Comments on: Episode 4024 (2/14/2008)

By: Yeti

Yeti — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:11:26 +0000

Wow! What a great show!
Too bad I only saw it yesterday evening. Had I known how great this was, I would have watched right after it was available!
Anyway, I want to be “auf Nachricht” too!!! Hehe. (It’s not even “on air”, doesn’t make keinen Sinn at all)
From now I shall call him Stefan Kolbär!

Although I don’t like Herrn Pocher very much, they could have gotten better footage than the Scooter bit. It is kind of funny but referential and just makes him look like a maniac if you don’t know Scooter. But then again, if the writers use Babelfish and YouTube Search … would be really interesting to see if they pick it up on “Schmidt & Pocher” (which I boycot, BTW).

By: looped linear

looped linear — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:48:54 +0000

That was a good show, and the Nimoy interview was interesting. But the *very* large size models he used reminded me of a line on 30 Rock.

An onscreen female had gained ten or fifteen pounds, and she was told to lose twenty pounds, or gain a hundred, because nothing in between was ok on tv (for women).

It might have been more radically daring to show truly average sized women as beautiful. You know, the ones who buy up all the size 8 shoes and the size 14 clothes?

And I’m glad the show’s taking a break; Colbert’s got to be purt near burnt to the bone.

By: barenjager

barenjager — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:42:43 +0000

Colbert has books about Matisse and DuChamp on his set. I saw them at Wonkyear a long time ago and made a big deal out of it over on the colboard.

Just thought I’d share.

By: One of the Heroes

One of the Heroes — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:55:54 +0000

@Ben
An international fake feud? Yes! That would be great.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:07:50 +0000

Oliver Pocher should be “Auf dem Kiker” this is a correct translation for his on notice board. Maybe he is going to react in his own show, which he is co-hosting with the german “Letterman”.

By: IAMmissAMERICA

IAMmissAMERICA — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:02:20 +0000

Mein Vaterland on notice?!?! Der Anschluß was only the beginning, Frenchboy! Die Deutschen people will now call you Kölbert!!

By: DB

DB — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:18:42 +0000

@Thingol:

I’d be willing to bet that Stephen’s writers went to Babelfish and got the same translation I did when I went to Babelfish. That’s my guess.

By: Thingol of Germany

Thingol of Germany — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:15:36 +0000

“Oliver Pocher, Sie sind auf Nachricht.” does not mean “Oliver Pocher you’re on notice”. It means something like “Oliver Pocher, you’re on air”.
“Oliver Pocher, Sie werden beobachtet” sounds better.

beobachten –> to observe, to notice…

Stephens German sounds like episode of the simpsons “Mr Burns verkaufen der Kraftwerk”. :D

By: Arguman

Arguman — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:38:33 +0000

It’s not “Sy Young”, but “Cy Young”

By: One of the Heroes

One of the Heroes — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:37:55 +0000

The Nimoy interview was great. The rythmn of the interview was perfect and I liked the fact that Stephen didn’t take the easy way out and make make Star Trek jokes or fat jokes. I think other late night hosts might have fallen into this trap.

Hearing Stephen’s purposeful mispronunciation of Matisse’s name reminded me of my college days. My friends and I would sometimes do the same thing when we were studying for exams and wanted to make it less stressful. If we felt really “ballsy” we would mispronounce things in class so that it would drive the professor crazy.

Leonard Nimoy clearly enjoyed doing the show so maybe he will be back another time.

This was one of the best failed joke ad libs I have seen on any of the late night shows: “Hey, there are other shows to watch right now. I’m not making you stay.” :-)

I love the Destroying America segments. I hope they keep coming!