Category: Stephen Colbert

Mitt Romney, Scientologist?

A couple of months ago, Stephen Colbert featured a video clip where presidential candidate Mitt Romney professed to have enjoyed the book “Battlefield Earth,” by the late L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction writer and founder of the Church of Scientology. I’ve never seen the movie, starring Scientologist John Travolta, because it’s supposed to be a real clunker, but I read the book, in its first hardcover printing no less, and I agree with Romney. It’s a lot of fun!

Colbert On Carell

Last week, former Daily Show regular Steve Carell was Jon Stewart’s guest, pitching his new movie, Evan Almighty. Former Daily Show regular and on-screen nemesis of Carell, Stephen Colbert, comments…
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Toby Keith is a Big, Fat Idiot

I only vaguely have an awareness of country music singer Toby Keith. About all I can recall is the feud he had with the Dixie Chicks — who turned out to be right, of course, about George Bush. Stephen Colbert had Toby Keith on his show tonight. If Keith isn’t putting on a front, this guy is a total moron. The song Keith sings is the usual sort of unoriginal, by-the-numbers crap that guys like him do. Hey, talent like that goes only so far, y’know? Steve Earle he ain’t, musically or politically.
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Colbert Rises From Database Ashes

Ah, yes. I had posted the complete video of Stephen Colbert roasting George Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner. Don’t want this one to languish, because of the database snafu…
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…and I liked Colbert’s cognitive leap that associated Bush’s assurances about Iraq to Charlie Brown being lied to year after year by Lucy about pulling away the football …
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