Stephen Colbert

Where Are They Now, Occupy Wall Street Edition: Colbert Report's Justin and Ketchup

Two years ago, an isolated demonstration in Zuccotti Park was swiftly mutating into a national movement, and Stephen Colbert wanted in on the action. The Comedy Central host headed on down to the Occupy Wall Street protest where he encountered "two young idealists"--Justin and Ketchup.

Stephen Colbert Cordially Invites Joe Lhota To Finally Kill Those Subway Kittens

We told you yesterday about the happy ending for August and Arthur, the adorable stupid subway kittens who tied up train traffic for two hours, and are now living in a stylish cardboard cat-condo in Bushwick. They're easily the most interviewed cute, idiotic creatures around right now, with seemingl ... More >>

Q&A: The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne On Stephen Colbert, Ke$ha, And An Inadvertent Game Of Telephone With Lightning Bolt

Flaming Lips leader Wayne Coyne dreams weird and hard and big. What often starts of as a whimsical vision might just end up as a new world record (for the most live concerts in 24 hours) or a limited-edition vinyl release infused with the blood of other artists (as was the case for 2011's The Flamin ... More >>

Live: Stephen Colbert Throws A Festival With The Flaming Lips, Santigold, Grizzly Bear, And fun.

Colbchella: fun., Grizzly Bear, Santigold, Flaming Lips U.S.S. Intrepid Friday, August 10 Better than: All the world wars and Woodstocks combined. Don't you ever question America's might. We do things bigger and crazier than other countries—and then we televise it. And while Stephen Colbert ... More >>

Five Things You Can Do to Buy NYC's Million-Dollar Parking Spot

Recession? What recession?This morning, the Post reported that the city's most expensive parking spot is now on sale at 66 E. 11th Street in a tiny private garage. The location lies within a $38.8 million loft owned by developer Moran Fareed and includes a shower that shoots vitamin-C-and-aloe infus ... More >>

Children's Book Artist Maurice Sendak, Dies at 83

In very sad news today, the wonderful Maurice Sendak has died due to complications from a recent stroke. Sendak was considered one of the most important children's book artists of the 20th century. There will likely be many tributes and stories about Sendak today; you can read some here: The New ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: April 18-24, 2012

Stephen Colbert Is A Bit Miffed That His Pop Conference Paper Got Rejected

Next weekend, various stripes of music nerds (critics, academics, people who just like to think a lot) will descend on New York for the EMP Pop Conference, an annual mind-meld of pro and amateur musicologists that's taking place in our fair city for the first time. The conference, sponsored by the S ... More >>

Win A Pair Of Tickets To The Secret Policeman's Ball, A Music/Comedy Extravaganza At Radio City This Weekend

This Sunday, the Secret Policeman's Ball—a night of music and comedy celebrating the 50th anniversary of Amnesty International—is taking place at Radio City Music Hall, and today Sound of the City is giving away a pair of tickets. Among the luminaries appearing at the event: Jon Stewart; ... More >>

Stephen Colbert's Super PAC Raises $1 Million

While Republicans duke it out in the Florida primary today, funnyman Stephen Colbert continues to mock the political process entirely with his Super PAC, which announced today that it had raised $1 million. The Super PAC (that's "Political Action Campaign" to you, sir), also known as the Americans f ... More >>

One in Five in South Carolina 'Kinda Somewhat Likely' to Vote for Stephen Colbert, Marist Poll Says

You read that headline right. The Marist Poll came out with some stats today that say that nearly 20% of voters in South Carolina are "kinda somewhat likely" to vote for Stephen Colbert to be president of the United States. Playing along with the political satire (or whatever we should be calling t ... More >>

Definitely Not Coordinated With Stephen Colbert Super PAC Releases Anti-Romney Ad

The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive Want to hear the star of Harry and the Hendersons -- no, not Harry, the human one -- narrate a Mitt Romney attack ad? You're in luck. Watch the above video.

