question of the day: Was Stephen Colbert’s in-character testimony before Congress last week inappropriate?
Did Colbert’s right-wing gasbag routine have a greater impact than it otherwise would have if Colbert had testified as himself?
Stephen Colbert
labor troubles on ‘The Hobbit’; Twitter effect doesn’t exist; terror nerds and outspoken bombshells; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post…
question of the day: On October 30, will you attend Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity or Stephen Colbert’s March to Keep Fear Alive?
As Colbert often says, We’re at war: pick a side. I hope the DC police are ready for this.
Mickey Rourke as Genghis Khan, Ridley Scott returns to ‘Alien,’ deliver us from Breck Eisner, more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
question of the day: Who could possibly believe that Stephen Colbert is a real conservative?
It seems hard to believe, but some people just don’t get satire. At all: Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert has become the subject of an academic survey conducted at Ohio State University titled “The Irony of Satire: Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report.” The survey, conducted … more…
question of the day: Huh? What? “Glenn Beck comedy show”?
Words fail: NEW YORK (AP) — Glenn Beck, Fox News Channel’s latest sensation, is taking a comedy show on the road for six live performances over six days during the first week of June. Beck calls his act a “poor man’s Seinfeld” and intends to mix topical humor with his modern-day reimagining of Thomas Paine’s … more…
Stephen Colbert just called Michael Medved…
…“a deranged homicidal hitchhiker.” I’m just sayin’, is all.
Monsters vs. Aliens (review)
The nicest monster movie ever…
Stephen Colbert is on fire these days
I thought Stephen Colbert had reached a comedic peak recently with that “Swedish model/emulate-the-Vikings” word-of-the-day bit. But his Doom Bunker segment tonight had me actually doubled over with laughter. It’s nice to ache from comedy. It happens so rarely. If we thought that the advent of elegant, optimistic, at-least-publicly-nonsnarky Barack Obama — a Barack Obama … more…
