May 2011
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Fangirl Suit Report: Week of April 25, 2011
Hello, Zoners, in here, out there! What a week! Stephen? Do you have an Irish Temper? Drink Scotch Whiskey? Love English Gardens and have a Welsh rabbit rarebit? Best wishes to the Royal Couple, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge … the invitation must have got lost in the chain mail. Last week went from recovering from a Catholic Bender to battling humanists, wrestling a peacetime tasers, being...
May 2nd
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All You Need To Know: Weeks of April 25 – May 1,...
Happy May Day! You know what they say about the First of May. Here’s All You Need To Know: Episode Guides (we’re catching up, episodes are from two weeks ago): Fantasy Colbert League Weekly Episode 7049 - Guests Jamie Hyneman & Adam Savage Episode 7050 - Guest Ray Kurzweil Episode 7051 - Guest Morgan Spurlock Episode 7052 - Guest Caroline Kennedy [Coming Soon!] Stephen...
May 2nd
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Stephen Colbert in the Zeitgeist - May 1, 2011
Happy May Day, Zoners! It’s been a while since I brought you a round-up of the Colbert news floating around the Interwebs, but I think I finally have my act together now. Today’s stories include a geek reaction to Stephen’s interview with Ray Kurzweil, a cameo from Tina Fey, and some awesome street art. Ray Kurzweil Singularityhub.com, a science and tech (and pro-robot)...
May 1st
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April 2011
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Six Degrees: Easter Break Edition.
G’day Zoners! I hope you have all had a wonderful Easter break. I’ve spent my much needed week of Uni eating far too much chocoloate, and compilling the latest round-up of Six Degrees news. This week Jon Stewart will again be performing in the Story Pirates benefit, Mark Malkoff races a NYC bus, Aasif Mandvi pen a book of semi autobiographical essys, Ed Helms is set to guest host...
Apr 30th
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Episode 7051 - Morgan Spurlock
EPISODE NUMBER: 7051 (April 13, 2011) GUESTS: Morgan Spurlock SEGMENTS: Tim Pawlenty Declares Candidacy Before He’s Ready, The Word - Buy and Cellulite, The Enemy Within - Unicyclists VIDEOS: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Stephen definitely started the show with a strong message for those young presidential candidate - wait for the right pundit to make your announcement to, and don’t...
Apr 28th
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Episode 7050 - Ray Kurzweil
EPISODE NUMBER: 7050 (April 12, 2011) GUESTS: Rick Brookhiser, Ray Kurzweil SEGMENTS: Jon Kyl Tweets Not Intended to Be Factual Statements, Mitt Happens - Rick Brookhiser, Threat Level: Rainbow VIDEOS: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 I love it when something that Stephen does goes viral, and that includes the #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement meme on Twitter. That was a serious slice of awesome. I want...
Apr 28th
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Episode 7049 - Jamie Hyneman & Adam Savage
EPISODE NUMBER: 7049 (April 11, 2011) GUESTS: Jamie Hyneman & Adam Savage SEGMENTS: Countdown to Government Shutdown, Pap Smears at Walgreens, Thought For Food VIDEOS: Monday, April 11, 2011 I don’t know which was cuter, Stephen in cowboy pajamas or Stephen amused at himself in cowboy pajamas. That colonoscopy character break was absolutely classic. It’s been a while since we had...
Apr 27th
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Episode 7048 - Jeff Greenfield
EPISODE NUMBER: 7048 (April 7, 2011) GUESTS: Jeff Greenfield SEGMENTS: My Fair Colbert, The Koran’s Best Day Ever VIDEOS: Thursday, April 7, 2011 I cannot believe I waited this long to blog this. Wow, I’m behind on episode guides! I’ve always admired how Stephen pokes fun at Islam while making it amazingly crystal clear that it is a great and true religion, blessing and peace...
Apr 27th
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VIDEO: Stephen Sondheim's "Company" movie trailer
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Apr 26th
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... And we're back!
