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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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.
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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
“Well, I thought it was funny.”
A six-word autobiography, NationalPost.com http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2007/12/13/six-word-memoir-contest-explodes-read-ten-of-the-best-first-fifty-entries.aspx, (13 December 2007)
"A Mock Columnist, Amok" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/opinion/14dowd.html, in The New York Times (14 October 2007)
“It would be a very short pint. It would be gummy bears and matzah, and be called Chewy Jewy.”
In response to a question about what he would put into a Jon Stewart Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor, University of Buffalo Distinguished Speakers Series (4 April 2008)
On the "Pottery Barn Rule," The Colbert Report (16 May 2007)
“Don't cry over spilled milk. By this time tomorrow, it'll be free yogurt.”
"The Colbert Report," November 12, 2009.
“I teach Sunday School, motherfucker.”
Interviewing Stanford University professor emeritus Dr. Philip Zimbardo, author of the book The Lucifer Effect. After an increasingly heated debate on the problem of theodicy, Colbert sets the record straight responding to Zimbardo's slightly sarcastically charged "Obviously you learned well in Sunday School". The Colbert Report http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=149094&ml_collection=&ml_gateway=&ml_gateway_id=&ml_comedian=&ml_runtime=&ml_context=show&ml_origin_url=%2Fmotherload%2F%3Flnk%3Dv%26ml_video%3D149094&ml_playlist=&lnk=&is_large=true (11 February 2008)
Interview with Joe Hagan appearing in Vanity Fair, October 2020
Source: " Stephen Colbert Tells Rep. Adam Schiff What Russian Oligarch Revealed About Trump 'Pee Tape' https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stephen-colbert-adam-schiff-pee-tape_n_616e2de7e4b00cb3cbd6ead0" (2021?)+videos
