On Thursday, December 18, Comedy Central aired the last-ever episode of The Colbert Report, a series that—after nearly a decade on the air—will go down as one of the finest examples of satire in the history of comedy. This is my eulogy.
On Monday, before The Colbert Report goes ungently into that good night, Stephen Colbert will take a trip to Washington D.C., where he will be interviewing President Obama for the first time. "I cannot overstate how huge this is," Colbert said on his show last night. "The size of the hugeness? Large. I'm so proud to…
Toni Morrison stopped by for a chill chat about race, pigeonholing and the time she was taken aback by her own written words on Wednesday night's edition of The Colbert Report. "Is your entire literary career a midlife crisis?" Stephen Colbert asked.
WAG OF THE FINGER: Stephen Colbert has announced the end date for his game-changing television show The Colbert Report. The final episode will air on December 18th.
Last night, The Colbert Report tackled the story of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett's unfortunate photoshopping of black friend onto his website, and it did not disappoint.
At Monday night's Emmys, Gwen Stefani — catching a bad case of the Adele Dazeems — mispronounced Stephen Colbert's name as "Colbore" when announcing that The Colbert Report had won Best Variety Series.
Redheaded five-year-old news prodigy Noah Ritter continued his takeover of the American media last night, getting his very own Colbert Report segment. The theme? This kid is fully qualified to seize any TV journalism gig he wants. "He's already breaking the story of how the super slide is half death-scaring our…
Last night on The Colbert Report, effortless performance artist Stephen Colbert sat down with painstaking performance artist James Franco. The latter thought this would be the perfect opportunity to talk about their shared craft, but Stephen — who refuses to recognize that he's playing a character while on air — was…
This week, The Colbert Report aired a segment skewering Washington Redskins' owner Daniel Snyder's pro-Native American charity that contains an anti-Native American slur ("Redskins") in its name by suggesting Colbert, inspired by Snyder, would be starting his own charity, the "Ching Chong Ding Dong Foundation for…
After having a segment of his deliciously skewered by Stephen Colbert this week, one Fox News host is FIGHTING BACK. Against what, exactly, we're not sure.
Presented without comment (but not without a little bit of heartbreak). (Oh, there's apparently one woman on staff; she was just cut out of the picture.)
After Donald Trump's much-hyped October Surprise turned out to be an offer of $5 million to the charity of President Obama's choice if only the Commander-in-Chief would release his college transcripts, college applications, and passport applications to Donald Trump's satisfaction, Stephen Colbert had his own…
In this week's TV roundup, a woman becomes a professional snuggler, The Newsroom is still condescending, there's a real creeper on The Virgin Diaries and The Bad Girls Club explains dolphin rape.
In this week's TV roundup, Louis C.K.'s daughter tells a pretty good joke, we learn Pam's back story on True Blood, The View grills Rielle Hunter and the premiere of Aaron Sorkin's latest masturbation fantasy The Newsroom.
In this week's TV roundup, Detective Stabler comes to Bon Temps, Olivia Wilde charms on The Colbert Report, Fiona Apple celebrates Paul McCartney's birthday with the Roots and we say goodbye to Girls.
In this week's TV roundup, RuPaul's Drag Race loses a fan favorite, New Girl invents a new drinking game, Glee does Goyte and the First Lady has a go at Stephen Colbert.
In this week's TV roundup, the premiere of GCB, Springfield is Westeros in The Simpsons opening titles, the most awkward serenade on Smash and the return of an old young nemesis on 30 Rock.
Last night Stephen Colbert addressed the possibility that men may soon be able to take their own form of birth control pills. He's concerned that this will destroy the lives of many sacred sperm who could go on to become babies. His solution? Give every man a transurethral ultrasound (ouch!) before they're allowed to…
A Colbert Report staffer has recently become a father and as such, Stephen Colbert feels its his duty as a fellow dad to warn him of the "unimaginable terror" of local news stories. One local news story that is particularly horrifying is about the supposed teen trend referred to as "boofing," "slimming,"…
In this week's compilation of pop culture crap, Anderson Cooper gets the giggles, Gloria Steinem shares her abortion story, and evangelicals who believe in the preaching powers of a toddler who can't count.
