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Six Degrees: Kiss Me I’m Irish Edition.
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Ok, so I lied. I’m not actually Irish, I’m Australian but you can still kiss me and we drink just as much … if not more. I hope you’ve all recovered from good ol’ St. Patty’s Day and the festivities that ensured. Mine was a rather dismal day, I didn’t touch a drop of drink, there were no celebrations at Uni and I only wore green by accident. So if you’re like me and have had a boring day/week I hope the activities of Stephen’s friends and colleagues puts a smile on your dial.
Friends of the Show
Amy Sedaris
- You can pre-order your copy of Amy’s new book “Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People” from Amazon which is due for release on 2 November, 2010.
Product Description:
America’s most delightfully unconventional hostess and the bestselling author of I Like You delivers a new book that will forever change the world of crafting. According to Amy Sedaris, it’s often been said that ugly people craft and attractive people have sex. In her new book, SIMPLE TIMES, she sets the record straight. Demonstrating that crafting is one of life’s more pleasurable and constructive leisure activities, Sedaris shows that anyone with a couple of hours to kill and access to pipe cleaners can join the elite society of crafters.
- Amy was recently a guest on the “The Martha Stewart Show” to promote her new book “Simple Times: Craft for Poor People”. You can view a clip of Amy’s appearance here and here.
Conan O’Brien
- CoCo’s coming to a city near you!! Check out Teamcoco.com for all the details on Conan O’Brien presents: “The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour” – A Night of Music, Comedy, Hugging and the Occasional Awkward Silence.
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Difference Makers: The Story Pirates hold second “After School Special”
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Every now and again, we get tips about events that just warm the cockles of our hearts, and this one is a doozy. Story Pirates is a great organization that promotes literacy in young children. It boasts what I think is a wonderfully creative way to get kids involved in stories called the Play/Write Program. To quote the Story Pirates website, Play/Write is ” … a series of creative writing and drama workshops that lead to a musical sketch comedy show acted by adults and comprised entirely of stories written by kids. The award winning show has been described as ‘Monty Python meets Schoolhouse Rock.’” Gang, how cool is that?
Here’s the thing: it just got even cooler, because the Story Pirates group is holding an “After School Special” benefit. It will be hosted by The Daily Show correspondent (and friend of the blog) John Oliver, and there are some pretty amazing prizes up at auction for the Story Pirates’ benefit. Between now and March 20th, you can bid on prizes that range from a Wii console to a tour of the NCIS set (plus a meeting with its star), a cast-autographed script from Community or Parks and Recreation to VIP tickets to The Colbert Report.
Best of all, Jon Stewart is offering a uniquely heartwarming prize: an offer to star in your child’s story. That’s right, Jon Stewart will star in a performance of the story written by the winning bidder’s child, and the winner will receive VIP tickets to the show. Can you even imagine how amazing an experience this would be for the winner’s budding young author?
The benefit takes place on March 21st, and most of the auctions close one day before that. Please, all of you with deep pockets and philanthropic souls, head over to the Story Pirates site and make your bids.
(Huge hat tips to the folks at Story Pirates, Mark Malkoff and DB for letting us know about this event!)
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Nice! BookExpo America announced some of the writers it will feature this year, and one of them is that guy that used to be Stephen Colbert’s boss … what’s his name? Oh right, the very funny Jon Stewart! Even better, as co-author of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Book): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race, he’ll be the master of ceremonies for one of the Expo’s breakfast events. From Bookselling this Week:
Jon Stewart, Sara Gruen Among BEA Headliners
March 04, 2010. . .
THURSDAY, May 27, 2010
8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. THURSDAY BOOK & AUTHOR BREAKFAST (Special Events Hall)
The Thursday morning breakfast will feature:
- Condoleezza Rice, author of Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family (Crown)
- John Grisham, author of a forthcoming title from Doubleday
- Mary Roach, author of Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (W.W. Norton)
Jon Stewart, author (along with the writers of The Daily Show) of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Book): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race (Grand Central Publishing) will be the Master of Ceremonies.
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(h/t to Badgeriii and loudfan!)
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Congratulations, Tom Purcell, new ‘Colbert Report’ Executive Producer
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Congratulations to Tom Purcell on being named Executive Producer (along with Stephen Colbert) of The Colbert Report!
“THE COLBERT REPORT” TAPS
TOM PURCELL AS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER——————————————————————————–
NEW YORK, March 1, 2010 — Tom Purcell has been promoted to executive producer of COMEDY CENTRAL’s “The Colbert Report,” it was announced today by Stephen Colbert, executive producer, writer and host of the program. Purcell had previously served as co-executive producer.
“Tom Purcell is a boundless source of energy, intellect and comedy,” said Colbert. “I look forward to many years of draining his vitality.”Purcell has been with “The Colbert Report” since its launch on October 17, 2005. During his tenure at the show, he has received a Writer’s Guild Award in 2008 and in the same year, he and his writing team won the show’s first Primetime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program. The series holds a total number of 15 Emmy nominations. It has also been honored with the prestigious Peabody® Award for Excellence in Broadcasting.
