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Michael Moore says: Stephen Colbert has been ingesting me!
Posted by: | CommentsOh man, I just read this article on Michael Moore’s new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, and it contained a doozy of a closing revelation. From Eye Weekly:
Capitalism: A Love Story
Directed by Michael Moore. PG. 126 min. Opens Oct 2.
BY Jason Anderson September 30, 2009 21:09. . .
Yes, these are bleak times, but as if to prove that he’s no Debbie Downer, Moore closes our discussion of economic devastation with an anecdote that he forgot to tell Stephen Colbert on his show last week. So let’s end this on a cheerier note, shall we?
“A number of years ago,” says Moore, “Ben & Jerry’s made a special flavour with my name on it. They were gonna call it ‘The Waffle Truth,’ off my show The Awful Truth. It was vanilla ice cream, chocolate-covered waffle and, I think, some chocolate chunks.
“Anyway, I said, ‘I can’t do that, I don’t endorse things.’ But a year or so ago, I was going to get some Ben & Jerry’s and there was Stephen Colbert’s ‘AmeriCone Dream.’ And damn if it wasn’t the flavour they made for me! The next time I’m on, I’m going to bring the original ice cream box they made for me. I want to tell him that he’s been eating left-wing ice cream — he has been ingesting me!”
Oh, I wish he’d remembered to bring that up during the interview … I think Ben and Jerry might have some explaining to do!
Watch Mr. Moore’s most recent visit to The Colbert Report here:
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Episode 5123 (9/28/2009)
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EPISODE NUMBER: 5123 (September 28, 2009)
GUEST: Sheryl WuDunn
SEGMENTS: Stephen Colbert’s Current Events, 1-888-OOPS-JEW
VIDEOS: Monday, September 28, 2009
Weepy Stephen eating ice cream is just so adorkable I just about can’t stand it. Man, it’s been too long since I’ve had some Americone Dream, too. Although the situations that are featured during the sketch are sad and somewhat sickening, I really hope they keep doing “Current Events” segments. And by sickening, of course, I mean that I can’t believe Joe Francis wasn’t tased.
As far as J.J. Abram’s puzzle is concerned, I believe someone over at the ColbertNation.com boards actually solved it. I’m really glad they’ve continued the OOPS-JEW tradition on the show. It’s these elements of continuity that really make regular viewers feel like they’re “in” on the joke of the show.
What did you all think of the show tonight?
- It’s hard to buy this concussion story because Conan’s skull is protected by a foot of fire engine red thatch.
- Clearly Conan didn’t go on because he was heartbroken. I know how much the readers of Glamour mean to him.
- And to those lovely ladies let me add – YOU WHORES! How dare you cheat on me with Jimmy Fallon! We’re married!
- I don’t care if Jimmy Fallon is “Totes Hot!” And I readily admit that he is!
- You know what, F@#k it, I can’t do the show tonight. No, no, tell them I’ve bumped my head.
- You see, [Bud] Grose kept insisting that the parade ended on North Malar lane, so the officer had no choice but to end it on Electric Avenue.
- But if he didn’t do this in front of her kids, how would they learn the Golden Rule – do as I do, not as I’m tased.
- And by dangerous offenders, I mean insufferable douchebags.
- By the way, ladies, Taser International is accepting applications for fall interns. The invitation is strictly Bring Your Own Bite guard.
- All of my Jewish employees were off of work today, so that just left me with two writers, Fernando Mayonaise and Mary Anne Foreskin. By that picture I think they both do barbershop quartet as well.
- It’s like Christmas morning, but the packages are filled with Jewish shame.
- Hi Stephen, this is J.J. Abrams, the director of Star Trek. I just wanted to say I’m sorry for making the secret puzzle I hid on your show last May too difficult to solve. Every great American leader could solve it. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to direct a movie I just wrote while leaving this message.
- I will attempt, no promises, I will attempt not to oppress you during this interview.
- Women have had it tough, I blame Eve.
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More info on Ben & Jerry’s Stephen Colbert’s Holiday Sundae Spectacular
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This is just a reminder to head over to your local Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shop to help Feeding America by eating a mighty tasty confection courtesy of Ben & Jerry’s. Here’s some info we got from our buddy Sean Greenwood from Ben & Jerry’s:
- Yes we’re HUGE fans of the show here at Ben & Jerry’s! (and NFZ fans, I might add as well.) As a matter of fact, we may change all of our flavors to be Colbert sanctioned, like: “AmeriFlown Dream” (As seen on the 3.5.07 show – like AmeriCone with fudge fish for Stephen, Jr.), “Lick Jansen,” (“Oh Lick, your pint flavor tastes like you’ve had hundreds of girlfriends!”), and how about the “No Fudge Zone” while we’re at it???
