StephenColbert-related stories
Posted Feb 22nd 2010 8:22PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Sports, Industry, OpEd, Ratings, Reality-Free
Complaining about how NBC covers the Olympics is almost an Olympic sport all by itself. Pretty much ever since the Atlanta games in 1996, NBC has been raked over the coals for tape-delaying events and concentrating on stories instead of the sports themselves.
The outrage has been especially loud when the Games have been held in North America, mainly because the time differences are minimal. The hue and cry has been louder than ever from Vancouver, mainly because, in a world where results can be shot around to every computer and cell phone in the world via Twitter and Facebook, NBC is shooting itself in the foot with what seems to be 1990s thinking.
Here's the rub, though: The Olympics are kicking tail in the ratings, despite all the complaints.
Continue reading NBC's Olympic Coverage Stinks, But It Gets Results
Posted Feb 20th 2010 9:00AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Web, Reality-Free
Something really cool found its way to my mailbox the other day. No, not porn.
The
'Colbert Report's' online shopping hub at
Colbertnation.com has a neat, interactive and (most importantly to me) dirt cheap little bit of flair for your refrigerator or office:
your very own "On-Notice" board.
It's a dry-erase board that lets you write in and therefore write off anyone or anything that's pissing you off in life. It's not only a great way to pledge your allegiance to the mighty and awesome Stephen Colbert, but it's also a great stress reliever. You know why, Don Cheadle. Don't pretend like you don't.
Posted Feb 18th 2010 10:02PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Sports, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Stephen Colbert has been lurking around Vancouver with nary a word from him like a class clown just waiting for the right moment to pounce on the biology teacher the minute she uses the word "titmouse."
NBC posted some photos of America's truthinestitizer joking around at the Vancouver Winter Olympic speed skating meet and greeting his fans at his outdoor set that the world will get to see next week.
It's not known if these images and bits will be included in his upcoming episodes or his coverage of the games for NBC. Either way, sorry for spoiling it for you. I might as well get ahead of the curve.
[via
Buzzfeed]
Posted Feb 18th 2010 9:29AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
According to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs,
President Obama would happily appear on
'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' but is hesitant to appear on
'The Colbert Report'. Gibbs further explained that "I have yet to see a politician best Stephen Colbert in an interview on his show."
There could be another reason for the President's opinion given the different context of the two shows. Jon Stewart presents himself in a pretty straightforward fashion. He finds contradictions in public figures and makes them more obvious. Colbert's humor is more subtle and requires an understanding of satire and irony.
Continue reading Obama Would Face Off With Jon Stewart But Not Stephen Colbert?
Posted Jan 14th 2010 2:35PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Late Night, Video, Watercooler Talk, 30 Rock, Reality-Free
Since I am not directly involved in the Late Night Wars of '10, I find them incredibly amusing.
Letterman is working out all of his latent
Leno rage on air,
Craig Ferguson is burning any bridges to NBC,
Jimmy Kimmel is doing some sort of kinky role-playing, and Conan is just basically giving
the middle finger to
everyone, every single night now. Late night hasn't been this interesting since
Conan O'Brien,
Jon Stewart and
Stephen Colbert all just
kicked each other's asses on the air-- and that was only one night!
Now, even Kenneth the Page (
Jack McBrayer) is getting into the fray. He made an appearance last night on
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, during Conan's monologue. He was there to give a studio tour, as pages are wont to do, and he was showing the tourists the former home of
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. Or, as he corrected himself, "the
soon-to-be former home."
Continue reading NBC isn't even safe from Kenneth the Page
Posted Jan 3rd 2010 11:01AM by Nick Zaino
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Animation, Curb Your Enthusiasm, How I Met Your Mother, The Office, 30 Rock, Reality-Free
More of our best of the decade coverage, which started on Tuesday. You can read the other posts at the link above. Here, we talk about the funniest actors of the last ten years.
If you want to be a great comedic actor, you can never let on that you know you're being funny. Your character never knows what the joke is. That's why Rodney Dangerfield was a great, legendary stand-up comedian, and a fairly poor comic actor.
Everyone on this list excels at the comedic poker face. Steve Carell and Ricky Gervais, in their
Office boss characters, don't know that most of the rest of the office is laughing at them. Or at least they don't understand why. Stephen Colbert, despite all of the attention
The Colbert Report have received, may be the most underrated comic actor, because the character is so seamless, sometimes it's hard to tell it's a character. Shatner is a legend for playing campy with a poker face. And Neil Patrick Harris as a cad? A
straight cad? Perfect.
Here are a few of our favorite comedic actors from the past decade, and may their characters never realize the joke's on them.
Continue reading Best TV of the '00s: Comedic Actor
Posted Jan 2nd 2010 1:01PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Late Night, Video, Celebrities, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
More of our best of the decade coverage, which started on Tuesday. You can read the other posts at the link above. Here, we talk about the funniest or most surprising late night moments of the last ten years.
In the past decade, late night shows continued to bloom in popularity. However, some of our favorite late night shows were shuffled around while some got new hosts.
No matter what network executives decided to do to the line up of US late night shows, their hosts and guest stars gave us plenty fantastic, OMG!, and WTF? moments that generated tons of watercooler talks and forum discussion threads.
Below are some of the best late night moments of the past decade as chosen by some of the TV Squad bloggers. We realize there are tough choices in this category, so we hope you'll add your own favorites in the comments section below.
