Stephen Colbert's "Better Know a District" segment has been back with a vengeance the past few weeks after a little bit of a hiatus. Last night's installment (embedded above), with openly black Wisconsin Congresswoman Gwen Moore, was an especially good one.
Part Two is below:
Stephen Colbert's sister, Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, announced she was throwing her hat into the ring for a congressional seat in South Carolina back in January. The special election was held yesterday, and Colbert-Busch, the Democratic nominee, lost to Republican Mark Sanford. Stephen Colbert broke character throughout the election cycle to campaign for and support his sister. "I'm willing to, you know, break the jewel of my own creation to try to do something for her, " he told CNN a couple months ago. "I'm not worried about what it would do to me or my show to try to help her as myself – not as my character, to help [...]
On The Colbert Report last night, Stephen Colbert sent his latest invention out into the field. Called "The Bucket," it's an iPad glued to a bucket that's hooked up to a second bucket with an iPhone inside of it. Using FaceTime, Colbert can teleport his head onto somebody else's body, and he did so with his intern Jay by sending him into Times Square and getting him into a lot of scary and/or weird situations. Hopefully, Colbert will do his next show while wearing The Bucket.
Stephen Colbert interviewed President Bill Clinton this weekend at the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative, and their 15-minute-ish conversation aired on The Colbert Report last night. While Colbert has talked to Barack Obama briefly via satellite, Clinton is the first U.S. president to sit down with him for a long interview. Given how well this went, he probably won't be the last. I imagine Colbert's phone is ringing off the hook with calls from both George Bushes right now.
Hit the jump to watch the rest of the Clinton/Colbert chat:
Here's a rare out-of-character appearance by Stephen Colbert as he introduces his sister Elizabeth Colbert Busch at a fundraiser for her South Carolina congressional campaign with a funny speech. I think he's only helping her out so he can butter her up to do a "Better Know a District" segment on The Colbert Report.
Stephen Colbert held the first ever "cOlbert's Book Club" last night, dedicating his entire show to a discussion of inaugural book The Great Gatsby in a swanky new studio with guests like Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan, Great Gatsby movie director Baz Luhrmann, and star Carey Mulligan. See the rest of the show below if you want to watch Stephen Colbert's almighty media empire continue to expand:
"I like Jimmy Fallon, and he seems to like me. And I like Jimmy Kimmel. Conan's a friend. I'd love to be in a late-night war, but I just like the guys too much."
-Stephen Colbert, discussing the love and respect for each other the new generation of late night hosts have in a rare, out-of-character interview with TV Guide.
On The Colbert Report last night, Stephen Colbert and Alan Cumming debuted a song called "Oopsie Daisy Homophobe" that will hopefully start a dialogue between gays and straights the same way that Brad Paisley and LL Cool J's "Accidental Racist" started a dialogue between black people and white people. America is becoming a better place, one country song at a time.
Here's Stephen Colbert on last night's Colbert Report, setting the Supreme Court straight on the issue of marriage equality. If only the Supreme Court would let him testify before them like Congress did.
TV's most giggly late night host and its least giggly late night host went head-to-head last night, and they ended up agreeing to be "potential good friends" after a fun parody song, which is how all potential good friendships start.
Hit the jump for the rest of Stephen Colbert's Jimmy Fallon appearance, which unfortunately doesn't include anymore songs:
Stephen Colbert's sister Elizabeth Colbert-Busch lost her congressional bid to Mark Sanford in a South Carolina special election Tuesday night. Here's Stephen Colbert talking about the upsetting loss publicly for the first time (albeit in character) on his show last night and turning his back on his home state and politics, in general.
Ever since Rahm Emanuel warned Democrats not to appear on The Colbert Report's "Better Know a District," the segment has been popping up infrequently, only a few times a year. Last night was one of those "few times a year," as Pennsylvania's Matt Cartwright did the show, making him the first U.S. representative brave enough to take on Stephen Colbert in over half a year. The result is a non-embarrassing "Better Know a District for Cartwright, complete with a heartwarming ending in which he teaches Colbert how to ride a bike.
"Lost Roles" is a weekly column taking a different actor, comedian, or writer each week and examining all of the movies and TV shows they almost made but didn't, for one reason or another. This week, we turn our attention to beloved newsman Stephen Colbert.
Before becoming a correspondent on The Daily Show (under original host Craig Kilborn) in 1997, Stephen Colbert spent a decade as a wildly funny performer at Second City Chicago who wasn't getting the amount of career attention he deserved, being passed over for numerous big jobs. The Daily Show was Colbert's big break, but it wasn't until Jon Stewart took over as host that [...]
Comedy Central announced today that Stephen Colbert will be interviewing former President Bill Clinton on an episode of The Colbert Report next month. The interview will take place in St. Louis on Saturday, April 6th, at the 2013 meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative University (or CGI U), an annual event Clinton holds to address political and social issues with 1,000 college students. Colbert's interview with Clinton, taped before said audience of 1,000 college students, will be included in a CGI U-centric episode of The Colbert Report during the week of April 8th. This is the second U.S. president Colbert has had on his show after Barack Obama. Said Colbert [...]
