EPISODE NUMBER: 9096 (May 2, 2013)
GUESTS: Sir Ben Kingsley | Charles Swift
SEGMENTS: Intro - 5/2/13 | Boston Bomber Accomplices | Gitmo Hunger Strike | Gitmo Hunger Strike - Charles Swift | Movies That Are Destroying America - Summer Movie Edition - “Man of Steel” & “Iron Man 3″ | Sign Off - Montclair Film Festival
SUIT REPORT: Steel Gray Suit | White Dress Shirt | Red Patterned Tie | Tied String Bracelet on Left Wrist
VIDEOS: Thursday, May 2, 2013
So, Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) will face off with Sir Doctor Sen. Stephen T. Mos Def Colbert, D.F.A of the Most Excellent Order of the Colbert Nation! Let’s see which one of them blinks first. Well, that was an odd interview, blinking odd! Update to come. We always knew, Stephen Colbert was a super man … but THE Superman! Yes, Sir!
How is it that Mr. Colbert makes the Brooks Brothers he wears look so particularly exquisite. This day, he has a Man of Steel gray suit framing a crisp and vivid white shirt with barrel cuffs snuggling near that braided and tied thread bracelet around his right wrist. His red, patterned hangman’s noose ties up the whole ensemble.
Loving his desk drumming.
Salute you too, Sir.
Thank you, Mr. C, for uncovering the subversive propagation of the hideous “LOL” as the short hand for ululation.
Seems that the Boston suspect’s Accomplices watched this movie rather than the Bomb: John Carter.
Nice transition, Mr. C.
So, Gitmo is the Hunger Games without the Games.
Gitmo Hunger Strike - Charles Swift
Mr. Colbert confirms that writing an OP-ED is potentially a terrorist act! That’s a modest proposal, Mr. Swift.
Movies That Are Destroying America - Summer Movie Edition - “Man of Steel” & “Iron Man 3″
Movies destroying America, partly because they are not inviting Mr. C to perform in them. And again, what is this bracelet on your wrist, Mr. C? What does it represent? Please *grabby hand* tell us so we can celebrate with you.
MMmm, so great to see Mr. Colbert’s Superman impression or is it rather, Clark Kent does Stephen Colbert impressions? SShhhhhhh.
Stephen is most perturbed that a British Actor has been given the Superman role, a nancy boy to boot.
But perhaps, Mr. Colbert has revealed the obfuscation, perhaps Obama is Superman and the “S” really does stands for “Shope.”
Does anyone else have the impression that Sir Ben has been on one too many Movie Junkets lately. And yes, appeared to realize who he was playing with but a dollar short and a day late. Thank you, Sir Bengie, for throwing the gantlet down for Sir Steven Speiberg. Come on, Sir Steven and Sir Stephen, let’s have an ‘Even Stevphen’ again!
Stephen contemplating the ethnicity of Women; channeling his inner Raven.
Sign Off - Montclair Film Festival
Good luck Montclair Film Festival! Here’s hoping it is marvelously successful!
Here is an arts-fartsy shot offered up by a momentary buffering hesitation of the part of the ColbertNation feed. And may I say, whoever has programed the video feed to jump from the one you are viewing to a totally unrelated one not from the current show you hope to watch should be hung, drawn and tickled until they cough up the correct code. Just saying.
What a hilariously awkward interview with Ben Kingsley! Something about really established, big time actors that make for the funniest interviews (i.e, Fonda, Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson.)
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@CN Helper: Wouldn’t it be great if we got a Taping ReporT from this show!? I’d love to know if it was as awkward and tense an interview as it sometimes seemed.
But then again, we haven’t had much luck with Taping ReporT lately. *Coughs* Erika *Coughs* Karenatasha.
That’s right Mister moderator! I went there!
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@Mr.Arkadin:
*Hiding head in shame* You will get one, you will! I promise. I’m sorry it’s delayed, but it is NOT cancelled!
Just been crazy lately.
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@Mr.Arkadin:
And I even gave you a tip of the hat for going there!
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@CN Helper: so true, to the point where when someone like Sigourney Weaver and Julie Andrews were on recently and were completely normal, it took a few days before I thought, hey they didn’t go all loopy on Stephen. They were just themselves. Sir Ben wasn’t as awkward as some, (cough cough Diane Keaton) but there was definitely something awkward there. Methinks he didn’t take the advice of the stage manager who tells everyone not to try to be funny, before they go out.
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@llama: I agree, Llama, I think he 1) thought this was a junket interview rather than more than that, 2) was trying to be funny and possibly realized he was falling totally flat and 3) arrived with contempt for his interviewer only to come across as if his pants were down.
Well done, Mr. C for not letting him make a total idiot of himself.
Mr. Kingsley, when playing a dingbat, don’t lead with dingbatness.
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Dear Stephen,
Please keep your Superman hair forever!
Sincerely,
Katt.
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haha wow, i dont think Kingsley realized this was a comedy show
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was kind of embarrassing for Kingsley as he came across as an arrogant jerk, especially that anti-american bit about greetings at the beginning of the interview (like how over the top americans can be while the Brits are soooo laid back…kind of pathetic, and I’m British).
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I agree@billy shears: It looked like SIr Ben was just loking forward to get on that plane tired of all the Iron Man promotional interview, probably and tried to make fun of Stephen on his way out. But didn’t quite succeded…
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Welcome to the Hub @David @billy shears and @greg!!
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*High Five* @David @billy shears and @greg!!
I think you are right, when Sir Ben scoffed at Sir Stephen over “loving the Gandhi story since he was a kid,” I sense Sir Ben thought he was talking about the film he starred in (1982) rather than the actual Gandhi Story (1869-1948). Well, ‘boys and girls’ perhaps, just perhaps, this wasn’t all about you, Mr. Kingsley.
But to offer some nonviolent, Gandhi-esque, compassion, Sir Ben did look awfully tired and so ready to get on a plane to fly home. Rest up, Man Darin!
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