Colbert and O’Reilly, face to face?
By on Jan 3rd, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Colbert and O’Reilly, face to face?
The Colbert Report has temporarily reclaimed a framed photo of Bill O’Reilly — presented to Harvard University by Stephen Colbert early last month — “in anticipation of an expected appearance by Bill O’Reilly on the Colbert Report in the near future,’” a Harvard communications official says. (HT: RawStory)
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BRING IT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:31 pmHe must be trying to improve his image before a new vile filled book comes out. I hope Stephen doesn’t hold back. No need to ever have this wind bag on again. If I kept one I would have Bill ‘O on my Death List for 2007. The man just does not look healthy.
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:41 pmO’Reilly probably thinks Colbert is a serious follower of the faith.
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:46 pmI find it hard to believe that O’Liely would allow himself to be put in this situation. After all, he only likes it when he can beat up his opponents, and that will NEVER happen with Colbert.
MUST SEE TV!!!
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:48 pmThe thing is, when Colbert does his hyper-neocon schtick, is O’Reilly going to even understand that he’s being ridiculed?
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:48 pmBO on Colbert Report.
Please, please, please! I promise I’ll never ask for another thing as long as I live!
Too good to be true…
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:51 pmZooey,
You make the dip, I’ll bring the chips and beer for this one!!
WooHoo!!
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:55 pmColbert stood next to Bush and tore him a new one. O’Lielly’s going to go on Colbert’s show? Man, I hope this happens.
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:55 pmI’ve seen the O’Reilly appearances on Letterman…when Dave just flat-out calls Bill-O a liar, and the audience all laughs at him, the look on his face is truly priceless.
Colbert won’t do anything that blunt…he’ll be much more subtle in calling Bill out. I can’t wait to see it, but I really can’t wait to see Olbermann laughing himself sick about it the next day. :)
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:56 pmRight about the time The Colbert Report was starting, O’Reilly went on The Daily Show and mentioned that Comedy Central had “this pinhead” making fun of [him]. The “pinhead” he was referring to was Colbert, of course, because anyone intellectually superior to O’Reilly is a “pinhead.” Subsequently, I heard that Colbert’s character was a parody of O’Reilly. So O’Reilly should know what Colbert’s show is all about. Now, I don’t know why O’Reilly is going on in the first place. I can only guess that maybe his recent book, “My Blood is Red, My Skin is White, My Jacket is Blue” (alternate title: “Culture Warrior”) is out in paperback. But O’Reilly doesn’t usually hawk paperbacks, so maybe he has a new book out. Otherwise, the only reason to have him on your show is to make him look bad. That alone is reason enough.
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:59 pmYou make the dip, I’ll bring the chips and beer for this one!!
WooHoo!!
Comment by upside00
Will do. :-D
January 3rd, 2007 at 1:06 pmWayne, I remember that Daily Show with O’Reilly. Stewart defended Colbert and O’Reilly continued to call him a pinhead.
Colbert is now firing on all cylinders and I would love to see this happen.
January 3rd, 2007 at 1:06 pm12 hellinabucket,
I, too, look forward to this program. I just hope that Colbert gives it to him good. Perhaps Colbert can ask O’Reilly if he figured out what happened at Malmedy (since O’Reilly has twice said it was American soldiers who murdered Nazi SS officers, not the other way around as history recorded.) Maybe he can ask Bill-O why he keeps claiming that there’s this vast, left-wing conspiracy to destroy Christmas, when so many (call them) ill-minded groups have said the same thing throughout the past century and a half. Oh, there’s lots of things he can ask Bill-O. “How are you?” can wait ’til the next day.
January 3rd, 2007 at 1:14 pmWhile it would be a wonderful show, I’m not holding my breath waiting for BillO to show up on Colbert. I doubt if he has the balls or the Thatchers. But the speculation is fun!
January 3rd, 2007 at 1:37 pmO’Riled Up is going to have his head handed to him on this one, the funniest part is that he won’t even realize it!
January 3rd, 2007 at 1:42 pmZ – just make sure there’s no possiblity of the dip being mixed with a falafel…tabouli, hummus probably out.
January 3rd, 2007 at 1:43 pmrefresh yourselves, and enjoy the story…
this guy is jewel, to be sure…
The Colbert Report
Morley Safer Profiles Comedy Central’s ‘Fake’ Newsman
Asked whether the character he plays is smart, proud or stupid, Colbert says, “I think of him as a well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot.”
[...]
Colbert looks to the very fount of truthiness for inspiration: Bill O’Reilly.
“Apart from the substance which you in a sense borrow from these guys, what about mannerisms?” Safer asked.
“Volume is very important,” Colbert answered. “The only real way to tell your audience what’s important is what you say loudest. I can say it up here. Or I could say it down here. But I will cut off your mic, Sir. Get, shut up. Shut up, Safer,” he joked in character.
January 3rd, 2007 at 2:07 pm…
I actually doubt he’ll show…he’ll probably cancel at the last moment, and then snipe at Colbert from the security of his own studio.
When that happens, I hope Colbert does something like he did when Lieberman failed to come on the show (set up an empty chair for him, so that his absence would be a continual source of ridicule).
January 3rd, 2007 at 2:09 pmIsn’t this like matter coming in contact with anti-matter? We could experience total protonic reversal and the end of … everything.
