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  Colbert Report City - Wikiality, the Truthiness Encyclopedia for Colbert's Heroes
Colbert Report City is a city in the U.S. state of Utah and is the capital of the Colbert Nation.
Almost immediately, Colbert and his faith were besieged by the liberal media, who charged that Stephenological Colbertism was nothing more than a "Cult of Personality", and that it's followers were just a relection of a larger "Idiot Culture", which they alleged had taken root in society.
Colbert was condemned as a hypocrite by the liberal Jew establishment of the City of New York, and his character was thoroughly assassinated.
www.wikiality.com /Colbert_Report_City   (1159 words)

  
 Cavenger - The Colbert Report
The Colbert Report first appeared in the form of three fake commercials for itself that aired several times on The Daily Show, although the themes that would form the basis for the Report can be seen in some of the earlier bits performed by Colbert.
Before hosting The Colbert Report, Colbert was the host of a fictional "Sunday morning chat show," The Colbert Gang, a parody of the CNN program The Capital Gang, which appeared in a segment called "Corporate Slogans" on the Daily Show.
Colbert has since made frequent reference to the widespread influence of truthiness since he introduced it, while carping on media accounts of truthiness that neglect to identify him as its source.
www.cavenger.com /colbert.php   (2443 words)

  
  Compete Blog » Colabertation: Colbert Report and fans take on Wikipedia
Since defining “truthiness” on his “conservative” talk show, The Colbert Report, he’s roasted the president at a national press dinner, adopted a bald eagle, and was recently immortalized as a Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream flavor.
What’s unique about the Colbert Report is how it includes fans in the show by calling on them to do Stephen’s bidding.
Colbert runs a great show, they understand the benefit of engaging their audience.
blog.compete.com /2007/02/16/colbert-report-wikipedia   (727 words)

  
  The Colbert Report - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Colbert Report first appeared in the form of three fake commercials for itself that aired several times on The Daily Show, although the themes that would form the basis for the Report can be seen in some of the earlier bits performed by Colbert.
Before hosting The Colbert Report, Colbert was the host of a fictional "Sunday morning chat show," The Colbert Gang, a parody of the CNN program The Capital Gang which appeared in a segment called "Corporate Slogans" on the Daily Show.
Stephen Colbert announces that "The WØRD" of the night is "truthiness", during the premiere episode of The Colbert Report.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colbert_Report   (3475 words)

  
 Arkansas Blog: The Colbert Report   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Watched it for the 2nd time today and while I am still amazed that Colbert managed to zing them all on dozens of points, I got the feeling again that I was watching cast party for a play that has been going on for a couple of hundred years.
Colbert confused the audience with his skewering performance art and turned the evening on its head.
Colbert's performance was a one time blaze of glory designed to reveal the fraudulence of the main stream media pursuing the job that got it FIrst Amenment protection as an indispensible part of a healthy democracy.
www.arktimes.com /blogs/arkansasblog/2006/04/the_colbert_report.aspx   (2415 words)

  
 Colbert Report, The (Comedy Central) - Reviews from Metacritic
The biggest question hanging over "The Colbert Report" is whether the show’s sendup of the pomposity and fear-mongering of cable news blowhards will be as appealing in the long term as "The Daily Show’s" satire of public figures and the news media as a whole.
Colbert was an invaluable part of the Daily Show, but as the whole show, he's not enough and too much simultaneously.
Colbert is very skillful at parodying people who are already parodies of themselves, and his show is a lot sharper than most of what passes for comedy on TV.
www.metacritic.com /tv/shows/colbertreport   (959 words)

  
 Arkansas Blog: The Colbert report   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Colbert's act went right over the audience's head, in part because the audience's head was inserted elsewhere in the audience's body, speaking of things you might have seen at a Cirque de Soleil.
Colbert was funny; the president is not, and the Washington press gang is, for the most part, incestuously impaired.
Like even a few brave reporters from Fox lost their cool during the worst of Katrina and spoke truth......I have to hope that there is enough good people left in our national media to risk their careers by pulling us back from the brink of destruction by doing the job they were trained to do.
www.arktimes.com /blogs/arkansasblog/2006/05/the_colbert_report_1.aspx   (1906 words)

  
 The Colbert Report - Wikiality, the Truthiness Encyclopedia for Colbert's Heroes
The Colbert Report first appeared in the form of three promos for itself that aired several times on The Daily Show, although the themes that would form the basis for the Report can be seen in some of the earlier interviews and stories submitted by Colbert to The Daily Show.
This is the Colbert report.") Then the show's opening titles sequence kicks off, with images of flag waving, Colbert striking colgasm inducing poses and words describing Colbert flying by all to the greatest T.V. theme of all time by the band Cheap Trick.
Colbert's razor-wit and unflappable balls in the presence of his guests make him a superb interviewer, and on every occasion to date, has managed to 'nail' every guest on some part of their argument that does not hold up under scrutiny.
www.wikiality.com /The_Colbert_Report   (2515 words)

