The Colbert Report

Looks like Paul McCartney will be joining in on a special musical edition of the hit Comedy Central show ‘The Colbert Report’.  The special will be airing on Wednesday, June 12th on Comedy Central at 11:30 ET/PT. This will be the show’s second one-hour music special and will be having the famous Beatle in on it.  The show will have a interview with Paul along with a musical performance from him as well.  Colbert had this to say about the show: “I think this McCartney kid’s got something...Read Full Story

McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, Kyla Ross, and Jordyn Wieber (FameFlynet)What do you do after you've won a gold medal? You intern for the Colbert Report, obviously!During last night's episode, Stephen Colbert thanked his summer interns for a job well done and welcomed five new interns who he said had "just returned from some kind of study-abroad program in London.” Enter the Fierce Five: Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, Kyla Ross, Jordyn Wieber, and McKayla Maroney (who was obviously...Read Full Story

“Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That’s just the truth of it.” Dominican-American writer, professor, and editor Junot Díaz appeared on The Colbert Report this week to discuss a number of topics, including immigration. Díaz, who was born in Santo Domingo, is a creative writing professor at MIT, and fiction editor for the Boston Review. In 2012, he was selected as a MacArthur Fellow and he was the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his...Read Full Story

Tonight’s the much anticipated American debut of Downton Abbey‘s third season.  I know that I’m looking forward to get my fix of the drama following the family and serving staff of a huge British manor as it struggles, financially and socially,  through the changing times around World War I as the era of the great landed estates nears its end. Speaking of needing a fix, a few weeks back, in response to his faux outrage over Michelle Obama getting a preview of the new episodes ahead of the...Read Full Story

It's coming: on Friday Stephen Colbert fans learned that the upcoming week will be Hobbit week on his show, "The Colbert Report." Readers will recall that Colbert is a super-fan of Tolkien, and is rumored to have managed to get a cameo role in one or more of "The Hobbit" movies.This coming week, Colbert will feature cast in crew of the film "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," Sir Ian McKellan, Martin Freeman, Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis. Indeed, that's one a day for those who are not...Read Full Story