Stephen Colbert

By Bob Sassone Yesterday we showed you a clip of Wolf Blitzer and Lou Dobbs talking about the 2007 arrest of Barney Frank's partner for growing pot plants at their home in Maine. Last night Stephen Colbert defended Frank. Well, sort of. Watch clips and episodes of The Colbert Report and other shows at SlashC...

By Bob Sassone You don't usually see Stephen Colbert talking about sports. He even addresses that a little bit in this clip from last night's show, where he talks about the winner of the New York City marathon and Olympic speedskating. This show remains one of the funniest shows on television.

By Brad Trechak The Colbert Report's The Word is one of those iPhone applications that takes advantage of that sort of portable player. The Word is one of those segments that doesn't translate well to a book, unlike Letterman's Top Ten Lists. Video clips better convey the emotion of the segment.

By Bob Sassone You made a joke about the Gorton's fisherman being kidnapped and said that he was in Maine. He's not, he's in Massachusetts. I should know because I grew up a mile from Gorton's and devoured their fish sticks every week (now with crispier breading!).Continue reading I demand an apology from S...

By Danny Gallagher 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. The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cMega Millionswww.colbertnation.com Co...

By Bob Sassone The Word is one of the best segments of The Colbert Report, and last night Colbert ranted about a large cross in the Mojave Desert that is causing some controversy. Oh, and if you're wondering why Colbert is wearing a blond wig at the start of this segment, you can watch the entire episode at Sl...

By Bob Sassone Remember a while back when Stephen Colbert wanted you to go to Wikipedia and actually edit things on his page? Well, he's at it again. He wants fans to go to the conservative site Conservapedia and add him as a character in the Bible! Look at the note that the site has:

By Bob Sassone This won't come as news to fans of The Colbert Report, but it's actually a brilliant little show. The writing on it is so well-done (which isn't easy to do four days a week), and Colbert really gives an incredible "performance" as this character Stephen Colbert. He's dedicated to it, and ever...

By Bob Sassone Last night, Stephen Colbert said he's skeptical that Conan really couldn't do his show last Friday because he hit his head during a sketch. For evidence he pulled out a recent Glamour magazine that features him, Conan, and that above quote about Fallon. (Video also here.)

By Bob Sassone I think we can all agree, no matter what your politics, seeing Tom Delay dancing to "Wild Thing" on Dancing with the Stars was rather...surreal. Last night, Stephen Colbert talked about it. I never want to hear the phrase "knee slide into a fist munch" again.

By Bob Sassone If I had to describe Red Eye it would be like this: it's a mix of Politically Incorrect and The McLaughlin Group, only for people who are up late at night drinking or eating too much junk food, with a host who comes at things from a conservative viewpoint but it's not really a political show. The...

By Bob Sassone Oh, and Liz Lemon as one of the Real Housewives of New York City? Scary. Actress Tina Fey and TV Host Stephen Colbert attend the Governors Ball for the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Los Angeles Convention Center on September 21, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.

By Richard Keller Over on cable my selections are more limited. Regular viewings include Psych, Monk, Stargate Atlantis, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Battlestar Galactica, Eureka, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. The dramas of FX, while critical and fan favorites, just don't appeal to me due to their dar...

By Danny Gallagher Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report called on his legion of fans/cult-like followers who would not only follow their leader into the gates of Hell, but also take his place in the seventh circle (the one that only gets QVC, C-Span 2 and late night knife infomercials) to help him vanquish h...

By Bob Sassone The Daily Show: David Gregory The Colbert Report: Devin Gordon and Thomas FrankThe Late Show with David Letterman: Kiefer Sutherland, Rumer Willis, and Phil Vassar Jimmy Kimmel Live: James Franco, Tommy Lee, and From First To Last Late Night with Conan O'Brien: Seth Rogen and Al Green

By Bob Sassone Here's who's on the late night shows tonight. Charlie Rose: Fred Krupp and Connie Britton The Daily Show: Mike Myers The Colbert Report: Bishop N.T. Wright The Late Show with David Letterman: Jason Bateman, Teri Garr, and Keyshia Cole Jay Leno: James McAvoy, Wanda Sykes, and Duffy Jimmy Kim...

 CA - May 21, 2008 The upshot is that for the first time, you'll be able to catch full length episodes of two of Comedy Central's most popular shows: The Daily Show and The ...

By Bob Sassone Here's who's on the late night shows tonight. Charlie Rose: Robert Kagan and Parag Khanna The Daily Show: Denis Leary The Colbert Report: Andrei Cherny The Late Show with David Letterman: America Ferrera, Russell Brand, and Terry Fator Jay Leno: Dana Delany, Hulk Hogan, and Dwight Yoaka...

