tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583877.post113769499895522281..comments2024-03-20T05:31:42.781-04:00Comments on Secondat: don't look now ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583877.post-1137874554090991142006-01-21T15:15:00.000-05:002006-01-21T15:15:00.000-05:00I've become a big fan of the Colbert Report (prono...I've become a big fan of the <A HREF="http://www.colbertnation.com/colbertnation/" REL="nofollow">Colbert Report</A> (pronounced "cole-bear ree-pore") on Comedy Central. It's a spinoff of <A HREF="http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/index.jhtml" REL="nofollow">The Daily Show with John Stewart</A>, but it goes all kinds of places that show has never gone. Rather than propping itself up as another satiric news show, the Colbert Report is a mostly dead-pan parody of talking head shows like The O'Reilly Factor and Hardball. I've come to really appreciate how Steven Colbert can manage to maintain a completely ironic persona of a pontificating uber-conservative and yet manage put on brilliantly hilarious and ingenuative shows for liberal audiences four days a week. A favorite sketch was when Colbert had <A HREF="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3949454/" REL="nofollow">Stone Phillips</A> on the show for a "<A HREF="http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=24040" REL="nofollow">Gravitas-Off</A>" match--the two of them saying the most ridiculous headline-style things with as much gravitas as possible.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, that's a long way of introducing something which is actually related to your post. My favorite repeating sketch on the Colbert Report is his "Word of the Day" -- a segment where Steven sermonizes while a power-point style presentation silently displays hilarious counterpoints. As it would happen, the Word for Thursday was "<A HREF="http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=49864" REL="nofollow">Public-See</A>" (as opposed to "privacy"). "Give me liberty ... or give me 10% off [at Petco]." He even gets a little jab in at bloggers. Nothing will probably ever displace the Gravitas-Off as my favorite sketch, but this one is definitely second place now. Very funny. Check it out. And check out the link on Gravitas-Off to see streaming video of that one too. Both require a high-speed connection and WMP.GobberGohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06685268265446600292noreply@blogger.com