Oh hai! Long time no blog! So … how’s everyone doing? Here’s an update about the site, with some nice eye candy at the end. New host, New theme You may have noticed that posting has been very, very light the last few weeks. We were having multiple issues with the site, including theme meltdown, and issues with how the site was working on our server. I decided to tackle these...
Apr 26th
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All You Need To Know: Weeks of April 11 – April...
Thank goodness the tech troubles are over! Here’s All You Need To Know: Episode Guides: Fantasy Colbert League Weekly No Fact Zone features: Four Horsemen of the Apopcalypse—March 28-31 Four Horsemen of the Apopcalypse—April 4-7 Four Horsemen of the Apopcalypse—April 11-14 Fangirl Suit Report: Week of March 21, 2011 Fangirl Suit Report: Week of April 11, 2011 ...
Apr 26th
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Fantasy Colbert League April 25th – 28th, 2011
Welcome back after our week’s break! I hope everyone who celebrated either Passover or Easter (or both!) had a happy holiday, with a liberating seder for the former and plenty of yummy chocolate eggs for the latter. Have you all been missing Stephen and the ReporT? With the hiatus giving me some extra time, I’d hoped to get this FCL up much earlier. But at the moment I am suffering...
Apr 26th
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Stephen Colbert teams up with Audi at the New York...
Team Colbert may be taking a well-deserved break from the Report this week, but Stephen put in a surprise appearance at the New York Auto Show today to help announce his partnership with Audi for the 2011 Charleston Bermuda Race. Here are the details from today’s press release: Audi Partners With Comedian Stephen Colbert for 2011 Charleston Bermuda Race NEW YORK, April 20, 2011...
Apr 21st
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Fangirl Suit Report: Week of April 11, 2011
Zoners, glad to have your with us; thanks for being patient when we were not so much with you, FSR is BACK! Lots to catch up on but with a break week, we’ll feed it to you in delicious bacon-bite sized pieces. In this week, his suits were impeccable, his ties exquisite, his shirts stunning and his PJs adorable. The Government remaining open meant no “government day” off and...
Apr 19th
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Fangirl Suit Report: Week of March 21, 2011
Going once, going twice, sold to Zoners everywhere! Welcome Zoners! Who else was spitting nails at the gallery goers who got to enjoy Stephen’s flirtatious tipsiness - had better had been superlative acting, Sir. And you too, Jody Williams - making Stephen scrunch his nose like that - hand over that Noble Peace Prize for mentioning some think about “peace” about 80 times a...
Apr 18th
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Pop Culture References in The Colbert Report Apr...
Welcome to No Fact Zone’s weekly roundup of cultural references on The Colbert Report. From Darcy to Danger Mouse, String Theory to Shakespeare, we’ve got the keys to this week’s obscure, oddball, and occasionally obscene cultural shout-outs (hey!). 1001000 1101001 Zoners! Another stellar week at The Report. I have to admit that the Walgreens sketch had me in stitches (do they sew those up...
Apr 18th
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Klassic Kolbert: Tax Day!
One of the benefits of being a renter with no kids is easy, easy taxes. Hubby got ours done over breakfast yesterday morning. However, for those of you last-minute type of people who have lots of paper shuffling ahead of you today, take some tips from Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart on how to finish your taxes. So pull out some of your vintage Nutz sodas and get paying! The Daily Show - Tax Form...
Apr 18th
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Because we can never get enough of Stephen Colbert...
And tomorrow is “Friday, Friday…” Late Night with Jimmy Fallon was kind enough to post this little treat of a video featuring Stephen, Jimmy, and a cast of dozens rehearsing for last Friday’s “Friday” extravaganza. Fun fun fun fun! P.S. I apologize for putting the song back in your heads. Original Article
Apr 15th
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Link: Amy Sedaris 'Simple Times' iPhone App
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Apr 14th
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Technical difficulties
You may have noticed that our posting frequency has been way down the last week or so, and that the template is a bit wonky. We’ve been working diligently behind the scenes to get everything cleaned up and functioning, and posting frequency should get back to normal here very soon, including episode guides and the normal news goodies you would expect from us. Thank you for your patience,...
Apr 13th