The Colbert Report 2008

The Colbert Report 2007

The ColberT ReporT

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01-08: That was... big applause.  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.  "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.  Basically him riffing on notable American artifacts is good fun.  Commenting on George Washington's clothes: "This is nice.  This is Seinfeld's puffy shirt?"

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01-15: The conclusion of Portrait of Stephen.  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.  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.  (Obama won.)

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01-17: The Dobbs interview was good stuff.  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!  BaHillary Clinton won the Nevada primary.

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01-22: Interesting.  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.  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.  Conan made Colbert.  But Jon Stewart made Conan!  With dark hair!  In leather!  In age looong gone!

So Colbert is still a candidate in the Marvel universe?  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: 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... Lieutenant Worf of the Starship Enterprise!  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.  I mean, if anything he's Russian.

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02-11: "I see you paid attention in Sunday school."  "I teach Sunday school, mother$%

&er;!"

Finally making that sandwich with George Washington's sword.

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02-12: Ahaha.  Stephen wants to be a superdelegate, and will vote for the candidate that helps him become one.

Also, Holmes-Norton returns!  Perhaps the guest that can push Stephen around most, other than Jane Fonda.

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02-13: Neil deGrasse Tyson again!  Literally hours earlier I included him in a list to my brother of the most frequent Report guests.

So no "The Word" tonight.  I guess since they already had segments filmed and guests booked for filling non-writer time, today's and tomorrow's shows won't yet be like the regular regular shows.  And then they'll go on a week's vacation!  Wah wah waaaaaah.

Also Kevin Bacon.

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02-14: Still no The Word, BUT... Leonard Nimoy?  Taking pictures of naked fat ladies?

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02-26: The Word returns!

There once was a man named McCain

Who had the whole White House to gain

But he was quite a hobbyist

Of boning his lobbyist

So much for his ‘08 Campaign.

On the host of the Oscars: "Ellen DeGeneres has never looked more radiant."

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02-27: I love that even in a coffee shower scene, Stephen is still wearing his WristStrong bracelet.

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02-28: Blowing up Glenn Beck is a good idea.

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03-03:

I DIG HITLER

'S GOLD

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03-04: Inviting on one religious nutbag to smack another?  Strange segment, in that Donohue only had two clearly-scripted lines; it was like he was in the neighborhood and wanted to stop by.

That was quite a Dean "Byyye!"

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03-05: "Tonight! Barack sees his shadow. Seven more weeks of Primaries."

No Word tonight, which is happening more and more, even with the strike long gone.  Maybe it's just chance that they've had the opportunity to get more guests they wanted, or maybe they thought every day was beginning to overdo it?

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03-06: Colbert gets another duet notch in his belt, this time singing "The Girl is Mine" with John Legend, fighting over Lady Liberty.

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03-10: Whoredar?  That's what Stephen claims to have, that should have helped him detect something about Eliot Spitzer.

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03-11: Ahaha.  He really did change the bonus word at the beginning of the show to "PRESIDENT BUSH HAVE A HOT DOG WITH ME", as he recently claimed had been there for a long time.  I wonder if it was there last night and I just missed it.

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03-12: Stephen really out-media-criticed Howard Kurtz.

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03-13: That Democralypse Now graphic is pretty amazing.  I'm sure they'll use it a dozen times.

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03-17: The Word's "The Audacity of Hoplessness" suggests if people stop looking for work and thus aren't counted as unemployed, confidence in the economy will rise, creating more jobs for those people who gave up.  Flawless logic.

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03-18: Doritos are back!  Spicy sweet chili!  "It's like I'm holding a caucus in my mouth!"

Bobby is said to be on "America's Next Top Stage Manager", so Stephen instead sends Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to search for the Nazi gold, since he claims to have majored in treasure hunting at UCLA.

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03-19: Dee Dee's on every other show recently.

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03-20: Special report.  Watershift Down: Getting the Sea Monkey Off of America's Aqua-Back.

Hey, masked man Dean Kamen.  Mr. IT.

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03-31: Ha.  Compares 100 years of Cubs losses to McCain's Iraq plan.

Liberty Bell's crack is because Ben Franklin gave it syphilis.

Eric Alterman: "Truthiness is black and white.  Truth is complicated."

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04-01: The portrait is going to the Smithsonian!  Through April 13 only so it's a short stay, but hey.  He is indeed a National Treasure.

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04-02: On the Peabody: "It's the award they would've given Shakespeare if he'd written local news."  Congratulations, Report!

John Oliver!  In a suitcase!

Great giant stool to lord over R.E.M.

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04-03: Peabody Award-winning... Doritos?

Tek Jansen awesome as always.

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04-07: Jesse Ventura is nuts.

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04-08: Those kids' drawings were pretty crazy.

Brimley is back!

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04-09: On Bush's leaving: "Why start following the Constitution now?"

Retiring the penny = re-assassinating Abraham Lincoln.

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04-10: More crazy kid pictures.  Super Banana Hillary?

I love those talking fish.  I wonder where I can hear more?

Great Satan, or Greatest Satan?

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04-14: Ahh, Philadelphia.  With Ben Franklin, the Ed McMahon of the 18th century.

I love how to manage his "run to other set" bit with one set, he just ran in a circle while Chris Matthews was moved to a guest position off-camera.

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04-15: Ahaha!  Copping a feel of the Jefferson stick and being driven to the top of the Rocky steps.

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04-16: I want "Pontiff Beat" magazine.

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04-17: What a big show!  It's a good thing Hillary was around to solve their technical difficulties.

Matthews blew Hillary (so to speak), but Edwards was a real surprise!  EDWØRDS

And Barack via giant screen!  And changing the On Notice board!  James Brady goes off; he's been there since the very beginning of On Notice!

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04-21: A belated farewell for Eric Drysdale.  Bobby... eaten!?

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04-22: The real battle in Philadelphia is between... cheese steaks.

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