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Games Come To the Colbert Nation
Stephen Colbert's hit Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report" has already seen some game-related activities. You may recall the day he retired his dice because of Dungeons and Dragons Online's launch, or "Everything Bad is Good For You" author Steven Johnson's appearance on the show. Last week, though, with the release of the Wii, Colbert had to "get his Wii on", and demonstrated Wii Boxing vs. a virtual Nancy Pelosi. Next Monday will see veteran game designer Will Wright on the show.
Colbert + anything = news for nerds!
Why do you hate america?
I'll just use my special getting high powers one more time...
Zonk, you're on notice.
Attention deficit disorder is a complicated issue, spanning several major... HEY LET'S GO RIDE BIKES!
Judging by relative frequency, a gaming Slashvertisement costs the same as a gaming Colbertisement. We have a nice 1:1 correlation going so far. Or should that be "Wii?"
I guess we can't all have a sense of humor.
I get the quote, but really, from someone who works in marketing, we're really not the evil ones - all we do is look at what the advertising industry is producing and define it with statistics; we're the ones who tell the advertising agencies that what they're doing is pissing people off and to stop it. You won't believe me, but we're on your side.
The people you (and Bill Hicks) were thinking of are the people in Public Relations. THEY'RE bloodsuckers.
Triv
Honorary doctorate in Fine Arts from Knox College.
I see he's tagged as "Dr. Stephen Colbert" in the credits, anyone know what his subject is?
Colbert has a doctorate in truthiness.
included the fact that he has the LotR pinball machine in his office.
I can't wait to get a Wii and make a Mii of Jack Thompson and beat the shit out of him. Oh, wait... then he's probably sue Nintendo, right?
No doubt Will will be on to start some SPORE buzz. A game based on evolution should give Colbert some killer material.
"...nothing he or Jon Stewart does is funny, and you idiots only think it's funny because you mistake smarminess for humor"
mmm hmm. So... basically you're saying there's a massive delusion that a couple of guys are funny that you are completely unaffected by. How does one guy about massively de-frauding people of laughter?
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
I believe he's parodying Bill Cosby...who after getting his honorary PhD added it to his name in the credits to "The Cosby Show."
Your post has a certain odor of 'truthiness' about it.
In fact, Cosby earned a real live Ph.D. in the field of education at UMass during the 1970s.
This was during the same time that he was working on the Fat Albert cartoon.
You probably also think he's a Republican who likes Bill O'Reilly (however his name is spelled).