All You Need To Know: Week of February 28 – March 6, 2010

Greetings, Zoners! Now that the Olympics and the Vancouverage are over, things have settled back down to normal around here. Here’s your weekly recap of goings-on around No Fact Zone:

• Fantasy Colbert League Weekly
• Episode 6032 – Barry Schwartz (author, The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less)
• Episode 6031 – Scheherazade Rehman (economist, George Washington University), Garry Wills (author, Bomb Power)
• Episode 6030 – David Brooks (Conservative columnist, New York Times)
• Episode 6029 – Michael Bublé (musician), Don Cheadle (actor, Brooklyn’s Finest)

No Fact Zone features:

• Four Horsemen of the Apopcalypse
• Fangirl Suit Report
• Eye Candy – New Completist Gratefull (hiya, Gratefull! Welcome aboard!) treats us to a nice look at Stephen at Christ Child Society’s Great Gatsby Gala
• Daily Show Toss Recap – Klassic. “Yahtzee!”

Mainstream Media:

• Nice write-up in the The USA Today about how All the Coolest Kids in Science Are on the Daily Show and Colbert Report

Hulu drops Comedy Central programming:

• The news broke this week that Hulu is dropping all Comedy Central programming, prompting this list of reasons why that sucks.
• There was also a rumor floated in The Hollywood Reporter that Viacom was going to start suing bloggers for posting unauthorized content, which prompted this Open Letter to Tony Fox.
• But good news: DB spoke with Tony Fox and it turns out they’re not going to sue us!

Stephen Colbert in the Zeitgeist:

• Stephen Colbert in the Zeitgeist – March 3, 2010
• Our congratulations to Tom Purcell, just named Executive Producer of The Colbert Report
• Guest Alert: Rebecca Skloot

Six Degrees:

• John Oliver hosts, and Jon Stewart offers a unique prize – read all about The Story Pirates (other prizes include VIP guest tickets to The Colbert Report)
• And in other Jon Stewart news, he’s emceeing the BEA breakfast for “Earth (the Book): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race”

We Call it the Joy Machine:

• Because you know you’ve been singing this all week – the Trolalala song!
• Olympic “Out”-takes – Stephen Colbert at the Pride House