The Colbert Report (pronounced /koʊlˈbɛr rəˈpɔr/—t is silent in both "Colbert" and "Report") is an American satirical News satire, also called fake news or mock news, is a type of parody presented in a format typical of mainstream journalism, and called a satire because of its content. News satire has been around almost as long as journalism itself, but it is particularly popular on the web, where it is relatively easy to mimic a credible news source and stories late night television program A television program , television programme (in most Commonwealth countries and Ireland), or television show (USA/UK) is something that people watch on television. It may be a one-off broadcast or part of a periodically recurring television series that airs Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel that carries predominantly comedy programming, both original and syndicated in the United States and on both The Comedy Network The Comedy Network is a Canadian English language cable television specialty channel owned by CTV Television Inc., a division of CTVglobemedia specializing in comedy programming and CTV CTV is a Canadian English language television network. It is Canada's largest privately owned network, the main television asset of CTVglobemedia, one of the country's largest media conglomerates. Since 2002, CTV has consistently placed as Canada's top-rated network in total viewers and in key demographics, after several years trailing the rival in Canada. It stars political humorist Stephen Colbert Stephen Tyrone Colbert is an American political satirist, writer, comedian and television host. He is the host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, a satirical news show in which Colbert portrays a caricatured version of conservative political pundits, a former correspondent A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is a journalist or commentator who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, from a remote, often distant, location. A foreign correspondent is stationed in a foreign country. The term correspondent refers to the original practice of filing news reports via postal letter. The largest for The Daily Show The Daily Show, known in its current incarnation as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, is an American late night satirical television program airing each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central in the United States. The half-hour long show premiered on July 21, 1996, and was hosted by Craig Kilborn until December 1998. Jon Stewart took over as.
The Colbert Report is a spin-off A spin-off is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one, such as television series based on a pre-existing one, or a new company formed from a university research group or business incubator. In literature, especially in milieu-based popular fictional book series like mysteries, westerns, fantasy or science fiction, the term of and counterpart to The Daily Show that, like The Daily Show, critiques politics and the media. It satirizes conservative personality-driven political pundit A pundit is someone who offers to mass-media his or her opinion or commentary on a particular subject area on which they are knowledgeable. The term has been increasingly applied to popular media personalities. In certain cases, it may be used in a derogatory manner as well programs, particularly Fox News Fox News Channel is an American cable news and satellite channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation. As of April 2009, it is available to 102 million households in the U.S. and further to viewers internationally, broadcasting primarily out of its New York City studios' The O'Reilly Factor The O'Reilly Factor is an American talk show on the Fox News Channel hosted by commentator Bill O'Reilly, who discusses current political and social issues with guests and often on controversial topics. The show premiered in 1996, along with the Fox News Channel. The show was originally called the O'Reilly Report, but, after the suggestion of O'.[1][2] The show focuses on a fictional anchorman character named Stephen Colbert Sir Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D.F.A. , is the persona of political satirist Stephen Colbert, portrayed most notably on The Colbert Report. Described as a "well-intentioned, poorly informed high-status idiot," the character is a self-obsessed right-wing commentator with a strong distaste for facts. He incorporates aspects of the real, played by his real-life namesake. The character, described by Colbert as a "well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot Idiot is a word derived from the Greek ἰδιώτης, idiōtēs , from ἴδιος, idios ("private," "one's own"). In Latin the word idiota ("ordinary person, layman") preceded the Late Latin meaning "uneducated or ignorant person." Its modern meaning and form dates back to Middle English around the year 1", is a caricature of televised political pundits.[3][4]
