February 1, 2008
Smoking is cool, kids! - life on the Colbert Report
Yesterday saw my date with destiny - and very nearly a date with Stephen Colbert, the charismatic right-wing loon who hosts The Colbert Report. I hope I am not breaking any confidences when I say that out of character, Stephen is charming and very empathetic. That said, he stays in character a lot - backstage is a pretty nerve-wracking experience. During our interview he managed to get me to urge the nation’s children to start smoking, compare oral sex to Pepsi, and announce that our brain is our gut. Not bad for four minutes - for the remaining 8 seconds I kept my dignity very well.
Earlier in the week I spoke to the Googlers; forty minutes instead of four and gentle but intelligent questioning. I’d like to tell you more about Google but they zapped me with a special mind ray and I can’t recall a thing, except bright lights and soft voices.
Links to both Colbert and Google are here.
Your interview was hilarious (in a good way!) and you even got off a zinger on Stephen re unprotected sex! It was delightful — I’m a dedicated Colbertophile, and I think you should be very proud.
Thanks for blogging about it!
Posted by: WordsWithGrace | February 2nd, 2008 at 8:07 pm | Report this commentYeah, that was great!
(and hey, smoking IS cool)
Posted by: fling93 | February 7th, 2008 at 6:18 pm | Report this commentI hope I’m stating the obvious, though it may not be obvious to those who only know Colbert’s name and nothing else; His right-wing views are simply a parody of Loons like Sean Hannity and Bill O’reilley. (I guess pretty much the entire Fox network, now that I think about it.) But all of it is just a joke on his part.
Posted by: Ange King | February 10th, 2008 at 10:31 pm | Report this comment