― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 10:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, AaronK: BitTorrent.
― naus (Robert T), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:45 (eighteen years ago) link
i was wondering who else would notice that.
― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link
I was playing WoW so I wasn't playing close attention but there were multiple points where I hollered with laughter. Also, who knew Stone Phillips was so funny????
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― disco violence (disco violence), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link
thanks. i'll keep it in mind. i'm currently scared of bitTorrent.
― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link
x-post
― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― :[ (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― mattuttack, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link
I like that he's staying in character but NOT in that Jiminy Glick way, god no. It makes things like the interaction btwn the stage manager and Colbert pretty great, yet the viewer doesn't feel left out of the joke. A weird balance of laughing at and laughing with.
haha, "babies", yes - xpost
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Without Colbert, Rocca, Carell, less Lewis Black, no more Esquire sex columnist, etc. I don't have a lot of interest in watching the Daily Show.
― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link
Also:
http://img445.imageshack.us/img445/2088/colbertreport29qx.jpg
...and when the guest made his entrance, it was Colbert running across the studio waving to camera whilst the guest was already sat down so you could hardly see him. Genius.
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link
ooh, anthony said a dirty word
― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link
That was definitely the joke and I thought it was hilarious! Stone Phillips looked genuinely uncomfortable milling around in the dark.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, but is it a joke you can do every night? I want them to get all those jokes out of their system and see what they do then. (And yes, I could listen to Colbert enunciate all day.)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 01:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 08:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 08:13 (eighteen years ago) link
"The Word" reminds me of Kevin Nealon's Subliminal Man character.
― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 02:34 (eighteen years ago) link
>a faux-O'Reilly is way better comedy material than a liberal who reacts to news clips by making funny noises and bugging his eyes out.<
You guys just hate pure comedy, right?
I've only seen the first 2, but the Savannah congressdork is one of the funnier things Colbert has ever done. That kind of sadism needs a worthy target to work, and he had one.
Making these TV-news guests look like 'good sports' is insidious. (Leslie Stahl balking at SC's perceptive comment that Nixon was in many ways to the left of John Kerry: omigod, don't rip the curtain away from our pretense...)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link
agree with sufjan, they have a lot of good guests, but the format is somewhat irredeemable. typical comedy central setup, honestly
― Nhex, Thursday, 8 January 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link
It's basically just the show version of browsing the front page of reddit with comedians,
i have never watched this show but if forced to guess what it was like this would have been my exact answer
― gr8080, Thursday, 8 January 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
For people who don't look at reddit ever, but DO listen to a bunch of these comedians making the rounds on various podcasts, @midnight just seems like an extension of that.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 January 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
that's otm and the reddit thing is fair too except for the implied negative. it is a fun show. the comedy 'quiz' format is p well established in the UK but maybe less familiar to others. i think you learn not to expect too much outside of some chuckles.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 8 January 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
I don't have any problem with it really besides that some episodes can be duds depending on the guests. It's a much better alternative than The Jeselnik Offensive bullshit that I'm sure only existed as an experiment to figure out what makes Tosh.0 popular then do more of that. Which... I guess @midnight also is but in a different way.
― Evan, Thursday, 8 January 2015 16:43 (nine years ago) link
It just bothers me that the comedians give canned answers in a stupid fake talkshow environment that's supposed to look spontaneous. I also don't like that nerdist dude's nerd reference dropping persona.
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link
persona is basically Larry the IT Guy
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:31 (nine years ago) link
tbf Hardwick has been in the nerd game for sometime now
― Nhex, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
I think there's a difference between "canned answers" and pulling jokes from your own repertoire and retrofitting them for the topic at hand. I'm not gonna go to the mat for @midnight—sometimes I don't care if I watch it or if I miss it either—but it's the best show CC has developed for that time of night since Colbert started.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
yeah "canned answer" is a misnomer, but the design of the show, where prepared jokes are made to seem spontaneous, treats the viewer like he's an idiot.
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
I don't think the jokes are as prepared as you think they are. These men and women are pretty comically nimble by definition.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:43 (nine years ago) link
maybe you're right. maybe they do second takes of jokes and that makes them seem prepared to me. I also don't doubt that hardwick is authentically nerd joel mchale. but nerd joel mchale's only method for establishing that he is nerd joel mchale seems to be dropping references to bits of nerdy culture. and that's just an annoying way to behave.
