When I was first gifted a beautiful, metallic cherry-red, video-capable iPod, I copied only two clips over. One was an early, unfinished scene from Sita Sings the Blues. The other was Salman Rushdie bemoaning the state of literary criticism on the Colbert Report.
On this press swing, Rushdie seemed bemused and short-circuited by Colbert’s suddenly more […]
Hindu Temple Society president Uma Mysorekar bravely went on the Colbert Report last night to defend Hinduism. The shtick was that since Barack Obama left Jeremiah Wright’s church, Colbert will help him shop for another.
Mysorekar claimed that neither is Diwali over-commercialized, not does being Hindu involve guilt or sin. Methinks auntieji is fudging a bit […]
A couple of months ago, John McCain criticized Barack Obama for saying he’d launch surgical airstrikes against terrorists in Pakistan — when Dubya does so every other week. The GOP line then was that Obama was too aggressive with terrorists.
Yesterday in Israel, Dubya tried to link Obama’s willingness to talk to enemy nations to Neville […]
Columbia sociology prof. Sudhir Venkatesh, author of Gang Leader for a Day, went on Colbert last night for a silly interview in which he denied ever popping a cap in someone’s ass. ‘I’m a pacifist,’ he said. But he acknowledged he once had to have someone beaten. Columbia grad students beware.
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Shashi Tharoor shilled his parody of Tom Friedman on Colbert last night with his admirable mop and his plummy laugh. Did he run for UN chief or prep school headmaster? Handled Colbert well, though.
The Daily Show’s Jason Jones gave Starbucks free publicity for its nationwide shutdown and visited a desi-owned deli to buy coffee. He overlayed a random wedding shehnai soundtrack, unlikely to be playing at a place of business, then headed out to Times Square to make fun of a Sikh gentleman’s lack of English fluency. This […]
Both the Daily Show and the Colbert Report addressed the Obama turban smear last night, but I don’t see the humor in this Colbert clip — unless pairing ‘Obama’ and ‘terrorist’ is intrinsically funny. His coda on the line-lifting nontroversy was better.
Stephen Colbert played a clip from Superman ripoff Dariya Dil on last night’s show, and for a brief, shining moment, Govinda, Kimi Katkar and Aarey Milk Colony shimmered on America’s screen:
These days, they can outsource any American job to India. Look what they did to Superman. You thought Superman 4 was bad.
The buyer of heavy metal on Gandhi Street made an entirely too-brief cameo on Colbert last night, wearing a Veronica Lodge headband (thanks, zed):
Shashi Tharoor turned in his papers at UN Plaza and got his baritone kundi on the Colbert Report approximately five nanoseconds later. John Bolton could learn a lesson, and hey, you’d get two guests for the price of one (via SAJA Forum):
After watching K3G, Stephen Colbert changes his mind and anoints Amitabh Bachchan the new dance-off winner over Shah Rukh Khan (thanks, busybee and Anangbhai). Does this mean that conservapundits might not be full of received wisdom?
Colbert hints he’s largely faking the cringeworthy pronunciation, which is pretty cute:
And Indians, don’t tell me it’s pronounced Oo-mi-tob […]
Retropundit Dinesh D’Souza claimed on the Colbert Report that liberals are responsible for 9/11 (thanks, Turbanhead). This transparent flamebait reminds me of kayfabe Shilpagate, where the ‘reality’ series has an openly credited ’storyline editor.’
But Colbert tosses D’Souza into a blender with a dash of contempt. ‘Oh, that’s not going to sell books.’
The last time I […]