Last night, the First Lady herself, Michelle Obama appeared on The Colbert Report to bring awareness to Joining Forces, the national initiative she and Jill Biden (the Second Lady; is that a thing?) started a year ago. The organization helps returning soldiers transition into...
One of the best interviews in recent memory is Stephen Colbert’s brief encounter with the lovable, if slightly cantankerous, children’s author Maurice Sendak (Where The Wild Things Are). If you missed it, do your patriotic duty and watch part one and part two before...
By the middle of this past weekend, the reason for Stephen Colbert's sudden absence from last week's Wednesday and Thursday episodes of The Colbert Report was that he was attending to his elderly mother. At the start of last night's episode, his first new show since Tuesday, he...
By now you've heard the Colbert Report suddenly shut down operations yesterday. Last night's episode was a previously aired episode and tonight will be the same. And like every other media outlet, the only statement Comedy Central could give us was this: "Due to unforeseen...
The late-night television ice cream war continues. You know the one of which we speak. It's the one wherein Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert have fostered an on-again-off-again friendship (best friends forever for six months) and lifelong (for six months) arch nemesis status--...
What does it mean when a comedian's satirical influence rubs off so heartily on the subjects he's satirizing that said subjects begin to satirize the real satirists? Christ, I have no idea. But I can tell you that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has entered the world of...
Old people say the darndest things, don't they? "Get my medicine, I'm dying." "My grandson is so handsome." "Help me, I've fallen and I can't get up!" We've heard it all before. But we think you'd agree that ye olde peeps are at their best when they engage in hateful, racist and...
Stephen Colbert made a stunning(ish) announcement on his show last night. He is ending his exploratory committee to run for President of the United States of South Carolina. The news comes after last weekend's South Carolina primary where Colbert ran as Herman Cain. The...
Stephen Colbert's camp announced tonight that the Comedy Central star will host a primary rally with former presidential hopeful Herman Cain. It's being dubbed The Rock Me Like A Hermain Cain: South Cain-Olina Primary Rally and is set to go down Jan. 20 -- a day before the...
