The Winter Olympics are almost over, Stephen’s Vancourage is at an end, I still don’t have a pair of Norwegian Curling pants and my poor little inbox has been on the verge of exploding this week. Stephen’s friends seem to be working on new projects at an Olympic pace!! I hope you enjoy this week’s [...]
Ex-’Singled Out’ host writes open letter to Stephen Colbert
September 21, 2009 By
This is hilarious! From an open letter Chris Hardwick (formerly of MTV’s Singled Out) posted on Nerdist: AN OPEN LETTER: You Were ME Once, Colbert!!! by CHRIS HARDWICK on SEPTEMBER 21, 2009 Dear Stephen Colbert, Fun Emmy show last night, huh? NPH was fantastic and good times seemed to be the theme of the night. [...]
Rolling Stone charts the pre-’Colbert Report’ career of Stephen Colbert
September 2, 2009 By
Nice! Props to DB for pointing out that Rolling Stone, in addition to releasing a Q&A teaser and cover shot, also did a walkthrough of Stephen’s pre-Report days. From Rolling Stone: Before the Report: Stephen Colbert’s Rise From Sketch Shows to America’s Hero Watch early appearances on “The Dana Carvey Show,” “Strangers With Candy” and [...]
Klassic Kolbert: Skinheads from Maine
August 11, 2009 By
On the heels of last night’s interview with Rep. Chellie Pingree, I’ve seen a number of tweets, blog posts and other comments expressing excitement over Stephen’s brief focus on Maine. This reminded me that Maine set the scene for an earlier segment starring Stephen Colbert and Dana Carvey (also, that it’s possible to make just [...]
Stephen Colbert in the Zeitgeist – May 17, 2009
May 17, 2009 By
Hey, Zoners! Everybody have a good weekend? Here’s a little zeitgeisty goodness to help you get the new week started. I hope you all had a chance to watch the video from Stephen’s commencement address at MUSC a couple of days ago. The students got a wonderful speech, and it was a joy to see [...]
New York Times reviews ‘The Dana Carvey Show’
May 8, 2009 By
The Dana Carvey Show has benefitted from a popularity spike since its recent release on DVD, and the New York Times is hopping on that bandwagon with this review of the show, complete with quotes from Sir Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D.F.A. about how the experience helped him develop his Daily Show and Colbert Report [...]
Stephen Colbert in the Zeitgeist – April 26, 2009
April 26, 2009 By
Greetings, Zoners! I hope you all had a great weekend. If you’re in the Northeast, like I am, we’ve had a great taste of summer for the past couple of days. But regardless of where you are, I hope you all got in some relaxing and recreating and are ready to take on a new [...]
Update on the ‘Dana Carvey Show’ DVDs
March 17, 2009 By
As we’ve noted here before, a set of DVDs of The Dana Carvey Show is scheduled for release this Spring. Now, from Home Media Magazine, here’s a bit more news: Shout! Factory Slates ‘Designing Women,’ ‘Dana Carvey’ By John Latchem | Posted: 17 Mar 2009 jlatchem@questex.com Shout! Factory is expanding its comedy slate in May [...]
‘Dana Carvey Show’ DVD cover art released
February 17, 2009 By
For those of you who have been itching to get a clear version of “Gentle News” or “Skinheads From Maine” on DVD, your wait is getting much shorter. TVShowsOnDVD.com has released a copy of the new artwork for the ‘Dana Carvey Show’ as well as a little bit of new data about the release, scheduled [...]
The Joy Down reminded me of something
December 10, 2008 By
As soon as I saw the Bizarro Happy version of “The Colbert Report”, I immediately thought of this classic sketch from “The Dana Carvey Show”. Was it just me?