Quick Link: Stephen Colbert is a Janeite

The breakdown of Stephen's best Austen-moments over at No Fact Zone.

Stephen C. on Jane A.

Starts around 1:45.

Stephen get a tip of the EBC hat for mentioning Jane, and a wag of the EBC finger for doing a little bit of the Joe Wright/Becoming Jane Bronte-fying of Austen that makes us most seriously displeased.




H/T to Mags for reminding me to post this--I got all excited when I saw it last night but distracted by laundry and deadlines this morn.

Stephen Colbert, Egalitarian Bookworm, Compares the Candidates to Shakespeare

With special guest Stephen Greenblatt, my former professor! He compared McCain to Macbeth and Prospero (with Bush and Lieberman as Banquo and Caliban, respectively) and he compared Obama to Hamlet (with Rev Wright as the Ghost, amazin') and to Puck cause he casts a spell on us foolish mortals, over hill and over dale.


Egalitarian Bookworm Stephen is so back!

John Edwards Snuck Onto the Colbert Report...

To do the EdWords (instead of the Word, hehe). It was hilarious. Seeing him up there made me realize how much I miss his presence in this race: his anger, his enthusiasm, his refusal to turn away from economic injustice, and yes, his handsome mug and coif, in the past months. He totally outshone Clinton's extremely brief appearance, and tied Obama for charming grin. Obama, btw, got to put "pointless political distractions" on notice, and said that Grizzly bears were the single greatest threat to America. It was awesome.


I will embed a clip in the morning, for sure....

and here it is, just 'afore noon:




Gnight bookwormy blogland.

OMG Chris Matthews did NOT just blow up Stephen Colbert's spot

on live television,*

Not cool, Tweety. Not cool at all.




*by prematurely announcing that Hillary Clinton may be appearing on the Report.

All I Can Do is Talk About TV

For me, watching Stewart and Colbert at night is this completely necessary and addictive catharsis. After I spend all day at the office reading the blogs and the paper about all the horrible developments abroad and the rise of fascism and my socialistish blood has been boilingfor about 15 hours, I need to belly laugh about it all. If I don't laugh it out, I can't sleep--or I'll end up being too scared of extraordinary rendition of my womb by right-wing federal thought police. Now my boys John and Stephen don't always give me exactly what I need in that respect, but sometimes they hit all the right notes. Last night, they both nailed their respective asshole guests so nailishly that I'm still kvelling.

Check out Stewart telling "Tweety" aka Chris Matthews that he's a fascist pimp, and Colbert pretty much dropping his character to nail smarmy anti-semite John Mearsheimer (of Israel Lobby infamy).

Mazel Tov, boys.

Colbert Channels Barabara Wawa

by asking hushed, ridiculous questions--in soft focus. And despite this, he simultaneously nails Tina Brown and the sad "journalism of personality" she embodies. How does the man do it?

Stephen Colbert, Egalitarian Bookworm, Reads Harry Potter

Stephen Colbert Engages in Literary Spats

Tee-hee.