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Stephen Colbert Shaves Head For US Troops In Iraq
It’s official. Stephen Colbert has declared victory in the war in Iraq. But the top U.S. commander in the country says not so fast.
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Stephen Colbert To Broadcast From Iraq
Stephen Colbert will broadcast four shows next week from Baghdad, where he says he’ll be “Bob Hoping” it for the troops.
Colbert arrived at the former Al Faw Palace at Camp Victory on Friday. For weeks, he’s promoted the trip on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” but because the military urged caution, he has only trumpeted a vague trip to “the Persian Gulf.”
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Jimmy Fallon, Sarah Silverman Among Webby Winners
Jimmy Fallon’s late-night show hasn’t been on the air three months, but he’s already got an award. The comedian was chosen as person of the year by the annual Webby awards for being “one of the most ardent online evangelists.”
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Colbert Gets Most Votes For Name Of New Space Station Addition; NASA Gets Final Word
NASA’s online contest to name a new room at the international space station went awry. Comedian Stephen Colbert won.
The name “Colbert” beat out NASA’s four suggested options in the space agency’s effort to have the public help name the addition. The new room will be launched later this year.
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Stars Micro-Blog Their Lives On Twitter
Celebrity can be an interesting thing when distilled to no more than 140 characters.
As the micro-blogging platform Twitter.com has gone mainstream, an increasing number of celebrities have opened up accounts where they post messages — or “tweet” — about their daily lives. A tweet can’t exceed 140 characters, but that limitation hasn’t prevented the famous from revealing a new digital dimension of themselves.
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Paul McCartney Set For ‘Colbert Report’ Visit
The Comedy Central TV channel says Paul McCartney is going to drop in on Stephen Colbert.
McCartney will be a guest on Wednesday’s “The Colbert Report,” talking up his latest album, “Electric Arguments.”
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Dish Of Salt: Top Ten TV Quotes Of The Week (1/23/09)
“Lost” returned with a bang this week and the Inauguration was great fodder for the political jokesters of Comedy Central.
But which quote from our new President made our number one spot this week?
The answer and the quotes inside…
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Deal Keeps MTV, Comedy Central On Cable Airwaves
Millions of Time Warner Cable customers won’t lose their access to MTV and 18 other channels after the cable giant reached an agreement early Thursday with media conglomerate Viacom Inc.
The two sides, citing disagreement over fee hikes, had threatened a damaging blackout at a minute past midnight Thursday that would have cut off shows such as “SpongeBob SquarePants” and “The Colbert Report” to about 15.7 million subscribers.
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Stewart, Colbert Parody Election In Real Time
Culminating their satirical coverage of the campaign, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert teamed up for a live one-hour comedy special — though Stewart had his Cronkite moment, too.
About 11 p.m. EST, Stewart became possibly the first comedian to announce presidential election result on live national television.
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Colbert Runs For White House — With Spider-Man
Stephen Colbert is hoping to swing into the White House — alongside Spider-Man.
The host of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” appears with the web-slinger in an issue of Marvel Comics’ “The Amazing Spider-Man,” out on Oct. 15.
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‘30 Rock’ Wins Big At Emmys
It’s a clean sweep for NBC’s “30 Rock,” as the sitcom takes home Best Comedy, as well as awards for stars Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin.
Who else did Emmy shine on this year?
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Top Ten Most Memorable Emmy Moments
From Donald Trump in overalls, to surprising speech slip-ups, check out the top ten Emmy moments!
