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• Video: ‘The Colbert Report: Global Edition’
• The Colbert Report - Global Edition: Holy cow that’s a lot of f-bombs
• Stephen Colbert in the Zeitgeist
• ‘The Colbert Report’ Global Edition - #9

This sounds like an excellent way to make a terrific movie simply mind-blowing. From CrunchGear:

DreamWorks and Intel commit to 3D with InTru3D
By Brian Krepshaw * August 20th, 2008

The recently announced DreamWorks and Intel partnership was expanded upon today with the announcement of InTru3D. The new mark was unveiled by DreamWorks’ Jeffrey Katzenberg at IDF. A clip from Kung-Fu Panda was specifically rendered in 3D for the announcement, wowing the audience with flying spears and falling rocks.

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The audience was treated to a short clip from the upcoming film (in theaters 3/09) Monsters vs. Aliens. That blurry character you see up there is The Prez (complete with Ronnie hair) as voiced by Stephen Colbert. You can’t see it in 3D of course, but I did, and it looks cooooool. The tech may still rely on polarized glasses and separate video streams for the left and right eyes, but if this is the type of thing we’re gonna be seeing out of the partnership, then we’re in for some good shows.

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• Zeitgeist May 10, 2007
• Zeitgeist for March 9, 2007
• Zeitgeist for March 7, 2007
• Zeitgeist for March 24, 2007

UPDATED
FURTHER UPDATED BELOW

There has been some confusion in the reports of Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones’ condition, but it appears the the congresswoman suffered an aneurysm last night and has been hospitalized in critical condition since that time. We here at NFZ express our continued well-wishes for her and those who know her.

In tribute to the congresswoman, here is a portion of her interview on The Colbert Report, as rebroadcast on the one year anniversary of Stephen’s show. Although it does not contain my favorite line (Stephen: “Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?”), it is a wonderful showcase for Cong. Tubbs Jones’ playful sense of humor.

Our thoughts are with the congresswoman, her family and all those who know her in this difficult time.

EDITED TO ADD: AP now confirms that Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones passed away at 6:12 this evening. Our heartfelt sympathies go out to those whose lives she touched.

• Zeitgest II - Midterm Boogaloo
• YouTube Video captures Geraldo Rivera dissing Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
• Yet Another MAN-ifesto
• Will Koch - Will He Ever Be On “The Colbert Report”???

Today, not one, but TWO different people are asking Stephen Colbert to mock them openly on The Colbert Report. First, we have a lady who suggests renaming a small town in New Mexico “Canton” for the express purpose of being mocked (and props to the author for the They Might Be Giants shoutout):

Why can’t Canton be our caper?
Tuesday, Aug 19 2008, 8:25 pm
By Kevin Wilson

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My take is, why be slighted? Take advantage. New Mexicans can stand up with one voice and tell Colbert, “Come to our Canton. There’s REALLY nothing here.”

All we do is take a town in our area, perhaps a ghost town, and rename it Canton. The people at Comedy Central might be so flattered they couldn’t resist filming an episode or two in our new Canton.

Would anybody miss a ghost town like Massey in Curry County or Painter in Roosevelt County when “The Colbert Report” films from Canton, N.M.? That could be worth the gross receipts tax of a small conference.

And renaming cities isn’t unprecedented. When I was growing up in Montana, residents of the tiny town of Ismay renamed their city Joe, and its residents got treated to a Kansas City trip to watch quarterback Joe Montana in a Chiefs game. New Mexico’s Hot Springs became Truth or Consequences to promote a 1950s radio program.

Heck, even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it, I can’t say for sure, but I’ve heard people just liked it better that way.

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Secondly, the town of Canton, Illinois begs to be featured next on the show. You gotta love a town that says they’ll be a good sport before they’re even Colbert Bumped. Maybe we can have one Canton gag without a threat of violence coming from the city afterwards:

Will Colbert bash our Canton?
Some residents sure hope so
By Brenda Rothert of the Journal Star
Posted Aug 19, 2008 @ 10:05 PM

So far Cantons in Illinois, Connecticut, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Ohio haven’t been mentioned. Officials from some of the Cantons that have been mentioned were offended by the insults. A Canton, Texas, councilman joked that he would “mash his nose” if he saw Colbert.

But Canton, Ill., Mayor Kevin Meade said he’d welcome the spotlight of Colbert.

“You’ve got to be able to take this for what it’s worth, and that’s a comedy routine,” he said. “We would welcome him in Canton - anytime.”

Spoon River College President Dr. Robert Ritschel agreed.

“I don’t think it would hurt to be mentioned on a show as popular as that one,” he said. “What would be worse - with all those other Cantons out there - is if he excluded us.”

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• Canton, Texas responds to their mention on ‘The Colbert Report’
• Who’s Not Honoring Stephen Colbert now? Canton, KS residents!
• Wait, Stephen Colbert is NOT an “intellectual”?
• Video: Stephen Colbert accepts his Webby

Hi, y’all! Hope you’re all surviving the dark week okay so far.

Since I’ve just been *all* about the Olympics in the past week and a half (in my minimal free time, that is), I thought you might enjoy this bit of Winter Olympics 2002 reportage from then-correspondent Stephen Colbert.

Way to embrace the true spirit of the Games, Stephen!

