The World ends with a wedding! That's right. Yet again, the world is going to end. We've all been there so many times when the world has ended, so it should come as no surprise that someone is saying the world would end. Stephen covered it quite well, with a little help from Neil Cavuto and friends. One thing I know for sure, these are some great songs.
The End of the World (Skeeter Davis)
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) by REM
Why didn't Stephen have Michael Stipe climb on down from his shelf on the set and sing his song? It would have been appropriate. Just sayin'.
Andrew Sullivan came on the show to help Stephen understand all the intricacies involved in foreign relations and also to talk about Syria and the Middle East and Russia and China. Stephen talked about Putin and Chinese Putin. He also threatened to cut out portions of what Andrew Sullivan said, and by George, I think he did edit out some of what Andrew Sullivan said!
Stephen talked about the latest gun violence in our nation and explored some of the reasons for it. Over at Fox, they have some ideas. For one thing, there's too many ID cards. For another thing, too much violence in video games. Everyone over at Fox says so, Brian, Bill, Neil, and New Gretchen. Although, to be fair, Eric Bolling wants to know who the donkey is that keeps pointing fingers at a link between video games and violence. Yeah, who? Stephen said, "Good question. Who is the burro who blames gun violence on video games?" Stephen had a clip of that person. It's, well this is embarrassing. It's Eric Bolling.
Stephen's guest last night was Nicholson Baker, there to talk about his new book, "Traveling Sprinkler." I'm sure many people interview this author about his book, but Stephen comes up with hard hitting questions. Questions such as, "Who sets the hose down? Who pays the water bill?" These are questions that we need answers to if we are to enjoy the book.
The two of them continued discussing other important topics. They talked about Nicholson Baker's beard. "Your beard used to be America," Stephen commented and then changed the subject and asked about downtown and then asked about the Thunderstick. Wow. Really jumping all over the place with various unrelated topics.
Nicholson Baker also took this opportunity to hand out a complement to Malcolm Gladwell.
Showing posts with label Eric Bolling. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 19, 2013
Friday, September 6, 2013
Bonus Song at Colbert Nation
Do you have a Smile File? Stephen does and tonight he talked about Ariel Castro. He wasn't the only person paying attention to that. So was Eric Bolling of Fox News "The Five." He is something of a math whiz as evidenced by his computations indicating how much money we probably will save by not needing to spend money on Castro. Mr. Bolling also came up with some other computations about saving money, but heck, anyone can come up with money to save if you are willing to think outside the box. For example, we could all save money on car purchases plus get great exercise if we were willing to drive a car like Fred Flintstone's car.
So, how's the old living room sofa holding up? If it's time for a new couch, may I suggest a bulletproof davenport? You can get one that stores a ton of guns under the cushions - locked, not just stuck under the cushions. Plus, as an added bonus, the cushions are bullet-proof. Only drawback is that you have to convince the home invader to only aim at the cushions, not at your head and not at your lower extremity.
Of course, Stephen also has a good idea for those who like to combine home furniture and home safety. Get a Barca Launcher. Simply tape a long knife to your head with the blade pointing up and away from you. Then, if an intruder intrudes, just launch yourself by use of that lever on the side of the Barca Launcher. There's a lever on the left and a lever on the right. Be sure not to mix up which one reclines and which one launches. Don't ask Stephen, he's not exactly sure.
John Prine was Stephen's guest for the last show of this week. He is a grammy-winning folk singer, but did you know he started out as a mailman? He found that being a singer brought in more money, so that's why you won't be getting your mail from him. As is often the case with folk music, he likes to keep it simple. Singing and a guitar, but absolutely no twerking.
One of Stephen's favorite John Prine songs is "How Lucky." The lyrics suggest there's a lot of things he can't remember. Stephen wanted to know what it is that he can't remember. Unfortunaely, John Prine was unable to remember those things. John Prine performed "How Lucky" and there is, as usual, a bonus song over at Colbert Nation.
Probably wait until tomorrow to find the bonus song. It's not going to be there right after the show is done. But bonus songs always show up by the next day.
So, how's the old living room sofa holding up? If it's time for a new couch, may I suggest a bulletproof davenport? You can get one that stores a ton of guns under the cushions - locked, not just stuck under the cushions. Plus, as an added bonus, the cushions are bullet-proof. Only drawback is that you have to convince the home invader to only aim at the cushions, not at your head and not at your lower extremity.
