Comments on: SPOILER: Surprise guest on “The Colbert Report”, and interview shocker!

By: The Art of the Fan-Based Blog: Content, Content, Content Part II « Lorelle on WordPress

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:32:05 +0000

[...] No Fact Zone, we’ve broken some amazing stories on the blog, the largest being the Richard Branson interview train wreck. We were tipped off by one of our commenters, but before we ran with the story, we double-checked [...]

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Game 2 - Richard Branson vs Dinesh D’Sousa — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:01:13 +0000

[...] with the hype that preceded it. This interview was pre-taped, but an alert member of the audience left a comment on the NFZ blog about what had happened, and when we published it, it was picked up by some major media outlets. [...]

By: Remember in August 2007 …

Remember in August 2007 … — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:13:57 +0000

[...] kids, you heard the Branson story here first! And here’s the [...]

By: Jennie

Jennie — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:27:33 +0000

@Andrew – that was the joke – No one who saw it called it a trainwreck.

We reported an audience member who described it, at worst, as uncomfortable… but each time another newspaper picked it up it became worse and worse. One of the papers eventually called it a trainwreck. So Colbert played it up for all it was worth.

Yes – this is what the media do: distort things to make them more exciting to read. They do that with TV shows, with Presidential Candidates, with “evil doers” in other countries. Think about it.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:19:15 +0000

Wow.. they rebroadcast the show tonight and boy was that a letdown. Perhaps they edited it heavily from what the studio audience saw, but that sure seemed like an amiable, funny mini-water-fight between them. There was a bit of sparring about the million-dollar check and about whether Virgin was plugged on the show, but it was extremely good-natured. I’m scratching my head here about people who could watch that and think it was a “trainwreck” interview.

By: Water fight, publicity stunt, or both? | backward five

Water fight, publicity stunt, or both? | backward five — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:14:45 +0000

[...] was originally posted on NoFactZone.net that Colbert and Branson got into a water fight during an interview taping earlier this month. [...]

By: follower

follower — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:31:05 +0000

Was it planned? My guess is yes, but only on Branson’s part. I think Branson realized that doing something so outrageous would get the clip YouTubed and blogged like crazy. He wants the publicity for his airline and he knows he can get 100 times more people to talk about it if he douses Colbert with water than if he just sits there and behaves like any other guest. This clip was on the front page of yahoo.com! It never would have been mentioned by anybody had he not done what he did. The guy is a genius self-promoter. Look again at the clip. When he tosses the water the thing I see in his motion is “premeditated”.

By: Zeke

Zeke — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:23:27 +0000

Thanks! On the one hand, I don’t have to wonder anymore. On the other hand, I’m now spoiled about the fact that the bridge on the river Kwai collapses. Dammit, Stephen!

By: Jennie

Jennie — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:21:09 +0000

@ Zeke – The Bridge On The River Kwai [1957]. James Donald is the actor saying “Madness.”

By: Zeke

Zeke — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:40:43 +0000

Speaking of the trainwreck, you seem the sort of people who would know… what’s the source of that clip with the train crashing and the guy going “Madness!”?