Comments on: Episode 5139 (11/02/2009)

By: Mrs Colbert the 2nd

Mrs Colbert the 2nd — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:45:06 +0000

I was at that show & it was just totally AWESOME!!!!!

By: Roseha

Roseha — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:39 +0000

It was a very fun show, I still can’t get over that the Nation is going to be sponsoring the Olympic Speed Skating team. Good for you Stephen! Had to be my favorite part.

But on a shallow note, I loved the hair too. Let’s throw away the gel stuff.

By: SpiritMuse

SpiritMuse — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:56:56 +0000

I loved the episode, as a Dutchwoman I loved his hilarious attempts at pronouncing our language, though the language student in me desperately wants to teach him to speak it correctly!

reCaptcha: muckiest myth :D

By: laughing at nothing

laughing at nothing — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:49:20 +0000

No I’m on Team Buzzcut with you, both for the look and for its endless goofy-cute grow out. Hi, fellow minority!

By: ColbertGirl27

ColbertGirl27 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:10:32 +0000

Oh good. I thought I was dense when I wasn’t able to find the speedskating link. Haha!

By: Michele

Michele — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:10:07 +0000

The breakfast bit with the Ahhnold imitation was hilarious! And we have another worthy cause to support. :-)

My reCAPTCHA: none wackier LOL! Indeed!

By: lockhart43

lockhart43 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:53:19 +0000

My favorite thing about last night’s show would most definitely be his hair. Truth. It looks MAJESTIC. :D I loved the pinstripes and the tie as well.

And as much as I love The Sport Report and the fact that Colbert Nation is officially sponsoring a US Olympic team, the Arnold-Breakfast bit was HI-larious!

By: PriyaNoblet

PriyaNoblet — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:29:03 +0000

Holy. The Arnold-Breakfast thing was HILARIOUS. My favorite part, by far! Sooo funny. What would I do without you, Stephen?

By: wren

wren — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:21:26 +0000

Ooh, them’s fightin’ words! :) I do love the speed skating – I predict an especially entertaining Olympics.

Thanks for the background on DBS & Lakeman, too.

By: stefanie

stefanie — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:30:16 +0000

What a great show this was! Good to see that Stephen didn’t forget his conversational Dutch skills.

For those who want to know what the fragment from the Dutch TV actually said:
Mr. Lakeman: Banks can go bankrupt through filing for it, or …

They actually left out the relevant part, because a few seconds later Mr. Lakeman says that consumers should withdraw their funds from the DBS bank so that it would go bankrupt.
This was actually considered to be somewhat immoral because Mr. Lakeman is representing a group of consumers who have filed a lawsuit against DSB bank. DSB bank has sold insurance policies coupled with mortgages and neglected to tell consumers what the actual cost was of these policies. Now some of these consumers had filed a lawsuit against the bank because of this. Mr Lakeman conveniently forgot about all the people who had savings at the bank and its employees.
The bank had been under investigation because of this (and some other things) for some time, and Mr Lakeman sort of gave the final push. Even if the government had supported the bank, it would never have been financially viable, because of their inherently faulty business model. They however did make millions upon millions from these policies.

Also, good to see that the Colbert Nation will be supporting your national ice skating team. I am not sure if the Colbert bump will help the ice skaters much since we Dutch have some awesome skaters. If you do not know the name Sven Kramer now, you will most certainly know it after the Olympics!