EPISODE NUMBER: 5110 (August 12, 2009)
GUEST: Mark Johnson,
SEGMENTS: American Sacrifice; Who’s Not Honoring Me Now?; Formidable Opponent: Health Care
VIDEOS: Wednesday, August 12, 2009
A show full of win:
Sweetness! Formidable Opponent! Grandpa Elliot!
Great to see Stephen doing his part to safe the environment – sacrificing his iPod to the Virginia fringed mountain snail. And such thoughtful tune selections. But, for promoting species fecundity, ‘Let’s Get It On’ is automatically disqualified because of its association to the movie High Fidelity . Any suggestions from The Zoners??
I have to admit that Stephen’s relationship with his ‘holster honey’ Sweetness started to get a little uncomfortable, but the picture from the delivery room had me laughing out loud. So did the explanation of the Teen Choice nomination process… and apparently Stephen thought it was pretty funny too. If you watch the youtube vids of Joe getting his hair cut, you may identify with some of the reactions from those watching. Is Mike Tyson going to be booked on the show someday soon???
Be sure to check out the Playing For Change website for more about Mark Johnson, the project, their dvd, cd, and links to more Grandpa Elliot and other performances.
Below are just a few of my favorite lines from the show – please add yours in the comments and don’t forget to vote in the poll!
- If the Roman Empire had all you people, we’d all still be speaking Latin.
- I’m not sure where anybody got that idea, and I’m not willing to expend any energy finding out.
- For most Americans, giving up an iPod is like cutting off an arm – an arm that plays music!
- That’s more of a strategy to get them off the endangered species list.
- That same intelligence also reported that Iraqi basketball hoops were 4 feet high.
- Before 1997′s Deep Impact, no one dared hope that a Black man could be President in such a terrible movie.
- When Katie Couric asked her what newspaper she read, she should have answered, “The Glock 9mm Herald Tribune.”
- Now we know that neither one of us is shooting blanks – I just need to find a doctor willing to deliver the baby.
- …’The Teen Choice Awards’ which lets teens celebrate any Disney product they choose.
- Tweens just love her stories of regretting sex you had while blitzed on Alabama Slammers.
- This, on top of my idea of being an adorable heart throb!
- Mike Tyson – if I ever see you face to face, I’m going to f**k you up!
- That man is either really upset about the bill or voicing his support for Congresswoman Carol B. Bull$^!%.
- It’s freedom of speech, not freedom of listen.
- Don’t you dare play the reasonable card!
- Why else would Paula Abdul leave ‘Idol’? She is obviously going to be on the panel of Fox’s new “So You Think You Can Live”.
- That looked a lot like you to me.
- You’re not crazy. You’re a Fascist.
- What does “all over the world” mean? Like here and Canada?
- Stephen: That’s why the Jonas Brothers are great musicians and, you know, Steve Earl sucks. Because he doesn’t make a lot of money.
- Mark: Well, fortunately, you can’t autotune soul.
- Stephen:Have you listened to Kanye?
UPDATE: If you missed the original broadcast last night Comedy Central has included the “director’s cut” of the Formidable Opponent segment featuring the 3rd Stephen disrupting anything he can. Check it out around the 3:45 mark. It’s Raining men, indeed.
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Wow, best performance yet? I don’t mind giving up an interview for something that good.
Poor formidable opponent, but back on form.
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Sweetness is pregnant?! Haha. Stephen, you are insane:)Definitely put my vote down for Sweetness, but yes Jennie, it was a little uncomfortable.
Loved Grandpa Elliot as well!
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Sweetness and Formidable Opponent? I am in heaven…THREE Stephens during that sement?! And gratuitious Burger King pandering [though, I watched this morning and it was cut out due to a different commercial being shown]. But…Sweetness seems a little promiscous. Perhaps she will start speaking out for abstinence only education. ;)
I thought it was all-around a fun, silly show. Stephen is definitely my fav TV adorable heartthrob!
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So sad that they had to cut that — it’s not on the Hulu version, either. Man, I wish they could have preserved that moment somehow; it was totally brilliant, and possibly my biggest laugh of the show.
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Could you tell those of us who don’t get to see the original broadcast what happened??
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Immediately following the Formidable Opponent segment (and the two “Stephens” telling the third that they had to go to commercial), Comedy Central cut away from The Report and began showing a Burger King ad for Whoppers. But the third Stephen continued his protest in a small oval that ran in the lower left hand corner of the screen throughout the whole commercial — he heckled and responded to everything that was said in the ad until, just before it ended, he discovered he had an intense desire for a Whopper, and the oval dropped off the picture. The rest of the commercials aired normally.
It was totally brilliant — like a MST3K or Rocky Horror Picture Show broadcast, where the only heckler was Stephen Colbert!
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OMG – I just checked out Comedy Central and they’ve added it to the clip for formidable opponent and in the full episode.
It wasn’t there when they first posted it this morning. Too funny!
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I wonder if they’re going to keep running with this Sweetness thing and actually produce a “baby” gun in the future.
I assume Stephen and Sweetness followed their engagement with marriage already. Wouldn’t want a baby produced out of wedglock. *ducks*
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I’m wondering if it was a shotgun wedding.
(Thank you, I’m here all week…)
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HAHA! You guys are awesome. How I love my fellow Zoners. From wit to corn!
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It’s awesome that they included the BK commerical. It had me dying of laughter. They need to air all the commericals like that. I would watch them.
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My vote goes to Grandpa Elliot. He was a wonderful antidote to all of that shouting at the Town Hall.
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I found the juxtaposition of Stand By Me and the discussion of the Town Hall screaming to be subtle, but tremendously striking.
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Stephen is an adorable heartthrob. It needed to be said.
Sweetness!! I love Sweetness, but not in the totally inappropriate way that Stephen does. I didn’t find that segment uncomfortable at all. It was a big bowlful of wrong, but so, so funny. Who else would come up with something as insane and silly as a pregnant handgun?
Adding a third Stephen during Formidable Opponent was hilarious, and having him continue to rant during the Burger King commercial was genius. I love this show.
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Three Stephens!!! Yay!!!
Playing for Change gave me goosebumps. I’ve bookmarked the video to “Stand by Me” the very first time I saw it and I try to listen to it when I can.
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