Stephen Colbert quotes the Bible?
January 24, 2005 11:39 AM   Subscribe

A great interview with Stephen Colbert from today's Fresh Air on NPR. (Windows Media)
posted by The Thnikkaman (30 comments total)
 
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.
posted by basicchannel at 12:06 PM on January 24, 2005


Another (slightly less polished) radio interview with Colbert from WNUR's Feedback. (mp3)
posted by puffin at 12:10 PM on January 24, 2005


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.
posted by skynxnex at 12:43 PM on January 24, 2005


Lord I can't stand Terri Gross.
posted by kenko at 12:55 PM on January 24, 2005


Lord I love Terry Gross.
posted by bruceo at 1:01 PM on January 24, 2005


NPR's site lets you choose between Real and WMA. You probably have just had it set on WMA so long you forgot.
posted by abcde at 1:05 PM on January 24, 2005


Or, what skynxnex said.
posted by abcde at 1:05 PM on January 24, 2005


I hate her too, kenko.
posted by Evstar at 1:09 PM on January 24, 2005


I love her too, bruceo.
posted by birdherder at 1:18 PM on January 24, 2005


Yeah, forgot about the Real. Sorry 'bout that.
posted by The Thnikkaman at 1:21 PM on January 24, 2005


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

Or something.
posted by cavalier at 1:22 PM on January 24, 2005


I orally please her for pocket change?
posted by pmbuko at 1:23 PM on January 24, 2005


I am largely indifferent about Terry Gross and kenko.
posted by AlexReynolds at 1:46 PM on January 24, 2005


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.
posted by longdaysjourney at 1:57 PM on January 24, 2005


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.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 2:00 PM on January 24, 2005


i stand to praise and exult terri gross. really, you can see me do it if you squint long enough.
posted by moonbird at 2:09 PM on January 24, 2005


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.
posted by christy at 2:19 PM on January 24, 2005


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.
posted by mathowie at 2:20 PM on January 24, 2005


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.
posted by mathowie at 2:24 PM on January 24, 2005


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?
posted by furiousxgeorge at 3:08 PM on January 24, 2005


Colbert was my first college crush.

I'm still crushing.
posted by OhPuhLeez at 3:14 PM on January 24, 2005


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
posted by GleepGlop at 3:21 PM on January 24, 2005


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.
posted by raysmj at 3:41 PM on January 24, 2005


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.
posted by blendor at 3:41 PM on January 24, 2005


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.
posted by NationalKato at 3:41 PM on January 24, 2005


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.
posted by pzarquon at 4:13 PM on January 24, 2005


raysmj : the first comment is from the Harvey Bidman show...
posted by Iax at 7:19 PM on January 24, 2005


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!"
posted by nevafeva at 7:50 PM on January 24, 2005


If you wanna hear something funny, you should hear her recent interview with Ice Cube.
posted by ph00dz at 9:04 PM on January 24, 2005


Gene Simmons is the eternal standard.

Really that's true in so many ways.
posted by nanojath at 8:25 PM on February 23, 2005


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