‘I Am America (And So Can You!)’: Now Grammy-nominated
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Congratulations to Stephen Colbert, the authors of I Am America (And So Can You!), Hachette Audio and the artists involved in the audiobook for their Grammy nomination in the category of “Best Spoken Word Album”.
GRAMMY.com has posted this year’s full list of nominees here; here’s Stephen’s competition this year:
THE 51ST ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS NOMINATIONS LIST
For recordings released during the Eligibility Year
October 1, 2007 through September 30, 2008
Note: More or less than 5 nominations in a category is the result of ties.. . .
Category 79 Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Story Telling)
An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore)
Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon & Blair Underwood
[Simon & Schuster Audio]Born Standing Up
Steve Martin
[Simon & Schuster Audio]I Am America (And So Can You!)
Stephen Colbert (& Various Artists)
[Hachette Audio]Life Beyond Measure
Sidney Poitier
[HarperAudio]When You Are Engulfed In Flames
David Sedaris
[Hachette Audio]
Congratulations again, everyone, and best of luck on awards night!
Tip of the hat to Ty for the link!
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21 Comments
December 3rd, 2008 at 10:43 pm
that’s some tough competition, but what an honor to be among such an elite crowd! very impressive.
(although really, should I be surprised?)
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December 3rd, 2008 at 10:58 pm
delightful! yay stephen et. al.
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December 3rd, 2008 at 10:59 pm
but he is against sidyney poitier!! another legacy contender!! he can;t win.
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December 3rd, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Congratulations kids! It would be wonderful to win, but it’s a genuine honour even to be nominated. Good luck.
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December 3rd, 2008 at 11:15 pm
WHOO! This is awesome! Who’s honoring Stephen Colbert now? The MOTHEREFFING GRAMMY AWARDS nominating crew!!
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December 3rd, 2008 at 11:52 pm
ANOTHER AWARD NOMINATION!!!!!!! Man Stephen is great. It’s seems like he has almost every award and honors possible!!! I do hope we get to see him sing at the awards.
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December 3rd, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Oh wow, that’s too awesome! Congrats to them!
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December 3rd, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Great NEWS! Now he’ll have to show up to the awards in a tux, YAY, maybe he’ll be a presenter, maybe even sing “Cold Cold Christmas”…ah I can dream…
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December 3rd, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Too bad it isn’t for ‘Stephen and the Colberts’ but it’ll do for now, Charlene.
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December 4th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Emmy, check. Grammy, soon to be check. Oscar, where are you!?
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December 4th, 2008 at 12:27 am
I would just like to show a little David Sedaris love right now. *loves* :)
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December 4th, 2008 at 1:02 am
hear hear!!!
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December 4th, 2008 at 12:36 am
i’m surprised that this is the category; isn’t Colbert Christmas full of songs? none of the others are music albums..
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December 4th, 2008 at 12:55 am
GabbyD – this nom is for the audiobook of “I Am America, and So Can You”… not “A Colbert Christmas” We have to wait for next year for that nomination, I think.
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December 4th, 2008 at 2:38 am
oops. :) didn’t read the headline! TY!
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December 4th, 2008 at 12:57 am
Wasn’t Paul Dinello the producer? Surly we should send congrats to him as well!
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December 4th, 2008 at 4:29 am
Nicely done, sir.
And yay for David <3
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December 4th, 2008 at 7:05 am
Congratulations, Stephen Colbert (& Various Artists)!!! This is so awesome.
It reminds me of the discussion Stephen and John Legend had on TCR about John’s Grammy. Hopefully, after Grammy Awards night, people can say “Hey, spoken word” to Stephen. :-)
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December 4th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Yeeeeyyy! Congratulations to everyone who worked on the audio book! I can almost hear it now…
*grabby hand* Grammy please!
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