- The title “Holiday Sundae Spectacular” was written specifically tongue-in-cheek as a grandiose title that only a right-wing nut job would agree too, with the “Holiday” instead of “Christmas” on purpose. Tell your NFZ fans we, at Ben & Jerry’s are definitely “it-getters.” That’s right, we it-get!
- Finally, to clear up the AmeriCone Dream issue. AmeriCone Dream is only available in pints. Not in bulk. So, you can get pints in supermarkets, convenience stores, and at our Scoop Shops that carry pints. Not all Scoop Shops have pints. SO, to do a cool, fun-tie in with TCR at our Scoop Shops nationwide for their “Greatest Gift of All” DVD, we had to do a special sundae NOT including AmeriCone Dream. (P.S. It’s not that we don’t want AmeriCone Dream in bulk. We haven’t been able to secure the rights from the organization that owns the name. That’s the real scoop.)
And, for those who might have missed it the first time, here’s the scoop on the scoop:
Here it is, America! Our biggest, baddest, most holiday-patriotic sundae ever: Stephen Colbert’s Holiday Sundae Spectacular: “It’s a scoop of your favorite B&J’s flavor firmly on the right, with brownie chunks, hot fudge, whipped cream and a liberal amount of nuts!”
At participating Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shops we’re celebrating the holiday season with The Greatest Gift of All, a new holiday special DVD from our favorite late-night celeb turned flavor. In conjunction with Comedy Central & The Colbert Report, Ben & Jerry’s is proud to donate 5,000 scoops of ice cream to Feeding America to help in the efforts to feed the hungry.
The Great Sundae Challenge is on! When Stephen’s sundaes reach 5,000 sold, we’ll donate another 5,000 scoops to Feeding America. It’s a holiday miracle! You can track how many sundaes are sold at www.benjerry.com. Hurry in because the offer ends Dec 24th. The Word (on the street) is that you may even catch a sneak-peek preview of the show in Scoop Shops in December.
So get eating, kids! I am definitely going to be hitting my local store here in the near future.
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Because how could we forget Americone Dream??
Posted by: | CommentsThe Onion has a funny take on a certain celebrity food, although I’d hardly consider Stephen “B-List”.
Nectar of the demigods: B-list-celebrity-endorsed foodstuffs
By Genevieve Koski, Josh Modell, Nathan Rabin, Kyle Ryan
February 7th, 2008…
Ben & Jerry’s celebrity flavors
It isn’t like consumers really need an excuse to gorge themselves on rich, goody-laden ice cream, but really, who hasn’t wondered what Willie Nelson tastes like? (For the record, it’s not bong water and beef jerky, but rather peach ice cream studded with cinnamon-sugar crumbles. Weird.) A handful of entertainers have earned the right to be immortalized in dairy form by Vermont ice-creamery Ben & Jerry’s, with predictably delicious results.
Level of celebrity: Varies, but usually somewhere in the realm of cult favorite: Stephen Colbert (Americone Dream), Willie Nelson (Country Peach Cobbler), Wavy Gravy, and Monty Python (Vermonty Python) have all merited flavors. A high ratio of jam-band tributes—Cherry Garcia, Phish Food, and Dave Matthews’ Band’s Magic Brownies—speaks to B&J’s hippie-centric origins and philosophy.
Appropriateness of product to celebrity: Americone Dream, Vermonty Python, Wavy Gravy, and Cherry Garcia depend more on name recognition and puns than a strong conceptual connection to their respective celebrities, but Phish Food (which contains fudge fish), Country Peach Cobbler, and Magic Brownies have subtle tie-ins to their namesakes. (Also, Cherry Garcia, the company’s longest-running celebrity flavor, swapped in black cherries instead of its usual Bing cherries for a month following Jerry Garcia’s death in 1995. Aww.)
Likelihood of consumption by non-fans: Pretty damn likely. Cherry Garcia and Phish Food rank among B&J’s top-selling flavors, and all but Wavy Gravy are still in production.Marketing hyperbole: None necessary. Interest in the company’s products is high enough that new celebrity-endorsed flavors tend to create their own hype: The debuts of Colbert and Nelson’s flavors sparked a faux-feud (egged on by Colbert, of course) between the two entertainers.
Buy it at: Everywhere.Full text of article (you should go over there to see what has Steven Segal’s pic on it)
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Ben & Jerry’s revamps the Americone Dream Ice Cream carton!
Posted by: | CommentsSo last weekend I was puttering around, doing the usual morning errand thing, when I came across a sale on Ben & Jerry’s ice cream at the grocery store. Who can resist taking a peek to see if Americone Dream is on the shelf? Not me! Amazingly enough, they did have it in stock – but its carton looked different. I bought some, ate it, suffered the brain freeze, and finally took a photo of two cartons together:
The first-edition carton is on the left, with the red-and-white stripes background. The new carton on the right shows a blue-sky-and-clouds background.
