AltWeeklies Wire
Send in the Clownsnew
There are 20 clowns running for Congress in South Carolina.
Columbia Free Times |
Corey Hutchins |
03-06-2013 |
Politics
Colbert Report Unexpectedly Cancels Tapingsnew
The Colbert Report has canceled two scheduled days of filming this week.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
02-16-2012 |
TV
A Moral Stance in a Public Placenew
Wall Street occupiers deserve our support.
East Bay Express |
Jay Youngdahl |
10-17-2011 |
#OCCUPY
PACs, Super-PACs ... and Super-Duper PACsnew
Stephen Colbert has a Super-PAC -- but just what is a Super-PAC, and how might these fundraising juggernauts affect the next election?
Getting Serious with Stephen Colbertnew
The Colbert Report host talks about the sad state of politics and the even sadder state of cable news.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
06-29-2011 |
TV
21st Century Situationists
Framed inaccurately by the press, The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear is best understood as a contemporary extension of the French Situationist movement of the ’60s, a mass inversion of rhetorical logic, meant to break the spectator’s passivity toward the spectacle and turn the obscuring force of mass media back on itself. Using pop cultural references and superficial Internet memes like the double-rainbow guy and “Hide ya kids, hide ya wife...” in the context of a once-powerful political forum was a Dadaist attempt to wipe the slate clean, to rise above the fruitless tit-for-tat schoolyard shouting match to which our political discourse has been reduced by the 24-hour news cycle and corporate spin-doctoring.
Media Matters Wants You to Drop Fox Like It’s Hotnew
Days before the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert rallies, a bevy of advertisements for the campaign against Fox News Channel hit stations across the D.C. Metro system last night.
Washington City Paper |
Alex Baca |
10-26-2010 |
Media
'I Am America' is a Nice Try That Falls a Little Flatnew
Even if Stephen Colbert was America, the sad reality is that I Am America is not Stephen Colbert. Without Colbert's special je ne sais quoi animating these words and distracting you from the spelling and grammar mistakes, too often the text is lacking.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
10-19-2007 |
Nonfiction
Finally, a Reason for America to Learn to Readnew
Just as The Colbert Report is an offshoot of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Colbert's book is best read as a companion volume to Stewart&Co.'s 2004 bestseller America (The Book): A Guide to Democracy Inaction.
Willamette Week |
Ian Gillingham |
10-10-2007 |
Nonfiction
