Welcome to A Look Back, where we review and celebrate select clips from the overwhelmingly voluminous video catalog and the many splendid works of Stephen T. Colbert et. al. over the years.
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This week’s “Look Back” refers to a regular segment that is probably the most popular amongst the fandom but doesn’t seem to belong entirely to The Daily Show or The Colbert Report– The Toss. What started as a transitional segment from TDS to this new Colbert show thing became basically a battle of wits between our two brainy pals: who could suppress laughter the longest? Most of the time it has been a tie. I miss the daily-ish tosses that we were spoiled with in the beginning years; a cursory inventory of the TDS archives tell me that in 2010 we had a total of 13 tosses, and this year, only 2.
Let’s review some notable events in Tossdom, and no, we are not going to do the Pirate One. Or Keyboard Cat, although I do like the Keyboard Cat.
I would like to add that virtually every toss is hilarious and wonderful, and if possible I would post the greater majority of them, and if you haven’t been sucked into the Vortex of searching “Daily/Colbert” on the TDS website for significant periods of valuable time then you simply do not meet the level of fan criteria required for you to be here. Just kidding, we accept all levels of fans here at CNH.
Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start:
And right he was. I love how excited and “whee!!” Jon is, yet Stephen is so rigid and focused. That would change quickly, at least where the tosses were concerned.
A breathtaking close-up and a character break (at the same time!):
The toss after the WHCD, when Stephen’s career trajectory went vertical at full speed:
Getting a little physical comedy into the bit:
This reminds me of something else. Oh yeah, and this too.
A colossal character break, and some revisionist history of the voyage of the Nina, the Pinta, and the Wet Dream II:
Stephen mildly admonishes Jon for depressing his excited, newly arrived audience:
Stephen and Jon’s ‘Good Friendship’ reaches mild levels of potential discontentment:
‘Horror Show’:
And my personal favorite, for a variety of reasons, and I’ll just choose to be vague about that:
Jon scolds his herd of Stoned Slackers into getting out and voting in the highly critical 2008 prez elections:
The Alphabet Game: Some great writing here:
And now! The Toss available in HD (you can really tell a difference):
The holidays seemed to inspire more Toss activity than at other times of the year, usually involving Stephen poking fun at Jon’s holidays. In fact, most of the time, Jon really takes a beating from Stephen in these segments, but Jon seems to love it. It gives some real insight into the two men and their relationship. Here is a nice recent one to close our “Look Back.”
Stephen assigns Jon resolutions for New Year 2011:
Well, let’s hope for many more tosses! Must we start a campaign or Facebook page or something? In any event, do you have a favorite toss moment you’d like to share? Have you been to a taping where a toss occurred? They seem like a lot of fun to witness, judging from taping reporTs of old. Comment up, and thanks for taking a Look Back.
A Look Back: Toss-Tacular Edition
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Source: Suicide Blonde via Tumblr
This week’s “Look Back” refers to a regular segment that is probably the most popular amongst the fandom but doesn’t seem to belong entirely to The Daily Show or The Colbert Report– The Toss. What started as a transitional segment from TDS to this new Colbert show thing became basically a battle of wits between our two brainy pals: who could suppress laughter the longest? Most of the time it has been a tie. I miss the daily-ish tosses that we were spoiled with in the beginning years; a cursory inventory of the TDS archives tell me that in 2010 we had a total of 13 tosses, and this year, only 2.
Let’s review some notable events in Tossdom, and no, we are not going to do the Pirate One. Or Keyboard Cat, although I do like the Keyboard Cat.
I would like to add that virtually every toss is hilarious and wonderful, and if possible I would post the greater majority of them, and if you haven’t been sucked into the Vortex of searching “Daily/Colbert” on the TDS website for significant periods of valuable time then you simply do not meet the level of fan criteria required for you to be here. Just kidding, we accept all levels of fans here at CNH.
Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start:
And right he was. I love how excited and “whee!!” Jon is, yet Stephen is so rigid and focused. That would change quickly, at least where the tosses were concerned.
A breathtaking close-up and a character break (at the same time!):
The toss after the WHCD, when Stephen’s career trajectory went vertical at full speed:
Getting a little physical comedy into the bit:
This reminds me of something else. Oh yeah, and this too.
A colossal character break, and some revisionist history of the voyage of the Nina, the Pinta, and the Wet Dream II:
Stephen mildly admonishes Jon for depressing his excited, newly arrived audience:
Stephen and Jon’s ‘Good Friendship’ reaches mild levels of potential discontentment:
‘Horror Show’:
And my personal favorite, for a variety of reasons, and I’ll just choose to be vague about that:
Jon scolds his herd of Stoned Slackers into getting out and voting in the highly critical 2008 prez elections:
The Alphabet Game: Some great writing here:
And now! The Toss available in HD (you can really tell a difference):
The holidays seemed to inspire more Toss activity than at other times of the year, usually involving Stephen poking fun at Jon’s holidays. In fact, most of the time, Jon really takes a beating from Stephen in these segments, but Jon seems to love it. It gives some real insight into the two men and their relationship. Here is a nice recent one to close our “Look Back.”
Stephen assigns Jon resolutions for New Year 2011:
Well, let’s hope for many more tosses! Must we start a campaign or Facebook page or something? In any event, do you have a favorite toss moment you’d like to share? Have you been to a taping where a toss occurred? They seem like a lot of fun to witness, judging from taping reporTs of old. Comment up, and thanks for taking a Look Back.