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Late Night

Stephen Colbert Takes Sides on Karl Rove vs. the Tea Party

by | February 13th, 2013

Last night, Colbert dove deep on the growing civil war between establishment Republicans and their brash Tea Party cousins. He focused on "unlanced boil" Karl Rove's new SuperPAC, which is aimed at taking down more extreme right wingers in primaries before they get the chance to talk into microphones and let large groups of people know what they actually believe. Whose side does he take? He's just got to listen to his heart…er, gall bladder.

Politics

The Election Made Stephen Colbert Sad

by | November 8th, 2012

Stephen Colbert opened his show last night wearing a robe while he glumly munched on popcorn, still bummed out over Mitt Romney's loss. Those of you who voted for Barack Obama did this to him. Doesn't feel so great now, does it?

Hit the jump to see more of Colbert moping over the "four more years of hopey change" that Obama has in store for us.

Politics?

Comedians Don't Think Donald Trump Is as Great as He Thinks He Is

by | October 25th, 2012

Classy guy Donald Trump has been a comedy goldmine for years now, but his recent massive, game-changing "October Surprise" bombshell has really upped the ante on all the Trump mockery. Here's Stephen Colbert out-Trumping Trump with his own offer: he'll donate $1 million to the charity of Trump's choosing if the real estate mogul lets him dip his balls in his mouth. Colbert has set a 5pm October 31st deadline. Clock's ticking, Trump.

Elsewhere, The Onion ran a piece called "Donald Trump Announces He's a Very Sad Man," and, of course, comedians on Twitter have been having a go at Trump too. Here's a collection of the funniest [...]

rise and shine

On 'Good Morning America', Stephen Colbert Tricks George Stephanopoulos into Eating Plastic

by | October 2nd, 2012

Stephen Colbert dropped by Good Morning America this, um, morning to promote his new book America Again. Colbert discussed the effect 3D movies are having on books, his dream of reducing the amount of states in the country ("Do we need two Dakotas?"), and shared his thoughts on the debates (tomorrow's Presidential one and Saturday's between Jon Stewart and New Gingrich), but his real motive was to trick host George Stephanopoulos into eating plastic by feeding him an "Oreo Ho" – a combination of an Oreo and a Ho Ho that he invented.

Crime

Stephen Colbert Uncovers that Vince Gilligan Pretty Much Is Walter White at This Point

by | September 28th, 2012

Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan dropped by The Colbert Report last night, and Stephen Colbert had the wisdom to point out that, after years of living in the head of the chemistry teacher-turned meth cook to write the show, he pretty much is Walter White now. Plus, they both have rad goatees. If Vince Gilligan is, in fact, running an unlawful meth manufacturing operation, he sure kept his cool during the interview, laughing the idea off… just like Walter White would do. Stephen Colbert's getting too close to the truth. If I were him, I'd be keeping an eye out for ricin.

Extreme Measures

How Stephen Colbert Trained Himself to Never Feel Embarrassment

by | December 6th, 2012

Here's John Hodgman on SiriusXM's "Unmasked," in which he talks about how he heard Stephen Colbert rid himself of ever feeling embarrassed: by a strange version of immersion therapy, in which he basically did very embarrassing things in public until it didn't bother him anymore. Comedic commitment: Stephen Colbert basically defines it.

Hard News

'Daily Show' and 'Colbert' Will Give You the Only Live Election Coverage You Need

by | November 1st, 2012

Once again, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report will be reporting live on election night on Tuesday, marking the sixth presidential election (since 1992) that Comedy Central is covering live. The shows will air live at 11 and 11:30 on the East Coast, 8 and 8:30 on the West Coast. The Daily Show's coverage is called "Election Night 2012: This Ends Now," while Colbert's is "Election 2012: A Nation Votes, Ohio Decides; The Re-Presidenting of America: Who Will Replace Obama? ‘012!" This should easily top the election coverage from the so-called "real news," whose journalists "with credentials" aren't half as good at coming up with these funny, really [...]

