‘Colbert Report’ Body Count Death Watch

I honestly can’t remember, but to the best of my recollection, it was a straight up riff on the final scene of Se7en … so, I guess that would have made it Bobby’s wife’s head, right?

Edited to add: See, this is what happens when I don’t get sleep: I get stupid. Thanks, ScottNak and Ann G. (below), for setting me straight!

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ScottNak
May 8th, 2008 at 3:07 am

Wasn’t it some celebrity who kept complaining (about Bush?) too much?
For some reason Zellwegger comes to mind right away, but I’m not exactly sure why. That and I’m kinda tired. *yawn*

You mean the box on one of the shelves on the set? At the taping I attended a couple of weeks ago, one of the questions from the audience was “What’s in that box marked ‘fragile’? And Stephen immediately replied, “Gwyneth Paltrow’s head.”

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Ah, the combination of Ann G. and ScottNak are right; Stephen added the box to his shelf after a Portuguese newspaper reported that Gwyneth Paltrow made a statement about the British being “more intelligent and civilized than Americans” (she later said she didn’t mean that and had been mistranslated).

The segment is here, if you’d like to watch again.

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AmandaIvy
May 8th, 2008 at 11:52 am

Thanks for the link Ms I! I hadn’t seen that before.

Judging by Bobby’s panic though, it seems that he may just have a few more deaths under his belt that we don’t know about.

reCAPTCHA: Murphy’s tectives… as opposed to detectives? And who’s Murphy?

One of the Heroes
May 8th, 2008 at 6:55 pm

Thanks for the link. I hadn’t seen that clip before. Poor Bobby. If only he had known what Stephen would do to him in the future…Maybe he could have survived. :-)

ScottNak
May 8th, 2008 at 8:42 pm

Ahh.. Close close. Memory still not up to tip top shape yet…

DB
May 8th, 2008 at 10:41 pm

I can’t believe you found that vid! I looked for it SO HARD after Bobby left to put it as a tribute. It’s my favorite appearance of Bobby ever.

See above, I added a link. :)

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Heh. I’m thinking “Homero” will be okay, too, don’t you think? ;)

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Craig Kilborn. He was the host of The Daily Show before Jon Stewart took over – jeez, I think I’ve watched TDS from the start.

So TDS became popular, I guess there were some problems, and Kilborn left to become rich and famous on his own. Or so he thought.

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rebnej
May 8th, 2008 at 11:34 am

“jeez, I think I’ve watched TDS from the start”

Don’t worry — I’m sure you’re not alone. I didn’t start watching from the very beginning in 1996 (at the time I was living in a small town in northern Minnesota that didn’t get Comedy Central), but I’ve been watching off-and-on since 1998, well before Jon Stewart took over and Craig left to host The Late, Late Show on CBS.

OOPS! That should have read Craig Kilborn… and after all that v-vs-ph agony, too.

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Lol. I was impressed that I knew how to spell the word “scythe”. But I suppose I have to credit that to being the editor-in-chief of my high school newspaper my senior year. (haha, a whole year ago.)

I did have Photoshop CS, but then I got a new computer and somewhere in the process I lost the disc along with the registration codes and everything and I just haven’t gotten around to getting another copy, due to lack of funds from being a poor college kid. (I wasn’t that good at using it for anything but editing photos anyway– again, from being on the newspaper staff. It’s imprinted things into my very soul.)

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