Stephen Colbert Guest Edits Newsweek
June 8, 2009, 5:08 pm
Posted by Cathleen Kaveny
What really warmed the cockles of my heart: he said he was going to use the occasion to publish all the letters to the editor he has written over the years that never got accepted.
Wow. Anyone who has ever had a letter to the editor consigned to the dust bin has to take vicarious enjoyment in the imperiousness.
jMOre news about Stephen at Yahoo News. Stephen has a new hair-do:
“CAMP VICTORY, Iraq – Wearing a camouflage suit and tie, Stephen Colbert took his show to Baghdad to entertain U.S. soldiers in Iraq. For openers, President Barack Obama appeared by video to thank the troops.
“You’re welcome,” the mock pundit answered.
“I wasn’t talking to you,” the president deadpanned.
To the roaring approval of hundreds of troops at Camp Victory, on the western edge of Baghdad, Colbert taped the first of four episodes of “The Colbert Report,” in which he plays a pompous, blustering conservative TV host.
His first guest was the towering, bald Gen. Ray Odierno. When Obama and the U.S. commander suggested Colbert had to look like a soldier in order to be a soldier, the general took an electric razor to Colbert’s perfectly parted cable-news coif.’
Read all about it at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090608/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_tv_colbert_in_iraq
I despise poorly written comments so I’m taking a mulligan. Stephen Colbert is extraordinarily funny and extraordinarily smart. In my opinion, he has no equal. I can only assume Catholicism is the source of his brilliance. How else could he be so critical, so gentle, and so funny all at the same time?
If we apply your criteria of criticality, gentleness and humor to being the results of Catholicism, most of those who write here are out and out atheists!
As a resident of Mo[hockey]town I can’t help but wonder if you are the Jimmy Mac[k] made famous by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas? If so, way cool!
Michael ==
I agree about Stephen’s gentleness. What else can explain the appearance on his show of people who know he will take them apart? He strikes me like an old-fashioned confessor who could criticize someone in no uncertain terms, but you knew it was out of love. He strikes me as quite a holy man,besides being brilliant and funny. .
Ann – ditto.