Heh. I didn’t get to Wikipedia fast enough to catch the part where Conan was jealous of Stephen, but the part about Conan assaulting a sea turtle with a canoe paddle was still there. I guess that “Colbert Alert” is going to have to apply no matter when or where Stephen appears on television … [...]
Wikidrama redux? South Africa tries to control its elephant population
February 25, 2008 By
Way back in 2006, Stephen Colbert started a feud with a little website known as Wikipedia and dared us, the fledgling Colbert Nation, to reverse the course of extinction of the African elephant by editing the relevant Wikipedia pages. Colbert University has the history, and you can watch the Wørd segment that started wikiality fever [...]
Stephen Colbert and the Zeitgeist – Verfremdungseffekt Edition
September 1, 2007 By
The Colbert Report will always be linked with Viacom, YouTube, and Wikipedia in the Nation’s collective consciousness due to boardroom business, legal actions, and copyright controversies crashing through the 4th wall at some point. A few articles over the last week address news in these areas that may effect how we view TCR in the [...]
“Colbert Alert”
June 27, 2007 By
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! This is from a New York Times article (TimesSelect subscription required) on Wikipedia: All the News That’s Fit to Print Out By JONATHAN DEE Published: July 1, 2007 . . . Messing with a Wikipedia page requires no hacking skills whatsoever; thus vandalism is pandemic there. Though the admins are loath to give vandals [...]
Librarians are hiding something
May 24, 2007 By
Hee! It didn’t last long, but here’s one person’s Wikipedia handiwork: Here are more variants on the “Librarian” entry. There were some modifications to “Spanish“, too. Oh, and did you see this entry about alpacas? And this one about oxygen? I suppose this one about Albert Einstein really sums it all up.
Episode 3072 (05/24/2007)
May 24, 2007 By
“I report, I decide. This is The Colbert Report!“ Sea to Shining Me: “Tonight! It’s Memorial Day Weekend; don’t forget to turn your clocks back.” Fleet Week: Stephen Colbert’s Fleet Week Clean Time Fun Zone Dan Towbin: Flag Flap Stephen Colbert’s Survivor Tales: Up in Smoke Razing Arizona: “Then, I profile Arizona Congressman Raúl Grijalva [...]
Wikipedia goes into lockdown again . . . and this time, Steve Carell is the mastermind
April 11, 2007 By
The folks over there at Wikipedia are really going to hate The Daily Show‘s alums if this keeps up. From the AP, via the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: ‘Office’ fans flock to edit Wikipedia By ANICK JESDANUN AP INTERNET WRITER NEW YORK — In the NBC series “The Office,” the boss Michael Scott turned to Wikipedia for [...]
In the Fog of Wikiality…
March 26, 2007 By
…reality may be a commodity, but a man’s true character will come to the surface. I first thought to put this in the Zeitgeist but realized I wanted to editorialize a bit… with your kind indulgence, of course. Wikipedia founder and self-proclaimed “anticredentialist.” Jimmy Wales seems a little touchy about ‘co-founder’ Larry Sanders calling himself [...]
Can you say “Wikiality”? I thoughtcha could!
February 13, 2007 By
Last week, amid many rumors of Stephen Colbert hosting the Grammy Awards, I did a tiny bit of research and made a simple phone call that immediately put me through to a CBS PR spokesperson to quell the rumors that Colbert was hosting the Grammy Awards this past weekend. Then I posted about it. 15 [...]
Wikiality is the new reality: Wikipedia founder admits that Wikipedia is not objective
February 7, 2007 By
As fans of The Colbert Report know, Stephen’s feud with Wikipedia has been simmering ever since he introduced the concept of “Wikiality” (reality, or truth, based on popular consensus) back on July 31st, 2006. He was subsequently blamed as a “vandal” by many proponents of Wikipedia when nearly all entries referencing elephants were changed to [...]