The Colbert Report 2008
The ColberT ReporT
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01-08: That was... big applause. Â And a long show.
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01-09: Hahaha, using part of a script completed pre-strike?
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01-10: I was wondering if the "Colbert mythos" would see any real additions without the writers, but I guess it can... sort of. Â "Gorlok" the space alien in a business suit originated in the pre-strike material used the previous night, but was brought up again tonight during the bit about Will Smith's Scientological turn.
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01-11: National Treasure: Portrait of Stephen  Good stuff.
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01-14: The continuation of Portrait of Stephen is also good. Â Basically him riffing on notable American artifacts is good fun. Â Commenting on George Washington's clothes: "This is nice. Â This is Seinfeld's puffy shirt?"
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01-15: The conclusion of Portrait of Stephen. Â He gets his portrait up at the National Portrait Gallery... next to the bathroom.
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01-16: The Nevada primary pie chart roulette was great. Â Doesn't seem like they practiced it much before filming, considering the first attempt had the ball flying off ("I'm not sure, but I think this means Mike Gravel wins."), and the second spun on much longer than he seemed to be expecting. Â (Obama won.)
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01-17: The Dobbs interview was good stuff. Â Sure, it was an old interview with half of it replaced with Stephen speaking his lines in Spanish, but having Esteban Colberto (of Colberto Reporto Gigante) doing the interviewing is a fun trick.
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01-21: He called it! Â BaHillary Clinton won the Nevada primary.
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01-22: Interesting. Â Tonight's guest, Andrew Young, negotiated a civil rights-related strike with Stephen's dad back in 1969.
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01-23: Ahahaha, what a hugeass check. Â Also, that Corliss guy who wants to skydive without a parachute is a cool kind of crazy.
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01-24: The guest: a man who wants to make poker a legitimately accepted way of teaching strategy.
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01-28: My Writers Killed the President of the Mormon Church
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01-29: Colbert made Huckabee. Â Conan made Colbert. Â But Jon Stewart made Conan! Â With dark hair! Â In leather! Â In age looong gone!
So Colbert is still a candidate in the Marvel universe? Â Iiiinteresting.
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01-30: The 50th district Better Known!
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01-31: I should really write these things sooner, because backwriting this entry from February 5th, I can't say much what happened.
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02-04: Ménage à awesome.
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02-05: Bob Dole is old.
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02-06: "The first part in our let's-say infinite-part series, Better Know A Lobbyist."
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02-07: Mike Huckabee is back, and this time with the new fancy-election Colbert Big Board... an air hockey table that knocks floating states around.
Also, the celebrated Black Chinese American... Worf! Â Colbert was convincing enough (in a fakey way) of showing Worf to be black and Chinese... but he neglected to show him as an American. Â I mean, if anything he's Russian.
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