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Now that the kids are back in school hopefully y’all have time to catch up on the latest involving our hero and his colleagues. In this edition, more late night news, Howard Kurtz is back, Jon Stewart’s film and Stephen gets blowback from his Emmy Acceptance Speech.
Stephen Colbert
(Credit: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni) Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon foreground. Colbert Report staff, background.
When Stephen Colbert accepted a well-deserved Emmy win for “The Colbert Report” last night, he thanked, among others, his writing team for helping to bring home another Emmy last week. “I’m so proud of those guys,” he said while exuding charm and sincerity. Then he called out the single female on his writing staff of 18 –not by saying her name, Meredith, but by the tag, “one woman.” Oof. “And, uh, sorry for that, for some reason,” he added, awkwardly.
I appreciate Rosenblum for daring to make TV’s woman problem so glaringly obvious: The actress on a pedestal, the male president delivering the speech, and the true demographics of the 19,000 Emmy voters too unimportant—or else embarrassing—to even mention. (Leaving Vergara to answer for the bit was another nice touch.) Stephen Colbert, meanwhile, took television’s commitment to under-representing women one step further last night when he publicly acknowledged that he employs very few women, and then clarified that he doesn’t really care.
Howard Kurtz wants to take on Stephen again. This time it is over ‘The Colbert Report’s’ coverage of Ferguson.
The database itself is named after ‘truthiness’ – a word coined by comedian Stephen Colbert to refer to certain ‘facts’ that might not stand up to the rigours of logic, argument or evidence, but that individuals still know to be true intuitively and “from the gut”.
There was a real chance for CBS to not only make headlines worldwide by not playing it safe with their late night choices, but to potentially open up the world of broadcast late night to a whole new talent pool.
Jon Stewart
- Telluride 2014 Interview: Jon Stewart on ‘Rosewater’ – Crave Online
Jon Stewart is currently promoting ‘Rosewater’ and recently spoke to Crave Online, where he expresses his guilt about the ‘Daily Show’ appearance that led to Maziar Bahari’s imprisonment and explains why he’s better at directing than acting.
With directing a movie, does the nature of directing itself mean you have to be a lot more invested in the process?
I think for me it’s a language I just understand a little bit better. There’s a certain aspect of acting that is beyond my reach. I feel like I’m a much more linear individual. There’s something about acting that is so abstract and emotional at its heart, for the really good ones, it’s the way I feel I think about music or art. With comedy and writing I can generally understand how someone arrived at it.
Whereas when I watch a great actor, I watch a great painter or a musician, I can’t figure out how they got there so it seems more magical or more abstract. So the process of directing is still very similar to what we do. It’s very structured and that’s a process that is not alien to me just because it’s similar to what we do. Maybe the vocabulary is different but the inherent process is very similar.
Six Degrees
Freed from chasing the day’s top story, Oliver bests his fellow funny men by tackling broadcast journalism on its own terms rather than simply poking fun at its excesses. On closer inspection, the design of “Last Week Tonight” is as much “HBO Weekly News” as “The Weekly Show,” combining and modifying elements of TV news and its most popular parodies to stake out fresh territory for both. If you’re at all interested in the future of either, “Last Week Tonight” is essential viewing.
In The Press – September Edition
Now that the kids are back in school hopefully y’all have time to catch up on the latest involving our hero and his colleagues. In this edition, more late night news, Howard Kurtz is back, Jon Stewart’s film and Stephen gets blowback from his Emmy Acceptance Speech.
Stephen Colbert
(Credit: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni) Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon foreground. Colbert Report staff, background.
When Stephen Colbert accepted a well-deserved Emmy win for “The Colbert Report” last night, he thanked, among others, his writing team for helping to bring home another Emmy last week. “I’m so proud of those guys,” he said while exuding charm and sincerity. Then he called out the single female on his writing staff of 18 –not by saying her name, Meredith, but by the tag, “one woman.” Oof. “And, uh, sorry for that, for some reason,” he added, awkwardly.
I appreciate Rosenblum for daring to make TV’s woman problem so glaringly obvious: The actress on a pedestal, the male president delivering the speech, and the true demographics of the 19,000 Emmy voters too unimportant—or else embarrassing—to even mention. (Leaving Vergara to answer for the bit was another nice touch.) Stephen Colbert, meanwhile, took television’s commitment to under-representing women one step further last night when he publicly acknowledged that he employs very few women, and then clarified that he doesn’t really care.
Howard Kurtz wants to take on Stephen again. This time it is over ‘The Colbert Report’s’ coverage of Ferguson.
The database itself is named after ‘truthiness’ – a word coined by comedian Stephen Colbert to refer to certain ‘facts’ that might not stand up to the rigours of logic, argument or evidence, but that individuals still know to be true intuitively and “from the gut”.
There was a real chance for CBS to not only make headlines worldwide by not playing it safe with their late night choices, but to potentially open up the world of broadcast late night to a whole new talent pool.
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart is currently promoting ‘Rosewater’ and recently spoke to Crave Online, where he expresses his guilt about the ‘Daily Show’ appearance that led to Maziar Bahari’s imprisonment and explains why he’s better at directing than acting.
With directing a movie, does the nature of directing itself mean you have to be a lot more invested in the process?
I think for me it’s a language I just understand a little bit better. There’s a certain aspect of acting that is beyond my reach. I feel like I’m a much more linear individual. There’s something about acting that is so abstract and emotional at its heart, for the really good ones, it’s the way I feel I think about music or art. With comedy and writing I can generally understand how someone arrived at it.
Whereas when I watch a great actor, I watch a great painter or a musician, I can’t figure out how they got there so it seems more magical or more abstract. So the process of directing is still very similar to what we do. It’s very structured and that’s a process that is not alien to me just because it’s similar to what we do. Maybe the vocabulary is different but the inherent process is very similar.
Six Degrees
Freed from chasing the day’s top story, Oliver bests his fellow funny men by tackling broadcast journalism on its own terms rather than simply poking fun at its excesses. On closer inspection, the design of “Last Week Tonight” is as much “HBO Weekly News” as “The Weekly Show,” combining and modifying elements of TV news and its most popular parodies to stake out fresh territory for both. If you’re at all interested in the future of either, “Last Week Tonight” is essential viewing.