Craig Kilborn

graphic-in-the-press-9126310 When news stories fall through the cracks, we here at Colbert News Hub catch it for a post we call “In the Press”.

Hello, Hubsters and welcome to this special In The Press post. In honor of the upcoming release of Mr. Peabody and Sherman, starring Stephen Colbert, we are going back in time! We are featuring all articles from the past, going all the way back to when Jon first started hosting the Daily Show. It was a simpler time. (Sorry, but I think it’s illegal or something, if I don’t say that.) Seriously though, since 1999, when Jon started hosting, it really was a different world. We could get through security at airports in a flash. It was a time without tweets and instagrams and iPhones. A MapQuest was more about trying to fold it up properly and Googling something meant you had to go to Wikipedia, wait, I mean an actual encyclopedia. How DID we manage?

So get in the WABAC machine and buckle up. (again, illegal if I don’t say that.)

Continue reading

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 Jon Stewart over the years.

Ah, the poignancy: in the early days of The Daily Show, fledgling host Craig Kilborn interviewed the man who would eventually take the reigns and built said show into an Emmy factory – Mr. Jon Stewart. The interview is remarkably cordial, complete with Jon pointing out their gargantuan height difference and asking Craig polite questions about how the (then new) show was going. Hmmm. Smooth operator. Check it out:

Continue reading