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!
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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delightful! yay stephen et. al.
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but he is against sidyney poitier!! another legacy contender!! he can;t win.
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Congratulations kids! It would be wonderful to win, but it’s a genuine honour even to be nominated. Good luck.
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WHOO! This is awesome! Who’s honoring Stephen Colbert now? The MOTHEREFFING GRAMMY AWARDS nominating crew!!
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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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Oh wow, that’s too awesome! Congrats to them!
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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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Too bad it isn’t for ‘Stephen and the Colberts’ but it’ll do for now, Charlene.
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Emmy, check. Grammy, soon to be check. Oscar, where are you!?
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I would just like to show a little David Sedaris love right now. *loves* :)
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hear hear!!!
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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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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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oops. :) didn’t read the headline! TY!
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Wasn’t Paul Dinello the producer? Surly we should send congrats to him as well!
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Nicely done, sir.
And yay for David <3
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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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Yeeeeyyy! Congratulations to everyone who worked on the audio book! I can almost hear it now…
*grabby hand* Grammy please!
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