Before we go, let’s check in with our good friend Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report… Greetings, Zoners, and happy Independence Day to our American Zoners (a day early). This week in Tosses, we revisited a rather familiar theme — Jon wants to do the Toss, but Stephen is too busy: Daily/Colbert – Stephen Is [...]
Mark Malkoff becomes Guinness World Record holder
July 3, 2009 By
Congrats to friend of the blog Mark Malkoff, who just finished his one-month adventure living on an AirTran plane. Through his trips, he managed to snag the Guinness World Record of flights taken in a 30-day period – 134! That is so amazingly cool. Not as cool as having his picture on the side of [...]
Episode 5091 (7/2/2009)
July 3, 2009 By
EPISODE NUMBER: 5091 (July 2, 2009) GUEST: Ed Viesturs SEGMENTS: The WØRD: Ban de Soleil, Colbert Report ReReport – Lost Treasures of Babylon VIDEOS: Thursday, July 2, 2009 What a wonderfully funny show to send us off towards a week of reruns! Did anyone notice that Stephen had a full head of hair when he [...]
BKAD Spoiler – Colorado’s Fightin’ 2nd to be better known
July 2, 2009 By
The Bay Area Reporter Online is reporting that Representative Jared Polis (D- Colorado) may soon be featured in a Better Know A District segment of ‘The Colbert Report’. The freshman congressman is the first openly gay non-incumbent elected to Congress. Those wishing to see Polis may have the chance to catch his comedic side on [...]
Episode 5090 (7/1/2009)
July 2, 2009 By
EPISODE NUMBER: 5090 (July 1, 2009) GUEST: Nicholas Kristof SEGMENTS: Tip of the Hat/Wag of the Finger; Judge, Jury and Executioner VIDEOS: Wenesday, July 1, 2009 This week’s shows have been so solid! Tonight’s show was chuck full of some amazing satire. Loved Stephen’s bringing up of “Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot“. I [...]
Klassic Kolbert: Daily Show Edition – Patriotism
July 1, 2009 By
Hello all! With the Fourth of July coming up this Saturday, I thought I would do a patriotic Klassic Kolbert for this week. In this video, we find ultra-patriot Stephen Colbert looking down on lesser patriots such as veterans and the Smithsonian in his longstanding segment America: Love it or Shove it. American Flag – [...]
Klassic Kolbert: ‘The Al Franken Show’, featuring Stephen Colbert
July 1, 2009 By
Huzzah! The interminable 2008 Senate election in Minnesota has finally been decided, and we’ll soon be able to address Al Franken as Senator Al Franken. In honor of the occasion, I’m going to repost an old interview with Stephen Colbert from The Al Franken Show, co-hosted by Katherine Lanpher (we originally posted it here). I [...]
Episode 5089 (6/30/2009)
July 1, 2009 By
EPISODE NUMBER: 5089 (June 30, 2009) GUEST: Alexi Lalas, Kevin Mattson SEGMENTS: War on the 4th of July, Is it time to care about soccer? VIDEOS: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Just a quick reminder to the Zoners – let’s do our best to keep our Episode Guide comments on-topic. We only have one thread to [...]