"God gave us dominion over the animals. Okay? If we can get 50,000 of them in one spot, why shouldn't we?" —Stephen Colbert In Stephen Colbert's interview with Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation and co-producer of upcoming documentary Food, Inc., Schlosser lays down the problems with factory farming and genetically modified corn as Colbert tries to derail him by pointing out that "fecal material" is poop and thinking about the superpowers he could get from corn. And so much more! Watch the video after the jump....
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Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food, was on The Colbert Report last night. Colbert welcomed him with Sierra Mist soda, which definitely doesn't make Pollan's five-ingredients-or-less rule for virtuous foods. But Pollan politely took a sip and argued that he can still be American while avoiding American cheese (and other synthetic foods). For example, he encourages all parents to go the breast milk route, except we learn, thanks to a Mrs. Pollan in the audience, that he was not breast fed himself! Scandal. The interview, after the jump....
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In case you didn't watch last night, the clip of Mark Bittman on The Colbert Report. [Video, after the jump.] Colbert: "One aspect of conscious eating that I understand is that I like to eat things that were once conscious. If you show me a head of broccoli that can cry, I would dig in to that thing."...
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"I wanna nog your egg." If you watched Stephen Colbert's A Colbert Christmas last night, I'm sorry. That was an hour you'll never get back. Only marginally funny, the show's best bit was perhaps the John Legend performance. The R&B star played a visiting forest ranger singing a song about nutmeg. Legend: "I'll sprinkle your Christmas cream with my spice supreme Colbert: "What about all-spice?" "You know it leaves me cold as ice" "Cinnamon?" "Don't even think of putting that in" "Cardamom?" "It won't let me drop my love bomb" The video, after the jump....
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"Hey, Dunkin' Donuts: America does not run on Dunkin'. You guys owe me a new gas tank." —Stephen Colbert, on Monday's show opener...
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Starbucks closures affect even Stephen Colbert, when one of the two Starbucks underneath his desk is forced to close. Video after the jump....
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Stephen Colbert must have read our post on Ben & Jerry's new Elton John-honoring Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road flavor. At first we didn't recognize the "brickle" part either, but Colbert made perfect sense of the word: "some sort of English treat made from candied lamb cartilage." Colbert demands an apt warning on his own flavor, Americone Dream, now that it will be produced and sold next to Sir Elton's brickle. "May contain traces of sequins." Watch the clip after the jump....
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Hey! When did Stephen Colbert's intro change from "President Bush, have a hot dog with me" to "multi-grain"? Oh, I see, on Monday's episode....
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"Me have crazy times in '70s and '80s. Me like the Robert Downey Jr. of cookies." —Cookie Monster, on 'The Colbert Report' Nation, last Thursday, Stephen Colbert got a surprise visit from the Cookie Monster on The Colbert Report, just as he was lamenting the fact that fruit had replaced cookies as American kids' after-school snack of choice. Downright un-American, he said. Last night, on Jon Stewart's Daily Show, the two fake newsmen had a little back-and-forth about Cookie Monster's appearance. Seems the blue dude trashed Colbert's green room after getting angry about his green-room request list. After the jump, videos of Cookie Monster's original appearance and the ridiculous terms of his rider, including triple-stuffed Oreos....
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How does Stephen Colbert show his excellence in broadcasting journalism after winning a prestigious Peabody Award? By covering the world record-breaking watermelon smashing event! And thus the act of smashing watermelons with your head reaches new heights of prestige. Watch the video after the jump....
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