Huffington: Colbert interview --" the man not the character."

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Mon Oct-06-08 12:37 PM
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Huffington: Colbert interview --" the man not the character."

Rachel Sklar made notes of Colbert at New Yorker Festival.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/06/stephen-colbert-at-the-em_n_132019.html

Also of the screen Colbert: "Like everyone else, he wants to be loved, he just doesn't value curiosity or knowledge" Also, a key point: "He's a victim." This, said Colbert, is what "amazing" about guys like Bill O"Reilly: "He trumpets his power while in the same breath declaring his victimhood." (As evidence, he cited a long line of Presidents, gazillion Christian members of Congress.) On the victimhood point, he dings McCain for his recent bellyaching: "Life isn't fair...it's completely unfair that you're unlikeable." Ouch! (Earlier, he had acknowledged his liberal leanings and joked that he was a "pinko.")
He tells his guests: "My character is an idiot. So come on an disabuse me of my ignorance." He recalled the moment when he was about to say that to O'Reilly, and then pausing briefly as the irony sank in. Then he went ahead and gave his usual speech; O'Reilly didn't seem to notice anything.

Lots more at link.

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Mon Oct-06-08 06:41 PM
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1. Kick self

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Mon Oct-06-08 07:02 PM
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2. I will happily K&R anything about my sweetheart Stephen n/t

:loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya:
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renate

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Mon Oct-06-08 07:07 PM
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3. seriously, y'all--the article is charming

Full of quotes and jokes (and his wife's reaction when Jane Fonda sat on his lap :))--more than worth the time to click and read. I'm sending it to everyone I know. Thanks, IMM!

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Mon Oct-06-08 09:12 PM
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4. I thought so. You don't get to see the real Colbert much.

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Mon Oct-06-08 09:27 PM
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5. He rocks! If this country is to be saved, it will be because of him and

Jon Stewart.

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Mon Oct-06-08 09:46 PM
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6. Thanks for posting that.

It was cool to see him out of character.

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Mon Oct-06-08 10:28 PM
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8. Yeh! I always wondered how he preps his guests.

The secrets are revealed.

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myrna minx

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Mon Oct-06-08 09:55 PM
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7. J'adore Colbert. K&R n/t

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Tue Oct-07-08 01:05 AM
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9. can I hear just one more vote? For my darling little Stephen... please? n/t

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comrade snarky

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Tue Oct-07-08 01:15 AM
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10. Colbert helps keep me sane

With his razor sharp insanity.

He must have had hundreds of girlfriends. K. and R.

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Tue Oct-07-08 06:36 PM
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11. Loved his comment on the White House Correspondents Dinner

Edited on Tue Oct-07-08 06:37 PM by Pluvious

First of all, he didn't know he'd bombed. At all. "What you don't know at home is that there were 3,000 people in the room , and the thousand people in the front were all the most important," he said � but the back of the room was laughing, and he heard that. "Maybe Antonin Scalia's not laughing, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs Peter Pace isn't laughing" � but otherwise he thought he was doing fine.

OH oh - and:

"Do I like catching someone for being a hypocrite? Hell yeah!...I'm not saying truth to power, I'm saying 'fuck you' to power." In the case of the WHCD, I'm pretty sure that power was saying 'fuck you' right back.

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Great read, thanks for posting !

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