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, Hardwick runs an empire called Nerdist, hosts after-shows about Walking Dead, and maybe some other things, but he doesn't really code as "nerd" to me. He's basically the normal guy version of Ryan Seacrest.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
Wilmore's Nightly Show ads are getting funnier all the time, though. Getting psyched for that show to start.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
I used to find Hardwick incredibly annoying, but I guess a couple seasons of The Talking Dead have softened him up for me. That said I can still see why his persona would be irritating. Just remember we still live in a world where The Big Bang Theory is the most successful sitcom...
― Nhex, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link
yeah...*hangs head down low*
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
Is there any other way to prove yourself a legit nerd in nerdy culture BESIDES dropping references?
― Evan, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link
yes, you make something new that nerds like.
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
I understand it's nagl to police who can be a nerd. I don't even identify as a nerd. But if you try to make money by appealing to a 'nerd audience' you should be making something new that speaks to that audience, rather than just making references to that audience's canon. You can drop some references while having a conversation with some nerds and that is fine because you aren't selling them anything.
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link
Hardwick's personality is causes a wide range of reactions. I generally dig much of what he does, but his style is so distinctive it can be easily mocked.
I really enjoyed his interview with Andrea Romano, someone I believe never gets enough credit for what she was able to achieve:
http://www.nerdist.com/pepisode/nerdist-podcast-andrea-romano
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
Hardwick is probably pulled by two different sides of nerddom, one being comics/sci-fi and the other one being standup/comedy (the latter has a very devoted, judgmental and intense fanbase as well).
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 January 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
xp yeah, Romano is amazing. I should give that a listen.
― Nhex, Thursday, 8 January 2015 21:55 (nine years ago) link
Listening now. It's really really good.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 January 2015 22:03 (nine years ago) link
Hardwick never seems to know anything about what he's referencing, just that he's learnt references from somewhere and has an idea of when to shout them
― bob seger's silver bullet gland (sic), Thursday, 8 January 2015 23:45 (nine years ago) link
^^^ guy comes off like an idiot to me
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 January 2015 23:53 (nine years ago) link
Who doesn't though
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 January 2015 00:19 (nine years ago) link
You really don't think he's authentic? I never suspected it was an act.
― Evan, Friday, 9 January 2015 00:51 (nine years ago) link
I guess this kinda explains it all
I knew that I had two choices: I could continue living the way I was living and die pickled and unemployed, or make sweeping changes with the hope of salvaging my life. It occurred to me that I had arrogantly banished all the nerd qualities that defined me as a youth. I distinctly remembered that I once had the ability to focus intensely on many things. Programming computers, winning chess tournaments, playing videogames, collecting action figures, Dungeons & Dragon-ing, ruining the bell curve in Latin class. I needed to reconnect with that past and find a way to harness those nerd powers to turn my life around. They had to be useful for something other than frightening girls away by deconstructing the character of Tron as a Christ figure.
I think I sense this desperation in each reference and that is what puts me off.
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 9 January 2015 01:59 (nine years ago) link
Also, I dig @midnight just for the amazing guest roster of comics & improv-types
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Friday, 9 January 2015 03:38 (nine years ago) link
Every episode with Bret Gelman and/or Ron Funches is worth yr time
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 January 2015 03:43 (nine years ago) link
that's an interesting article by Hardwick, I didn't know any of that about him. can definitely relate too much to it *cries*
― Nhex, Friday, 9 January 2015 04:08 (nine years ago) link
watched the debut of Nightly Show - p good! I approve of the panel/Bill Maher format w/out Bill Maher. Not interested in a nother late night show trotting out people peddling books and bad movies.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, Nightly Show will keep getting better, but it started really strong imo. Was surprised the Keep it 100 segment seems to be an every night thing rather than an occasional thing.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
best-of clips up on the comedy central website
(they are also streaming the whole of the daily show for the next 42 days apparently)
― koogs, Friday, 26 June 2015 15:11 (eight years ago) link
last week i went looking for clips. there were a few, sorted by year. - http://www.cc.com/shows/the-colbert-report
today i went looking for clips and there were 9974 sorted by season. that'll do. - http://www.cc.com/shows/the-colbert-report/video-guide
― koogs, Thursday, 20 August 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
Colbert suggested the other day that the 2 best prog bands are Yes and Steely Dan
I shouldn't get mad about this but I am
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 July 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link