Welcome to the ‘Six Degrees Catch Up Edition’ featuring all the latest happenings and goings on in the world of ‘Daily Show’ and ‘Colbert Report’ staff and ‘Friends of the Show’.
In this month’s catch up we have new books from Father James Martin and Maurice Sendak, interviews with Frank Lesser, Rory Albanese, Sam Bee and Steve Carell, Amy Sedaris casting news and John Oliver talks about wearing Stephen Colbert hand-me-downs and hosting ‘The Daily Show’.
Stephen Colbert appeared on ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ last night to discuss his sister Elizabeth Colbert Busch’s campaign for Congress, whose Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is selling more, Jimmy’s recent Grammy win and that special someone he forgot to thank, and the new ‘potential good friends’ sung “Ivory and Ivory”.
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Stephen Colbert will be a guest on ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ on Thursday, 21st February (2012) at 12:35/11:35c on NBC.
** John Oliver will be a guest on Wednesday, 20th February.
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Amy Sedaris brought her special brand of Christmas cheer to ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ where she spoke about her new fabric line, special Japanese pantyhose’s and necklace, taught Jimmy how to make a rather suggestive Christmas decoration, and broke two world records.
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The last week of March 2011 could not have been a good one for Rebecca Black, being as she was the most vilified pop star on all the Internet. The amusingly amateurish clip for the 13-year-old’s song “Friday” – an out-of-nowhere, Auto-Tuned sensation featuring feel-good lyrics about the day between Thursday and Saturday – had just overtaken Justin Bieber’s “Baby” as the most hated YouTube video of all time, registering nearly 1.2 million dislikes. By then, numerous bloggers already had dubbed “Friday” “the worst song ever” – a downright polite assessment in light of some of the vitriol directed at Black – and the video had been mercilessly parodied online.
At the end of that same week, comedian Jimmy Fallon had friend and fellow late-night host Stephen Colbert on his show to perform “Friday” with Fallon’s house band, The Roots. But it’s not Jimmy Fallon’s style to pile on, to kick people when they’re down. If Rebecca Black was watching Late Night With Jimmy Fallon that Friday night (or afterward, on the Internet), she ought to have been heartened by what she saw. Everyone involved in the production – and it was nothing if not a production – took the song’s “fun, fun, fun, fun” lyric to heart. “The performance was so balls-to-the-wall,” Colbert says, “just throwing everything at the canvas.” Jackson Pollock would be so dizzied: “Everything” included (but was no means limited to) onstage pyrotechnics, a surprise appearance by former American Idol Taylor Hicks, and for good measure, somebody boogieing in a yeti costume. Oh, did we mention that the Knicks City Dancers showed up, too?
“One of the things we talked about beforehand is that we didn’t want to mock the song,” Colbert recalls. “We wanted to do the song like it’s never been done before. Sometimes in parody, when you do somebody else’s material for comedy, you can feel the ‘knife’ in it. There’s no knife in Jimmy Fallon’s hand, and I really like that.”
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Stephen Colbert appeared on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” to talk about the Colbert SuperPAC Super Fun Pack treasure map, his new children’s book “I Am A Pole (And So Can You!)” and Jimmy challenges Stephen to a game of bubble soccer, with David Gregory and Lestor Holt.
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Stephen Colbert will be appearing on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” on Friday, May 11th (12:35 / 11:35c on NBC).
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