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Guest report: Neil Gaiman on the suit, Tom Bombadil and ‘The Colbert Report’
Posted by: | CommentsHurrah! I’ve been watching Neil’s blog all day to see when he would blog about his trip to The Report, and the wait is finally over. From Neil Gaiman’s Journal:
Monday, Colbert, and tabs galore
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Posted by Neil at 3:16 PM. . .
I love The Colbert Report. It gets Tivoed in my house and it gets watched.
Originally, I didn’t. Caught the first few when it spun off from the Daily Show, and wasn’t impressed – didn’t like it, didn’t get it. It was the fact it became my son Mike’s favourite TV programme that drew me back. And when I came back, I loved it.
I found myself fascinated by the multiple layers of the Colbert persona (the character of Colbert is an idiot, but a really smart idiot, played by a very clever man) and the way that the persona is allowed to say the unsayable. (The “rearranging the deckchairs on the Hindenberg” line, for example.)
Had no idea whether I’d work on it, or enjoy it when I was actually on it, mind you.
I think I worked and I really did enjoy it — I loved having no idea where things were going to go (no, it was not rehearsed, no, I had no idea that mentioning Tom Bombadil would produce that result).
. . .
I had to smile at the thought of Neil mentioning his Art Spiegelman recommendation when the two had dinner later (read the rest of Neil’s post!). That said, I think my favorite bit about Neil’s interview was the Lord of the Rings silliness. Neil mentioned it a couple of times on Twitter, too:
The most FA’d Q about last night on Colbert is was anything scripted or rehearsed? Nope. The conversation went there and he Bombadilloed.
And cut from the interview is our favourite LOTR characters. Mine Gandalf. His, Faramir.
I’m honestly not sure who my favorite character was — it depends on my mood — but Faramir, Gandalf and probably Éomer and Galadriel would all be contenders (I loved that a Westron could be as “kingly” as Éomer was and Galadriel had a strangely morally ambiguous history that I found intriguing). Anyhow, it’s always fun for me to watch the “grown-ups” geek out.
Watch it again below:
Re-live some other Klassic Kolbert Lord of the Rings geekery here
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Spoiler Alert: Neil Gaiman interview is ON for Monday night on the ‘Colbert Report’
Posted by: | CommentsI found a very interesting twitter from Neil Gaiman’s account today:
So it looks for those who have been clamoring for a Neil Gaiman guest appearance with Stephen Colbert are about to have your fandoms collide. And for those of you who are regular readers of No Fact Zone, you will know that Neil Gaiman is quite the it-getter, which should make for a very fun interview. Here’s a segment on ‘The Colbert Report’ that featured Neil Gaiman and his recent Newbery award win.
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Nothing is more exciting than seeing someone famous get totally jazzed about their own personal Colbert Bump. Stephen Colbert said this during his Who’s Not Honoring Me Now segment on ‘The Colbert Report’ last night:
First up, the Association for Library Service to Children, who gave the 2009 Newbery metal for distinguished children’s literature to “The Graveyard Book” by Neil Gaiman. Here’s a little summary: an 18-month old escapes the murder of his family by stumbling ahead of an assassin into an old graveyard. Bravo, Newbery. Sounds like a fantastic children’s book. Hey, I’ve got a great children’s book too – it’s called “F@#k it, We’re All Going To Die.” Newbery please!
As soon as Neil Gaiman heard about it, he could not contain his excitement and Twittered his amusement at the mention:
This morning, Gaiman had this to say on his blog about the segment:
I want to go on record as saying that this is quite possibly as good as it gets: sitting in a hotel room with your daughter the night before your film premieres, watching your Newbery-winning book being mocked by a bitterly Newberyless Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report.
If you missed the segment last night, you can watch it here.
h/t Jen for the Twitter catch and SoStorm for the blog entry
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