Stephen Colbert And Alan Cumming Make An “Accidental Racist” For Homophobes | BuzzFeed
Watch: Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert reignite their friendship with performance of “Ivory and Ivory”
Stephen Colbert presents scenes from next season’s Breaking Bad… as performed by the men from Downton Abbey.
Heh.
Perhaps Colbert is familiar with the never-ending parade of single-serving TV mash up Tumblr blogs. Next up, Breaking Development, Parks and Abbey and Downton Thrones.
As you might have heard yesterday, next week is The Hobbit Week on The Colbert Report, as Stephen welcomes Sir Ian McKellan on Monday, Martin Freeman on Tuesday, Andy Serkis on Wednesday and Peter Jackson on Thursday. You might know them better by their respective Hobbit characters, Yoda, Voldemort, Sulu and Morpheus.
In the meantime, let’s prepare for the weeklong Tolkien-fest with some classic Middle Earthian moments from The Report. First up, click the gif to watch Stephen put the literary smackdown on fellow LOTR-head James Franco.
When I first heard the song, just a few years ago, I just thought he had written it for me. [It’s] just a beautiful expression of how we are toward each other as people — we don’t think that we are sufficient for each other; that no one wants to know the real me or the whole me.
— From Fresh Air, Steven Colbert on Ben Folds Five’s “The Best Imitation of Myself”
Photo: Kris Long
Is there video of this performance?
Not online. It’s from the taping of this episode.
PS Listen to that Fresh Air interview. It’s wonderful.
Dear Comedy Centrl, Please put it online? Love you forever, Alex (PCB).
In Comes Company (on DVD)
Both Blu-ray and DVD will be released on November 13.
do you think if we close our eyes and pray this will end up on Netflix Watch Instantly?
If not, pre-order it. It’s good.
Stephen Colbert is the reigning king of the socio-political Internet campaign - sometimes with great commentary by way of comedy alongside said campaign (hello, Super PAC) - so this one is so easy that I will actually be disappointed if it doesn’t happen. In its infinite Ikea-based wisdom, Sweden selects one citizen a week to run its official Twitter account, no matter what they might post while assuming the job. Clearly you can fill in the rest.
There is email. You can tweet with the hashtag #artificialSwedener. Sometimes I can’t believe that all those years ago I didn’t think this show stood a chance in the shadow of The Daily Show. I love being wrong.
Watch NPH on Colbert
(via Splitsider)
Stephen Colbert interviews Maurice Sendak.
This is the greatest interview in the history of “The Colbert Report.” (Go to our actual tumblog if you have trouble watching on the dashboard.)
Stephen Colbert’s Seussian ode to the producers of “The Lorax” okaying at least 70 promotional tie-ins to the film:
This cashtaculous sellout is not quite enough —
I’m demanding more branding of Loraxian stuff!
With what you can buy, boy, the sky is the limit —
A Filet-O-Fish meal with real hummingfish in it!
Filmmakers, get cracking! The market is lacking
a splendiferous Lorax-themed drill made for fracking!
Or the fine, certain something that all people need —
indeed, you’ll succeed if you sold us a Thneed!
They’re easy to make, if you only take
all the truffula tufts off the trees by the lake —
they’re comfy and thick as the thick ironies
of the Lorax and Seuss hawking big SUVs.
Before we start the broadcast tonight, I just want to address my recent absence from the national conversation. As the hub around which the republic turns, I can understand why the machinery of this great nation ground to a halt last week when you were denied (motions to face) this. Now I know you felt the same way I do when I’m in a room with no mirrors.
And folks, there were some wild rumors about why I was gone. These are actual rumors from the actual Internets: some people said my show was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission at the request of the Federal Election Commission because I was about to announce my presidential candidacy — not gonna happen; others said I was cancelled because I offended the Catholic Church when I compared to the Pope’s hat to a giant, yet stylish, prophylactic; still others said I was in rehab — always an attractive option if they have that for Diet Coke.
And one person — or whatever part of that original person has not been dermabrased off of Joan Rivers’s skull — accused me of taking time off to have plastic surgery. (Plays video of Joan Rivers saying ‘He had a nose job.’) Wrong, Joan — I did not have my eyes done. That is ridiculous. I had my ass done. The doctors cranked this thing so high and tight I can barely blink now. Anyway, rumors quelled: moving on.
Oh, one more thing: evidently, having 11 children makes you tough as nails.
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STEPHEN COLBERT, opening the Feb. 20, 2012 edition of The Colbert Report, after returning from a two-day hiatus during which he tended to his ill mother. He ended the monologue by saying “Confidential to a lovely lady,” before making an apparent gesture of support to his mom. (via inothernews) |
Stephen Colbert interviews Maurice Sendak.
This is the greatest interview in the history of “The Colbert Report.” (Go to our actual tumblog if you have trouble watching on the dashboard.)
Stephen Colbert Wants to Buy Your Vote | The New York Times Magazine
How Many Stephen Colberts Are There?
How Many Stephen Colberts Are There? | NY Times
Awesome long read from the Times on the many, many levels of Colbert’s character performance and his various personas.
