Stephen Colbert in the Zeitgeist

Good evening, Zoners! It’s been an insanely busy (and an insanely fun!) weekend here at No Fact Zone with all of the wonderful news and pictures from the Second City performance last night. However, lest we forget, Stephen Colbert is all over the internet tubes, so here’s a big ol’ handful of links to carry you through the rest of the weekend! We’ve got spoilers, Best Ofs, and a big wad of Gratuitous Name Droppings for your pleasure.

Best of the 00′s lists

• The Lamcron, the student newspaper at Geneso, says that Stephen Colbert is the best TV character of the decade.
• Jon Stewart is winning the Huffington Post 35 Funniest People of the ’00′s poll – and Stephen Colbert is currently #3. You know what to do, Nation.
• The ‘Colbert Report’ won a poll forBest Product Placement of the Decade, conducted by AdweekMedia.
• Boston.com’s Matthew Gilbert Declares Truthiness as one of the decade’s best TV moments.
• The Palm Beach post names the ‘Colbert Report’ as the #8 show of the decade.

Second City 50th Anniversary

• Time Out Chicago blogged an excellent recap of the entire evening’s events.
• Our very own Zoner Chloe was lucky enough to meet a huge handful of people most of you will recognize (Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, Greg Hollimon, Mitch Rouse, David Pasquesi, Steve Carell) as well as attend the Second City ‘Colbert Report’ panel, and has a fangirl’s dream photo album to prove it.

WARNING: HERE BE SPOILERS!!

• Macon Councilman Erick Erickson is a bit nervous about his upcoming appearance on the ‘Colbert Report’.
• The Plainfield Curling Clubis getting seriously excited about the Curling segment – mostly because it was filmed at their location. But who knew curlers were also a huge part of the Colbert Nation demographic?
• According to the New York Times, Stephen Colbert is going to be in a Flip commercial.

Who’s Paying for Honoring Stephen Now?

• Apparently it costs a lot of money to honor Stephen Colbert in Oshawa.

Gratuitious Name Droppings

• The USA Today (and presumably enquiring minds) want to know: Where is Stephen Colbert?
• What’s the voice that Carly Simon would love to hear when she’s dying? Um, Stephen Colbert? Singing?
• Yellow Tail wine has a contest to name their new wine. Dailyfinance sees this as a move that could definitely backfire. Two words – NASA treadmill. (Okay, that’s one word and one acronymn. Don’t judge me.)
• According to BNET, the Miracle Whip “Don’t Be So Mayo” campaign was the 6th worst of the year, until Stephen Colbert rescued it.

h/t Katt, Roland. Jennie, and ImOldFashioned