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I love when he ventures out of character. I like Steven Colbert the person sooo much more than Steven Colbert the character. His character's way too over the top for me. I know that's what makes it funny, but it's just too much. It's too scarily close to what is really out there.
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I like Colbert's character in small doses. I watch his show, but not as regularly as I watch the Daily Show. I do like to see him out of character...this is only the second time...it's a good reminder that there's a real person in there somewhere.
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I like when his character becomes transparent and you can glimpse the "edge". I enjoy "The Word" segments much more than the interviews, for example.
He is actually a really good guy in person.
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I think it's kind of touching to see him interview non-famous people who he clearly thinks are doing something good and important. There's a couple of character moments where he makes a few jokes, but by and large, he sits back and lets them talk about what they are doing, sometimes with some gentle prompting from him.
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I would love to see that, MrSquicky. I can't make it through most of his shows to get to that though.
I'm also with you kmbboots - I tend to enjoy The Word much more than his interviews. And like it when his character becomes vaguely sarcastic. When he interviews or does the report it's much too... realistic...
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Stephen Colbert is probably one of the smartest people I've ever seen on television or the media. His memory retention is incredible. You saw a piece of it in the segment where he was talking about Mercury. He might not have total recall, but it must be well above average.
I've seen him in a couple out of character interviews. They aren't super hard to find. He gave a few interviews before the Colbert Report started, before he really created the character. He sounds like a genuinely funny, smart, nice, family oriented, religious, good guy.
If he ever honestly ran for a public office that I could participate in, I'd vote for him, and I'd volunteer for him.
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He also guest-starred in an episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway years ago. He wasn't too bad at improv.
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That was a great interview, and I loved watching him and Steve Carrell together. I never watched the Daily Show when they were part of it, and now I'm sad I missed them.
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Man, the days when Colbert and Carrell were correspondents on that show were golden. I don't think anyone has really replaced them since. I thought Jason Jones was pretty good in that regard, but not totally there. His delivery is a little too heavy handed.
I'm glad they've all moved on to better things. They deserved it. But I miss those days.
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quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: Man, the days when Colbert and Carrell were correspondents on that show were golden. I don't think anyone has really replaced them since.
I only caught Colbert, but yes, that was sweet. Of the new correspondents, I think I enjoy Aasif Mandvi and John Oliver's pieces the most. Jason Jones is good too, but not quite there.
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My favorite part of The Daily Show was Even Steph/ven, where they'd each take opposing sides of an issue. Carrell would often resort to yelling.
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I loved Even Stephen. I liked Carrell's Produce Pete too. I remember a segment when he was making fun of texting back before keyboards and T9 were there to make texting easier. I can't remember what it was, but he was like "Man, this is so much fun, and so much easier than actually calling someone...9,9,9..4,4,4,..5,5...4..3,3,3..it's just so easy!" (I just made up those numbers, I have no idea what they'd spell).
I remember back before the Colbert Report was real he had the fake commercial for his own show, I can't remember if it was called the Colbert Report or not, but I remember when I first heard he was going to get his own show, that was a real big laugh.
In general he was a great correspondent too. I remember one segment he did back when the US first invaded Iraq, where he had to do this long recitation of foreign words and it was fast paced, and difficult to remember and deliver, and he nailed it...and then Jon asked him what he was holding, since he had his reporting notes written on the back of a piece of Babylonian pottery (the piece was on looting at the Baghdad museum) and he said "oh this? it's just a broken piece of pa, uh, pottery" and Jon replied "You know what I don't get, how does a guy remember all that and then screw up on pottery?" or some such. I wish I still had the segment.
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My favorite Stephen segment, was him reporting for the Daily Show from the Oscars and he went off on a lengthy pedantic description of the dresses and it just kept going, yet felt just like a sentence you'd hear from a commentator. He nailed the line, it was beautiful.
I wish I could find it somewhere, but a second level google fu attack was fruitless.
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quote:Originally posted by BlackBlade: My favorite Stephen segment, was him reporting for the Daily Show from the Oscars and he went off on a lengthy pedantic description of the dresses and it just kept going, yet felt just like a sentence you'd hear from a commentator. He nailed the line, it was beautiful.
I wish I could find it somewhere, but a second level google fu attack was fruitless.
There's quite a few Paley Center panels available there, like Dr Horrible and Mad Men and House and The Simpsons and Dollhouse and Pushing Daisies and lots more.
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Couldn't find it at the Daily Show site, but this is my favorite Stephen Colbert correspondent bit from TDS. The report was on rumors of a scandalous, possibly homosexual sexual encounter involving Prince Charles, and how the press in Britain was not allowed to speculate about it. This is one of the very few times I've ever seen Colbert crack up.
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quote:Originally posted by BlackBlade: My favorite Stephen segment, was him reporting for the Daily Show from the Oscars and he went off on a lengthy pedantic description of the dresses and it just kept going, yet felt just like a sentence you'd hear from a commentator. He nailed the line, it was beautiful.
I wish I could find it somewhere, but a second level google fu attack was fruitless.
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