Backstage at the Colbert Report with guest Leslie Kean

I was pretty calm in the beginning... couldn't quite believe I was there. I'm a huge fan of Stephen's.

Although it wasn’t mentioned on the show on Monday night, ‘Colbert Report’ guest Leslie Kean had a bit of a secret – she is actually a HUGE ‘Colbert Report’ fan! Both Leslie and her sister have been in the studio audience multiple times before Leslie’s appearance. Leslie has a Facebook Fan page if you’d like to keep up with her, which I would highly recommend! Leslie shared multiple pictures of her backstage antics on her Facebook page, and has given us permission to republish them. Here are a few of my favorites.

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Stephen Colbert to TSA: Enjoy!

One of the commenters over at Television Without Pity just gave a brief rundown of last night’s taping, and it contained this totally wonderful tidbit from the Q&A: Most awesomely, someone asked him what he thought of the new body scanners at the airport, and he said that he was going to take some lead [...]

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‘The Village Voice’ delights in The Mountain Goats on ‘Colbert’

I don’t know why it makes me smile so to read people’s accounts of their Colbert Report visits, whether they’re from fans, bloggers or even the guests. I guess it just pleases me to know that people enjoyed themselves enough to want to share the experience … and possibly, if you’re The Village Voice, to [...]

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Pre-toss banter: Jon Stewart “not at all worried” about Stephen Colbert in Iraq

Normally, I’d be content to wait for nerdygirl‘s Daily Show Toss Recap to replay the joyous little exchange between Jon and Stephen, but I saw this and knew I needed to share: lucky fan Doglet was in the audience last night and was willing to dish on the details. So in addition to seeing the [...]

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Reasons to love Stephen Colbert: Number 1,000,001

I don’t usually link to taping reports because they (1) make people who weren’t there envious, (2) can start to sound the same and (3) make ME envious, but this has a really cute anecdote from Wednesday’s show, and I think people here will enjoy it (emphasis added) NYC Review: The Colbert Report . . [...]

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Stephen Colbert reminisces about Second City

There’s a cute story from Stephen’s Second City days with Steve Carell in this taping report from Wednesday’s show; check it out at “Today is the Day …”: Truthiness . . . Stephen came out and I was totally starstruck. He ran through the theater “in character” and then stepped out of character to take [...]

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Audience perks

Colbert University staffer Vigwig sent me a picture with this message about her visit to The Colbert Report yesterday, “We got Tube SOCKS! Freaking Colbert Nation, Stephen approved USA embossed tube socks under our chairs. How funny is that?” Actually? Quite. And they have excellent taste in ganking copyrighted iconic pictures.

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TV Squad’s Annie Wu makes a pilgrimage to ‘The Colbert Report’

I love it when fans who also happen to be prominent writers in the blogosphere make it to the show. I’ve been a fan and regular reader of Annie Wu’s since I first started blogging about The Colbert Report, and we’ve quoted her and linked to her stories on a fairly regular basis here. I’m [...]

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Because when it boils down to it, there’s a fangirl in all of us

Friend of the blog Lindsay over at Lindsayism.com posted this little vignette today that made laugh quite a bit. It’s really cool to have stories like the Ménage à Awesome to report, but sometimes it’s also cool to just simply revel in the happiness of other fans. So here’s the story: Stephen Colbert is a [...]

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Taping report from Tuesday’s ‘Colbert Report’

The gentleman at Better Chatter was at the Tuesday ‘Report’ taping and posted some thoughts on his experience, though he didn’t talk nearly as much about the Stewart-Colbert-O’Brien feud as I’d hoped. But it’s great to get a first-hand perspective, so thank you sir! And though I’ve never found Stephen to be intimidating as a [...]

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