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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.

That cover is a five-way cliché.

manish vij on Tuesday, March 4th, 2008, 2:35 pm in Colbert Report, Economics, Humor, Literature, Video clips › Email this Email this › Facebook this › Reddit this › Link › Reader links


13 comments

  1. 1Runa on March 4th, 2008, 2:37 pm › Link

    Totally inappropriate but : I think Shashi Tharoor is HOT
    * ducks to avoid inevitable brickbats that will follow*

  2. 2manish on March 4th, 2008, 2:47 pm › Link

    If you’ve read his novels, you’ll know he approves of cougar hunting :)

  3. 3Runa on March 4th, 2008, 2:50 pm › Link

    cougar hunting.

    Manish,
    I resent the implication - he is way older than me :-) . Its a match made in heaven , I tell ya

  4. 4sakshi on March 4th, 2008, 2:50 pm › Link

    I like Colbert but I wish he hadn’t gone for the outsourcing-bollywood-caste troika.

  5. 5manish on March 4th, 2008, 2:54 pm › Link

    Tigerelephantmango, check. Multi-armed deity, check. Lexus and Olive Tree spirituality ref, check. World is Flat, check.

    I bet the cover has some kind of sari pattern in the background.

  6. 6manish on March 4th, 2008, 3:19 pm › Link

    I resent the implication - he is way older than me :-)

    Mean Tharoor’s the cougar. Man-cougar?

  7. 7Rahul on March 4th, 2008, 3:35 pm › Link

    Shashi Tharoor shilled his parody of Tom Friedman

    I am sorry: If you want a good job done of parodying the Friedman, you’ve got to leave it to Americans, not outsource it to Indians. Although Sassy Thayer with the indeterminate accent from Omaha, Nebraska might be cheaper.

  8. 8Runa on March 4th, 2008, 4:02 pm › Link

    Mean Tharoor’s the couger. Man-cougar?

    In that case , you are totally forgiven ! I was going by this

  9. 9sakshi on March 4th, 2008, 5:37 pm › Link

    3quarksdaily has out-friedmaned Tharoor: The Bluetooth and the Burqa!

  10. 10Improper Bostonian on March 4th, 2008, 6:11 pm › Link

    3quarksdaily has out-friedmaned Tharoor: The Bluetooth and the Burqa!

    From the article:

    The highly modest head-to-toe robe even shrouds the eyes, so for centuries it’s been difficult for women wearing them to send suggestive signals to men.

    But now a German designer has debuted a digitally-enabled burqa that can broadcast a photo of the wearer to nearby mobile phones.

    Eh. We Cantabrigians respect our time-honored traditions, instead of being enslaved by technology.

  11. 11Pagal_Aadmi_for_debauchery on March 5th, 2008, 2:59 pm › Link

    Did anybody catch Tharoor on Real Time with Bill Maher?

  12. 12manish on March 5th, 2008, 3:34 pm › Link

    No, but here’s the clip from Real Time.

  13. 13Notsure on March 8th, 2008, 2:12 pm › Link

    I have heard him give a speech, and have been seing his interviews on TV and NPR for a decade now,
    Yet I never can seem to muster any enthusiasm to order any of his book.
    He doesn’t have an original idea or insights intto any topic.


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