Ian Bogost writes about his appearance on The Colbert Report

Tuesday night’s guest – Ian Bogost of Persuasive Games, was blogged about his experience at The Colbert Report studio.

Note that he also confirms there was a “mystery guest” interview pretaping we reported on last night.

My Appearance on The Colbert Report

I appeared as a guest on The Colbert Report on Tuesday August 7. A lot of my friends and colleagues have been asking the same questions, so I thought I’d try to cover them all in one place.

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Everyone seemed to ask me what Stephen Colbert is really like. I didn’t get to spend a whole lot of time with him, but he did visit with me both before and after the filming. He was earnestly kind and welcoming. He also obviously works very, very hard. It’s easy to imagine that the show is totally improvised, especially given Colbert’s own background in improv theater, and he obviously really really does think fast on his feet. But between every segment he’s working with the writers and the staff making adjustments. My show had a prerecorded segment (the hilarious Better Know a Protectorate piece on American Samoa), and while it aired Stephen kept right up with it from the studio, speaking right along so he’d be on top of it.

The staff was totally awesome too, and very down to earth, which is something of a rarity in television. I’ve done much less popular TV shows with less personal treatment.

Something that only the studio audience knows is this: the night I was on, they also recorded another guest segment for later broadcast, before mine, with a very, very well known personality. The result of that interview was, well, unexpected. When it airs I’ll update this with a link to it and some more detail.

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