TV Squad’s Annie Wu makes a pilgrimage to ‘The Colbert Report’

I love it when fans who also happen to be prominent writers in the blogosphere make it to the show. I’ve been a fan and regular reader of Annie Wu’s since I first started blogging about The Colbert Report, and we’ve quoted her and linked to her stories on a fairly regular basis here. I’m really glad she finally got to make it to the show. And she got to touch the desk! I know I saw a taping report of this on the Colboards (*waves at our Senior Junior Correspondent, Nicole*), so it’s interesting to see a different perspective of it all. You’ve GOT to go read the whole show recap, but here’s an excerpt.

The Colbert Report: Annie’s adventure
Or ‘How Annie Embarrassed Herself in Front of 100-Some Strangers, or In Which Annie Is Filled with More Self-Loathing Than Usual’, but more on that in a moment.
Posted Feb 14th 2008 11:02AM by Annie Wu

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I blame the hours of extreme cold for causing my naturally Floridian brain to short out and malfunction. My hand shot in the air and Colbert politely gestured to me. “Yes, young lady?” That’s when the verbal diarrhea started. I told him about my bad luck with the show and made an incredibly stupid and self-indulgent request, asking Colbert to dance, Strangers with Candy credits-style, with me. Yes, I asked that. As soon as the words tumbled out of my mouth, I thought, “Well. That was remarkably dumb, Annie. What in the hell is wrong with you?” I swear, I have absolutely no idea why I thought it would be okay for me to make that request. What Colbert should have done was tell me, “No. Go die in a fire” and then have several burly guards promptly carry me away. But he didn’t. Instead he (along with all the audience members and horrified crew members) stared at me for a moment and then asked the guy in the sound booth, “Do we have anything? Get me a dance mix.” As the sound guy tried to find something, Colbert said, “Obviously, we’re not prepared. We don’t normally do this…”

Some generic jock jam came on, I started dancing. With. Stephen. Colbert. I still can’t quite wrap my brain around it, but it actually happened. It was the most surreal fifteen seconds my life. Seriously, I’m still cringing over the fact that I lost my mind and asked him, but what truly and absolutely blows my mind is that he went along with it. When I sat down, completely flabbergasted and confused, I think I muttered a thank you of some sort and then he smiled and thanked me.

And I think it was right about then that my mind exploded and covered everyone and everything around me in a five foot radius. I am an idiot. Thinking back, I can’t believe I did that. It’s so completely out of character for anti-social me, I am still waiting to wake up from this bizarre dream. Or nightmare? I think it’s nightmare, because I still hate myself for letting my guard down and asking him. Don’t get me wrong, because it was totally awesome, but it was so inappropriate of me to ask and I still can’t figure out why I did it. It doesn’t seem like something I would ever do. Dare I ponder the possibility that my fangirliness managed to overpower my decent common sense? No, I dare not, because the thought scares me too much. Moving on.

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