You still can catch it. Papa bear is the guest on the Colbert Report, and Steve is visiting the Factor....

Holy...
I hope someone youTubes that shit.

Colbert is not a serious newsman. He also sucks at interviews - he is outclassed by everyone he has on that show.

At least Jon Stewart is reasonably okay with speaking to big name people. Colbert is dwarfed, intellectually and comedically, by everyone he has on.

As I expected, Stephen owned Bill in both programs. I bet half of the time O'Reilly didn't even notice he was made fun of...

His stuff's laugh was laudable.... :)

James, again, you are a moron... :)

By the way, Stewart was #2 and Bill only #3 on the people's favorite person to watch, or whatever it was. Oprah #1....

I don't namecall, so here is the evidence of his moronness:


Colbert is not a serious newsman.

He is on Comedy Central for fuck's sake!!!!

Colbert is not a serious newsman.

WHAT!!!!
That's my only source of news!!


He also sucks at interviews - he is outclassed by everyone he has on that show.

At least Jon Stewart is reasonably okay with speaking to big name people. Colbert is dwarfed, intellectually and comedically, by everyone he has on.

You don't like him because he's so good at making fun of your beliefs. I can see you getting irrationally angry while watching the Report.

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On second thought, maybe you just don't get the humor. Which is alright. You seem to have some sort of handicap.

Meh.
Colbert is funny, but was way better in small doses as a reporter than an 'anchor'.

The Colbert-O'reilly interview wasn't really all that funny, either.
Sure, got a couple of chuckles out of it, but it wasn't much at all.
O'reilly is obviously pretty hard up trying to sell his book. Or maybe his agent really made a mistake booking him on the show. He obviously didn't want to be there, and I don't think it was an act at all. I think he would have preferred to be on Stewart's show. At least Stewart is open about his leanings and wouldn't expect O'reilly to 'pretend'.

http://colbertondemand.com/specials/OReilly_On_Colbert_Report

Bill was an asshole on the Factor, as usual. He kept bringing up being a French, like that would mean Stephen should be executed or something.

He probably doesn't know what the French did for America....He was also bitching about the Stewart show, like that is corrupting America and only dopeheads watch it...Moron....

Well said Invert, you should be a TV/movie critic, they're almost all "liberal" anyway.

Syzygys:


By the way, Stewart was #2 and Bill only #3 on the people's favorite person to watch, or whatever it was. Oprah #1....

So?


He is on Comedy Central for fuck's sake!!!!

You know as well as I do that Stewart and Colbert - with an emphasis on Stewart and not so much Colbert - attempt to portray themselves far more seriously than "we're on comedy central!". In fact, that is simply a sham they use to cover up the fact that they are obnoxious.

Roman:


You don't like him because he's so good at making fun of your beliefs. I can see you getting irrationally angry while watching the Report.

Bill Maher is good at making fun of my beliefs and I like him. Colbert is a ham and idiotic. He was tremendously better in "Strangers with Candy" and as a correspondent on "The Daily Show". His type of humour didn't become a carciature of itself.


On second thought, maybe you just don't get the humor. Which is alright. You seem to have some sort of handicap.

Again: It's too much. Colbert "turned on" was good because of the timing and the absurdity. When you do a half an hour show as an absurdity, you can't really pull that off without sounding like an idiot. There is no sense of restraint.

Invert Nexus:

I remember seeing an O'Reilly interview on Stewart's show about two to three years ago. I was actually pleased at the interesting exchange and Stewart's legitimate welcome to O'Reilly and his refusal to be an asshole to him. Unlike Letterman, O'Donnel, and Colbert, I think Stewart is a gentleman.

I will give him that much: He is not a jerk. Even if he cannot do a decent interview with anyone he doesn't agree with, and pretty much kisses the ass of everyone he does, he is a gentleman and not an antagonizer.

I haven't seen this interview yet, but I loved Colbert at that correspondent's dinner.

O' Reilly says Colbert is always in character, but is actually a good church-going boy from a family of thirteen from South Carolina.

You know as well as I do that Stewart and Colbert - with an emphasis on Stewart and not so much Colbert - attempt to portray themselves far more seriously than "we're on comedy central!".

No I don't. If people take them more seriously, that is the people's fault, not theirs. Several young adult get their news from their shows, and not from major cabel networks.

But again, that tells a lot about the quality of CNN and Fow news, rather than Comedy central.

No I don't. If people take them more seriously, that is the people's fault, not theirs. Several young adult get their news from their shows, and not from major cabel networks.

There was a study done and people who watched the Daily Show are actually more knowledgeable about current events, but more importantly, the accuracy of it all. The great thing about the Daily Show is that it points out all the errors and hypocrisy with cable news, regardless who it comes from, a left or right slant.

- N

In these shows, and in the past when O'Reilly was on the Daily Show, I get the feeling O'Reilly is giving away that he thinks what he does is an act.

Of course I always believed that O'Reilly, like Limbaugh and others, are smarter than they appear and put on an act in order to get a LOT of money.

They just danced around each other without really saying anything. Colbert never leveled a serious insult at O'Reilly so O'Reilly kept himself in check and just got off a few snide remarks that Colbert was not able to do anything with. But Colbert never asked any questions either. It was just a waste of air time. O'Reilly needs to keep up his profile in the Stewart/Colbert demographic so he has to pay his dues and show up for these "interviews."

Colbert is a talented comedian, that's not in question. But he is simply not as quick as Stewart and he is not in the same league when it comes to serious discussions. Stewart would have picked up on several of O'Reilly's little barbs and turned them around without actually starting a flame war.

I've watched the Colbert Report three or four times and each time when it's over I look at the clock in surprise and say, "That took half an hour?" At the end of some of Jon Stewart's shows I am absolutely exhausted--from keeping up with the jokes and then from absorbing what's said seriously in the interviews.

Colbert was a nice little sidebar on the Daily Show. I kind of miss him. Some of the routines the other comics do are way too long and not funny enough.

O' Reilly's behavior on his show, as well as Colbert's, was predictable. His attempts to pull back the curtain on Colbert's kayfabe during the interview was sad. Everyone knows it's satire, Bill. Deal with it. Kudos to Stephen on delivering a decent segment on both shows. It wasn't his best stuff, but it wasn't his worst.

O' Reilly's behavior on his show, as well as Colbert's, was predictable. His attempts to pull back the curtain on Colbert's kayfabe during the interview was sad. Everyone knows it's satire, Bill. Deal with it.

I don't think Bill was upset about anything. He didn't move from his slightly bemused stance the whole time on either show.

I'm not saying that he was upset. I'm saying that he was displaying no interest in "playing ball". When guests come onto the Colbert Report, they're encouraged to just be themselves and talk to Colbert as if he's being genuine. It's the whole format of the show. Some guests don't and end up looking like idiots, which is what Bill was doing.

Now you guys know why they did it. Huge sourge in viewership for both shows:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2007/01/22/oreilly-colbert-both-se_e_39241.html