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Stewart, Colbert rally in Washington

October 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Rallies by two satirical Comedy Central hosts are drawing thousands to the nation’s capital, and creating quite a buzz in the process.

 

Are you attending Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” and Stephen Colbert’s “March to Keep Fear Alive” on the National Mall this weekend? What do you think about the events?

 

Send us photos and videos if you’re there, and share your political take no matter where you stand. If you’re watching from afar, we’d like to hear from you too! Post a concise video response.

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Rally to Restore Sanity: Tweedy & Staples, The Roots, Sheryl Crow

October 28th, 2010 | No Comments

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30 AT NOON;
SEVERAL UNANNOUNCED MUSICAL
GUESTS


Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

On Saturday, October 30, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will hold their “Rally to Restore Sanity
and/or Fear” in Washington D.C. The National Park Service only approved the permit for the rally today, and the 60-
page-plus document reveals some information regarding the musical guests.

The festivities kick off at Noon with a 40 minute performance by The Roots. After entrances from
Stewart and Colbert and readings from actors Sam Waterston and Don Novello, Jeff Tweedy and Mavis Staples will play a 10 minute
set. At 2:15, Sheryl Crow
will
perform for five minutes.

The schedule includes several slots for unannounced musical guests and speakers. Click here to check it out. (via The Daily Swarm)


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Mavis Staples & Jeff Tweedy On The Colbert Report

October 7th, 2010 | No Comments

A SOUL LEGEND AND AN INDIE ROCK ICON

Last night, Mavis Staples and
Wilco‘s Jeff Tweedy stopped by The
Colbert Report for an interview with Stephen Colbert and a performance of the title track off Staples’ new album
You Are Not Alone, produced by Tweedy. Check out both clips below. (via The Audio Perv)


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Stewart & Colbert Will Host “Restore Sanity”/”Keep Fear Alive” Rallies In Washington Oct. 30

September 17th, 2010 | No Comments

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart will hold a rally on the National Mall next month designed to “restore sanity” as his Comedy Central partner Stephen Colbert holds an opposing march to “Keep Fear Alive.” The satirist made the announcement on his show Thursday, hot on the heels of the Aug. 28 “Restoring Honor Rally” on the [...]

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Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert Will Be Dropped from Hulu

March 4th, 2010 | No Comments

Comedy Central programs The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report will be dropped from Hulu starting on March 9, after a rights dispute between the network and the popular video streaming site. Hulu and YouTube have taken advantage of the growing trend in watching streaming video online, which in turn has led companies such as Microsoft to integrate Hulu feeds into their video pages and enterprise IT companies such as Omniture to create solutions for monitoring the spread of viral video clips across the Internet. Streaming video is also becoming a more robust source of revenue for both networks and sites such as Hulu.
– Comedy Central programs “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert
Report” will no longer be available on Hulu, due to a dispute between the
network and the streaming video site. The shows will be removed from the site
starting at 11:59 p.m. PST on March
9.
quot;In the past 21 months,…



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Stephen Colbert Treadmill Heads to ISS

August 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

The Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill the COLBERT will be delivered to the International Space Station next week.
– It started as a joke and will end up at the International Space Station. After comedian Stephen Colbert discovered NASA was soliciting names for Node 3 of the ISS in an online poll, the host of Comedy Central’s quot;The Colbert Report quot; urged his viewers to ignore NASA’s suggestion of quot;Ser…



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Bertha Lewis: Stephen Colbert in Death Match with Black Barbie

July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

A few weeks ago, Stephen Colbert had me on his show. It got to the point where I took out a black Barbie doll, he took out a transformer and we just started dueling. Guess who won that fight?

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