• May 27, 2012

colbert report

Famous pretend cable blowhard Stephen Colbert has been trying to get a “Super Political Action Committee” approved by Clarence Thomas, and now there’s a Colbert PAC, so that the multi-millionaire entertainer can legally raise unlimited amounts of money for whatever he wants. This is funny, we guess? USA Today reports: “In the course of dramatizing [...]

A whole lot of you people are asking what Wonkette item flashed on the teevee news program Colbert Report last night, and thanks to Wonkette operative/commenter iwillsavethispatient, we can now look at this screenshot and answer, “Oh it was one of the gross Diaperman David Vitter items.” In particular, it was this one from July [...]

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Meghan McCain colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Gay Marriage Meghan! She told Stephen Colbert last night that there should be room for “24-year-old pro-sex women” in the Republican Party. Who said there wasn’t? They are all married with nine kids, is the thing. Come [...]

Not to be prejudiced or anything, but a short tour around the Internets pretty easily proves that conservatives don’t “get” satire or parody. Why? The answer probably has something to do with “belief in simple absolutes” and “sex shame” and “childhood brain damage,” and research from 30 years ago showed dogmatic people tend to be [...]

Hey look who was on The Colbert Report last night — everybody’s new secret boyfriend, the esteemed baseball stats dork Nate Silver! He calls John McCain the Seattle Pilots, which is apparently funny? The point is, if this guy does not have a book deal and a standing job offer from Barack Obama by November [...]

Of Course, It Will Never End

by Jim Newell  6:09 pm November 2, 2007

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