Category: humour

Stephen Colbert – 2006 Media Person of the Year

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I’m agree.

Colbert hits the nail on the head night after night with rarely a misstep.

He has far surpassed mentor Jon Stewart.

Stephen Colbert, the host of “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central, is the 2006 Media Person of the Year, according to the annual online poll held by I Want Media.

… The winner last year was CNN newsman Anderson Cooper, who followed Jon Stewart, Colbert’s partner in “fake news,” in 2004.

The popularity of Colbert’s spot-on, satirical cable-news pundit character already led him to be honored as of one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2006.

The Comedy Central star sent shock waves through the news media early in the year when he keynoted the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and skewered President Bush to his face: “I believe in this president. Guys like us … know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in ‘reality.’ And reality has a well-known liberal bias.”

Colbert’s routine “unplugged the Bush myth machine — and left the clueless D.C. press corps gaping,” wrote Michael Scherer of Salon.com.

A clip of Colbert’s speech instantly became a viral video hit on the Web. New York Times columnist Frank Rich later described Colbert’s performance as the “defining moment” of the 2006 midterm elections.

Stephen Colbert – 2006 Media Person of the Year

Representative Press thought Colbert should have been Time magazine Person of the Year, as well. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I love “Ask A Ninja” videocasts

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You can see all the episodes of this comedy video blog on AskANinja.com.

Even better are the dogtoon cartoon episodes which you can find on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch “Ask A Ninja Special Delivery Dogtoon” on YouTube.

Al Jazeera meets The Daily Show

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I liked it almost as much as Huffington.

What an inspired, genius move on the part of the underexposed and under-carried Al Jazeera English network: Offer yourself up with abandon to “The Daily Show” for a long, meaty, hilarious, humanizing clip. Outstanding.

Last night, crack correspondent Samantha Bee (and most senior correspondent, I might add) did a long segment on the new network which culminated in Bee’s hilarious attempt to re-make the network in a manner appealing to Americans (Bee: “Whoa. News hour?”).

The segment drove home the point that Al Jazeera is actually serious about serious news, with a pared-down no-nonsense style heavy on actual news content while at the same time humanizing the network by highlighting its employees, and the mission, which has not been overly popular, to say the least (and, in fairness, Al Jazeera is sort of associated with videos from terrorists who take credit for atrocities and shout about the glories of holy slaughter of American infidels, which sort of works against domestic viewer goodwill).

Anchors Dave Marash and Ghida Fakhry are particularly excellent sports. It’s a brilliant, hilarious segment, and is probably the best commercial Al Jazeera could have in this country. An amazing PR coup.

Eat The Press | Al Jazeera’s Brilliant PR Move: Submitting To The Will Of “The Daily Show” | The Huffington Post – video

JibJab – Year in Review – funny

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Wow. The quality of JibJab cartoons is excellent.

“The Web gives us the creative freedom to make videos we think are funny without having to worry about what a studio executive is going to think,” said Gregg and Evan Spiridellis, co-founders of JibJab, in a statement sent to TechCrunch on Monday. “We are in the midst of a media revolution where mega-media conglomerates are losing their grip on the audience and new brands like JibJab are being born. It’s a very exciting time to be creative entrepreneurs.”


Caroling For Pop Culture: Sing Along With “Nuckin’ Futs” – TechCrunch

Click PLAY or watch it on JibJab.com.

the year of truthiness

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Merriam-Webster gets hip. Announces “truthiness” the word of the year.

Truthiness (no need for quotation marks anymore; it’s a word now) is perfect for the times in every way. It is a fake word invented by a fake person, Stephen Colbert, the comedian whose character, Stephen Colbert, parodies cable news talk shows on his own cable show, “The Colbert Report.” …

Webster’s has now sanctioned truthiness with two definitions:

“truth that comes from the gut, not books”, and

“the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts of facts known to be true.”

At the end of his truthiness skit, Colbert says, “I know some of you may not trust your gut, yet. But, with my help, you will. The truthiness is, anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news ‘at’ you.”

The Truth Of Truthiness, Taking Comedy Seriously Is Dumb, A Perfect Job For CBS’ Dick Meyer – CBS News

TV – Top Gear – BBC

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On the way up to skiing last weekend, George played us a 1hr TV show where comedians got to drive (and make fun of) high performance vehicles. It’s unscripted, light hearted, great!

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Top Gear is an Emmy Award and BAFTA winning BBC television series about motor vehicles particularly cars. The programme is estimated to have over 350 million viewers worldwide …

Top Gear is currently presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. …

official website

Click PLAY to see the opening credits, or see them on YouTube.

how to decide who to marry

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kids say the darndest thngs

(1) You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming.
— Alan, age 10

(2) No person really decides before they grow up who they’re going to marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you’re stuck with.
— Kristen, age 10

WHAT IS THE RIGHT AGE TO GET MARRIED?

(1) Twenty-three is the best age because you know the person FOREVER by then.
— Camille, age 10

(2) No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.
– Freddie, age 6

HOW CAN A STRANGER TELL IF TWO PEOPLE ARE MARRIED?

(1) You might have to guess, based on whether they are yelling at the same kids.
— Derrick, age 8

WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR MOM AND DAD HAVE IN COMMON?

(1) Both don’t want any more kids.
— Lori, age 8

WHAT DO MOST PEOPLE DO ON A DATE?

(1) Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know each other. Even boys have something to say if you listen long enough.
— Lynnette, age 8

(2) On the first date, they just tell each other lies and that usually gets them interested enough to go for a second date.
— Martin, age 10

WHAT WOULD YOU DO ON A FIRST DATE THAT WAS TURNING SOUR?

(1) I’d run home and play dead. The next day I would call all the newspapers and make sure they wrote about me in all the dead columns.
— Craig, age 9

WHEN IS IT OKAY TO KISS SOMEONE?

(1) When they’re rich.
— Pam, age 7

(2) The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn’t want to mess with that.
– – Curt, age 7

IS IT BETTER TO BE SINGLE OR MARRIED?

(1) I don’t know which is better, but I’ll tell you one thing. I’m never going to have sex with my wife. I don’t want to be all grossed out.
– Theodore, age 8

(2 ) It’s better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need someone to clean up after them.
— Anita, age 9

HOW WOULD THE WORLD BE DIFFERENT IF PEOPLE DIDN’T GET MARRIED?

(1 ) There sure would be a lot of kids to explain, wouldn’t there?
— Kelvin, age 8

And the #1 Favorite is……..

HOW WOULD YOU MAKE A MARRIAGE WORK?

(1 ) Tell your wife that she looks pretty, even if she looks like a truck.
— Ricky, age 10

(Thanks Dave.)