Klassic Kolbert: Revisiting Stephen Colbert on ‘The Daily Show’
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Since we’re in a hiatus week and there hasn’t been any Stephen-related news to speak of (AND we can visit The Daily Show’s website again!), it seems as good a time as any to celebrate some “Klassic Kolbert” moments. Today’s clips will focus on Stephen Colbert interacting with some of his former co-workers; much as I adore The Colbert Report, it’s hard to deny how delightful Stephen was in some of these old segments with Steve Carell and Jon Stewart. Since the “Prince Charles/banana” clip and most of the “Even Stevphen” segments (understandably) appear on most of these lists, I’ve tried to add in a few of the perhaps less obvious selections. There were so many to choose from, though, so I apologize in advance if I’ve omitted your favorite — I could easily have posted fifty of these!
1. April 3rd, 2001: U.S. Crewmen Held Prisoner
2. September 16th, 2003: Recall Recalled
3. October 1st, 2001: Inflection
4. October 10th, 2001: From U.S. (it helps if you watch the lead-in segment, Semi-Cas Airdrop, first; I just love Stephen’s interruption in the clip embedded below)
5. February 14th, 2005: The Gates
6. October 11th, 2001: Pitch (and the Moment of Zen from that night: Shirtless)
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16 Comments
February 18th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
thank you
whew
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February 18th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
None of those Motherload videos works for me, so… scavenger hunt!
1. http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=122235&title=u.s.-crewmen-held-prisoner
2. http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=108130&title=recall-recalled
3. http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=114315&title=inflection
4. http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=119033&title=from-u.s.
5. http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=128894&title=the-gates
6. http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=107806&title=pitch
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February 18th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Sorry, Olivia; I went back and edited the links into the original post.
MotherLoad always works fine for me (except for the occasional slowness), so I tend to forget that it’s so temperamental for a lot of people.
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February 18th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
“Until he had achieved ‘Not-Sandwich’”
So sexy with the goatee…
And I love the look on his face when he fondles the woman at the party. So boyish and mischevious.
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February 18th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
LOL! Thanks for the memories. Being a NY’er and having a WTF response to the installation at the time, this Gates segment is one of my all time faves, plus Stephen looks amazing in it w/ his goatee and the orange behind him.
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February 18th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
THANKS!!!!
Those three men are great together and it’s wonderful seeing Steve Carell again. I have missed him so much (due to the strike that just ended).
I have no idea how Colbert kept it together on the first clip when Carell was having his faux meltdown.
“Me love tit….That was not going for your face by the way” Very funny. I hadn’t seen that clip before.
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February 18th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Thanks for all these. I hadn’t seen some of those clips before.
I didn’t realize that Steve Carell could be so *hysterically* funny. Describe the torture….lol
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February 18th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
in that Gates video he looks sexy with a semi-beard ;)
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February 18th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=126547&title=drink-responsibly
This has always been one of my favorites.
The Moment of Zen from this ep was also pretty good.
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February 18th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
A couple more requests–the one in which Stephen gets Steve drunk in honor of spring break; another bit discussing how his father was a turd father and his grandfather was a goat ball licker (probably not a family-friendly thing to mention, but I’m quoting that last statement verbatim), in response to Obama saying his father was a goat farmer.
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February 18th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Hahahahaaaa! “I’m sorry, I’ve run out of crap.” *picks self up off floor*
@Fifi,
Great clip! I can’t even imagine how much fun the two of them had filming that piece. Would DIE to see a gag reel from that.
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February 19th, 2008 at 1:09 am
I love this place! It makes me so happy! :-)
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February 19th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Ahhh! The Ted Hitler video on the side! I haven’t seen that since it was originally on tv. I love how Jon absolutely cannot make eye contact with Stephen.
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February 20th, 2008 at 8:21 am
In the Gates one he looks sexy with that coat and sweater combo period. Woof.
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February 20th, 2008 at 8:39 am
does anyone remember WHY he had a semi-beard in the Gates clip?
(assuming there was any reason at all…)
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February 20th, 2008 at 8:53 am
@LeeQuick:
I think it was his attempt at looking “artsy.”
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