Americone Dream got a makeover! What gives, Ben and Jerry? Have they decided to make it a long-term flavor? Was it too expensive to keep printing such a patriotic carton? We’re scooping up (pun intended) any information we can find, and we’ll let you know the news as soon as we do.
Eagle-eyed reader Joe Karl emailed us via the Americone Dream Map and said he’d also found both cartons, adding, “Apparently it came out before B&J’s started redesigning all their pints with the “cow” design.” Joe collects Ben and Jerry’s cartons, and he’s noticed that the designs started changing to the ‘Blue Moo‘ artwork in early August. So far, he’s found about 10 flavors that have switched over to the cows as designed by artist and Ben-and-Jerry’s ambassador Woody Jackson.
Interestingly, Willie Nelson’s ‘Country Peach Cobbler’ was the first flavor Joe saw with the new design.
Americone Dream has also been featured on Ben & Jerry’s coupons in the Sunday newspaper. Cutting coupons may be something your dad used to do, but hey, it saves money to buy more ice cream.
NoFactZone readers, you have been an essential part of the making of the NFZ Americone Dream Map, which is still being updated. Yes! You can still email us when you find a new store that stocks Americone Dream.
And let us know if you find the new carton on the shelves!
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More pics of Stephen Colbert from Charleston
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Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central’s "The Colbert Report," winds up to throw a pint of Stephen Colbert’s AmeriCone Dream ice cream to Jerry Greenfield of Ben &Jerry’s, at the Charleston RiverDogs’ baseball game in Charleston, S.C., Saturday July 7, 2007. Colbert is donating his portion of the proceeds from the sale of the ice cream to the AmeriCone Dream Fund, the first of which will go to the families of the firefighters who were killed recently in a fire in Charleston. (AP Photo/The Post and Courier, Melissa Haneline)
Television satirist Stephen Colbert, right, of “The Colbert Report,” opens his arms to rain-soaked fans during an interview on RiverDogs Radio, at a Charleston RiverDogs minor league baseball game, Saturday, July 7, 2007, in Charleston, S.C. In a promotion for the new Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor, “Stephen Colbert’s AmeriCone Dream,” Colbert threw out the ceremonial “first pint” to Ben & Jerry’s Jerry Greenfield. Colbert is donating his portion of the proceeds from the sale of the ice cream to the AmeriCone Dream Fund, a non-profit endeavor to benefit children, veterans and the environment, with a portion of funds benefiting the families of firefighters who died in the recent tragedy in Charleston. The RiverDogs are a minor league affiliate of the New York Yankees. (AP Photo/The Post and Courier, Melissa Haneline)
(Photos courtesy of the magnificent detectives over at WonkyEar.)
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Continuing coverage from Charleston
Posted by: | CommentsFrom Charleston.net:
Rain washes out R’Dogs, not pregame festivities
By Bill Henley (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Sunday, July 8, 2007It was a great night for a towel giveaway and celebrity sightings, but an unfortunate night for baseball.
The game between the Charleston RiverDogs and Savannah Sand Gnats was postponed by rain on Saturday, but the standing-room only crowd at Riley Park got plenty of pregame enjoyment from Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert, who threw a pint of ice cream as part of the ceremonial first pitches.
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Colbert, a native of James Island, was in town with Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream co-founder Jerry Greenfield to promote their new flavor — Stephen Colbert’s AmeriCone Dream. Proceeds from the sale of the flavor will go to the charity of the same name.
“Our first donation will be to help the families of the firefighters,” he said.
Instead of a baseball, Colbert tossed a pint of his ice cream to the plate, where Greenfield scooped up the throw. He said he practiced that morning with a pint containing dirt.
“This morning, my son and I marked it off on the street, and I had the kids eat a pint for breakfast. We filled the empty pint with dirt and I thought that feels all right,” he said. “In practice, I threw three or four right to the letters and thought I don’t need to try anymore. I got out here and I lobbed it. I actually tried to throw a straight pitch, but I didn’t have the distance. It was actually a little heavier than I thought.”
Hee! He had his kids eat ice cream for breakfast?! Man, my parents *never* let me indulge like that!
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Photo of Stephen Colbert and Jerry Greenfield at the at Charleston Riverdogs game
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Television satirist Stephen Colbert, right, followed by Jerry Greenfield, of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, returns to the dugout after Colbert threw out the ceremonial “first pint” to Greenfield, a pint of “Stephen Colbert’s AmeriCone Dream” ice cream, during a Charleston RiverDogs baseball game, Saturday, July 7, 2007, in Charleston, S.C. Colbert is donating his portion of the proceeds from the sale of the ice cream to the AmeriCone Dream Fund, a non-profit endeavor to benefit children, veterans and the environment, with a portion of funds benefiting the families of firefighters who died in the recent tragedy in Charleston. The RiverDogs are a minor league affiliate of the New York Yankees.
AP Photo by melissa haneline – 3 hours ago
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