The Colbert Report has been nominated for four Emmys The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards , Grammy Awards (for music) and Tony Awards (for stage) each in 2006, 2007 and 2008, two Television Critics Association The Television Critics Association is a group of approximately 200 United States and Canadian journalists and columnists who cover television programming. They meet in the Los Angeles area twice a year, in January and July, in conferences known as Winter and Summer Press Tours Awards, and two Satellite Awards The Satellite Awards are an annual award given by the International Press Academy. The awards were originally known as the Golden Satellite Awards. It has been presented as non-satirical journalism in several instances, by the Tom DeLay Thomas Dale DeLay is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Sugar Land, Texas. He was a Republican House Majority Leader from 2003–2005, when his high profile legal problems forced him to step down Legal Defense Trust, and following Robert Wexler Robert Wexler is an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida. He has served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997, representing Florida's 19th congressional district. The district includes most of western Palm Beach County, as well as northern Broward County's interview on the program. The Report received considerable media coverage following its debut on October 17, 2005, for Colbert's popularizing of the term "truthiness Truthiness is a term first used in its recent satirical sense by American television comedian Stephen Colbert in 2005, to describe things that a person claims to know intuitively or "from the gut" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts. Colbert introduced this definition of the word during the pilot episode", which dictionary A dictionary is a collection of words in a specific language, often listed alphabetically, with definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon. According to Nielsen 2008 a dictionary may be regarded as a lexicographical publisher Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information – the activity of making information available for public view. In some cases authors may be their own publishers, meaning: originators and developers of content also provide media to deliver and display the content Merriam-Webster Merriam–Webster, which was originally the G. & C. Merriam Company of Springfield, Massachusetts, is an American company that publishes reference books, especially dictionaries that are descendants of Noah Webster’s An American Dictionary of the English Language . Merriam–Webster is a subsidiary of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc named its 2006 Word of the Year The word of the year, sometimes capitalized as Word(s) of the Year and abbreviated WOTY or WotY, refers to any of various assessments as to the most important word(s) or expression(s) in the public sphere during a specific year.[5] The Report has also coined other neologisms A neologism ; from Greek νές (neo 'new' + logos 'word') is a newly coined word that may be in the process of entering common use, but has not yet been accepted into mainstream language. Neologisms are often directly attributable to a specific person, publication, period, or event. According to Oxford English Dictionary the term neologism was, such as "freem".
The Report has had cultural influence in a number of ways. In 2006, after Colbert encouraged viewers to vote online to name a Hungarian Hungary /ˈhʌŋɡəri/ (Hungarian: Magyarország [ˈmɔɟɔrorsaːɡ] ( listen)), in English officially the Republic of Hungary (Magyar Köztársaság listen (help·info), literally Magyar (Hungarian) Republic), is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and bridge after him, he won the first round of voting with 17,231,724 votes.[6] The Ambassador of Hungary presented Mr. Colbert with a declaration certifying him as the winner of the second and final round of voting, though it was later announced that the bridge would be named the Megyeri Bridge The Megyeri Bridge, previously known as the Northern M0 Danube bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the River Danube between Buda and Pest, respectively the west and east sides of Budapest, the capital of Hungary. It is a very important section of the M0 ringroad around Budapest. (It couldn't be named after a living person.) In 2007, the Democratic Caucus chair, Rahm Emanuel Rahm Israel Emanuel is an American politician currently serving as White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama. He served previously as Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Illinois's 5th congressional district from 2003 until his resignation in 2009 to take up his current position in the Obama, instructed freshmen Representatives not to appear on the show's "Better Know a District Better Know a District is a recurring segment on The Colbert Report. It offers a humorous explanation of a different United States Congressional district in each segment and generally includes an interview with that district's member of Congress" segment.[7]
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Q. I had heard his name in passing prior to watching a recent episode of The Colbert Report. I have since only read his entry on wikipedia. From wikipedia: Shermer is "a science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and editor of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating and debunking pseudoscientific and supernatural claims." I put this in a government category for the 9/11 Truthers (for whom I admit, I have had some sympathy). In his interview with Colbert, he said (as near as I can quote) "9/11 was in fact a conspiracy. It was a conspiracy by al Qaeda." I'm fully willing to disregard official government accounts, but I'm interested to hear independent, objective people. Is Michael… [cont.]
Asked by Joe S - Tue Aug 28 16:14:53 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments
A. Sounds reliable to me.
Answered by Pfo - Tue Aug 28 16:38:34 2007
