Stephen Colbert in the zeitgeist: End of Tull-vember edition

As we rock ‘n roll into AC/DCember, here’s the zeitgeist for November 30, 2007.

EW ♥ Stephen.
Apparently this week’s Entertainment Weekly can’t get enough of Stephen Colbert – even if he wasn’t included in their “Top 25 Entertainers of the Year” article he does show up 3 times in the November 30, 2007 edition. H/t to Colbert University maestra WordsWithGrace for the tip and the scans and for the quote “Next year just put him on your cover, EW!!” Click on the thumbnails for larger views of the scans which are “magnifiable” and very readable – then buy the mag.

• That’s Stephen’s eyebrow in “Building a Bionic Entertainer”.
  
  
• The race to ‘Entertainer of the Year’ – Stephen made it past the Cast of ‘Heroes’, George Clooney, and Vanessa Williams but finally got stopped by the cast of ‘The Office’. In the end an author, of all people, won entertainer of the year. Was the wardrobe malfunction that entertaining?
  
• Finally, EW gives I Am America (And So Can You!) audio book an ‘A’ and makes it an “EW Pick” – just in time for the holidays!
  

Who’s watching ‘The Colbert Report’ now?
Well, at least, when it’s not on strike.

• WATCHING TV WITH THE CANDIDATES – The Nation: “One candidate who acknowledges a current-events addiction is Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who says he’s a big fan of Comedy Central’s fake news programs featuring Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Kucinich admits, as well, to tuning in the late-night talk shows to catch the latest jokes by Letterman and Leno about the candidate’s interactions with aliens.”
• Simon Schama on Colbert, Stewart And His New Vogue Column – Fishbowl NY: “The celebrated author of Rembrandt’s Eyes is a big fan of former South Carolina Presidential primary hopeful, Stephen Colbert, whom he finds ”an absolute scream…the nearest you get to Sacha [Baron Cohen] when he was Ali G. He and Stewart are the saving grace. But what they don’t do is the Hogarthian, nail-your-tongue-to-the-floor savagery that somehow survives in British television.””
• Three months with US military chaplains in Iraq and Afghanistan – The Christian Science Monitor: “Probably the most surreal incident in that connection was looking up at the TV at lunch one day to find Stephen Colbert arching an eyebrow, his irony garbled by the bad acoustics. The soldier at the end of my table was straining to hear and having better luck than I. But he wasn’t laughing.”

‘Bid 2 Beat Aids’ auction starts Saturday
This is the annual auction to raise money for LIFEbeat, the music industry’s AIDS fundraising and service charity. Word has it that autographed copies of ‘I Am America (And So Can You!)’ will be included in the auction.

• Read more about the auction here: “This year’s auction will begin on eBay at noon EST on December 1, 2007 (World AIDS Day). Because we have hundreds of items going up for bidding, they will be added over a period of two days. Each item will be up for auction for exactly ten days.”
• Instructions for bidding and registering can be found here.
• The items will be found here on eBay once the auction begins. Remember it will take a couple of days to list all the items, so keep checking back.

Edwards gets WristSTRONG
South Carolina’s Native Son receives the red bracelet! h/t to MsInterpreted for finding it.

• John Edwards gets a Wriststrong – YouTube: “My room mate and I decided to give Presidential Candidate John Edwards a Stephen Colbert Wriststrong bracelet when he visited our school. Here’s my room mate giving it to him.”

Six Degrees of Stephen Colbert
Our favorite Hungarian ambassador has a new job.

• Diplomat to join Korda Studios – Variety: “Former Hungarian ambassador to Washington, Andras Simonyi, has been appointed chairman of Korda Studios, the recently opened $125 million facility located just outside the Hungarian capital, Budapest, which just wrapped production on Universal’s “Hellboy 2.””

Gratuitous Name Dropping, Shout Outs, Quotes

• No pro-U.S. shift on Bush’s watch – Herald Tribune: “I read the piece several times, hoping that perhaps Joe Roche was channeling Stephen Colbert for our enjoyment during the writers’ strike. But I fear he is not.”
• Fashioning the perfect tux – Houston Chronicle: “The well-dressed 79-year-old has made thousands of tuxedos over his 60-year career, and his clients (through Brooks Brothers as well as private label and under his own name) include President Clinton, Patrick Ewing, Hugh Jackman, Stephen Colbert and former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell.”
• Paul believes in threat of North American superhighway – Los Angeles Times: “As alarms about NAFTA’s illusory highway have spread across the Web, the issue’s whiff of paranoia has ignited sparks of humor. Comedy Central mock commentator Stephen Colbert took up the issue earlier this year, saying the highway plan was real “because I got it from the Internet.” He added that “it’s a plan to make Canada, the U.S. and Mexico one country and force us to eat moose tacos.” “
• The Man From El Chuco: Interpreting Glenn Beck – Newspaper Tree: “It’s sad when the Stephen Colbert persona, a parody of guys like Beck, is less of a cartoon than the real deal.”