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Purcell is a Chicagoland native and a graduate of Loyola University Chicago. He has performed comedy at the Second City, IO Chicago, and has written for “Cosby,” “Grounded for Life” and “The Colbert Report.” . . .
Way to go, Tom, you’ve earned it. I mean really, after getting shot by Stephen (repeatedly!), promoting you was the least he could do. ;)
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Six Degrees: Vancouver Edition.
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G’day Zoners, I hope you’ve all been enjoying the Winter Olympics. I for one have become obsessed with all things ice related – Speed Skating, Figure Skating, Curling and Ice Hockey. A great obsession to have smack bang in the middle of an Australian summer. I of course blame Stephen for my new found love of winter sports. For those of you able to tear yourselves away from all things ice and snow, Stephen’s friends have some exciting upcoming projects for you to check out.
Friends of the Show:
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- The American Museum of Natural History has announced a year-long celebration commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space.
As part of the celebrations Neil deGrasse Tyson will host and moderate the The Tenth AnnuAl Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate – “Moon, Mars and Beyond: Where next for the Manned Space Program?” on March 15.
Conan O’Brien
- Exciting news for all Coco fans, courtesy of The New York Times:
Representatives of Mr. O’Brien, the former host of “The Tonight Show” on NBC, confirmed Friday that plans are in the works to book what is being called “a revue” starring Mr. O’Brien in theaters in major cities from California to New York, and perhaps parts further east and west–and maybe north.
After exploring the degree of interest with some locations, Mr. O’Brien’s team has received “enormous interest from all over,” said one of his representatives, who asked not to be identified because the plans are not yet ready to announce. “We’ve heard from the U.K., Scandinavia, Australia, Toronto, everywhere; it’s been incredible.”
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SIX DEGREES: Wyatt Cenac performing TONIGHT at Some Folks show!
Posted by: | CommentsIf you’re not lucky enough to be in Vancouver tonight, but you *are* lucky enough to live in the NYC area, go check out the new Some Folks show tonight, featuring Wyatt Cenac. Here’s the details, according to the Some Folks Facebook page:
Comedy Below Canal™ Presents: Some Folks92YTribeca Mainstage
$12 in advance/$15 at the door
Show Time: 9PM
Join Wyatt Cenac for an unforgettable night of comedy and music featuring the best musical and comedic performers in New York City
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February 18th
Host:
WYATT CENAC
writer and correspondent for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and star of Medicine for Melancholy
Comedians:
CHRISTEN FINNEGAN
as seen on his Comedy Central one-hour special, “Au Contraire,” “The Today Show,” and “Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann”
ANTHONY JESELNIK
is a comedian featured on HBO, his 1/2-hour Comedy Central special, and is currently a writer for “Late Night w/ Jimmy Fallon”
And more TBA!
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Six Degrees: Surviving the blizzard edition
Posted by: | CommentsUgh, the snow and wind continue to swirl here in my neck of the woods (darn you, unnamed grocery store, for continually canceling my deliveries!), and I’m having weird flashbacks to my childhood in the Upper Midwest. In an attempt to keep my mind in the present, how about some updates on some of our friends at The Daily Show and Colbert Report?
Our friends over at PBS have released another teaser ad for Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Pluto Files, which will feature any number of our favorite people (like Stephen Colbert!) when it airs. Here’s a fun snippet with Brian Williams and some guy with a little cable show, Jon Stewart.
Mr. Stewart is keeping himself busy, performing stand-up gig in Vegas over the Super Bowl weekend. The Las Vegas Review Journal featured a pretty cool article on Jon to coincide with the gig, and it’s definitely worth a read. The story he told about bombing while opening for Sheena Easton (“[S]he poked her head in my dressing room and said (he mimics her Scottish accent), ‘Don’t worry, Jon. Tomorrow is another day.’”) … ouch!
Click past the jump for more!
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Six Degrees: The I Can’t Believe it’s Already February Edition.
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Am I the only one completely baffled by the fact that January has gone by in the blink of an eye and that we’re already steam rolling straight through February? February of course, can mean only one thing – Vancouver!! But while Stephen is off polishing his skates in preparation for the Winter Olympics his friends will be back in the good old US of A working on their latest new projects.
Friends of the Show
Neil DeGreasse Tyson
- Dr. Tyson has been selected by over 600 Global Science Advisors as the EarthSky Science Communicator of the Year for 2009.
Many expressed this sentiment about Dr. Tyson: “Especially since 2009 was the International Year of Astronomy, it’s appropriate that we honor Neil deGrasse Tyson and acknowledge his outstanding efforts to promote astronomy and other sciences.”
EarthSky has featured Dr. Tyson in an 8-minute EarthSky Clear Voices for Science podcast, speaking on the importance of science in creating an informed U.S. electorate.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: ‘Learning How to Think is Empowerment’:
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