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Last night’s tag-team coverage of the mid-term elections by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central was fun. Here are the segments where these two top-of-their-game pundit comedians overlapped. An interesting bit in there where Stewart seems to be acknowledging that Colbert’s popularity is eclipsing his own.
If the space above is blank, blame YouTube™ — or, perhaps, Comedy Central.
I was remiss in failing to record Stephen Colbert on The Night of Too Many Stars on Comedy Central a few weeks ago. I figured it would show up on YouTube™, but then Comedy Central ordered all of its programming pulled from the recent $1.6b Google acquisition.
Indeed, numerous videos have been pulled by YouTube™, including one I linked to here. But, hurray, Stephen’s appearance on the benefit show for Autism remains online.
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AUGH! The jig and gig are up. Comedy Central knows the truth, and they’re out to stop us bloggers.
According to this item on ZDNet, YouTube™ is being forced to remove Comedy Central video clips. There are still plenty of Colbert clips online there, but for how long? Will they come after the cruddy bloggers?
Stephen Colbert is back from a week off. Last night he commented on last week’s shift in the Bush Administration’s characterization of its Iraq policy, and Rush Limbaugh’s comments on the Michael J. Fox commercial.
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Last night’s Colbert Report featured an interview with congressional candidate John Hall, from the 70’s pop band Orleans, known for “Dance With Me,” “Still the One” and “Dancin’ in the Moonlight” * — songs I played on the radio many times back in my DJ days!
*(see comments)
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I confess to being late coming to the fold of Stephen Colbert fans. It was an article in Newsweek early this year that brought him to my attention.
Before getting his own show, Colbert was, of course, on The Daily Show. Steve Carell (who, by coincidence, graduated from the same high school that I did in Massachusetts*) was also on the show, but he left to join the cast of The Office.
Lately Jon Stewart, perhaps feeling nostalgic for the good old days, has been running clips of Steven and Stephen in action together. Click the picture to watch. Some of this is outright hilarious comedic acting.
*Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