Of course, Stephen also has a good idea for those who like to combine home furniture and home safety. Get a Barca Launcher. Simply tape a long knife to your head with the blade pointing up and away from you. Then, if an intruder intrudes, just launch yourself by use of that lever on the side of the Barca Launcher. There's a lever on the left and a lever on the right. Be sure not to mix up which one reclines and which one launches. Don't ask Stephen, he's not exactly sure.
John Prine was Stephen's guest for the last show of this week. He is a grammy-winning folk singer, but did you know he started out as a mailman? He found that being a singer brought in more money, so that's why you won't be getting your mail from him. As is often the case with folk music, he likes to keep it simple. Singing and a guitar, but absolutely no twerking.
One of Stephen's favorite John Prine songs is "How Lucky." The lyrics suggest there's a lot of things he can't remember. Stephen wanted to know what it is that he can't remember. Unfortunaely, John Prine was unable to remember those things. John Prine performed "How Lucky" and there is, as usual, a bonus song over at Colbert Nation.
Probably wait until tomorrow to find the bonus song. It's not going to be there right after the show is done. But bonus songs always show up by the next day.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Mountain Dew
Gasoline, Goldfish and Guitar: Sometimes it seems like Stephen packs two hours worth of Report into one night's show! Tonight was one of those nights. So much stuff to talk about.
Eric Bolling has the magic answer, in a manila envelope, to lower gas prices by a dollar. But, it's a secret. He guarantees it will work. "I guarantee it, gasoline prices come down by a dollar." The only catch is that President Obama is supposed to call Bolling. He let everyone know what his phone number is but then told everybody not to call him. Only President Obama was supposed to call that number because I imagine President Obama is sitting around watching TV in the Oval Office and got out a memo pad to write down the phone number. Well, that sounds like such a sweet deal that Stephen has his own manila envelopes with plans.
1. Eliminate the debt.
2. Invade and defeat Iran in three days.
3. Results of some blood tests.
4. Poetry from college.
5. Plan to organize my manila envelopes.
On a technicality, that of Stephen being the president of his Super PAC along with president of other important organizations, Stephen called Bolling. Of course he got an answering machine, so Stephen left a message with his own phone number to call. Perhaps even as you are reading this Stephen Colbert and Eric Bolling are talking. And so ends the Gasoline segment of this post.
Herman Cain has been busy since dropping out of the race for the GOP nomination for President. You remember Cain, don't you? Shucky ducky, I'm sure you do. He has a new plan or company or website, not sure exactly what to call it. (But I will say there's not much at the Store.) His mission: transfer power from the government to the people. Sounds good, but I have some questions. If you transfer power from the government to the people, will those people make the decisions? And then would they not be governing? And then wouldn't they become the government? So then, someone else would have to get a new mission to transfer power from that government to a new set of "people." This is going to take a while. Maybe we should all just vote in November.
But where is the Goldfish you may be wondering. Okay, Herman Cain has an ad, an avant-garde ad, in which some people think Herman Cain committed Goldfish Murder. He claims the Goldfish is fine, but really, how would we know? There could easily be a stand-in Goldfish. So... Stephen made an ad, an avant-garde ad about all the things we forgot we used to be mad at. Head over to Colbert Nation, probably tomorrow sometime, and watch Stephen's ad. I think Stephen is relieved to have made this ad. That takes care of the Goldfish segment.
Next is the Guitar. It was Elvis Costello who brought the guitar. Also as guests were Emmy Lou Harris and Don Fleming. The really neat thing about watching The Colbert Report is that I learn so much stuff. Alan Lomax collected music, folk music, from all over the world. (Interesting note. When I Googled Alan Lomax, I also looked at Images. I saw something I don't remember seeing before in Google Images - most of the photos were black and white.)We are talking tens of thousands of songs. This was before iPods. We got to see an actual tape player, with actual tape, on the show. We got to listen to Jean Ritchie and Bob Dylan on that tape recorder. You can go to this website:
CulturalEquity.org
and listen to lots and lots and lots of the songs as well as interviews plus more. So much to learn about from all over the world for quite a few years back. You will have way more than enough to keep you busy until Stephen's show is on again on Monday. Just a quick note though. I have been having problems some of the time, but not all of the time, connecting. (The connection has timed out.) I think the site is too busy. Everyone who watched The Colbert Report tonight is checking out Cultural Equity.org.