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Stephen Colbert Will Not Give Up His Tater Tots

raybdbomb/FlickrHands off our tots!​On last night's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert weighed in on plans to reduce the potato presence in school lunches. Specifically, officials want to get rid of deep-fried potatoes, such as crunchy, salty tater tots. To put it mildly, Colbert does not approve ... More >>

Stephen Colbert Has His Own 'Cheap Cornography' to Sway Iowa Voters

Stephen Colbert: cornographer​Stephen Colbert has debuted his own Super PAC ads in Iowa to get voters to cast their ballot for Rick Parry (that's Parry with an 'A' for America, as opposed to Perry, the Texas Governor). And if his rival Super PACs can do it, why shouldn't he too resort to "chea ... More >>

Stephen Colbert Goes to Tea & Sympathy, Fails at Being British

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cMy Fair Colbert - Hugo Vickerswww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogVideo ArchiveThe royal wedding is fast approaching (only three weeks away!), so best learn the correct etiquette should one be invited to the big ... More >>

Stephen Colbert Asks, 'Is God Fattening?' Study Says Yes.

Lo-cal communion wafers.​A new study reveals that people who regularly attend church or other religious institutions are 50 percent more likely to be obese than non-religious folk. And, if you happened to catch Morley Safer's profile of Archbishop Timothy Dolan on 60 Minutes a couple weeks bac ... More >>

Stephen Colbert Stuck With Subliminal Anonymous Mask

via​The social news site Reddit brings us news of Stephen Colbert, seen above in a still from last night's Colbert Report, subliminally fitted with a Guy Fawkes mask, in the style of V For Vendetta. The mask is also a symbol of the amorphous hacker collective Anonymous, who just yesterday took ... More >>

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Anne Hathaway and James Franco? Here Are 5 Pairs Better Suited to Host the Oscars.

via NY Daily News​Today, Anne Hathaway and James Franco were named the hosts of this year's Academy Awards. The Daily News reports that Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer (the producers of the Oscars) said, "James Franco and Anne Hathaway personify the next generation of Hollywood icons -- fresh, exc ... More >>

Four Loko is Dead: SNL, Social Networks and Street Corners; Let's Stop Talking About It

Consider the shark jumped. The $3 canned beverage, both caffeinated and alcoholic, has already been banned in New York, with distributors halting their local deliveries on Friday, and now we here at Runnin' Scared are moving to ban the drink from the internet. Our teeth are shivering from the sugar ... More >>

Rightbloggers Denounce Stewart - Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity Cat Stevens

On Saturday in Washington Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert held their Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Keep Fear Alive. The purpose of the event, which drew more than 200,000 people, was to help Cat Stevens win support for his fatwa against Salman Rushdie. What, you didn't know that? You must have mis ... More >>

Adieu, Fair Pop-Tarts World; Justin Bieber Has a Thing for Sap

As always, we appreciate you spending the week with us here at Fork in the Road. But, in case you missed it, here's what the other food blogs have been up to... Eater bemoaned the fact that Pop-Tarts World will close this fall to make room for a new public plaza. Grub Street wondered whether Steph ... More >>

Stephen Colbert Gets Truthy with Congress; Rightbloggers Scream Like Stuck Eagles (And So Do MSM Reporters)

Long, bitter experience -- and long, bitter comments at this blog -- have taught us that if there's anything conservatives hate more than Big Gummint and homosexuals, it's someone making fun of them. The outrage that Boss Tweed expressed over "them damned pictures" of himself drawn by Thomas Nast is ... More >>

Stephen Colbert Testifies for Congress After Being Asked Not To! (Video)

​Stephen Colbert just testified in front of Congress about the United Farm Workers' "Take Our Jobs" initiative, which argues for American citizens to take farm worker jobs over from illegal immigrants. And he just did it, after being asked not to.

ChristWire Comes Out, Is Certainly Satire; Site Strikes Back, Confuses Commenters

​In a race to the internet 'presses,' both New York's Daily Intel and the New York Times came out Friday evening with profiles of the mysterious, hilarious website ChristWire.org, which convincingly and extensively parodies conservative craziness with Onion-like ferocity. The site's greatest s ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: August 18 through 24, 2010

Vodka Eyeball Shots: In Case You Missed it, The Latest Trend (Not Really)

Apparently, a trend has been sweeping the land that somehow escaped us here at Fork in the Road. It's called "vodka eyeballing," and it's pretty much what you think it is.

