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11:00AM Jess McGuire | Friday was not the greatest day of Richard Wilkins’ career as an “entertainment guru”. After breaking the news to the nation that both Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson had passed away, it seems Richard needed something more to talk about in order to pad out the extra three hours of airtime Channel Nine gave him with their extended Today coverage of the Grim Reaper’s rampage through the world of showbiz. More »
Jeff Goldblum And Stephen Colbert Unite To Mock Richard Wilkins
11:00AM Jess McGuire | Friday was not the greatest day of Richard Wilkins’ career as an “entertainment guru”. After breaking the news to the nation that both Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson had passed away, it seems Richard needed something more to talk about in order to pad out the extra three hours of airtime Channel Nine gave him with their extended Today coverage of the Grim Reaper’s rampage through the world of showbiz. More » 
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Colbert Livens Up War Zone, Newsweekly
12:29AM Pareene | This week, Stephen Colbert is bringing laughter and joy to a devastated quagmire of misery and destruction: Newsweek. Oh, and Iraq. More »
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Stephen Colbert Issues Saucy Quote Re. Wacky Newsweek Stunt
2:26AM Hamilton Nolan | Newsweek has enlisted Stephen Colbert as a guest editor in a desperate attempt for “buzz.” It’s totally working! Because we have obtained, via a publicist, via Newsweek’s marketing team, a direct (outrageous!) quote from Colbert about his upcoming fake editorialism: More »
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Stephen Colbert To Guest Edit Newsweek
3:14PM the cajun boy | In a move that sort of reeks of desperation more than it does slick publishing PR, US Newsweek’s Jon Meacham announced that political satirist and tv host Stephen Colbert will be the magazine’s guest editor for the issue hitting newsstands on June 8. More »
5 Seasonal Classics to Help Stephen Colbert Craft a Hit Holiday Special
6:55AM STV | Stephen Colbert brought a preview of his upcoming Comedy Central holiday special to Good Morning America today, revealing a glimpse at a stirring interfaith celebration uniting Catholics, Jews, unsightly turtleneck devotees and a raft of other persuasions. But the brief sample of Colbert prying Hanukkah secrets from Jon Stewart isn’t quite enough to make anyone forget how far a holiday show really needs to go to achieve immortality. From the head-exploding ambition of the Star Wars Christmas Special to the suave, sweatered croonings of Solid Gold, there’s a golden era of genre excellence that even a talent like Colbert will find himself stretching awfully far to approximate. Follow the jump for five seasonal landmarks worth the effort, and godspeed outdoing any one of them. More »
Vicious Cross-Network Melee Leaves Stewart, O’Brien and Colbert In Critical Condition
3:26AM Mark | For those of you requiring context for the disturbingly violent cross-network brawl between Conan O’Brien, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart you’re about to witness, a feud recently erupted between O’Brien and Colbert over their dueling claims of having made Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee candidacy viable (ignoring, of course,‘Let My Writers Go,’ Sings A Heartsick Stephen Colbert
5:59AM Mark | Though the strategy of occasionally pointing to the joke-void on one’s blank TelePrompTer screen is certainly a valid one for calling attention to the struggle of one’s striking writers, sometimes a more dramatic display is necessary, lest even the most loyal TV audience begin to tune out the oft-intoned message of solidarity. More »
Stewart, Colbert Going Back To Work
7:05AM Defamer Hollywood | With Conan, Jay, Jimmy, and the rest of the late night gang announcing they’re reluctantly headed to back to work without their striking writers, it seemed inevitable that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert wouldn’t be far behind. They’ve released this joint statement on their January 7th return: “We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence.” A more disappointed than ambivalent WGA has already issued a reminder that writerless versions of the shows aren’t going to fill the Colbert and Stewart-shaped holes in our lives: “Comedy Central forcing Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert back on the air will not give the viewers the quality shows they’ve come to expect. The only way to get the writing staffs back on the job is for the AMPTP companies to come back to the table prepared to negotiate a fair deal with the Writers Guild.” [AP, WGA.org] More »
