Games Come To the Colbert Nation

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.

Re:so,

[crabpeople]

Colbert + anything = news for nerds!

Why do you hate america?

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[JonSnow7412]

Steven Colbert picked his target audience, it was actually a very smart move. Since you are on slashdot, you know how many "nerds" are out there. I say more power to him.

It's elementary!

[Nomihn0]

Judging by relative frequency, a gaming Slashvertisement costs the same as a gaming Colbertisement. We have a nice 1:1 correlation going so far. Or should that be "Wii?"

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[kfg]

How much does a Slashvertisement run these days?

Your immortal soul, which, of course, means that if you're actually in marketing they're free.

KFG

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[WilliamSChips]

I'm not buying Slashvertizements for any price! Begone, demon! [terrorisland.net]

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[kfg]

I don't need to buy groceries. I have land [terrorisland.net]

KFG

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[Triv]

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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[kfg]

I've read my Ogilvy. Perhaps I should have capitalized the "m".

The people you (and Bill Hicks) were thinking of are the people in Public Relations. THEY'RE bloodsuckers.

Now you've gone and insulted the vampires. Good luck to you.

KFG

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[AKAImBatman]

from someone who works in marketing...

Right, then. GET HIM!

Someone get the board...

[Palshife]

Zonk, you're on notice.

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[DragonPup]

You can get the board here [shipbrook.com].

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[anarchy_man3]

I guess we can't all have a sense of humor.

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[maxume]

The scary part is that to believe the Daily Show is smarmy you have to be more right wing than John Ashcroft *and* take yourself more seriously.

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[LOTHAR, of the Hill]

aren't you one of the Spice Girls?

Re:Ummm....

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

"...nothing he or Jon Stewart does is funny, and you idiots only think it's funny because you mistake smarminess for humor"

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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[__aatgod8309]

The shark, or the Spore?

Colbert on Conan

[eddy]

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?

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[raitchison]

He got an honorary doctorate in somethingorother a year or two ago. I'm too lazy to look up the specifics.

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[KaSkA101]

He was given an honorary fine arts degree for speaking at a graduation.

Re:Colbert on Conan

[jimmichie]

I see he's tagged as "Dr. Stephen Colbert" in the credits, anyone know what his subject is?

Time Lord.

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[WilliamSChips]

No, that would be this guy [gateworld.net] seeing as he's played by Chris Eccleston. :P

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[whoop]

He received an honorary phd (Fine Arts maybe?) from Sandburg College in Galesburg, Illinois this summer for giving the speech at their graduation ceremony.

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[holt]

He received an honorary phd (Fine Arts maybe?) from Sandburg College in Galesburg, Illinois this summer for giving the speech at their graduation ceremony.

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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[Anonymous Coward]

"I see he's tagged as "Dr. Stephen Colbert" in the credits, anyone know what his subject is?"

Honorary doctorate in Fine Arts from Knox College [knox.edu].

Re:Colbert on Conan

[Pancake Bandit]

I see he's tagged as "Dr. Stephen Colbert" in the credits, anyone know what his subject is?

Colbert has a doctorate in truthiness.

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[14CharUsername]

I don't know if that's a fact, but it feels right to me.

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[Anonymous Coward]

I believe he's parodying Bill Cosby...who after getting his honorary PhD added it to his name in the credits to "The Cosby Show."

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.

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[bigwang]

Colbert is a genius.

Here is how he got his doctorate in fine arts, from a Wired magazine piece on him earlier this year:

"I have a doctorate in fine arts from Knox College in Illinois. All I did was give a speech, and now everybody has to call me Dr. Colbert."

(http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/colbert. html)

A profile of him..

[CashCarSTAR]

included the fact that he has the LotR pinball machine in his office.

Colbert has Opened the Can of Worms

[ack154]

I can't wait to get a Wii and make a Mii of Jack Thompson and beat the shit out of him. Oh, wait... then he's probably sue Nintendo, right?

Spore

[ObiWanStevobi]

No doubt Will will be on to start some SPORE buzz. A game based on evolution should give Colbert some killer material.

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[k_187]

Except since the player guides every "evolution" in the game, its really a game about Intelligent Design isn't it? Granted, I'd imagine that most people's designs won't be so intelligent, but it fits the ID theory, no?

Re:don't forget.....

[BKX]

You probably also think he's a Republican who likes Bill O'Reilly (however his name is spelled).

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[Anonymous Coward]

you're not getting the point. Colbert, as seen on the Colbert report, is a character. He plays an internet-hating, republican-loving news anchor, where as in real life, he leans left, and is actually decently teched out.

What's wrong with O'Reilly?

[MS-06FZ]

You probably also think he's a Republican who likes Bill O'Reilly (however his name is spelled).

I honestly don't understand why people hate him so much. I mean, those books are great and it's so cute how each one has a picture of an animal on it. I had some good times in college learning from the camel book...