  
 Colbert Report's "Atonement Hotline" Crashes Phone Switches   (Site not responding. Last check: )
During popular Comedy Central television show, The Colbert Report, a flood of calls to their 1-888-OOPS-JEW call in line overwhelmed telephone switches and brought down lines across the Eastern Seaboard--yet VoiceNation's proprietary digital voice system remained stable despite the call-in line's unexpected popularity.
Had the producers of The Colbert Report been able to correctly gauge the overwhelming number of calls they actually received, we could have better prepared the switch operator.
Producers of The Colbert Report chose VoiceNation due to the company's reputation for reliability and quick turn around.
www.prweb.com /releases/voicenation/colbertreport/prweb446361.htm   (682 words)

  
 Colbert's Book Report - Mar 21, 2006 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mar 21, 2006, 10:10 AM PT Stephen Colbert might profess to not reading books, but that's not stopping the truthiness purveyor from writing one of his own.
Just as The Colbert Report (pronounced in the French way, as "ra-poor") has proved a worthy successor to The Daily Show, where Colbert served as a writer and chief correspondent, the proposed book hopes to attract the same readers who made The Daily Show-branded America (The Book), an instant bestseller.
Since launching in October, The Colbert Report, a satirical homage to Bill O'Reilly and the army of cable news talking heads, has retained its Daily Show lead-in audience in the 11:30 p.m.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,18612,00.html?rsslatest   (420 words)

  
 Where’s the Outrage? » The Colbert Report
Colbert’s segment The Word is always a lesson in illogic and nonsequitur.  This is no different.
The Colbert Report continues to be funny, intelligent and cutting edge.  The Word is about making the War in Iraq a reality TV show.  This is funny.
Hosted by comedian Stephen Colbert, the year-old program is a spinoff of the cable channel’s wildly popular “The Daily Show Starring Jon Stewart”; and one of an increasing number of political humor shows on cable that are drawing the young viewers whom advertisers covet.
www.whereistheoutrage.net /wordpress/category/media/the-colbert-report   (758 words)

  
 Colbert's Heroes: A heroic fan site for "The Colbert Report."
"Colbert's Heroes," launched in May 2006, was the first unofficial fan site dedicated to "The Colbert Report" and its charming star, Stephen Colbert.
It is a gesture of admiration for Mr.
Colbert and a sign of slavish devotion to his punditry.
www.colbertsheroes.org   (232 words)

  
 The Colbert Report: Oui, Oui - Wonkette   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In any case, the Colbert Report's shtick will be familiar to any Daily Show viewer -- Colbert's fatuous, arrogant character deadpans nonsense and near nonsense in the exact low tones of our most trusted (or, uhm, at least highest-rated) news anchors.
Colbert's unrelenting smoothness is almost disturbing; he is always in character -- we longed for a flicker of Jon Stewart's stunned earnestness in the face of wicked absurdity.
Then we realized: "The Colbert Report" isn't supposed to be "The Daily Show," it's the cracker "Ali G." We can't wait for the Pat Buchanan interview.
www.wonkette.com /politics/stephen-colbert/the-colbert-report-oui-oui-131528.php   (271 words)

  
 wjz.com - 'Colbert Report' Prides Itself On Truthiness
Colbert discovered that a camera, any camera, even his camera, is irresistible to men and women seeking re-election every two years.
Colbert has been going for laughs since he was a child, growing up near Charleston, S.C., in a large very family.
At home, Colbert is a doting father who makes sure his kids do not see the other Colbert — he only rarely let his kids watch the show.
wjz.com /minutes/sixtyminutes_story_121103721.html   (1447 words)

  
 All-spin zone - Salon
Stephen Colbert celebrates the era of ignorance, taking his bloviating journalist to a glorious new high with his "Daily Show" spinoff.
Immediately, Colbert has his finger on the throbbing pulse of right-wing punditry, the dexterity with which they pander to the working class without getting any mud on their Italian wing-tip loafers.
Not only does Colbert maintain his persona without skipping a beat throughout the entire show, but he's got great comic timing, the show's writers are brilliant, and the whole thing is pure foolish, bizarre, idiotic fun at Bill O'Reilly's expense.
www.salon.com /ent/tv/review/2005/10/18/colbert_report/index.html   (523 words)

