Happy Birthday Amy

I read somewhere recently that Friend of the Show, Amy Sedaris has a birthday today. So Happy Birthday to Amy. I hope she can find someone to make some yummy cupcakes for her.

See You in a Week

It should come as no surprise to anyone that this week is reruns on The Colbert Report. After all, it is a major holiday. That also means that the garbage pick-up comes a day later this week. I mean that garbage pick-up is delayed because it's a holiday and people get a day off. I don't mean that reruns cause garbage delays.

Yikes, I should just start all over.

Stephen, and I would hope his hard-working interns, have the week off due to the Fourth of July holiday. And so for those of us who tune in to watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report this week, there's a certain sense of Deja Vu all over again. Stephen's guest tonight (and by tonight I mean last week) was Timothy Garton Ash to talk about his book "Facts Are Subversive". I haven't read the book, but I'm pretty sure it is does not have much in common with a book like, oh maybe, "Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People!" by Amy Sedaris. I think it is about history, but very recent history.

But the thing I liked about this interview was that Stephen, who is usually the one to get his guest off guard, was constantly being caught off guard. And I don't think it was intentional. But when Stephen would ask, "What do you mean by North-South outlook?" and Timothy Garton Ash would reply, "Well I mean what I just said," it would prompt Stephen to clarify for his guest the meaning of his question. "Again, when I ask questions it generally means I don't understand the subject."

Perhaps we could say that facts are subversive and confusing.

Complete Factual Inaccuracy

The title refers to Stephen's segment on Papa Bear. If you want to know more about that, find tonight's show on the internet. By the way, this was the last show for 2010! No more shows until 2011. argh.

But of course the highlight was Amy Sedaris doing crafts with Stephen. She has written another book, "Simple Times, Crafts for Poor People." One of her crafts that she shared was homemade cookies - sort of. Instead of actually baking cookies, she saves crumbs all year long and puts them on a plate. She puts a note about enjoying her homemade cookies on the plate with the crumbs. This is a real time saver, plus it costs next to nothing. Almost as imaginative is Stephen's dreidel which he turned upside down, painted green and turned into a Christmas Tree.

Fans of Stephen Colbert or Amy Sedaris may remember that they starred together in "Strangers with Candy" where Amy played Jerri Blank and Stephen was Chuck Noblet.

Many of you probably confuse Amy Sedaris with Martha Stewart but there is an easy way to tell them apart. Amy Sedaris is an actor who portrayed a woman, Jerri Blank, who went to prison. Martha Stewart actually did go to prison. Other than that, they are pretty much the same.

Amy Sedaris, on a more serious note, made a plug for animal adoption. The website Whiskers in Wonderland links to the Animal Alliance of New York City, which helps people adopt pets.