By Bob Sassone It's easy to forget just how funny this show was. It's not just that it had a bunch of funny material and a talented cast (including Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, and Robert Smigel), it's that the batting average for each show was damn good. There's more funny stuff in each 30 minutes of a Dana...

Behind the scenes of the O'Brien/Stewart/Colbert fight  CA - Feb 12, 2008 You've seen the comedy bit, now you can see the behind the scenes rehearsal and outtakes from the infamous Conan O'Brien/Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert "Who ...

By Bob Sassone Late Night Underground, the official Late Night with Conan O'Brien writers blog, has a really funny clip showing how the three late nights hosts filmed their epic battle in the hallways and stairwells of NBC. You see the various times the three smashed fake bottles over their heads (and at...

By Bob Sassone Here's who's sitting down on the couch on the late night shows. Charlie Rose: a discussion about Peter Jennings, and writer Richard Russo The Daily Show: Al Gore (repeat) The Colbert Report: Howard Dean (repeat) The Late Show with David Letterman: Oprah Winfrey and Bonnie Raitt (repeat)...

By Bob Sassone Here's who's sitting down on the couch on the late night shows. Charlie Rose: James Lipton and David Frost The Daily Show: Gov. Bill Richardson (repeat) The Colbert Report: Charlie LeDuff (repeat) The Late Show with David Letterman: Cher and Jerry Springer (repeat) Jay Leno: Leonardo DiC...

By Bob Sassone Here's who's sitting down on the couch on the late night shows. Charlie Rose: Brad PittThe Daily Show: Former President Bill Clinton (repeat) The Colbert Report: Rep. Ron Paul (repeat) The Late Show with David Letterman: Julia Roberts and Travis (repeat) Jay Leno: Jamie Foxx and Brad Pais...

By Annie Wu As soon as the one DVD is popped in, after some Comedy Central ads, a list of clips comes up, and that's it. Even the Daily Show Indecision 2004 DVD had a wonderfully weird intro with Stephen Colbert and some fun, albeit slightly ...

By Adam Finley Tek Jansen is the hero of Colbert's science fiction novel, Stephen Colbert's Alpha Squad 7: Lady Nocturne: A Tek Jansen Adventure. The comic series, created by Oni Press, will consist of five issues, with two stories in each issue (one of which is a continuing story stretching through all...

By Adam Finley If you haven't yet tried Stephen Colbert's AmeriCone Dream ice cream from Ben and Jerry's, you should. It is the most "just okay" ice cream you'll ever taste. Your tastebuds will be bombarded with a cavalcade of average, middle-of-the-road flavor.

By Annie Wu Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews"Mess O' Potamia": So... Um... We're arming Sunni insurgents as long as they promise not to attack us. That sounds like some ridiculous Colbert-proposed idea, but, no, it's true. Senior Iraq Correspondent Aasif Mandvi elaborated on the situat...

By Bob Sassone After the jump are several videos of Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert on The Dana Carvey Show. They've gone their separate ways, but if you include their work here and on The Daily Show and as Ace and Gary on Saturday Night Live, they could have been the next great comedy team. And then they woul...

By Joel Keller Filed under: Late Night, OpEd, Video, Celebrities, Talk ShowAnnie briefly mentioned this in her review of last night's Daily Show, but I wanted everyone to see it for themselves. Jane Fonda appeared on The Colbert Report for the first time since she got a little frisky with Colbert in an ap...

By Adam Finley Eric Drysdale is a writer and comedian most will recognize as the stage manager "Bobby" on The Colbert Report (see Bobby as a leprechaun in the clip at the end of this post). Drysdale is also a writer on the show and previously wrote for The Daily Show. In addition, he's performed several times...

By Bob Sassone On a recent episode of the NBC comedy, boss Michael Scott (Steve Carell) went to Wikipedia for tips on how to fire one of his employees. So fans of the show have, naturally, gone to the site and started to edit the entry on negotiations like crazy. Because, as Michael put it (I'm paraphrasing he...

By Joel Keller Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Late Night, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, The Colbert Report, Comedy CentralThis is not a column that is going to say that The Colbert Report has stopped being funny. The show is still strong in that regard, delivering at least one good laugh per episode. But what...

By Adam Finley Speaking of Phish Food, Colbert rightly pointed out the liberal bias of Ben and Jerry's past flavors, and the liberal bias of dessert in general. I say it's about damn time our man Stephen was represented in the freezer aisle. Between this and sales of his potent man seed (Formula 401), he sho...

