Category: Stephen Colbert

Here’s a segment Stephen Colbert had last night on terrorism and racial profiling, which is now being labeled ‘behavioral’ profiling.  The first part highlights Colbert’s superb comic acting skills.

I remember how immediately after the Oklahoma City bombing the Boston radio talk show wing-nut Howie Carr declared it to have been the work of Islamic terrorists.  By chance, a few months later I came across Carr making an appearance at a New Hampshire mall.  I was going to say something to him about Timothy McVeigh not looking especially like a typical Islamic terrorist, but I had my son with me, and he was only 3 then, so I thought better of it.

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Oh, dear.  Two Colbert clips in a row.  Well, it’s too late now…

Here is Colbert interviewing NY Times columnist Frank Rich two nights ago.

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You don’t have to know what Stephen Colbert’s “Green Screen Challenge” is to enjoy this great video clip from last night’s show.  I did a quick search of YouTube and don’t see it posted yet, but plenty of past entries are available there.  Search for something like ‘colbert green jedi’.

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Somehow, I totally missed the introduction of Stephen Colbert’s Alpha Squad 7, the New Tek Jansen Adventure back in August.  Colbert is obviously a comics and cartoon fan, and he was a writer for Robert Smigel’s TV Funhouse, so I’m not surprised he’s doing this.  Here is part 2.  Part 1 is undoubtedly available on YouTube.

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EDIT: Let’s have a little fun with this.  Somebody has posted this video on YouTube, although without the teaser that I included.  I’m going to scale my embedded video up to 425 pixels across to match YouTube’s, and embed that one here.  You can compare and judge who did the better job of capturing the video.  Don’t use an old Windows Media Player, like version 7, because it’ll look awfully jaggy, compared to YouTube’s Flash player.

EDIT P.S.  The YouTube video has been replaced with my own upload.  This is as good as it gets after YouTube has processed something.  The preview still frame is nice, and if there’s a way to do that with Media Player I’ll find it.

Stephen Colbert is deserving of all the praise his show, The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, has received. And there’s no point in trying to knock Colbert, because I’m covering my ears and humming and can’t hear you. Here’s a 60 Minutes feature about him.

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