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Stephen Colbert quotes the Bible?

The Thnikkaman — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:39:15 -0800

from today's Fresh Air on NPR. (Windows Media)

By: basicchannel

basicchannel — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:06:44 -0800

Phil Ken Sebben: And for everyone's safety and security, and to preserve our way of life, I'm taking a drastic step and putting up a security camera. Just one... for safety, security, and omniscient, unblinking information gathering of everyone's activities.

By: puffin

puffin — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:10:36 -0800

Another (slightly less polished) radio interview with Colbert from WNUR's Feedback. (mp3)

By: skynxnex

skynxnex — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:43:09 -0800

You can also use Real Player to listen to content from NPR, including Fresh Air interviews. You can visit Audio Help if you want to change your default player if it's selected on something you don't like.

By: kenko

kenko — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:55:35 -0800

Lord I can't stand Terri Gross.

By: bruceo

bruceo — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:01:31 -0800

Lord I love Terry Gross.

By: abcde

abcde — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:05:16 -0800

NPR's site lets you choose between Real and WMA. You probably have just had it set on WMA so long you forgot.

By: abcde

abcde — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:05:39 -0800

Or, what skynxnex said.

By: Evstar

Evstar — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:09:05 -0800

I hate her too, kenko.

By: birdherder

birdherder — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:18:37 -0800

I love her too, bruceo.

By: The Thnikkaman

The Thnikkaman — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:21:29 -0800

Yeah, forgot about the Real. Sorry 'bout that.

By: cavalier

cavalier — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:22:26 -0800

Wow. What a... banal interviewer. The INTERVIEWEE, however, I want his baby. GIVE HIS BABY TO ME. Or something.

By: pmbuko

pmbuko — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:23:35 -0800

I orally please her for pocket change?

By: AlexReynolds

AlexReynolds — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:46:15 -0800

I am largely indifferent about Terry Gross and kenko.

By: longdaysjourney

longdaysjourney — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:57:07 -0800

Terry Gross will always be one of my favorite interviewers if only for the infamous Bill O'Reilly interview. Thanks for the link, Thnikkaman. Colbert is a god. I sometimes wish the Daily Show just featured him and Stewart riffing off each other for 30 min. He's just that good.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:00:39 -0800

wow. the excerpt from the daily show is fantastic, but terry gross can make even stephen colbert sound dull. i think she is a vaccuum into which intelligent thought enters and becomes dull droning.

By: moonbird

moonbird — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:09:34 -0800

i stand to praise and exult terri gross. really, you can see me do it if you squint long enough.

By: christy

christy — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:19:15 -0800

god i hate her too. she is all about the 'human interest' questions and will (almost) never push her guests on the more interesting and difficult questions. as an example, she interviewed ice cube the other day and she asked briefly about 'Black Korea' and whether he still felt that exhorting people to burn down korean liquor stores. he gave a very wishy washy answer about how he was just expressing feelings that were already in the community. rather than move to a fairly obvious rebuttal to that argument (i mean, come on, arguing that just because the community thinks something, it's okay for a role model to valid it, is a pretty weak argument) she asked some other inane question about his childhood. that's just one example, but she's constantly taking interesting guests and turing her time with them into fluffy biographies rather than interesting interviews. in summary, i hate terri gross.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:20:57 -0800

I love Terry Gross, but she did kind of kill the fun of the interview by making him explain jokes so much. She's not this bad with comics normally. She's done great interviews with Steve Martin, George Carlin, and many others, so I don't know what she did wrong here.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:24:30 -0800

never push her guests on the more interesting and difficult questions. For the most part, yeah her questions can be sometimes superficial, but I've heard her ask some very pointed questions before about someone's background. I recall hearing a Steve Martin interview where she asked him about his father's death and how he seemed to base his life on pleasing his father. I think it took Steve back but he went on to explain how he didn't get along with his parents and gave me new insight on Steve Martin I wouldn't have learned anywhere else.

By: furiousxgeorge

furiousxgeorge — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:08:18 -0800

Wow, I thought it was a great interview. Normally when you see people from the Daily Show interviewed they have a way of staying in character or just answering every question with a joke. This was so good precisely because of the dullness factor. If I want Colbert to make me laugh I'll just turn on Comedy Central at 11. Come on, did anyone here guess Colbert is a devout Catholic before they heard this?

By: OhPuhLeez

OhPuhLeez — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:14:38 -0800

Colbert was my first college crush. I'm still crushing.

By: GleepGlop

GleepGlop — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:21:22 -0800

i pity laugh at the daily show, but i find the 1st season of harvey birdman endlessly watchable. colbert, i will never, never know the places that you go without me /royalcity

By: raysmj

raysmj — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:41:20 -0800

I was wondering when someone was going to mention the Birdman show. It's one of the most insane things I've ever seen on television, and I mean that in a good way. Consequently, it did not surprise me to see Colbert's name in the credits.

By: blendor

blendor — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:41:51 -0800

terry gross irritates me, but my love for colbert envelopes that feeling in a warm blanket, lulling it to sleep. thanks for the link. i listen to far too little npr now that i don't have a car or daily drive.

By: NationalKato

NationalKato — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:41:56 -0800

i'm leaving tomorrow to (hopefully) grab a ticket to his Sundance premiere of the feature film Strangers With Candy, which he cowrote (along with Paul Dinello and Amy Sedaris) and stars in.

By: pzarquon

pzarquon — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:13:47 -0800

It's airing in Honolulu as I type this. I agree with Matt, she's asking him to deconstruct jokes ("...so we drew the parallel, and added this, and...") rather than engaging him to talk about something we don't already get from "The Daily Show." Terri Gross has her moments, but this isn't one of them. Still, I love Stephen Colbert, so, I'll take it.

By: Iax

Iax — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:19:05 -0800

raysmj : the first comment is from the Harvey Bidman show...

By: nevafeva

nevafeva — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:50:03 -0800

Terry Gross will always be one of my favorite interviewers if only for the infamous Bill O'Reilly interview. I like Terry Gross. The Bill O'Reilly interview was strange, but didn't come close to topping her interview with Gene Simmons. And I love Steven Cobert, Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, and everyone else associated with Strangers With Candy. NationalKato, good luck with getting those tickets. "Good times!"

By: ph00dz

ph00dz — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:04:20 -0800

If you wanna hear something funny, you should hear her recent interview with Ice Cube.

By: nanojath

nanojath — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:25:07 -0800

Gene Simmons is the eternal standard. Really that's true in so many ways.