Videolists

The Best of Late Night's Responses to the Presidential Debate

by | October 18th, 2012

America's late night shows took on Tuesday's presidential debate this week, all of them going about it in their own unique way. Here's Jon Stewart laying into Mitt Romney over his contraception stance and his "binders full of women" remark, as well as complimenting Barack Obama (who's appearing on The Daily Show tonight!) for actually deciding to attend this debate.

Check out some more highlights from late night's coverage of the second debate after the jump:

face-off

Oprah and Stephen Colbert, Two Equally Influential TV Icons, Finally Have a Chat

by | October 1st, 2012

Stephen Colbert dropped by Oprah's show Oprah's Next Chapter, and the two iconic TV personalities finally faced off in what was a rare out-of-character interview for Colbert. The full chat, which is available in bits and pieces on Oprah's website, covers Colbert's career arc, the tragic loss of his father and brothers in a plane crash when he was a child, and his loving relationship with his wife. Throughout the whole thing, Oprah seems pretty obsessed with the fact that Stephen Colbert plays a fictional character on TV also named Stephen Colbert, even though she's been playing the fictional character of "Oprah Winfrey" on TV for nearly 30 years [...]

Corporate Slapfights

Thanks to DirecTV/Viacom Squabbling, You Can No Longer Watch 'The Daily Show' or 'Colbert' Online

by | July 12th, 2012

Viacom and DirecTV are fighting, y'all. Viacom wants DirecTV to pay them more money for their cable networks, and DirecTV is all like, nuh uh, and they don't seem too close to compromise. Viacom has now yanked all of their networks off of DirecTV, and DirecTV started pointing their customers towards online streaming sites in order to get their TV fix while the grownups do their squabbling. But now Viacom has gone and made it impossible to stream clips and episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, amongst others, on their official sites. Hulu and Hulu Plus are not affected, but if you're not a paying [...]

felt

Frank Oz Won't Tell Stephen Colbert Where Muppets Come From

by | November 29th, 2012

Frank Oz, voice of Miss Piggy and Yoda as well as the director of Little Shop of Horrors, What About Bob?, and tons more, made his Colbert Report debut last night and took the time to tell Stephen Colbert he's a fan of his show, particularly of Colbert's ritual of bowing and taking applause while introducing his guest. Colbert asks Oz whether Muppets have sex or not, an idea that seems to wildly offend Oz. Plus, get a glimpse of the original ending to Little Shop of Horrors, which was originally restored on the director's cut Blu-Ray. Compliments, Muppet sex, and secret movie endings. What more can you want [...]

The Holidays

Tom Hanks and Matt Damon Celebrate Halloween with Stephen Colbert

by | October 26th, 2012

Living legend Tom Hanks made an appearance on The Colbert Report last night to share some Halloween tips and not to plug his latest movie, Cloud Atlas. Here he is with some fun costume suggestions for trick-or-treaters, which just happen to all be characters from his movies. It's a complete coincidence, as is the appearance of Matt Damon in his Saving Private Ryan costume because A-list movie stars always go door-to-door for candy on Halloween, dressed up as their past roles. It has nothing with Hanks trying to get to get people to see Cloud Atlas by showing off how many good movies he's been in, that's for sure.

tv hosts

Dick Cavett Didn't Think 'The Colbert Report' Would Last

by | October 17th, 2012

"When [Stephen Colbert] graduated from his friend Jon Stewart’s show to his own, I was among the skeptics. I said he’d soon realize you can’t keep up this schizophrenic act of being a real person working behind the mask of an invented person—a character role—sorting out, moment by moment, your attitude from 'his' and thinking what Stephen would say versus what 'Stephen' would say. (Have I lost anyone?) Too many psychological balls in the air. I gave it three months. I also give stock-market advice."

— All-time great Dick Cavett in a 400-word ode to fellow talk show host Stephen Colbert in Vanity Fair.

Books n Stuff

Stephen Colbert Reviews His Own Book (Which He Seems to Have REALLY Enjoyed Reading)

by | September 28th, 2012

"America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't is sure to become a classic as treasured as Moby-Dick or the CliffsNotes to Moby-Dick. I give it three thumbs up out of four stars."

–Stephen Colbert reviewing his own book, America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't, in GQ. He liked it.

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