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VIDEO: Stephen Colbert and Barack Obama – behind the scenes
Posted by: | CommentsNo way — the White House has posted the footage of the taping for Barack Obama’s “Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando” cameo on facebook!
I can’t embed it here, but click on this link to go to the video. Awesome!
Huge hat tip to Roland!
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Thanks to all the tipsters who sent us a link to the vid on YouTube – enjoy! I know I did! – DB
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Can Barack Obama really steal Stephen Colbert’s Emmy? Probably not.
Posted by: | CommentsStephen bemoaned the fact that with Barack’s 30-minute informercial, his Emmy could again be snatched right out of his hands. But according to the Live Feed blog, that’s most probably not going to happen:
It’s an interesting question. The special was certainly high quality. It won raves from critics. And if the American Music Awards can win an Emmy for lighting direction, surely Obama can bring home a statue for getting 33.6 million viewers to watch him hug Ohio voters, right?
But according to a Television Academy spokesman, Colbert is safe.
“I don’t have a specific reference in the rules that would make it ineligible,” says John Leverence, senior vp awards for the Academy. “But telethons are eligible only if they are not political. Though the ad was not specifically for raising money, it would be close enough to the spirit of that rule to be ineligible.”
Even, hypothetically, if the special was eligible, Leverence adds, it would be more appropriate for the nonfiction special category than the outstanding individual performance category.
Whew! That’s a good thing to hear. But it’s still a beautiful thing to see Stephen bemoan the possibility:
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AP covers Jon, Stephen and PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA!
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It feels like a dream to me, but it must be real, because I went to sleep, woke up, and Barack Obama is still the next President of the United States. Holy crap!
The AP reports on the Daily Show and Colbert Report joint coverage of the election and Jon Stewart’s real-time announcement of the big news (emphasis mine):
Stewart, Colbert parody election in real-time
By JAKE COYLE – 2 hours agoNEW YORK (AP) — Culminating their satirical coverage of the campaign, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert teamed up for a live one-hour comedy special — though Stewart had his Cronkite moment, too.
Stewart became the first comedian to announce presidential election results on live national television.
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But comedy eventually subsided to the magnitude of the election results. After the broadcast — held in front of a raucous and partisan crowd — the cast exchanged hugs and Colbert and Stewart both went to the audience to embrace their wives.
In a brief interview after the broadcast backstage, Colbert was still rattled.
“I’ve never had this feeling before, which is: Things went well on Election Night,” said Colbert, whose political views are not his character’s. “I’m a little stunned. I don’t know what to do with my happiness. I’m still afraid someone’s going to take it away.”
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That last quote I copied says it all. How fitting that, once again, I can say that Stephen Colbert speaks for me.
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Oh my God. It’s real.
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It was really, really great to hear the election called for Barack Obama by Jon Stewart. It was amazing, when it hit me, that it was finally real. And I got to hear it from Jon.
Life is good. I’m a little teary right now. President Barack Obama – It’s real. It’s really real.
EDITED TO ADD: Ms I, here, and I couldn’t agree more. Hearing Jon actually say those words at the end of the show … lovely. And Stephen deliberately set it up for Jon to make the announcement, according to this piece from the New York Times:
Stephen Colbert said he extended a riff until the election was called. “I had a TV set on the desk,” Mr. Colbert said. “I could see what was happening so I thought, ‘I’ll just vamp until 11 o’clock.’ The Hawaiian speech I was doing was supposed to go on for another three minutes. We knew that if we could stretch the show till 11 o’clock, Jon would have a chance to be able to say that Barack Obama is the president; he was looking at the screen just waiting for CNN to call it.”
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NY Times asks, when will it be Okay to laugh at Barack Obama
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Bill Carter of the New York Times has written an excellent article dealing with late night satire and the glaring exclusion of Barack Obama into the satirical jokes of the late night monologues. He’s also included discussions with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert in his quest to find out why this blanket exclusion seems to exist.
Want Obama in a Punch Line? First, Find a Joke
By BILL CARTER
Published: July 15, 2008What’s so funny about Barack Obama? Apparently not very much, at least not yet.
On Monday, The New Yorker magazine tried dipping its toe into broad satire involving Senator Obama with a cover image depicting the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and his wife, Michelle, as fist-bumping, flag-burning, bin Laden-loving terrorists in the Oval Office. The response from both Democrats and Republicans was explosive.
Comedy has been no easier for the phalanx of late-night television hosts who depend on skewering political leaders for a healthy quotient of their nightly monologues. Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien and others have delivered a nightly stream of jokes about the Republican running for president — each one a variant on the same theme: John McCain is old.
But there has been little humor about Mr. Obama: about his age, his speaking ability, his intelligence, his family, his physique. And within a late-night landscape dominated by white hosts, white writers, and overwhelmingly white audiences, there has been almost none about his race.
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Mr. Colbert said in a telephone interview that a running joke on his show has been that Mr. Obama is a “secret Muslim”; the New Yorker cover, he said, was consistent with that. “It’s a completely valid satirical point to make — and it’s perfectly valid for Obama not to like it,” he said.
Mr. Colbert said he had been freer to poke fun at Mr. Obama than other late-night hosts because “my character on the show doesn’t like him. I’m expected to be hostile to him.”
Mr. Stewart, who is also an executive producer of “The Colbert Report,” said the Obama campaign’s reaction to the New Yorker cover seemed part of what is now almost a pro forma cycle in political campaigns. “Nothing can occur without the candidate responding,” he said.
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Episode 4051 (4/17/08)
Posted by: | CommentsFirst Segment: 
- Senator Hillary Clinton saves the day and fixes Stephen’s giant projector screen.
Second Segment:
- Desk Guest: Congressman Patrick Murphy
- Guest Plug: ‘Taking The Hill: From Philly to Baghdad to the United States Congress‘
Third Segment:
- John Edwards delivers the EdWØRD: Valued Voters
In closing: Senator Barack Obama chats with Stephen via satellite (see the Notable Moments below the cut)
- I wanna thank Ben Franklin! Barack Obama! Hilary Clinton! I want to thank the good people at Doritos! I want to thank you, Pennsylvania! We’ve told you how to think, now go vote! Good night everybody!
NOTABLE MOMENTS, Video links, and more after the fold!
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