Folk music is the music of the people, just plain folks. One or two people would get together and sing about what they knew best or what they did all day. This could be sailing, working in a coal mine, maybe someone singing a lullaby, or perhaps working on a whaling ship. "Young people love whaling songs," according to Stephen.
Elvis Costello played guitar, and Emmy Lou Harris and Don Fleming rounded out the trio. Plus Stephen, so that made the trio a quartet. They sounded marvelous of course and you can see a bonus song soon over at Colbert Nation. So, there's the Guitar segment. And Mountain Dew? Well, that's the song they sang.
Eric Bolling has the magic answer, in a manila envelope, to lower gas prices by a dollar. But, it's a secret. He guarantees it will work. "I guarantee it, gasoline prices come down by a dollar." The only catch is that President Obama is supposed to call Bolling. He let everyone know what his phone number is but then told everybody not to call him. Only President Obama was supposed to call that number because I imagine President Obama is sitting around watching TV in the Oval Office and got out a memo pad to write down the phone number. Well, that sounds like such a sweet deal that Stephen has his own manila envelopes with plans.
1. Eliminate the debt.
2. Invade and defeat Iran in three days.
3. Results of some blood tests.
4. Poetry from college.
5. Plan to organize my manila envelopes.
On a technicality, that of Stephen being the president of his Super PAC along with president of other important organizations, Stephen called Bolling. Of course he got an answering machine, so Stephen left a message with his own phone number to call. Perhaps even as you are reading this Stephen Colbert and Eric Bolling are talking. And so ends the Gasoline segment of this post.
Herman Cain has been busy since dropping out of the race for the GOP nomination for President. You remember Cain, don't you? Shucky ducky, I'm sure you do. He has a new plan or company or website, not sure exactly what to call it. (But I will say there's not much at the Store.) His mission: transfer power from the government to the people. Sounds good, but I have some questions. If you transfer power from the government to the people, will those people make the decisions? And then would they not be governing? And then wouldn't they become the government? So then, someone else would have to get a new mission to transfer power from that government to a new set of "people." This is going to take a while. Maybe we should all just vote in November.
But where is the Goldfish you may be wondering. Okay, Herman Cain has an ad, an avant-garde ad, in which some people think Herman Cain committed Goldfish Murder. He claims the Goldfish is fine, but really, how would we know? There could easily be a stand-in Goldfish. So... Stephen made an ad, an avant-garde ad about all the things we forgot we used to be mad at. Head over to Colbert Nation, probably tomorrow sometime, and watch Stephen's ad. I think Stephen is relieved to have made this ad. That takes care of the Goldfish segment.
Next is the Guitar. It was Elvis Costello who brought the guitar. Also as guests were Emmy Lou Harris and Don Fleming. The really neat thing about watching The Colbert Report is that I learn so much stuff. Alan Lomax collected music, folk music, from all over the world. (Interesting note. When I Googled Alan Lomax, I also looked at Images. I saw something I don't remember seeing before in Google Images - most of the photos were black and white.)We are talking tens of thousands of songs. This was before iPods. We got to see an actual tape player, with actual tape, on the show. We got to listen to Jean Ritchie and Bob Dylan on that tape recorder. You can go to this website:
CulturalEquity.org
and listen to lots and lots and lots of the songs as well as interviews plus more. So much to learn about from all over the world for quite a few years back. You will have way more than enough to keep you busy until Stephen's show is on again on Monday. Just a quick note though. I have been having problems some of the time, but not all of the time, connecting. (The connection has timed out.) I think the site is too busy. Everyone who watched The Colbert Report tonight is checking out Cultural Equity.org.
Folk music is the music of the people, just plain folks. One or two people would get together and sing about what they knew best or what they did all day. This could be sailing, working in a coal mine, maybe someone singing a lullaby, or perhaps working on a whaling ship. "Young people love whaling songs," according to Stephen.
Elvis Costello played guitar, and Emmy Lou Harris and Don Fleming rounded out the trio. Plus Stephen, so that made the trio a quartet. They sounded marvelous of course and you can see a bonus song soon over at Colbert Nation. So, there's the Guitar segment. And Mountain Dew? Well, that's the song they sang.
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