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Congrats to Team Colbert, who were just awarded the The Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment and Competition Television during the 2011 Producers Guild of America awards this evening. This makes the fourth year in a row that the ‘Colbert Report’ has received the honor. Congratulations Meredith, Rich, Tom, Allison, Jon and Stephen!
Huge Tip of the Hat to Matt Tobey over at the CC Insider Blog for getting us scans of Stephen Colbert in Newsweek magazine for December 20, 2010. Stephen Colbert, and that gaudy (and slightly NSFW) Evil Knievel getup of his both made the cover of the magazine as well as made it into the magazine’s 2010 Images of the Year feature. Click on the picture below for full size Colbert Jumpsuit glory, courtesy of Comedy Central.
Congrats to the writing staff of the ‘Colbert Report’, who have been nominated for the 4th straight year for a Writer’s Guild of America award for Comedy/Variety (including talk) Series. First nominated in 2007, the ‘Colbert Report’ writers won the award that first year out, but lost in 2008 to ‘Saturday Night Live’ and lost in 2009 to ‘Saturday Night Live’/'Daily Show’ (dual winners in 2009).
Stephen Colbert has been selected to grace the December cover of GQ magazine for the second time, according to JustJared.com. GQ has awarded James Franco the “Man of the Year” title, but has bestowed honors (and December covers) on a few others as well – Drake as Breakout Star of the Year, Jeff Bridges as Icon of the Year, Stephen Colbert as Patriot of the Year, and Scarlett Johansson as Babe of the Year.
After the final notes were played on the National Mall, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert went to the National Press Club to face the media, one of the biggest antagonists during the Rally to Restore Sanity. From the constant stream of “What will the political ramifications be for the Democrats?” coverage to the groups trying to opt the rally for their own political cause, the focus on the rally was viewed by many to have a decidedly political view. However, with Jon’s last statement at the rally, he all but nullified any question that this rally was about nothing but letting the politicians and media know that people are tired of the fear, of the insanity, of the extremism of the 24-hour news cycle and political process. And the press was given one last opportunity to ask Jon and Stephen to clarify their message for the rally.
The only problem is that it seemed that even with all that Jon had said and done during the rally, the press was bound and determined to draw some kind of political agenda out of Stewart. Jon, of course, was having none of that.
As I start this blog post, I am 27,000 feet in the air, flying back to Dallas and thinking of all of the wonderful memories that were made this weekend. I’m taking the day off tomorrow to specifically cover the rally, including a photo series of some of the best signs and characters that we saw at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, video and report from the post-rally press conference at the National Press Club, screen caps and eye candy posts, and a list of some of our favorite moments from the Rally.
However, I’d first simply like to talk about my experience at the event. I hope you enjoy hearing about my most excellent adventure.
Oh yes. That just happened. Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Jon Stewart, and Tay Zonday just sang about everything that was fabulous about just a smidge too far back to be relevant in pop culture. So let’s talk about it all! The dancing! The singing! The epaulets! The dancing! The mustaches! The dancing! Sweet baby JESUS that was adorkable. Click through to sing along with all of the lyrics to “Everyone’s Talking ‘Bout Sully”!
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Hey, y’all. Stephen Colbert, as you may recall, was scheduled for his debut appearance on The View this morning, and he was his usual charming self. Although I haven’t yet seen full video show up online yet (we’ll update the post as it becomes available), E! Online has posted the clip of Stephen teasing Whoopi for her O’Reilly walkout.
Check out the announcement from Jon Stewart on last night’s ‘Daily Show’ where he shares the news that Comedy Central will be broadcasting the rally live, as well as streaming the event on ComedyCentral.com.
For those of you who weren’t able to stay up late last night, please enjoy this video of Stephen Colbert on ‘Late Show with David Letterman’. Stephen talks about such diverse subjects as the Pottygate issue with the Marine Corps Marathon and the logistics of the rally, and his experiences testifying at the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.