EPISODE NUMBER: 6109 (August 25, 2010)
GUESTS: Heidi Cullen
SEGMENTS: John McCain’s Victorious Defeat, Stephen Colbert University – Andrew Hacker, Mysteries of the Ancient Unknown – King Tut’s Penis Pt. 2: Res-Erection
VIDEOS: Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Thanks to Completists AnnG and nerdygirl for helping this week on the guides. Sometimes that pesky thing called Real Life gets in the way of my blogging time, unfortunately. Thank goodness I have such great people that work with me on this site – I don’t express my gratitude the Completists enough for all the thankless, hard, sweat-inducing work that they do. Thanks gals! You rock my world.
I saw the “Stephen Colbert ‘University’” segment and went, dang, there goes 2 years of SEO out the window. We still have all the Colbert University information, and at some point we’re going to finish the cleanup process from moving it from Joomla to WordPress and get the site launched again – I promise! It’s just a much bigger process that had originally anticipated.
I have had many co-workers who have gone to University of Phoenix due to their convenient schedules and fast-paced classes. However, all of them had their tuition subsidized by work. I also have friends who finished their college education $50,000, $70,000 and more in debt. Yes, their degree is reputable, but having a degree doesn’t guarantee that a job will be found that will be able to pay the crushing debt that it took to get that degree. As a matter of fact, most of my friends with college degrees don’t even work in the specialty that they went to school to study. I have a degree in History and Special Education, and I only used my degree for one year before realizing that more money was to be made by working with the administrative office skills I learned while doing work-study work at college. But is it a useless degree? Well, yes, but it’s *my* useless degree, dammit!
Bravo to the Groundskeeper Willie cameo in the Mysteries of the Unknown segment! Also I don’t think I’ve seen a decent Uri Geller reference since about 1987.
What did all of you think of the episode tonight? Leave it in the comments! I look forward to hearing from all of you!
- It is my biggest election-related celebration of the season, even crazier than the bacchanal I throw for the late spring candidacy filing extension request deadline. After that thing, I woke up to find I’d collected 15,000 signatures on my face.
- Thank you punditmetaphors.com!
- I don’t know if it was necessary to drop the dang bomb, but voters clearly liked what they heard, and they decided John McCain has had his shot.
- They’re so convenient some let you attend on the internet, so instead of rolling out of bed and going to class looking like a slob, you can stay in bed and go looking like a level 55 death knight.
- For instance, a massage therapy certificate at a community college could cost $520, while a similar certificate at for-profit universities can cost up to $14,000. I assume that degree comes with full release.
- I say caveat emptor, which according to my online Latin degree, means Soup of the Day.
- That’s why I’m proud to introduce my new for-profit school, Stephen Colbert “University”, the # 1 place for higher “education”.
- Remember, at SCU, we put the U in “We Make Money Off You”. Ask any expert and they’ll tell you Stephen Colbert University is one of the deals around.
- Everybody makes mistakes in college. Why can’t one of those mistakes be going to college?
- What if the people without BAs just pick up pitchforks and kill all the people with BAs?
- Naturally some historians believe Nixon appointed it to his administration, but it turned out that wrinkled mass of flesh was just Henry Kissinger.
- Scotland is named after Princess Scota in the same way that Italy is named after “It”.
- Oh, my Ra! Could it be that uri geller has discovered the location of history’s most sought after relic, king tut’s penis?
- It was because she stole Tut’s throbbing obelisk.
- I’ll continue to follow this mystery as it takes shape, because after seeing what Geller can do with a spoon, I have to believe he can do some pretty amazing things with a 3,000-year-old penis.
- But these days that’s very popular. The kids want everything to be Xtreme. It’s not rain its RAAAAAIN! It’s snowing outside, motherf**ker!
Loved the John McCain segment in the opener! Ohhh John McCain, how are the mighty fallen.
It was nice to see the return of the calculator bit during the Stephen Colbert University segment. And yesterday I wrote that sometimes it’s the ridiculous, just-plain goofy segments that I get the most joy out of. Part 2 of the King Tut’s Penis segment last night just added to that sentiment. “Res-Erection.” HA! Loved the Groundskeeper Willie cameo, too. :)
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That photo reminds me… any idea whose signatures those were? The bit was wonderful but I couldn’t shake the idea that there’s another level of punditry at work here.
I’m fortunate to be working in the field for which I studied and am accredited. English majors are perhaps some of the least successful in obtaining their ideal workplace straight out of college.
Regardless, I would like to become a double-major in Nurse Impersonation and VCR Repair (I purchased two at a garage sale last weekend…), at Stephen Colbert University. Also, I chuckled at the seal/logo they had on the show, it read “SUC.”
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Good point about the signatures! I’m thinking the one on his right eye looks something like Jon Stewart. The ones on his chin look like Conan O’Brien and Paul Dinello! I can also make out something like G. Part and Ben something. Hmmm…
Loved the crack-up when the “Ahahhhhaaa” music came on too late during the King Tut’s Penis segment!
Also, yay for the mashy fingers on the calculator. Another SWC throwback! :D
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Loved, loved, loved this episode. They’re really bringing it this week. My fav would be the King Tut’s Penis – Res-erection. Bwah!
OMG, I was so cracking up during that whole segment. I was truly almost crying, I was laughing so hard. I never dreamed we’d see King Tut brought up again, and with Uri Geller! Spoonbending! Scotland! Italy! There were all over the map on this one. And that music and the lighting – well, the whole thing slays me. :-D
Loved the adorable professor at the desk interview. And Stephen using salty language with the interviewee was funny, too.
I’d give all this week’s shows an A+.
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“It’s snowing outside, motherf$#ker!!!”
That is all.
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Anyone else go to PunditMetaphors.com?
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Not until you mentioned it – that’s actually really funny! Thanks for the tip!
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Oh this is so great because I have been pondering going to school for computer science. I knew that all those schools are a joke but I did look into them anyway. I found out that they are indeed not all that, but I didn’t even realize that they are for profit. Thank God I can go to Stephen Colbert U. I am so there ;-)
I also loved more King Tut’s penis and I was dying laughing over the groundskeeper Willie cameo!
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I enjoyed the online school expose and the King Tut revisit, but I voted for the Heidi Cullen interview. I’m very concerned about climate change, and the segment brought out the concerns while remaining very entertaining. Cullen always seemed so serious on her Weather Channel show, but clearly she knows that the best way to be interviewed by Stephen is to play along. It was fun as well as thought-provoking.
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