Last Night: Stephen Colbert Insults Vampire Weekend's Personal Hygiene

It's true, local swells Vampire Weekend were looking a little ragged on Stephen Colbert's television show last night, but that was no call for him to tell kindly VW drummer Chris Thomson that his hygiene level reminded Colbert of the notoriously unwashed teen star (and sometime Twilight vampire) R ... More >>

Week in Review: He Did? I Love It!

Happy birthday, clowns. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week James Murphy finally squashed his beef with our own Michael Musto, we watched as another journalist-on-artist feud--M.I.A. vs. Lynn Hirschberg, who else?--heated up, adding an album cover, a response to a response to a response to a r ... More >>

Last Night: Stephen Colbert Accuses the Hold Steady of Being Graphic Designers

"Are you sure you're not graphic designers?", Stephen Colbert asks the Hold Steady's Craig Finn and Tad Kubler, the joke being that they're way too old to be playing in a band. (Like Harvilla sez: "You have to remember: The Hold Steady were wizened, wistful veterans when they started.") Then, afte ... More >>

Colbert Report: Republicans Suggest Bartering Chickens for Health Care

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Stephen Colbert Invented a New Williamsburg Band Called "I Didn't Fill Out My Census"

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The Best Fake Twitter Accounts: Fake Rahm Emanuel, Fake Christopher Walken, Fake AP Stylebook, and More

There are currently more than 120 Joe Jonases, at least 45 George Bushes, and exactly 13 Octomoms on Twitter. And while fake social networking profiles have been around since the dark ages of Friendster, the newest crop of Fakesters have embraced the most massive venue for Internet oversharers, th ... More >>

Stephen Colbert's Mayo-lution, Televised & In Print

Does anyone find the Miracle Whip-Stephen Colbert feud creepy? Colbert aired a faux pro-mayo PSA on his show a couple of weeks ago spoofing Miracle Whip's irritating dancing hipster campaign. Miracle Whip then responded by taking out a one-page ad in several newspapers promising to dominate the ad ... More >>

Stephen Colbert Saves Halloween, Battles 'Arma-gourd-on'

Don't let your Halloween be ruined by the pumpkin shortage of '09. Instead of a jack-o-lantern, carve yourself a spooky can-o-lantern. Let Stephen Colbert show you how. [via Eat Me Daily]

Stephen Colbert Takes America to Task on 'Weightism'

Even though "being overweight is as American as eating a whole apple pie," it appears that society is still prejudiced against the obese. An amendment to the proposed healthcare bill that would reward people for losing weight inspired Stephen Colbert to rant about the issue of "weightism" in Ameri ... More >>

Stephen Colbert on McLouvre: 'Hey, France, Fast Food Is Our Culture!"

In his "Tip of the Hat / Wag of the Finger" segment, Stephen Colbert envisioned what the Louvre's new McDonald's might be like: A Grimace de Milo. A McLisa smile. And a pack of Gitanes in your "Ennui Meal." [via Eat Me Daily]

What You Didn't See on Last Night's Colbert Report: A Mountain Goats-Colbert Duet

Stephen Colbert: "Oh My God! There's a Sugar Shortage!"

In light of the news that American could be facing a sugar shortage, Stephen Colbert broke out his emergency stash on The Colbert Report last night. How could we be running so low on "Jesus' dandruff"? Perhaps it was that world's-largest-cupcake folly.

Reminder: Fork in the Road Haz a Twit

​ In Steven Colbert's immortal words: We twatted. Or twittered. Or twitted. In any case, you can read our deepest thoughts and feelings on Twitter, where we are known as ForkintheRoadVV.

What Will We Find in Mario Batali's Genes?

Photo borrowed from nerdapproved.com From the producers who brought us African American Lives and Oprah's Roots comes a new PBS series called Faces of America. Popular icons like Stephen Colbert, Malcolm Gladwell, and Yo Yo Ma have agreed to have their DNA deconstructed to discover what role their ... More >>

Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Stephen Colbert's "Another Christmas Song"

Zogby Poll Says Internet, Fox "Most Trusted"; Hoax Suspected

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