The Olympics: They’re On - Apres Ski

• Vacation Quick Fix: Infinitely Inspirational
• Stephen Colbert featured on “Ten F@#ing Years” Video Montage
• Star-Spangled Banner
• So if any of you need something to do this weekend …

Here’s one for all of you who get interested in number crunching (DB, I’m lookin’ at you!): The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has released a new study about audience demographics for various forms of news consumption. The results of the study are pretty long, but skimming over the tables yielded some interesting tidbits. I think this table made me smile the most (click on the image to enlarge it):

As has been reported before, this shows that the audiences for both The Colbert Report and The Daily Show have a higher proportion of young, well-educated and (relatively) well-informed individuals than do many other news outlets. With respect to the audience’s age, elsewhere in the report, the Pew Center observes:

“The audiences for radio and cable talk shows tend to be dominated by older Americans, with two notable exceptions - the Colbert Report and the Daily Show. Fully 43% of Colbert’s regular viewers are younger than 30, as are 42% of Stewart’s regular viewers. That is roughly double the proportion of people younger than 30 in the general public (21%).”

I can issue all the usual disclaimers and caveats about the extent to which we should consider those boys of Comedy Central “newsmen”, but I’d rather focus for now on the fact that they do appeal to younger viewers as well as the older ones, and without treating their viewers as idiots. I think that’s an incredibly important ability in engaging people, at whatever age, in the news of the world around them.

Stephen and Jon are trying to make us laugh, first and foremost, and they succeed quite brilliantly at it, but I’d like to take this opportunity to thank them for making their comedy so intelligent. For all the jokes based on bodily functions and/or silly graphics, there’s a lot of newsy material mixed in with the laughter, and that’s both informative and engaging. There are days when the only way I can handle hearing about some of the depressing stories in the news is if it’s mixed into a healthy dose of jokes and/or satire; I kind of think of it like someone hiding medicine inside of a dog treat and feeding it to the family pet.

So Stephen, Jon, everyone: Thanks for making my daily ration of news so palatable. I do my best to consume news stories of the day on my own but, particularly when the world is looking grim, you are absolute necessities.

P.S. That such a small percentage of people can correctly answer the three questions posed (who the current Secretary of State is, which party holds the Congressional majority, and who the current Prime Minister of Great Britain is) hurts my soul. I can’t say I’m surprised, but it’s excruciating, nonetheless.

• Zeitgest II - Midterm Boogaloo
• YouTube Video captures Geraldo Rivera dissing Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
• Yet Another MAN-ifesto
• Will Koch - Will He Ever Be On “The Colbert Report”???

According to the Friendly Athiest blog, it looks as if we’ve got another guest lined up for ‘Better Know A Lobbyist’ - Lori Lipman Brown, director of the Secular Coalition for America. Here’s her bio, from Secular.org:

Lori Lipman Brown is a lawyer, an educator, and a former Nevada State Senator. Since 2005 she has been the director of the Secular Coalition for America, the first Congressional lobbying organization explicitly representing nontheistic Americans. Brown’s awards include the Freethought Backbone Award of the Secular Student Alliance, Civil Libertarian of the Year from the Southern Nevada chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, Legislator of the Year from the Nevada chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, Friend of the Center award from the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada, the Mark DeWolfe Award from Interweave Continental and an award from Valley Outreach Synagogue.

Knowing Stephen Colbert’s Catholicism (and “Stepen’s” Christian fanaticism), this should make for one interesting segment.

h/t Jenny with a Y

• SPOILER ALERT: Wanna hear about what happened tonight at the show?
• SPOILER ALERT: NY Governor Eliot Spitzer on ‘The Colbert Report’ Tonight
• PREVIEW: Tonight’s guest - Samantha Power
• Zeitgeist May 10, 2007

Thanks to Zoner Amanda for finding this artwork for the announced Colbert Report special - A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All. According to TVShowsonDVD.com, this could be subject to change. But it still puts me in the mood for eggnog and a saucy Christmas ballad.

• What’s included on “The Best of ‘The Colbert Report’” DVD?
• Well, the Comedy Central marketing department certainly caught my eye with this
• Trailer for ‘Best of The Colbert Report DVD’!
• The first reviews of the “Best of Colbert DVD” are up - and they’re not good.

Thanks to Jenny with a Y, who sent me a wonderful tip about a video release this fall. The new video is called Comedy Central Salutes George W. Bush and it looks like all kinds of shows are going to be featured on the DVD:

Culled from Comedy Central’s various series, this ironic and hilarious tribute to United States President George W. Bush consists of a collection of clips from Bush-inspired segments. Included in the video are episodes of “South Park,” “That’s My Bush,” “Lil’ Bush” and “Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil,” along with clips from stand-up comedy routines as well as portions of “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report.”

Um … Can I please skip over the “Lil’ Bush” parts please?

• What’s included on “The Best of ‘The Colbert Report’” DVD?
• Well, the Comedy Central marketing department certainly caught my eye with this
• Trailer for ‘Best of The Colbert Report DVD’!
• The first reviews of the “Best of Colbert DVD” are up - and they’re not good.

“Tonight’s Colbert penny-pincher: if you’re out of milk, add water to yogurt. This is The Colbert Report!”

Justice Got Served: “Tonight, scandal hits the Department of Justice. Turns out Ashcroft was lip-synching ‘Let the Eagle Soar’ while it was sung by a less attractive Attorney General.”

• The WØRD: Blame Monica Goodling

A View To A Drill: “Then, will offshore drilling solve the energy crisis? Or should we wait for global warming to make everything offshore?”

• Formidable Opponent

Meyer Beware: “And, my guest tonight is Dick Meyer, author of the book ‘Why We Hate Us.’ If by ‘us’ he means him, and by ‘we,’ he means me, I’ve got the answer.”

• Guest: Author Dick Meyer, ‘Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium‘

In closing: “Well, folks, that’s our show for the evening. From all of us here at WPRG Channel 11, goodnight. I bought that goodbye on Ebay.”

Video Highlight: Formidable Opponent - Offshore Drilling: Stephen and Stephen play three-card Monte to explain offshore drilling.

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