  
 Stephen Colbert: America’s ‘Truthiness’ Teller - Newsweek Entertainment - MSNBC.com
What earned Colbert's ire was an AP story last month about the American Dialect Society's "word of the year." The word is "truthiness," which, if you want to get technical, isn't a word at all.
When the "Report" debuted last October, Colbert made clear that his mantra would be truthiness, a devotion to information that he wishes were true even if it's not.
This is where "truthiness" was born, but Colbert has also fixated on "bacchanalia," "wham-o" and "double-stick tape," which allowed him to discourse on the merits of the Miss America pageant and the manner in which contestants keep their bikinis in place.
msnbc.msn.com /id/11182033/site/newsweek   (976 words)

  
 The Report Colbert
Host Stephen Colbert has been using more of the facial expressions than usual and filling a lot of time with such weak stunts as imitating Ellen DeGeneres' dancing in the audience (which he acknowledged was a good time stretcher) and lots of interviews.
And while "The Colbert Report kept to mostly light-hearted references, Jon Stewart discussed the strike at length with a professor who specialized in labor relations.
Colbert ended the interview by asking him if he was a member of a union.
reportcolbert.blogspot.com   (2308 words)

  
 The Colbert Report - Colbert Interviews Dean Kamen
The Colbert Report - 11/09/06: Colbert interviews Dean Kamen, the creater of the segway.
The Colbert Report - 11/14/06: Dan is an American journalist, who served as anchor of the CBS Evening News from 1981to 2005.
Colbert on Demand is a user-run community and is not affiliated with The Colbert Report nor would have existed without it.
www.colbertondemand.com /videos/The_Colbert_Report/Colbert_Interviews_Dean_Kamen   (231 words)

  
 The Colbert Report, Morley Safer Profiles Comedy Central's 'Fake' Newsman - CBS News
Four nights a week on Comedy Central, Stephen Colbert, the mild-mannered suburbanite turns into Stephen Colbert, the wild-eyed crusader, hell-bent on fighting for truth, justice and the American way.
On his first broadcast, Colbert announced, "…This show is not about me. No, this program is dedicated to you, the heroes.
Asked to define "truthiness," Colbert tells Safer, "Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/04/27/60minutes/main1553506.shtml   (684 words)

  
 COLBERT REPORT REPORT, By Paul Glastris - CBS News
The way Colbert carries himself is hard to describe: he's at once taut and loose, intense and relaxed.
Anyway, Colbert then went off to start the taping, and I was brought into the studio half an hour later, just as the Kucinich segment was finishing up.
As they led me to the part of the set with the little table where the author interviews are done, I noticed Colbert at his desk, furiously editing the list of pre-written questions he was going to ask me (the improv impulse kicking in).
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2007/10/27/politics/animal/main3419246.shtml   (961 words)

  
 Colbert Report TV Show on Comedy Central
Stephen Colbert has taken his news correspondent job on the Daily Show to a whole new level in his self titled "The Colbert Report".
Colbert's show has its own spin and the correspondent role which he created on The Daily Show has developed into a new format that features Colbert's views on current news events, plus interviews with those making the headlines.
His personality, insight and overall rightness could only lead to The Colbert Report, a half-hour nightly platform for him to give his take on the issues of the day, and, more importantly, to tell you why everyone else's take is just plain wrong.
www.nytix.com /TVShows/NewYork/ColbertReport/index.html   (373 words)

  
 Metromix. 'Colbert Report' report   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Colbert's first night as host of his own show was pitched at a fairly manic level of energy; over time, he'll likely dial down a little and ease into his role as cable's most self-absorbed host/pundit.
By the end of Colbert's tenure on "The Daily Show," he had an enviable rapport (sorry, ra-PORE) with Stewart; Colbert's arrogant, blow-dried, know-nothing was the perfect foil to Stewart's earnest fake-news anchor.
Colbert and Phillips, at one point, had a contest of gravitas, taking turns making random snippets of news copy and tongue-twisting poetry sound as weighty and ponderous as possible.
metromix.chicagotribune.com /tv/mmx-051018-chicago-tv-colbert-report-watcher,0,2122823.story?coll=mmx-home_bottom_hedsh2o   (414 words)

  
 The Colbert Report
The Colbert Report, is an American satirical television program on Comedy Central that stars Stephen Colbert, best known previously as a correspondent for The Daily Show.
The show continues the Stephen Colbert correspondent character from The Daily Show, but in a different context — a direct parody of political pundit programs, especially those regarded as right-wing or Republican -leaning.
The Colbert Report is being followed up by a second spin-off of The Daily Show, a show called Red State Diaries to be hosted by Lewis Black and slated to debut in 2006.
stephencolbertonline.com /the_colbert_report   (102 words)

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