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In a hilarious new YouTube clip, Comedy Central hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert go toe-to-toe over who the biggest Star Wars fan is, in an effort to promote the Star Wars: Force for Change Campaign. The campaign says it "will raise funds and awareness for the United Nations Children's Fund's Innovation Labs and its innovative programs that are benefitting the world's most vulnerable children." Read More »
On "The Colbert Report," host Stephen Colbert and Marvel Comics' Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada teamed-up to announce "All-New Captain America." Writer Rick Remender ("Uncanny Avengers") and artist Stuart Immonen ("All-New X-Men") will be launching the new adventures of The Falcon after he picks up Cap's shield. Read More »
The big news this week is that David Letterman is retiring as host of The Late Show and that CBS has already named Stephen Colbert as his replacement when he steps down in 2015. There is still a lot to work out in the coming year, but for now this news has been getting a lot of support and praise from fellow television personalities. Perhaps the most important reaction to this news came from Colbert himself on his Comedy Central program The Colbert Report. Read More »
Last week, people that were not familiar with Stephen Colbert's form of satire, sarcastic comedy took one of his jokes way out of context and started a Twitter controversy. This week on his Comedy Central (notice the word "comedy" in the network name) show The Colbert Report, the award-winning host addressed the controversy and the "#CancelColbert" Twitter trend. Read More »
Twitter's reaction to Comedy Central's Colbert Report's comments about the Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation. Read More »
Stephen Colbert took The Huntington Post to task last night in a hilarious, and some could say epic segment. Read More »
Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova had a great sense of humor about Colbert's approach and seemed to be familiar with his tactics. Colbert asked if they would like to thank Putin for releasing them, and through the translator they said they would rather thank their supporters. Read More »
Will and Win Butler of Arcade Fire appeared on the Colbert Report as "The Reflektors" and played along with Stephen Colbert's ribbing of their actual band Arcade Fire. Read More »
Arcade Fire are set to make yet another TV performance ahead of the release of their fourth studio album, Reflektor. The eight-piece Canadian rock outfit will appear on The Colbert Report on Monday, Oct. 21. Read More »
In a recent interview on a podcast hosted by Paul Mercurio, Comedy Central television personality Stephen Colbert opened up about the month leading up to Daft Punk's scheduled performance on his show "The Colbert Report." This podcast interview revealed that Colbert and his writing team had to work around the fact that Daft Punk refused to speak or perform on the show. We all know how it ended up, but this candid interview reveals that the build up was even worse than the outcome. Read More »
By now we all know that Daft Punk did not show up to perform on "The Colbert Report" earlier this week due to contractual obligation with the MTV Video Music Awards. Host Stephen Colbert turned his shows into an exciting special featuring Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" and a star-studded episode. It was all funny and Robin Thicke even showed up to perform "Blurred Lines," the other summer hit of 2013! Sounds good, right? Well music blog Pitchfork decided that this was all a little too convenient, stating it was a big publicity stunt that Colbert was in on from the start. Read More »
Daft Punk's booked performance on last night's (Aug. 6) episode of "The Colbert Report" did not go quite as planned, apparently. When the show opened last night, Stephen Colbert announced that despite being booked, the French electronic duo were not able to appear on the lampooning news show, because Viacom sister network MTV had booked Daft Punk to perform in a "secret" performance at the 2013 VMAs. Read More »
It's confirmed. Daft Punk will, in fact, appear on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" next week. MTV News got official word that the "Get Lucky" French electronica duo will appear on the lampooning news program on Tuesday, Aug. 6. Read More »
