The Colbert Report: Difference between revisions

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* [[Internet Counterattack]]: Invoked frequently. Notable instances include a campaign to get a bridge in Hungary named after him through internet voting, and against [[The Other Wiki|Wikipedia]] to enforce "wikiality".

* [[Intoxication Ensues]]: [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/167613/may-08-2008/r-i-p--albert-hoffman The "little stamps" presented to Colbert by his interns, which turn out to be LSD.]

* [[Irishman and a Jew]]: ''The Report'''s [[The Daily Show|sister show]] is anchored by Jon Stewart (born ''Jonathan Liebowitz''). The dynamic between the two seems to tap into this old [[Vaudeville]] trope, though probably quite unintentionally. As in most such pairings, the Jewish half is [[Deadpan Snarker|sarcastic]] and exasperated with [[Crapsack World|a world gone mad]]. In contrast, Colbert (who self-identifies as Irish-American) is [[Small Name, Big Ego|irrationally self-confident]] and [[The Ditz|totally]] [[Too Dumb to Live|oblivious]] to the world around him, in keeping with the Irish half of [[wikipedia:Burns and allen|many such pairings]]. It probably helps that Colbert's [[Patriotic Fervor|patriotism]] would put even [[wikipedia:George M Cohan|George M. Cohan]] to shame.

* [[Irishman and a Jew]]: ''The Colbert Report'''s [[The Daily Show|sister show]] is anchored by Jon Stewart (born ''Jonathan Liebowitz''). The dynamic between the two seems to tap into this old [[Vaudeville]] trope, though probably quite unintentionally. As in most such pairings, the Jewish half is [[Deadpan Snarker|sarcastic]] and exasperated with [[Crapsack World|a world gone mad]]. In contrast, Colbert (who self-identifies as Irish-American) is [[Small Name, Big Ego|irrationally self-confident]] and [[The Ditz|totally]] [[Too Dumb to Live|oblivious]] to the world around him, in keeping with the Irish half of [[wikipedia:Burns and allen|many such pairings]]. It probably helps that Colbert's [[Patriotic Fervor|patriotism]] would put even [[wikipedia:George M Cohan|George M. Cohan]] to shame.

* [[Is This Thing Still On?]]: Stephen has had several such incidents.

** There was the [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/25082/november-08-2005/intercepted-satellite-feed Ching Chong Ding Dong incident.]

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* [[It Got Worse]]: Stephen's assertion that Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity Facebook event got more RSVPs because the people who RSVPd were taken over by alien pod people. ''Muslim'' alien pod people. '''Gay''' ''Muslim'' alien pod people.

* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"]]: ''The '''Colbear Repore'''''. The T in 'Report' is silent, because "it's French, [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|bitch]]" and because his name also ends in a silent 't'.

** Except when ~~Steven~~ gets upset, when he'll pronounce it differently to himself.

** Except when Stephen gets upset, when he'll pronounce it differently to himself.

** During the [[Writers Strike]] of 2007, when Colbert would go on the air without his writing staff, he would deliberately refer to the show as "The Col'''bert''' Re'''port'''" as a sign of solidarity with his writers.