Category: Stephen Colbert

On the Colbert of the Rolling Stone

Since the January inauguration, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have shown they aren’t just about knocking Bush. Did they have a choice?

For the midterm elections a few years ago, Colbert shared the cover of Rolling Stone with Stewart. But now Colbert, who is in the second of three weeks away, has the cover all to himself. But what happens when there are no more print editions of magazines? There won’t be any covers of anything anymore. BTW, this blog turns three years old on Saturday, and this is post #1700.

A tip o’ the DogRat toupee to Denro for the tip.

The Colbert War Machine

Tonight is the first installment of Stephen Colbert’s visit with the troops in Baghdad. Gen. Ray Odierno, under a direct order given by his Commander in Chief, gave Stephen a buzzcut! Don’t miss it!

I love Colbert, but I’m enough of a realistic/cynic to suspect the timing of his visit to Iraq isn’t coincidentally following Conan O’Brien’s first week on his new shift. And this week’s issue of Newsweek features Colbert as guest editor. It’s out now, but our copy (I’ve subscribed to Newsweek for 25 years) didn’t arrive in today’s mail.

Colbert edits Newsweek

Colbert Accomplishes Mission in Iraq

Stephen Colbert in flight suit

Stephen Colbert’s face has been sitting on the blog’s header for a reason. Next week the shows he recorded in Iraq will be aired. And next week’s issue of Newsweek is guest-edited by Colbert. (Note: the comments that are currently on the page at that link look like mine would if I weren’t so good about killing spam.)

Forty years ago, and for years more after that, I admired Charles Schulz and Stan Lee more than anybody else. My new idols are Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart.

Correction: Colbert arrived in Baghdad yesterday. There will be four shows, each aired the day it is produced as they are in NYC.

Feeling Rand-y

I’ve had my fun knocking the silly pseudo-philosophy of romance novelist Ayn Rand, and last night Stephen Colbert spent six minutes taking on the Rand Illusion.

Legendary comic book artist Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-Man and creator of Dr. Strange, has been a follower of Ayn Rand’s Objectivism for over forty years. This drawing is from a story he drew last year. The woman bears an unmistakable resemblance to Ayn Rand, which is ironic because the character is a villain.

(c) 2008 Steve Ditko

Category Crossover: Colbert meets McCartney

Two faves in one post! Stephen Colbert with Sir Paul McCartney…

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Yes, the audio is a couple of frames out-of-synch with the picture. That’s because I used my alternate video capture setup, so the cables can reach from the DVD recorder in the other room. If there’s a fix for this, I haven’t found it yet. Now you know!

I would put the Comedy Central embedded video here, in fact I just did, but they screwed up the markups.