EPISODE NUMBER: 6065 (May 10, 2010)
GUESTS: Scheherazade Rehman, Gov. Gary Johnson
SEGMENTS: House Returns the Favor, Oil Containment Solution Randomizer
VIDEOS: Monday, May 10, 2010
Yay Freudian slip! While I love a good depressing Recession story or the explanation of what’s going on in the British elections, for me the show is always best when it’s reporting on news about Stephen. We reported a few weeks back about the picture of Stephen on House’s shelf (and when the picture of Stephen originally appeared), but it was nice to see Stephen acknowledge it himself. Also, the pompous British accent was, as always, massive. The Greecian urn/earn pun, and subsequent wink and nod was adorable.
When I first started blogging here at No Fact Zone, I noticed that Rachel Sklar, then of the Huffington Post, blogged a lot about the ‘Colbert Report’. After a few months, we finally started e-mailing with each other and instantly bonded over our Gen-X love of “Grease 2″. It was probably one of my very first fan obsessions – I wanted to be Stephanie Zinone SO BAD when I was 11. Our little gang of girls all got little pink jackets and would run around our neighborhood singing all the songs, which we all knew because “Grease 2″ was one of the 5 movies they were showing on HBO in the summer of 1982. Good times!
It terrifies me to think that there really is no clue about how the situation in the Gulf Coast is going to be fixed. My grandmother used to live in Corpus Christi, and even when there was no oil officially being leaked, I remember the beaches sometimes being filthy and gummy from just the residual drips of offshore drilling. I can only imagine how horrible it is going to be when these big waves of petroleum hit the beach. That being said, Stephen mispronouncing “Juggalos” made me laugh. Me knowing that he mispronounced it, however, does not.
I’m not a pot smoker, and never have been. Not my thing. So maybe I didn’t appreciate the interview on the level that I could have had I been under the influence. The thing that I laughed about hardest during the interview was Stephen channeling his inner Jerri Blank to bring up every bad Say No To Drugs cliche in the book. “Sodom and Gomorrah with Coffee Bars” – Ha!
What did all of you like about tonight’s episode?
- House and I have a lot in common. We both refuse to play by the rules, we never consider the consequences of our actions, and are horribly abusive to our staffs. But we also have our faults.
- That’s why House’s photo sits on my shelf, in a place of honor next to a coin purse made from a bull’s scrotum. Coincidentally, that is the actual size of House’s sack. That’s why he limps.
- My head is magnified, as you can see, nearly to life size.
- Things are so dire, they laid off the Oracle of Delphi. She never saw it coming.
- At this rate, the average European won’t be able to go anywhere during their annual 15 weeks of vacation.
- And that is not the money that they were owed, or the Grecian “urned”.
- America could be the next Greece. Worse than that, we could be Grease 2.
- It has not failed. Just like I would say oil hasn’t spilled, it just didn’t stay in the rig.
- The Russians have suggested a solution they’ve used five times, which is to cap the oil leak by detonating an underground nuclear warhead. Of course, the only downside of that plan is that might unleash a mutant crab army onto the streets of New Orleans. And you do not want giant pincers around that many exposed nipples. No!
- Oh. So no one knows what the f**k they’re doing. It’s playtime in the Word of Imagination!
Stephen Colbert’s Oil Containment Solution Randomizer- Breaded Juggalos delivered by trained dolphins
- Ultraconcentrated packing peanuts delivered by monkey submarine
- Bundled Used Futons delivered by the hot chick from Mythbusters
- What do you mean surprisingly it’s not? You smoke pot, in 24 hours you will be doing heroin and turning tricks for street crack.
- You’ve been to Holland? It’s like Sodom and Gomorrah with coffee bars.
- Yeah, but per capita they have fewer people, too.
- One puff of that stuff, everyone around you has a head like a wolf.
I know I’m a total dork for saying this, but I loved the “Ode on a Grecian Urn” pun. I know. Nerd.