By Joel Keller Last week, you may have heard Stephen Colbert play a statement by John Gray, the mayor of Oshawa. Gray stated that if his city's Ontario League hockey team, the Generals, lost to the Saginaw (Michigan) Spirit -- home of team mascot Steagle Colbeagle the Eagle -- that he would declare a day in...

By Anna Johns It all starts at 8 pm when Colbert goes to the mothership Fox Newschannel to be interrupted and talked over on The O'Reilly Factor. How will O'Reilly handle it? Will he pretend he doesn't get Colbert? Or, will he be a jerk? Will Stephen be able to hold his own or get a word in edgewise? Oh, I think...

By Annie Wu Filed under: Programming, OpEd, American Idol, Scrubs, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Festivus, Doctor Who, Project Runway, The Venture Bros., 30 Rock, Ugly BettyI'm going to start off with the negative stuff, because I'm well aware that these are the gems that people want to read s...

By Adam Finley If you click here, you can watch a clip from The Dana Carvey Show called "Skinheads from Maine" featuring Dana himself and Stephen Colbert. I think it proves that the show had a little something for everyone, even racist New Englanders.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

By Adam Finley Before we knew him as a correspondent on The Daily Show, Mr. Noblet on Strangers with Candy, and later the star of his own faux news analyst program, The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert was just another sketch player on shows like Exit 57 and the Dana Carvey Show. Colbert starred on the short-...

By Adam Finley Ever the philanthropist, Stephen Colbert is extending a helping hand to the residents of Tuscumbia in Colbert County, Alabama by opening the only museum in the nation dedicated exclusively to celebrating, well, Stephen Colbert (he thinks the county was named after him). Starting Nove...

By Bob Sassone The good choices: The Colbert Report's Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell from The Office, and Jeremy Piven from Entourage. Those are all no-brainers, but how did Jimmy Kimmel rank higher than Ricky Gervais? (Nothing against Kimmel, but come on.) And are radio DJs Opie & Anthony really fu...

By Joel Keller Filed under: Comedy, Industry, Video, The Daily Show, Web, The Colbert Report, Comedy CentralA few TVS readers have pinged us on this, in a kind of ear-flicking fashion that, while annoying, at least gets our attention (I'm talking to you, Jim):

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Comedy, NBC, Cable, News, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, CelebritiesNeither is The Colbert Report, but that doesn't stop a lot of people from categorizing them as such. Including younger people, who always say (according to surveys anyway) that they get their main new...

By Adam Finley If for some reason you find yourself at the Northwestern University Homecoming Parade in Chicago this Friday, keep an eye out for Stephen Colbert, who will be leading the parade. The Chicago Sun-Times spoke with Colbert about his college years, a time during which he describes himself as...

By Joel Keller Filed under: Comedy, Web, The Colbert Report, Comedy CentralRemember when we reported earlier today about the portrait of Stephen Colbert that's up for auction? Turns out that they didn't find a painter who could draw hands; it's just that Stephen took a new photo in front of the old port...

By Joel Keller Filed under: Comedy, OpEd, Video, Web, The Colbert Report, Celebrities, Comedy CentralI know this aired last week, but I thought it was one of the finer moments on the now one-year history of The Colbert Report (it first aired one year ago today...):

By Annie Wu Filed under: Comedy, Cable, Late Night, The Colbert Report, Comedy CentralLast night, Stephen Colbert finally announced the winner of his Green Screen Challenge (which was not a contest). The competition had finally boiled down to two finalists... Bonnie R. and some random guy named Georg...

By Joel Keller Filed under: Comedy, OpEd, The Daily Show, Web, Celebrities, Comedy CentralIt seems that nowadays, mandates from the people come in the form of kitschy t-shirts. I guess a bunch of Internet t-shirt makers got it into their heads to create t-shirts that say "Stewart/Colbert '08," essent...

By Adam Finley Sean Bartlett wrote an interesting piece for The Boston Phoenix about his experience working as an unpaid intern on The Colbert Report. Apparently Stephen is a pretty decent guy to work for, which is nice to hear. I mean, it would have made the story more interesting if the real Stephen (not t...

By Joel Keller Filed under: Comedy, Talent, The Colbert ReportWhen The Colbert Report premiered in November, I don't think anyone expected the cultural impact the show would have. But, judging by the year Stephen Colbert has had, from being the featured speaker at the White House Correspondents dinn...

By Richard Keller Boy o' boy, you can't click into TV Squad anymore without having Stephen Colbert's mug staring you right in the face. First, Colbert fans attempted to add fake information to Wikipedia, then someone decided to create an electronic version of Stephen's "On Notice" list and finally, to com...