Continue reading Best TV of the '00s: Late Night Moments
Posted Dec 17th 2009 9:02AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Celebrities, Reality-Free
There is nothing wrong with your computer. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. Stop rolling your eyes because we're ripping off
The Outer Limits.
You are seeing that picture correctly: hardcore conservative TV guy Stephen Colbert is totally Frenching a guy. This probably begs a key question: why? Is this a screenshot from one of Glenn Beck's secret dreams? Is he trying to breathe life back into a man who has passed out while standing? Is this his way of destroying the possibility of gay marriage by participating in it?
It's actually part of a
Second City show in Chicago. Alum Colbert, pictured here with actor Dave Razowsky, appeared at the famed theater over the weekend to celebrate the theater's 50th anniversary along with fellow alumni Steve Carrell, Bonnie Hunt and Harold Ramis. It is not known if Colbert kissed them too.
Posted Dec 15th 2009 1:29PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Sports, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Man, I wish I was Stephen Colbert. No, you don't understand. I REALLY wish I was Stephen Colbert.
If I ever become a celebrity stalker who's ultimate goal is to obtain the essence of my beloved targets by peeling the skin off their bodies and wearing it as a full body scuba diving suit, Colbert would be at the top of my list.
Now I can add another reason to that creepy list I keep hidden away in my heating vent. His and the Colbert Nation's recent efforts to fund the U.S. Olympics' speed skating team for the 2010 Winter Olympics have earned him a sport on the cover of
Sports Illustrated.
All I can say about it is one thing: thank you. Yes, thank you uncredited
SI photographer for strategically positioning Colbert's elbow over his crotch as he posed in that skin tight speed suit. Or rather, America thanks you.
Posted Nov 12th 2009 11:01AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Children, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
Sit a kid in front of a TV for an hour a day and a parent is bound to find something that offends them, other than the fact that plopping impressionable minds in front of a TV unsupervised is considered "good parenting."
Sesame Street is no stranger to controversy. Critics, cynics and crybabies have called out the show on everything from questionable behavior to the ambiguous situations...of puppets. Of course, all of these complaints and cackling criticisms just scratch the surface of a much bigger issue that has largely gone unaddressed: the total loss of our sanity and grasp on reality.
So as we look back at the last 40 years of television's greatest children's show, we see some speed bumps along the way. These are the ones that caused the greatest loss of tire pressure.
Continue reading Sesame Street's 40th: Five biggest controversies
Posted Oct 15th 2009 9:33AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Industry, Reality-Free
One of television's oldest and most powerful names is about to get a little less powerful.
Media mogul
Sumner Redstone is selling nearly $1 billion shares of CBS and Viacom to pay off a big portion of his debt to preserve his media empire. He owes nearly $1.46 billion and has to pay at least $500,000 of it by the end of October. Maybe he's got some used DVDs he can sell at his local Gamestop.
Of course, he'll still maintaining "controlling interest" in both companies but it won't feel the same. Now, no one will have enough power to make media bigheads like Stephen Colbert (literally) dance.
Posted Aug 27th 2009 12:05PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, The Daily Show, Commercials, Reality-Free
We often hear the phrase "die hard fan," but who is actually willing to "die hard" for the thing they care most about?
If you believe in statistics, that honor would go to fans of Comedy Central.
A recent study conducted by a research group found that fans of the long-running cable network have
the most dedicated fan base. Plus, those polled think people who watch
The Colbert Report and
The Daily Show are "cool." Are the kids these days still saying "cool"? My, where has all the time gone?
Continue reading Comedy Central fans would take a bullet for their network
Posted Jul 4th 2009 3:10PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series, Burn Notice
There are a lot of really horrible things that have put America on the map: Jerry Springer, our ability to infuse anything edible with cheese, the fact that we're probably working on infusing something inedible with cheese.
Guns, however, shouldn't be one of them. The Second Amendment stands as one of many great testaments to the idea of freedom that our forefathers envisioned for their people. They felt a government should trust their people with great responsibility if they truly believed in the concept of freedom and democracy.
Sure, if they came to the present and saw that we primarily use that responsibility for hunting moose from helicopters and negotiating with the Domino's guy they might take it right back, but the idea is what's important.
So to celebrate one of America's latest of many birthday to come because fireworks are technically illegal in my neck of the woods, here are your TV's seven greatest guns.
Continue reading Seven greatest hand cannons in TV history
Posted Jul 1st 2009 8:25AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: News, Web, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Keith Olbermann! Come on down! You're the next TV celebrity whose death has been falsely reported on the Internet!
The MSNBC Countdown's Wikipedia page reported he had died earlier this morning, possibly due to complications from celiac disease.
I sent emails to two networks officials to confirm this jarring claim. Jeremy Gaines, MSNBC's vice president of communications, responded that he is certain the entry is a "hoax" and that he and other network officials were working to correct it. The section on Olbermann's death has since been removed from the page.
Continue reading Exclusive! Keith Olbermann is not dead
Posted Jun 13th 2009 5:30PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV on DVD, OpEd, Reality-Free
This installment of
Sketch Comedy Saturday is less about you pining for new episodes of
Saturday Night Live and more about me having an excuse to use this old image of Stephen Colbert with a puppy. It makes me sick, it's so adorable. Unfortunately,
The Dana Carvey Show wasn't just twenty-some minutes of Mr. Colbert nonchalantly holding baby animals, but it was still a pretty funny program.
Continue reading Sketch Comedy Saturday: The Dana Carvey Show
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