I didn't realize quite how liberal I was until I was asked to make passionate comedic choices as opposed to necessarily successful comedic choices.
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Stephen Colbert: 137 citations0 J'aime
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I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it’s more than that. It’s an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche, and then applies an antibiotic cream... Obviously, it’s a challenge to make light of the darkness but, um, it’s better than crying about it.
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My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned, but an idiot… So we said, "Let's give him a promotion."
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Such a proud moment of professionalism. You work for years crafting cogent satirical essays and the thing that everybody remembers is me making love to a Chiquita and bursting into laughter. What you can't see off camera is Jon started laughing first. And then I'm weak. As much as I want to make the audience laugh, I really want to make Jon laugh. <br class="br">en <br class="br">À propos du sketch sur le prince Charles http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-november-10-2003/prince-charles-scandal dans The Daily Show
I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes. If people learn something about the news by watching the show, that is incidental to my goal.
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Language has always been important in politics, but language is incredibly important to the present political struggle. Because if you can establish an atmosphere in which information doesn't mean anything, then there is no objective reality. The first show we did, a year ago, was our thesis statement: What you wish to be true is all that matters, regardless of the facts. Of course, at the time, we thought we were being farcical.
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Stephen Colbert: Citations en anglais
"Colbert spoofs cable news on Daily Show spinoff" Associated Press report (31 October 2005)
“Don't let your girlfriend cut your hair!”
Stephen Colbert livre I Am America (And So Can You!)
I Am America
One of his questions to President Theodore Roosevelt in his series <i>Better Know A President</i> on <i>The Colbert Report</i> http://www.nofactzone.net/?p=1788 (17 May 2006)
“While skin and race are often synonymous, skin cleansing is good, race cleansing is bad.”
"A Mock Columnist, Amok", in The New York Times (14 October 2007)
“I think of him as well intentioned, poorly informed, high status idiot.”
On his character in The Colbert Report, in an interview on 60 Minutes http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/27/60minutes/main1553506.shtml (30 April 2006)
White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)
“Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong, welcome! Your great country [of China] makes our Happy Meals possible!”
White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)
Source: White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)
On George W. Bush.
White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)
Parade web exclusive interview http://www.parade.com/celebrity/articles/070923-stephen-colbert.html (19 September 2007)
On The Colbert Report (28 September 2006). Video available at Colbert Nation http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/76103/september-28-2006/the-blitzkrieg-on-grinchitude
A parody of the "Give a man a fish..." proverb alluding to the subprime mortgage crisis of the aughts on The Colbert Report (14 May 2008)
“If I want to say he didn't that's my right, and now, thanks to Wikipedia — it's also a fact.”
On the ownership of slaves by George Washington, on The Colbert Report (31 July 2006).
Stephen Colbert to Viggo Mortensen, The colbert Report September 18, 2014
White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)
White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)
White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)
White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)
Expressing his awe at being so close to the president.
White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)
White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)
White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)
