Remember when it looked like a chunk of the International Space Station would be named Serenity, thanks to an online poll by NASA? That was before Stephen Colbert caught wind of it.
newVideoPlayer("/waitinggame.flv", 506, 423,""); We’ve heard Jon Stewart’s feelings. And now this, right before the Report started last night. And no, he’s not talking about shipping delays, nerds. But what he is talking about I have no idea. [Colbert]
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If you’re not familiar with Stephen Colbert’s awesome Colbert Report on Foxtel’s Comedy Channel, you should spend the rest of the day over at ColbertNation.com becoming acquainted. On last night’s episode, Colbert not only listed Bill Gates as the US’s 4th greatest threat (around about the 1:34 mark on the clip above) for his mosquito shenanigans at TED, but also gave Giz the patented “Colbert Bump” when he talked about this story (at 2:32) complete with Giz screenshot. Make sure you check it out.
newVideoPlayer("/colbertlightsaber_gizmodo.flv", 506, 305,""); After Jon Stewart trashed Black Friday, talking about his C-3PO and Lego Millennium Falcon, Stephen Colbert strikes back brandishing a lightsaber against the curator of the National Toy Hall of Fame. The reason: A wood stick.
California’s Prop 8, which would strip gay couples of the right to marry in the state, is polling about even right now. Apple has decided to throw their weight behind shooting the measure down, but facetious iPhone enthusiast Stephen Colbert is having none of it. An impassioned speech and patented “Wag of the Finger” wasn’t satisfying enough, so Mr. Colbert dealt with his iPhone in the way that so many copy and pasters, Bluetooth accessorisers and could-be MMSers have come close to: with a hammer. [Comedy Central]
newVideoPlayer("/colbertvertu_cc_giz.flv", 506, 423,""); Times are tough, friends. And even wealthy conservative mouthpiece Stephen Colbert has to cut back on his gadget spending habits. Needless to say, the guy is still doing alright; he continues to dial numbers that most of us haven’t even dreamed about. We also hear that he smells of peppermint and lilacs at distances closer than four feet. [via geeksugar]
Even though Colbert is a bit US-centric in both his content and his sense of humour, his discovery that computers are behind the current global economic crisis in last night’s episode is the kind of reporting we here at Giz can get behind.
And if you don’t want to watch the entire 7 minute clip – skip through to about the four minute mark for a look at some great gadget pr0n…
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newVideoPlayer("zunecrazy_giz.flv", 475, 376,""); On last night’s Colbert Report, Stephen gave advice to George Bush on how to go “completely nutball” so Sen. McCain can distance himself from the extremely unpopular president on the campaign trail. Not only did he tell Bush to wear a tinfoil jockstrap, he said the prez should buy a Zune. Really? Sure it’s market share is 4%, but what about the new software? [Colbert Report]
newVideoPlayer("bumbot2.flv", 463, 387,""); When the sun goes down in Rufus Terrill’s neighbourhood, criminals and vagrants swarm in like Night of the Living Homeless. You remember when we first told you about BumBot, the solution contrived by the former DoD contractor. “If it wasn’t chasing criminals, it’d be fighting Osama bin Laden.” Granted, it’s only equipped with a deBUManising water jet turret, but his dreams were bigger: “I wanted to put a flamethrower on it, but they wouldn’t let me do that.” The police shut down his Taser plans too. You saw the original pics, but now here’s a video of BumBot in action, from Colbert. [Colbert]
newVideoPlayer("colbert_iphone_transformer_gawker.flv", 475, 376); Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report gives us his spin on the upcoming Transformers movie, as only he can. Can’t trust any of these trannies? If you like that, watch until the end and you’ll get his take on the iPhone, too.
