Batman may have ruled the box office, but Mamma Mia ruled my heart. This is The Colbert Report!”
Yes We Afhani-Can: “Tonight, Barack Obama embarks on a world tour. The media sold out in record time.”
- Barack Obama’s Elitist Summer Abroad
- John McCain’s Fiscally Responsible Staycation
Green Acher: “And, I get to better know a lobbyist for the Sierra Club. Only one human was harmed in the filming of this interview.”
- 4th installment of the 35,000 part series, Better Know A Lobbyist – The Environmental Lobby (“The Fightin’ Treehuggers”): Carl Pope – President of Sierra Club
Virginia Slams: “Plus, my guest, Senator Jim Webb has a new book called ‘A Time To Fight’. That will be in about [looks at watch] 17 minutes.”
- Jim Webb – Senator, Virginia
THE COLBERT BUMP – YOU’RE GETTING IT:
Jim Webb – A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America
In closing: “Well folks, that’s it for the show tonight, but I’ll be back tomorrow. The question is, will you? [Editor's note: Um, yeah.]”
Video Highlight:
Better Know a Lobby – Carl Pope
Stephen asks Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope if George W. Bush is a green president or the greenest president.
NOTABLE MOMENTS — Video links and more after the fold!
More Video Highlights, courtesy of Comedy Central’s Colbert Report website
- Full Episode Video – Monday July 21, 2008
- Intro – 7/21/08 : Barack Obama embarks on a world tour. The media sold out in record time.
- Barack Obama’s Elitist Summer Abroad : Let the mainstream media fawn all over Barack Obama, some of us have more exciting candidates to cover.
- Jim Webb : If Senator Jim Webb doesn’t want to be Barack Obama’s vice president, Stephen does.
NOTABLE MOMENTS
- New Intro Phrase: “Multi-Grain”
- Well, Nation, you’ve all heard the news, Jesus has returned to earth on a spaceship, cured cancer, and won the British open. Did no one hear about that? Well, maybe it’s because Barack Obama decided to go backpacking overseas with a couple of his friends. You probably know his friends by their professional names, The Entire Media.
- And now Obama’s cheating by visiting Iraq.
- Huh, a 3-pointer. No man to man coverage, no boxing out? No pushing your man out of a low post? All of this proves Obama is weak on defense.
- Oh, but then people might think I’m Chris Wallace. *shudder* It’s not worth the risk.
- More exciting candidates to cover … [video of McCain sleeping] Damn it!
- And it is time the media start trumpeting McCain’s exciting story – he is old and no one likes him.
- Hi everybody, I’m Chris Wall …[throws up a little in his own mouth]
- When I started this show, I vowed to interview the most powerful people in Washington. To practice, I interviewed congressmen.
- The Sierra Club works to defend bills like the 1972 Clean Water act which I believe requires Berkley grad students to dump out their bongs.
- But the Sierra Club’s not just about trying to make me stop blow drying my grapes … [a bit of a character break] That’s a metaphor.
- Their first initiative – The Plumber’s Crack Tree Planting Program
- From the Better Know a Lobby segment:
- Pope: You like to breathe, right? Stephen: [breathes in and out, in and out] Yes.
- Good God, that AquaNet shower!!
- Stephen: You know what I really like drinking, though, is that Bud Light with lime. It’s fantastic. It’s like Zima that they left brown.
- Stephen: Ever gone all the way with a tree? Okay, thought you were a free thinker.
- Stephen: My footprint is huge. You know what that means.
- Stephen: Carabou, Kangaroo … that’s why it rhymes
- HAHAHA! The Polar Bear Puppet!
- From the Sen. Jim Webb interview:
- Webb: I don’t think that I’m actually known for a temper … Stephen: You will after this interview, believe you me. That’s the rumor I’m spreading tonight.
- Stephen: Why haven’t lobbyists had more of a voice in our government?
- Stephen: This is your ninth book, I don’t think I’ve read nine books. How do you find time in the Senate to write books? I wrote a book this year while I was doing this show and by the end of it, I was bleeding out of every hole in my body. And I had, like, 90 people helping me. You claim to write these yourself. Where does the energy come from? Webb: I actually do write my own books, which is not always the case in Washington, as you know. But I’ve written for a living all my life, so writing is much a part of me as working out, and everything else. And this is one that … [reacts to someone laughing at the working out comment] Stephen: I believe you work out, I can imagine you’re hot underneath all that, just 8-pack.
Fangirl Suit Report: Dark navy suit, light blue dress shirt with barrel cuffs, Yellow tie with diagonal pattern.
“President Bush Have A Hot Dog With Me” is finally gone!!!
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Megan, I was excited to see that too!
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Aw man, I didn’t even notice today! I was getting tired of the hot dog thing, though; I thought for sure it’d be gone when they came back from break, and then it wasn’t. They changed it for Rush, but, well, that was just for Rush.
But yeah. Exciting!
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yeah, i saw that!
I was getting a little tired of that.
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I loved this quote from the interview with Carl Pope: “Thank you for flying 2,580 and emitting 2 tons of carbon to come talk to me today.” Nailed!
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I liked that too. The entire segment was awesome!
The fightin’ tree huggers. Bud Light with Lime. hahaha! It was all so funny.
I don’t know how they could breathe with all that hairspray in the air.
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Polar Bear: I will feast on your flesh!
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http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo/the_dark_knight_tops_box_office
The same joke! Weird.
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In the writer’s defense, it *is* kind of an obvious joke. Now, if they REALLY wanted to be cutting edge, the joke would have been “Batman may have ruled the box office, but Dr. Horrible ruled my heart.” Then ones of people in his audience would have gotten the joke.
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I have watched Dr. Horrible four times. I definitely would have gotten the joke.
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Oh, I’ve been singing Dr. Horrible songs all week. “If you’re not a friggin’ tard you will prevail!!!!!”
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yeah, it is kind of an obvious joke. but if i were the one writing it, personally i would’ve chosen ‘space chimps.’
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the song for John McCain’s Fiscally Responsible Staycation sounded so fun.
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yay, thanks for the episode guide. my hotel does not have CC booooo. but anyway I read this all down so I am not out of the loop for TCR jokes tomorrow!
also, tho I’ll def get more into it later on in the week, I went to the evening with TDS & friends at Comix last night and it was truly excellent. everyone was hilarious and it was so COOL to see Wyatt Cenac and John Oliver in person AND being funny. so this made up for me missing TCR.
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