Spoiler alert: ‘Colbert Report’ purchases “Escape from Berkeley” rights
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Hey, gang! I know I’ve been all but MIA on the site lately, but it’s not because I don’t love you any longer. It’s just this pesky work thing, you see … I’m trying to get through it all so I can catch up with everything else (there are a number of “Six Degrees” items in my inbox just waiting to see the light of day).
For now, though, here’s some news on a potential segment in our Colbert Report future. From The Daily Clog (UC Berkeley, internal links omitted):
Colbert Report’ Purchased Rights to Daily Cal Video
Posted by Christine Borden on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 11:56 am. . .
Earlier today, the Daily Cal’s editor-in-chief Bryan Thomas confirmed through email:
The Colbert Report has purchased rights to run one of our videos tonight, produced by our very own Tess Townsend.
The video in question is about Escape from Berkeley, a race from Berkeley to Las Vegas sans petroleum. If “The Colbert Report” shows the video tonight, we’ll try to update as soon as we can with the clip.
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I don’t know about all of you, but “Stephen Colbert” + “Berkeley” sounds like fun to me!
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October 15th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
I just love that they’re calling it “Escape from Berkeley.”
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October 15th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Please come here and cure our bear problem. :D
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October 15th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
From the blog:
“…but at least they’re impressed enough to buy our video? Or they just find something to mock.”
It’s a video from UC Berkeley promoting alternative fuel sources. What part of that could Stephen possibly mock? ;)
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October 16th, 2008 at 12:54 am
I loved it. Totally mockable.
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