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Games Come To the Colbert Nation
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Zonk
on Wed Nov 29, 2006 07:41 PM
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from the you-may-or-may-not-already-be-on-report dept.
Stephen Colbert's hit Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report" has already seen some game-related activities. You may recall the day he retired his dice because of Dungeons and Dragons Online's launch, or "Everything Bad is Good For You" author Steven Johnson's appearance on the show. Last week, though, with the release of the Wii, Colbert had to "get his Wii on", and demonstrated Wii Boxing vs. a virtual Nancy Pelosi. Next Monday will see veteran game designer Will Wright on the show.
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Instead I think we should consider renaming one of our lesser used states as an honor more appropriate to his grippy contributions to America. We're not doing anything with Colorado these days anyway, but imagine the appeal of a new and improved state with a virile name like Colberado. Book your tickets today!
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Someone get the board... (Score:5, Funny)
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Colbert on Conan (Score:1)
When Colbert was on Conan and talked about his D&D and Tolkien past... hilarious.
I see he's tagged as "Dr. Stephen Colbert" in the credits, anyone know what his subject is?
Re:Colbert on Conan (Score:4, Funny)
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Knox College. Carl Sandburg College is the local community college, and does not grant doctorates, honorary or not.
I believe you're correct about it being Fine Arts though. And he gave a pretty good talk. Better than the guy who spoke at my graduation, that's for sure.
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Honorary doctorate in Fine Arts from Knox College [knox.edu].
Re:Colbert on Conan (Score:5, Funny)
Colbert has a doctorate in truthiness.
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Your post has a certain odor of 'truthiness' about it.
In fact, Cosby earned a real live Ph.D. in the field of education at UMass during the 1970s.
This was during the same time that he was working on the Fat Albert cartoon.
A profile of him.. (Score:3, Interesting)
Colbert has Opened the Can of Worms (Score:2, Funny)
Spore (Score:5, Interesting)
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Re:so, (Score:5, Funny)
Why do you hate america?
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It's elementary! (Score:3, Funny)
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Your immortal soul, which, of course, means that if you're actually in marketing they're free.
KFG
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I get the quote, but really, from someone who works in marketing, we're really not the evil ones - all we do is look at what the advertising industry is producing and define it with statistics; we're the ones who tell the advertising agencies that what they're doing is pissing people off and to stop it. You won't believe me, but we're on your side.
The people you (and Bill Hicks) were thinking of are the people in Public Relations. THEY'RE bloodsuckers.
Triv
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Right, then. GET HIM!
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Re:Ummm.... (Score:5, Insightful)
mmm hmm. So... basically you're saying there's a massive delusion that a couple of guys are funny that you are completely unaffected by. How does one guy about massively de-frauding people of laughter?
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Re:don't forget..... (Score:4, Insightful)
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What's wrong with O'Reilly? (Score:2)