Comments on: Doritos receives the Colbert Bump

By: stellar_dust

stellar_dust — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:11:51 +0000

“John Edwards, then a real-life candidate…”

LOL! Poor Edwards. XD

By: zonkuya

zonkuya — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:41:25 +0000

They had writers at the time so I’m not ashamed to say it, but I watched Colbert’s campaign on CC and remember being bombarded by the Doritos Missy Elliot dual-flavored ad, so maybe it would be fair to say that D sponsors the show, and indirectly, his campaign too? :)

By: EvilDevil

EvilDevil — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:36:26 +0000

yup, free publicity

By: Jennie

Jennie — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:04:53 +0000

@WWG – That’s the first thing I thought of when I read this….
but didn’t Stephen say somewhere (in a book signing Q/A or something back in November) that Doritos weren’t sponsors and in fact were surprised when he asked them if he could joke that they were sponsoring his campaign. I think the whole punchline was they got all that publicity for free.

Am I remembering the story correctly?

By: WordsWithGrace

WordsWithGrace — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:44:04 +0000

So Pepsi really is a sponsor of the show!

(Re Stephen’s comments to Tim Harford on last Thursday’s show — “You just said that straight sex is Coke and oral sex is Pepsi. That’s what you just said. And you’re saying right now that the young people are the Pepsi generation. And I’m not sure, I am really not sure which one of them is our sponsor, but I’d like to apologize to one of them.”)

By: MadMoll

MadMoll — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:48:28 +0000

mmm crunchy doritos… nacho cheese… mmm

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:45:00 +0000

LOL! The phrase “crunch money” still cracks me up.

By: zonkbert

zonkbert — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:06:12 +0000

Stephen definitely convinced me of the goodness of Doritos, who helped him campaign. Well, at least enough to see for myself if I would also produce bright orange waste and see if I could rebuy it. :)