "Shafer's hand-built RSS feed." It's like a big, glaring, "Fuck you, Slate!" Anyway, whatever, thought we'd share. [Slate]
Jon Friedman doesn't understand why people call Nick Kristof "sanctimonious." He seemed perfectly modest when Jon interviewed him! Honestly, how are Friedman's ears so fucking big when there's plainly nothing in between them? [Marketwatch]
The idea of a member of the Murdoch clan attacking anyone else for "megalomania" is as ironic as, well, cheating on an ethics exam. [Guardian]
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Media Bubble: Ironies Abound
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Colbert Ganks Jalopnik
The relentless pursuit of scoop/exclusive credit is a die-hard pastime on this, our Internet. At Gawker, we tend to prefer a more squishy concept of content ownership; information wants to be free, or at least infinitely reproducible without cost, man. Nevertheless, we do try to provide credit where credit is due, and that's the subject of a witch hunt by the greasy gearheads at Jalopnik. Seems they managed to con some exclusive pre-release Chevrolet commercials out of General Motors, though unfortunately the "final" commercials did not feature the promised nuclear explosions. They did feature lots of patriotic imagery and the heartland musical stylings of John Mellon Cougarcamp, which apparently appealed enough to Stephen Colbert and The Colbert Report that the show reproduced the video with no thanks to poor Jalopnik. "When a journalist or 'web logger' takes something not their own and slaps a pre-roll on the front of it with their name and puts it up on YouTube, that's as good as if they made it themselves," claims Jalopnik righteously. Typical mainstream media, surviving parasitically on blog content, just like always. More »
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Stephen Colbert Indulges Arianna-Nailing Fantasy
Arianna Huffington got some moderately effective pimp-time for her new book, On Becoming Fearless, on last night's Colbert Report. Stephen Colbert was surprisingly gentle in the face of Huffington's implacable demeanor and accent, but he did reminisce fondly about "nailing her" in the segment intro.
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On the Colbert Report last week, Boca Raton representative Robert Wexler, who's running unopposed for reelection, played along with Colbert's "say anything, you can't lose" game and jokingly expressed his fondness for cocaine. It was genuinely hilarious, thus you can't expect the Today show and Good Morning America to understand. It's a long clip, but Colbert responds appropriately — if it doesn't involve baking tips, pet tricks, or summer shoe styles, the morning shows simply cannot compute. More »
Stephen Colbert Teaches the 'Today' Show, 'GMA' About Strange Concept of Comedy
On the Colbert Report last week, Boca Raton representative Robert Wexler, who's running unopposed for reelection, played along with Colbert's "say anything, you can't lose" game and jokingly expressed his fondness for cocaine. It was genuinely hilarious, thus you can't expect the Today show and Good Morning America to understand. It's a long clip, but Colbert responds appropriately — if it doesn't involve baking tips, pet tricks, or summer shoe styles, the morning shows simply cannot compute. More »
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James Frey Still Plummeting
Smoking Gun editor Bill Bastone was on the Colbert Report last night, explaining the wonders of document retrieval and the information superhighway. When asked what was the biggest story they had ever broken, Bastone obviously said James Frey, whose Oprah-endorsed bestselling memoir contained several fabrications. Colbert referred to it as "the Oprah book": More »
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The 'Colbert Report' Book Report
Variety reports today that Stephen Colbert has signed a seven-figure deal for a Colbert Report-esque book, to be published in September 2007 by Warner. Warner also published the Daily Show's disgustingly successful book America, for which Colbert was a contributor. Unlike America, however, Colbert's book will not have an illustrated component and it will be written mostly by Colbert, who is bravely rejecting the safety of his writing team. More »
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Andrew Sullivan Makes Sweet, Bloggy Love to Stephen Colbert
Blogstar Andrew Sullivan — who's now posting his blog on Time.com — took his funny accent to The Colbert Report last night, where pressing issues were deftly tackled: More »
