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Jan 07

Better Know a Guest: January 7 – 10, 2013

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The Colbert Report Guest Line Up Happy New Year Hubsters!

I hope everyone had a fine celebration and I wish you all a joyful, successful, and healthful 2013. May your dreams come true and may our world become a more peaceful place in the year to come.

It’s almost time for our favorite late-night faux-pundits to return. Hallelujah! I figure they’ll definitely focus on the last-minute deal that stopped us from going off the fiscal cliff and the House’s refusal to okay disaster relief for those suffering in the aftermath of Sandy. I do not know how, or if, they will speak about the most terrible, awful, heartbreaking story that occurred during their hiatus: the tragic killing of 18 children and 9 adults in Newtown, CT. I personally felt grateful that they were off when this happened. I do not believe that they could have come in the next day and in any way covered it. Jon, of course, could have been more direct; Stephen’s format and character would have made it harder for him. I also do not know how, or if, they will deal with the recent rape tragedies in India, in which one brutalized woman died from her injuries and another killed herself. An absolute horror.

One bit of new that might be fun for them to mock is French actor Gerard Depardieu’s “defection” from France for tax reasons, and his possible acceptance of Russian citizenship.

I do have my own news: this, and the next couple of BKAGs to come, will be my last, at least for the foreseeable future. I have a very full plate of work that will demand my concentration in the next nine months of so: a film review, two papers (one for a conference and one for publication), and a large-scale research project for a publisher. I also have my job and other freelance. All in all, this makes it impossible for me to write this blog and do the rest without becoming a little frantic. I don’t want to sacrifice quality, and so I am saying goodbye for now. I will still stick around, though, to comment and contribute to the conversation, and perhaps do other small things as I can.

Now to the guests—and Mr. Colbert is beginning the New Year with a bang! (Sorry for the lack of photos; the site won’t let me upload right now.) Continue reading “Better Know a Guest: January 7 – 10, 2013” »

August 17, 2011 — Jeff Bridges

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 EPISODE NUMBER: 7109 (August 17, 2011)
GUESTS: Jeff Bridges
SEGMENTS: Colbert Super PAC – Rick Perry’s Treasurer | Tip/Wag – Evangelical Scientists and Rick Santorum | Jeff Bridges – “What a Little Bit of Love Can Do”
EXCLUSIVES: Jeff Bridges for Summer’s Eve | “Maybe I Missed the Point”
SUIT REPORT: Blue-gray suit| Blue-gray shirt | Blue-gray tie
VIDEOS: Wednesday, August 17, 2011

This evening the Dude came to abide at the Report, refreshing in his relaxed candor. It’s nice to have a guest on who is so distinctive in his laid-back approach to life, a little different from the highly specialized, intellectual, on-overdrive kind of guests we normally see on the show.

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Better Know a Guest: August 15th – 18th

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Hello, Hubsters!

The Colbert Report Guest Line UpI’m still away on vacation and need to catch up on several Reports and Daily Shows. I’ll probably download some to my iPod to watch on my flight back home tomorrow. (My laughter will probably scare all the other passengers. Or make them jealous.) Meanwhile, I hope everyone had a great week watching. I certainly had a fabulous one seeing family, including my beloved aunt, who just celebrated her 90th birthday.  She’s a woman of excellent taste who LOVES Stephen, and Jon too!

There are some great guests coming up, and those of us who adore geek Stephen and his dreams of outer space should be especially happy on Tuesday when a group of astronauts stop by. And on Wednesday we get to see one of today’s best actors–and hear him sing!

So onward to the stars… Continue reading “Better Know a Guest: August 15th – 18th” »

Upcoming Guest Alert: Jeff Bridges

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Jeff Bridges to perform on The Colbert Report

The long-awaited Jeff Bridges solo album that grew out of the movie, which Bridges has been hyping in interviews for a year, will finally release on August 16th, titled simply “Jeff Bridges.”

Coming off like The Dude with heartbreak, Bridges’ performance in “Crazy Heart” exuded a warm, worn-in sadness—arresting enough to rewind in the middle of the movie to hear the songs a second time. For “Jeff Bridges,” the Dude collaborated with the same team behind the “Crazy Heart” songs, including songwriter/producer T Bone Burnett, as well as Stephen Bruton and John Goodwin, Greg Brown, and Bo Ramsey. Some of Bridges’ own tunes made the cut as well.

Bridges will play a series of shows when the record releases, perhaps the coolest and most Dude-like being a motorcycle rally in South Dakota. But he’ll also appear on Stephen Colbert‘s “The Colbert Report” on August 17th, continuing Colbert’s run of great musical guests of late.

Source: Death + Taxes Magazine.