Broadcasting and Cable needs to watch the show more

Eagle-eyed new staff member MsInterpreted found this interesting post over at the Broadcasting and Cable blog (there’s a reason she was so heavily recruited, seriously):

I Spy

I was watching ‘The Colbert Report’. He was interviewing Judy Woodruff, who was plugging her PBS special about Generation Next, but I can’t remember what she said because I was trying to identify the stuff behind her on the wall and shelves of the set.

From what I could tell, there was a picture of Hugh Laurie of House, a miniature set of the 10 Commandments, the Scales of Justice, and a couple of those Rock ‘EM, Sock ‘Em Robots from the 1960’s that have been revived in that truck commercial.

If they want me to pay attention to the guests, and maybe they don’t, they need to put a key online to the stuff on that set so I won’t spend my time trying to figure out what else is back there. There is a picture of somebody next to who I think is Hugh Laurie, and maybe some kind of play sword to my right of the pictures.

I will let you know if I figure out anything else, and I’m sure you are waiting with wild anticipation for my next dispatch. Or maybe not.

But we know why most of that is up there. Because Stephen put it up there during the show. Here’s some examples:

Dr. House: a famous TV doctor, honored with Dr. Noah Drake (“General Hospital”) and Dr. Cliff Huxtable (“Cosby Show”) along with Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, DFA.

Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots: placed on book shelf to commemorate 5th anniversary of George W. Bush’s election.

Also, Jim Fenhagen did some marvelous work on the set. Read “Telly Visionary” on FastCompany.com to learn more secrets of Colbert’s set design.

• Stephen Colbert in the Zeitgeist – March 13, 2010
• Stephen Colbert in the Zeitgeist – March 3, 2010
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• Eye Candy: Stephen Colbert at Christ Child Society’s Great Gatsby Gala