January 3rd, 2007 at 2:12 pmI cannot wait for this to happen. Colbert was great when he carved Bush a new one and he will trim O’Really’s sails but good. Colbert should. Both O’Really and Rivera have said that The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have no audience. I for one would love to know what the ratings are for both of those shows–I am positive they are much bigger than little Bill.
It was terrific the night that Letterman made an absolute ass of O’Really–he has done it to him twice now.
Bill O is irrelevant.
January 3rd, 2007 at 2:16 pmComment by Badmoodman –
January 3rd, 2007 at 2:17 pmDon’t worry. Geordi will have a containment field ready.
;)
Z – just make sure there’s no possiblity of the dip being mixed with a falafel…tabouli, hummus probably out.
Comment by RUCerious
But…..I like hummus. Especially on a nice bed of loofah. :)
January 3rd, 2007 at 2:23 pmTrueblue, when I scrolled down and saw your ‘Geordi’ comment, I just assumed it was Wayne until I saw your name. I’m glad you’re a Trek fan, too!
Badmoodman, I think in this case that it’s brain coming into contact with anti-brain. As James Earl Jones stated in one of Letterman’s Top Ten lists, “Stuff gonna ’splode!” (I believe that the Top 10 category that night was “Things that sound cool when James Earl Jones says them” or something to that effect.)
January 3rd, 2007 at 2:28 pmJane,
I knew I liked you and Wayne! :)
Season 3 was my Christmas present from Miniblue.
January 3rd, 2007 at 2:36 pm#24, and you know we like you, too! :-) Lucky girl, we only have a few of our favorite episodes on videotape! Season 3 was when it started really standing on its own, the stories were better, the sets and costumes, weren’t as cheesey, etc.
January 3rd, 2007 at 2:44 pmSeason 3 was my Christmas present from Miniblue.
Comment by trueblue
I’m assuming you’ve seen them all then, otherwise skip this comment.
I believe that Season 3 ended with “The Best of Both Worlds Pt 1″. It was the single best episode of the entire series (with many close seconds), but it’s last line, to me, said it all about humanity. Told by the Borg that we would all be assimilated. When faced with total enslavement or annihilation, Riker said the only things humans should. “Mr. Worf. Fire!” My favorite moment.
January 3rd, 2007 at 2:49 pmColbert and O’Reilly, face to face?
First reaction: Yessssssssssssssss!!!
I’m gonna dust off the VCR for this one.
January 3rd, 2007 at 3:00 pmI believe that Season 3 ended with “The Best of Both Worlds Pt 1″. It was the single best episode of the entire series (with many close seconds), but it’s last line, to me, said it all about humanity. Told by the Borg that we would all be assimilated. When faced with total enslavement or annihilation, Riker said the only things humans should. “Mr. Worf. Fire!†My favorite moment.
Comment by Wayne A. Schneider
I know you’re married and all that, so please do not take this the wrong way:
“I Love You, Wayne!”
That is my favorite episode!
January 3rd, 2007 at 3:06 pmI so agree. I said it along with Riker.
Then, yesterday, I ordered Season 4.
I couldn’t stand it.
:)
He’ll get eaten alive.
January 3rd, 2007 at 3:10 pmTrueblue, someday we’ll HAVE to get together (me and miniblue will chaperone you and Wayne!)
January 3rd, 2007 at 3:22 pmNo worries, Jane!
January 3rd, 2007 at 3:28 pmI enjoy you just as much – don’t ever think otherwise.
:)))
And who’s gonna chaperone you and miniblue, Jane, while trueblue and I are “out on the town”? ;-)
I think we’re digressing here.
I can’t understand why O’Reilly would even agree to go on this show, which is dedicated to showing how foolish people like O’Reilly are. Did Andrea Makris schedule this?
January 3rd, 2007 at 3:42 pmIt took Bush a little time to realize that Colbert was skewering him at the press club dinner, and then he became angry.
January 3rd, 2007 at 4:12 pmWill BO realize that the subtle sarcasm of arrows from Colbert’s quiver are direct hits to his targeted big head?
I think of Bill as that big black tar monster from season 1…
January 4th, 2007 at 12:29 amAre all the cool kids Trekkies? I’ve been one since 1966!
SKdeA,
I was an original Trekkie, myself! I remember convincing my father to put on the first episode of Star Trek which, of all the six episodes they had in the can at the time, probably was the worst. (”The Man Trap”, with the salt vampire that Spock started beating up on. “Can your Nancy take this, Doctor?” – smack, smack. She threw Spock across the room. It wasn’t Nancy.)
In a way, that black tar pit creature (Argus?) began a thread of storyline that had implications for the rest of the Next Gen series as well as “Dedep Space Nine”. It killed Tasha Yar. Denise Crosby returned in “Yesterday’s Enterprise” where she got captured by Romulans (after the story ended). Crosby turned up later as Tasha’s daughter Sela, now a Romulan Commander. She goes on later to assist the Duras family in their efforts to take over the Klingon Empire. And that whole thing permeated “Deep Space Nine” and eventually into the movies.
Okay, so I watch a little too much Star Trek, I admit it. But what’s wrong with that? It’s message is so appealing that I can’t understand how anyone could disagree. Frakes once said that Gene Roddenberry told him at the start of Next Gen, “In the 24th century, there will be no more hunger, there will be no more greed. And all of the children will know how to read.” Now, can someone please tell me why that’s such a horrible thing to strive for?
January 4th, 2007 at 7:52 amShould pretty funny and entertaining as it should be….on Comedy Central.
January 4th, 2007 at 12:50 pm