[hangs head]
P.S. Also? “Urn!“
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Ohhh Correspondent Stephen. “I think that our correspondent in Baghdad just gave me the finger.” I never get sick of that clip! :)
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I loved the Grecian story but I must admit – and kind of feel guilty considering what the people in the gulf are going through – but I could have watched Stephen spin the Oil Containment Solution Randomizer for the entire 30 minutes. I think that was amazing. I also enjoyed the Mythbusters shout-out. And futons! That was one of Stephen’s early jobs, selling futons, correct?
It was funny seeing Stephen manipulate the randomizer just a tad to get the funniest result :)
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Yes, I LOL’ed over the futon reference too … he made futon frames (not sold futons) and agreed to be on-call for frame repair … LOL …
Loved, “Round and round they go, how they’ll fix it nobody knows” or words to that effect!
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“America could become the next Greece- worse than that, we could become Grease 2!” haha brilliant :)
And the interviews were especially light-hearted I thought.
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I absolutely loved that intro. “Did I say sex? I meant boobs.” Haha too perfect!
The whole episode was great last night, but I gotta think that Stephen’s British accent takes the cake. It was just so massive. The whole “House” bit was awesome. In a close second was the Oil Containment Solution Randomizer. It really seems like the powers that be are throwing everything at a wall of Velcro just hoping something sticks, and the Randomizer was a great way of showing that. Plus, Stephen looked like he was having so much fun with it, and I enjoyed the “Mythbusters” shout-out. :]
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As soon as he mentioned House, I thought of this site and said, “the picture!”
That TDS urn clip’s one of my favorites. “I think our correspondent in Baghdad just gave me the finger.” Speaking of TDS, how freakin adorable was Jon in an ascot? I was crossing my fingers that they’d do a toss and Stephen would be wearing one, too.
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Both Jon and John rocked those ascots on TDS, though I think “Stephen” might consider an ascot to be too European and unAmerican. Shame, as he’d look awesome wearing one. :)
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I’m also not a pot smoker, never have been, and really dislike the smell of it–so much so that I feel nauseated when I can smell that someone is smoking a joint somewhere near me. Having said that, I thought the interview was fantastic. I also completely agree that marijuana should be legalized, despite the personal discomfort that will surely cause me (I see myself staying indoors even more than I do now, just to keep from feeling sick on the streets). The tax benefit would be enormous, and our police force could focus on things that matter. Like, you know, murders and thefts and kidnappings and stuff.
By the way, am I the only person here who totally flipped over Jon mentioning slash fan fiction on last night’s show? I stood staring at the screen with my mouth open for probably a good thirty seconds. And then jumped up and down a bit.
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It was a meta moment :)
whoops, meant to reply to bipoly
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“House” is my newest TV obsession, so I loved the shout-out. “My favorite color is Vicodin.” Heh. Too bad the two shows are on opposite coasts. I’d dearly love to see Stephen do a cameo appearance on an episode of “House” someday.
The Oil Containment Solution Randomizer was ingenious, and pretty much summed up the situation. Stephen looked like he was having a lot of fun with that!
And just for the record, I would like to say that Europeans with their 15 weeks (or whatever) of vacation are very annoying. My sister lives in England, and I swear that every other time I talk to her, she and her husband are off from work AGAIN. It’s become a running joke in my family.
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It would be hard for Stephen to get out to LA to be on House, but Hugh Laurie has the summer off…
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True, but I would assume he’s back home in England during his break.
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Anybody else notice that Gary Johnson has “Avatar” ears? LOL
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By the way DB, I was talking with a couple of friends of mine last night and we got on the topic of Juggalos (one friend had spent some time in Arizona last summer and apparently there’s a large percentage of them there). Anyway, there’s a huge amount of them living here in Michigan in and around the Detroit area, so I laughed when I read that you know what they are haha! :P
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