All You Need to Know: 9/2/2007 Edition

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We’re halfway through the two-week break, everybody! Pat yourself on the back for making it this far, and settle in to take a look at everything we’ve posted this past week.

The next couple of months are going to be chock-full of new episodes, Stephen’s appearances outside of the Report studio, a best-of DVD, and – in just over a month – the arrival of one very patriotic book.

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Win ‘I Am America (And So Can You!)’ Blads:

• You’ve got just enough time to enter the contest at Colbert University before it ends on September 3rd! Official contest rules are here.

Stephen’s Just-Announced Upcoming Appearances:

• Stephen will perform at Cornell University on October 26. Tickets go on sale to the public on September 12!
• The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced that Stephen will be a presenter at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards. Catch the Emmys on Fox this Sunday, Sept. 16 at 8pm.
• Stephen will open the 2007 Quill Awards on Saturday, October 27. The ceremony will be broadcast on NBC.

News and Previews of I Am America (And So Can You!):

• The “I Am America (And So Can You!)” audiobook will include a star-studded guest reader list.
• Sneak a listen to actual clips from the audio book!
• The September 3rd edition of ‘Publisher’s Weekly’ will feature a Q&A with Stephen about the writing of the book.

Amazon.com Loves Stephen

• Pre-order ‘I Am America (And So Can You!), released on October 9, 2007.
• Pre-order the ‘I Am America (And So Can You!)’ audiobook, released on October 9, 2007.
• And last but not least, pre-order the ‘Best of ‘The Colbert Report” DVD, released on November 8, 2007.

Is This the Beginning of ‘WristGate’?

• The New York Times wonders why ABC’s Charles Gibson wouldn’t sign Stephen’s cast.
• Rachel Sklar of the Huffington Post discusses ‘WristGate’ and provides Charles Gibson’s alibi.

We’re Going to Get Through This Break One Video Clip at a Time:

• Vacation Quick Fixes:
• Stephen tells Jon about his Miami Mancation.
• Last year, Stephen spent a wild two weeks in Wyoming.
• Stephen’s 2006 advice to Republicans on how to deal with sex scandals is still relevant today.
• A rare clip find – Stephen and Jon discuss the Singing Senators on ‘The Daily Show’ in 2001. Priceless.
• And just a few days ago, Stephen informed Jon that his new policy advisor would start work on September 1st.
• Metaphor us off into the end of summer: Stephen and Sean Penn face off in the Meta-Free-Phor All this past April.
• Klassic Kolbert:
• A February 2005 interview of Stephen on the ‘Al Franken Show.’
• Stephen co-hosts “The Majority Report” in 2004.

Colbert Nation Mobilizes Again for AskMen.com’s 49 Men of the Year 2007:

• Over 100 candidates… and only 49 will be named. Vote today to make Stephen ’2007′s No. 1 Man’s Man’!.

Stephen Colbert’s Guests Never Forget Their First Time (on ‘The Colbert Report’):

• Michael Shermer of the Skeptics Society blogs about his interview on the 8/21/2007 episode of ‘The Colbert Report’.
• Richard Branson forgave Stephen (for what, exactly?) as soon as he dried off after his interview.

Mind Your Stance in the Zeitgeist Stall:

• Zeitgeist for August 27, 2007
• Zeitgeist for August 30, 2007
• Zeitgeist for September 1, 2007

Six Degrees of Stephen Colbert:

• The ColbertCon blog has an exclusive interview with Greg Hollimon, otherwise known as Principal Onyx Blackman from “Strangers With Candy”.
• Amy Sedaris’s September 8 visit to the Bookmarks Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, will include a cooking and craft demonstration.