Zoners! Here is what the schedule will look like for the meetings of the book club this week so you can think ahead if you’d like. Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not (Paperback – $11.16/Amazon) Day 1: Tuesday, May 26 Day 2: Thursday, May 28 I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence (Paperback [...]
Schedule for The Stephen T. Colbert Book Club for the Literary Excellence
May 24, 2009 By
Four Horsemen of the Apopcalypse – Pop culture references in The Colbert Report: May 18-21, 2009
May 22, 2009 By
Welcome to No Fact Zone’s weekly roundup of cultural references on The Colbert Report. From Darcy to Dangermouse, String Theory to Shakespeare, we’ve got the keys to this week’s obscure, oddball, and occasionally obscene cultural shout-outs (hey!). Hey Zoners! It’s the Supreme Court India-Minnesota Election free speech, torture, & ACLU edition of the Apopcalypse! This [...]
Episode 5071 (5/21/2009)
May 21, 2009 By
EPISODE NUMBER: 5071 (May 21, 2009) GUEST: Green Day SEGMENTS: Ida the missing link fossil, Shashi Tharoor gets the Colbert Bump, Formidable Opponent VIDEOS: Thursday, May 21, 2009 (Full access video) I always appreciate a high energy show right before a break, which we’ve got coming up next week. That call to India was about [...]
No Fact Zone wishes a fond and sad farewell to Mark Malkoff
May 21, 2009 By
For anyone who has made the pilgrimage to 513 W. 54th Street since “The Colbert Report” began, one of your most memorable moments probably involved meeting Mark Malkoff, the audience coordinator for the show. Mark’s primary job was to make sure that the audience was pumped up and ready to live the Colbert experience, to [...]
Tek Jansen #5 available NOW!
May 21, 2009 By
Make sure to schedule some times really soon to head out to your local comic book store – the last of the Tek Jansen comic book series is now available! According to Randal C. Jarrell, managing editor of Oni Press, the five book series will also be available as a hardback edition at some point [...]
Highlights from Stephen Colbert’s Late Show with David Letterman appearance
May 21, 2009 By
Snippets from last night’s Late Show are starting to appear around “the internets”, and we know people here would like us to share them. Click here or on the image below to go to the official highlight clip from CBS: The same video is available from Videogum here, if the CBS version doesn’t work for [...]
Episode 5070 (5/20/2009)
May 20, 2009 By
EPISODE NUMBER: 5070 (May 20, 2009) GUEST: Seth Shostak SEGMENTS: John Yoo, Bob Graham, DonorsChoose.org VIDEOS: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 (Full access video) Oh, I needed a good laugh, and tonight was full of them. The mental image of Stephen trying to pack with a blog is just funny. I liked Bob Graham’s appearance, if [...]
The Washington Times scares the crap out of the Colbert Nation
May 20, 2009 By
Okay, seriously? Do we have to go there, Washington Times? We’re already nervous enough. USO adapts to changing needs of troops It’s high-tech for trenches By Jillian Badanes (Contact) | Thursday, May 21, 2009 As the battlefield has been transformed by 21st-century warfare, so has the USO. An organization that once offered only camp shows [...]
Six Degrees – Paul Dinello to perform with Janeane Garofalo at 92YTribeca tomorrow
May 20, 2009 By
I can’t believe we didn’t blog about this sooner. Live shows by Paul Dinello are rare as can be, and this one is friggin’ TOMORROW NIGHT! In New York! Oh, I’m so jealous of all of you who get to make this show! Comedy Below Canal™: Janeane Garofalo and Friends with Lee Camp, Paul Dinello, [...]
Spoiler Alert! Colbert on Letterman – Colbert vs Branson
May 20, 2009 By
If you can’t wait the 30 minutes until “Late Show with David Letterman” comes on, click on the picture below to go to a Sneak Peek clip of Stephen Colbert on Letterman tonight! And don’t forget to come back to No Fact Zone to talk about all the Letterman-y goodness after the show airs!