November 3rd 10:59AM
(Stephen Colbeagle the Eagle, mascot of the Saginaw Spirit)
Associated Press: Colbert-Inspired Hockey Mascot Flying Off Shelves
(And presumably screeching as it does so)
"The junior hockey club has TV host Stephen Colbert to thank for the sudden interest in the team's jerseys and hats, which now are selling in places as far and wide as California, Ireland and Scotland."
Watch Stephen introduce his namesake mascot and talk smack about their opponents in these four videos.
November 2nd 3:47PM
Stephen is up for (our celebrity-obsessed big brother who still lives at home) VH1's "Big Breakthrough" award for their Big in '06 awards show. Last night he urged viewers to "vote as many times as you like."
2 good reasons to vote for Stephen :
1. He's Stephen Colbert!
2. They spelled Sacha Baron Cohen's name wrong, so if you vote for him, it's not even him. Or something. (Oh yeah, we pointed that out!)
Throw down and vote for Stephen!
November 2nd 3:44PM
Heads up, prospective future guests of the Colbert Report. Slate's Troy Patterson just wrote a playbook on how to survive the withering truthternity rush that is the Stephen C. interview. Subtitled "How to Beat the Host at His Own Game," the article offers such strategies as:
"Laugh uproariously. Conservatives do well by taking this tack, and Bay Buchanan, chair of the Team America political action committee, was an ace. She was pushing her line on illegal immigration, arguing for a vast wall along the Mexican border, when Colbert upped the ante: "We need two walls. We need a moat. We need it filled with fire, maybe with some fireproof crocodiles in there." I imagine that most of Colbert's constituency thinks Buchanan to be kind of a creep, but there was an appealing jolliness in her laughing response to this line that made her seem agreeable, and her hard chuckles took the edge off his mockery."
That's right, Nation. Bay Buchanan's got skillz.
November 1st 5:18PM
Rolling Stone, that venerable institution of all things RAWK, turns a Maureen Dowd-powered spotlight on our favorite late night tag-team. Some of the juicy bon mots from the cover story of the latest issue:
STEWART: We rarely do ad hominem attacks. There's the occasional one — Cheney, I guess we do a little bit. But in general it's based in frustration over reality. We almost never do the, you know, Bush is dumb.
COLBERT: Ashcroft is a douche bag.
STEWART: I think Novak is a douche bag.
COLBERT: I'm sorry. I apologize. It's Robert Novak who's a douche bag. That's just fact. I think it's his confirmation name.
STEWART: When he joined Opus Dei . . .
COLBERT: "You shall be Saint Douche Bag."
Also, cast your vote for who does the "news" better in their Fake Off.
October 31st 11:36AM
Reader Marie sent us the following email:
"My daughter is a Colbert fan who watches the Report with her suite mates at Rice University, Texas. I thought that you would enjoy seeing her Colbert-O-lantern."
Thanks, Marie! And after the holiday, we hope your daughter and her suitemates enjoy some Colbert pumpkin pie. Happy Halloween!
October 26th 12:30PM
Update to the Colbert Portrait auction ending soon on eBay. As of this post (afternoon 10/26) the leading bid has eclipsed $25,000 (trumping the NY Post's headline of "almost"). That's a year's worth of tuition at a small Midwestern liberal arts college, baby!
The current leader is apparently a used book collector, having defeated all comers for a 1906 edition of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, a signed copy of DEBS and the Poets signed by Upton Sinclair and a weathered issue of the Oct. 20 1934 issue of Liberty Magazine featuring (wait for it) . . . Upton Sinclair.
Filthy rich Upton Sinclair fan, we salute you for exquisite taste and raising Stephen to the ranks of our most prominent pro-Socialist author of the 20th century.
October 18th 11:44AM
The Chicago Sun-Times primes the city for the return of former "Poet/Jerk", now Northwestern Homecoming Parade Grand Marshal Stephen Colbert. Check out Colbert: The College Years, which contains jewels such as:
"You know, I had a beard, and I wore black, and I was really willing to share my grief with you."
Let his example be a shining beacon to all other role-playing poet/jerk college students around the country.
Also, don't miss the profile on Colbert Report staff writer Peter Gwinn.
BTW, that really is David Schwimmer in the photo above.
