January 7, 2008
It has been a long nine weeks! The Daily Show and The Colbert Report last ran new episodes on November 1 and the fans have been slowly dying ever since. Due to the excessive reruns, both shows have lost more than 50% of their audiences but tonight, those numbers will change. It will be interesting to see how both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will handle returning to tv. We still expect political, smart humor and it's going to be a challenge considering neither one of them can write a single word. They'll have to improv the whole thing, which may work for Conan or Dave but will it work well for the Comedy Central duo? Here's how each show played out as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report return with new episodes.
December 24, 2007
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Gina Scarpa ranked The Colbert Report and The Daily Show 4th. She says...
It's been said many times that The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are where many college students go to get their news. Well, I'm not in college anymore but I still get my news from them. Jon Stewart has been giving me my news since 1998 and I've never looked back. You can't pay me to watch MSNBC or FOX News.
In October of this year, Stephen Colbert pulled one of the greatest publicity stunts ever: he announced that he would be running for president. He got himself a sponsor (Doritos) and launched a website, colbert08.org. On Facebook, he had over one million supporters for his presidency. It all came to end when the state of South Carolina, Colbert's home state, rejected his application by a vote of 13-3 and refunded his $2500 filing fee.
December 21, 2007
Comedy Central just got their holiday wish granted. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert have both agreed to return to the cable network with new episodes, beginning on January 7. Like the two NBC late night shows (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Nite with Conan O'Brien) Stewart and Colbert will return to the air without writers. The shows will reportedly try to work around the lack of written material by relying on pre-taped field segments. The WGA strike not only keeps writers off of the series, it forbids shows to air or write anything that would normally be in the domain of the writers. For Stewart and Colbert, under this definition, that constitutes most of their shows.
November 27, 2007
The Best of the Colbert Report is a Cobertretrospective that contains all the signature segments, defining moments and classic confrontations, for example with "Papa Bear" Bill O'Reilly, Jane Fonda, and Emmy-stealer Barry Manilow from The Colbert Report. The DVD hit streets earlier this month, and it is chockful of as much truthiness as you can handle. BuddyTV is pleased to announce that we have two copies of The Best of the Colbert Report DVD as well as two Stephen Colbert posters.
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November 16, 2007
The first and most apparent casualty of the WGA writers' strike was the immediate absence of all late night television. The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Nite with Conan O'Brien and even Last Call with Carson Daly all shut down production once the strike began. However, the word is that most, if not all, of these shows are in back channel discussions with their networks to return to air sooner rather than later. The reason for this is that hundreds of lower-level production staff depend upon their jobs on these shows for a career. Also, while writers are an integral part of these shows, they aren't completely necessary.
November 13, 2007
Stephen Colbert's The Colbert Report may have shut down production last week due to the writers' strike, but its integration of junk food brand Doritos, a product Frito-Lay, has helped bring the brand's popularity to new heights.
Last month, Doritos agreed to sponsor Colbert's mock presidential campaign, resulting in a creative and highly-effective product integration on The Colbert Report. In an impressive twist, the integrations, which included a video footage of Colbert holding up bags of Doritos to the camera and chomping down some nacho cheese chips, verbal references and jokes about the brand, and an opening graphic advertising of Doritos' sponsorship at the beginning of bits featuring Colbert's campaign, did not cost the company anything.
November 5, 2007
It's a depressing day for fans of The Colbert Report and The Daily Show. With the writers' strike underway, both shows will immediately be sent into re-runs and will not return until the strike is resolved. This means it could be months before the next new episode of The Daily Show or The Colbert Report. Fortunately, fans may find some respite with Tuesday's release of The Best of The Colbert Report DVD. The DVD contains nearly three hours of footage from The Colbert Report's first couple of years on air.
This DVD release comes on the heels of Stephen Colbert's failed Presidential campaign and the release of Colbert's first book “I Am America (and So Can You!).” The all-out blitz of Colbert hype comes at a good time, given the writers' strike that started today. With Colbert possibly off the air indefinitely, the DVD should be able to tide fans over over for the time being.
November 1, 2007
It's a sad day for democracy.
Today, Stephen Colbert was denied entry onto the Democratic Presidential Primary ballot in South Carolina. A 23-member executive council convened in South Carolina today to decide which applicants were worthy of appearing on the Democratic Primary ballot and one Mr. Stephen Colbert did not make the cut. One of the two requirements to appear on the ballot was national credibility, and Colbert, who applied in only one state, was deemed unworthy of appearing on South Carolina's ballot.