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Don’t forget to get your copy of the January 8th edition of “New York Times Magazine” featuring Stephen Colbert on the cover, along with the article “How Many Stephen Colberts Are There?” by Charles McGrath.

Categories: Interviews, Magazine Tags: Article, Magazine, New York Times Magazine, Stephen Colbert

“In the new issue of Rolling Stone, on stands and available through All Access on September 16th, Jon Stewart​ talks to Rolling Stone Executive Editor Eric Bates about his disappointment in Obama, political satire in the post-Bush era and how the 24/7 media is corroding the national debate. “[The 24-hour networks] are now the absolute most powerful force driving the political narrative,” he says. “And the picture that they create is one of conflict, because they’re on for 24 hours a day, so they have to create a compelling reason for you to watch them. Otherwise, they’re just Muzak – newzak.””

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Categories: Jon Stewart, Six Degrees Tags: Interview, Jon Stewart, Magazine, Rolling Stone, Six Degrees

In 1996, Dana Carvey could have taken his primetime sketch comedy show, The Dana Carvey Show​, to any network he wanted. Carvey, then 40, was hot off an unprecedented run as one of the most popular cast members in Saturday Night Live​ history and the success of two Wayne’s World films. And he would soon be armed with what is now a who’s who of comedy names: Robert Smigel​, Louis C.K., Stephen Colbert​, Steve Carell​, Spike Feresten, 30 Rock​ showrunner Robert Carlock, Delocated star Jon Glaser​, and Community writer and supporting player Dino Stamatopoulos​, among many others. Not to mention a guy who would go on to write some of the most abstract and beloved films in history—including Being John Malkovich​ and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind​—Charlie Kaufman​.

Unfortunately, Carvey chose ABC. Saddled with a timeslot following the Tim Allen family favorite Home Improvement, the raunchy first sketch—featuring Carvey as President Bill Clinton breastfeeding a litter of puppies—doomed the show to cancellation before it could air its eighth episode. But today, The Dana Carvey Show has found new life on the Internet—all eight episodes can be viewed on Hulu for free. Its legacy is that of a cultural oddity and comedy prognosticator, considering its exceptionally talented cast. It also foretold standouts on other shows. Consider: This was the birthplace of “The Ambiguously Gay Duo​,” soon to be a mainstay on Saturday Night Live—only this was primetime. In this expansive oral history, 15 years later, the cast and writers—as well as devoted superfans like Jon Hamm​ and Jimmy Fallon​—take GQ through the absolute genius and the absolute absurdity that was The Dana Carvey Show.
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Categories: Interviews, Magazine Tags: Bill Chott, Charlie Kaufman, Dana Carvey, Dino Stamatopoulos, GQ, Heather Morgan, Interview, Jimmy Fallon, Jon Glaser, Jon Hamm, Louis C.K., Magazine, Robert Carlock, Robert Smigel, SNL, Spike Feresten, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, The Dana Carvey Show

Stephen Colbert Challenges You to an Ocean Race.

Stephen Colbert’s first offshore racing experience, the 2005 Charleston to Bermuda Race, couldn’t have gone any worse. The 45-foot cat ketch on which he sailed finished dead last. In fact, it took his crew so long to reach Bermuda, they arrived two days after the awards ceremony. But as unequivocally bad as it was from a racing perspective, as an experience, it was equally as profound. In fact, the normally glib 46-year-old, who hosts the satirical news show “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central, says he has trouble finding the words to accurately explain why he enjoyed the 777-mile race so much, and why, come May 21, he’ll do it again.

What’s your sailing background?

I grew up right on Charleston Harbor, right across from the Carolina YC. The regattas were right outside my window. I wasn’t allowed to go sailing because I don’t have an eardrum in one ear and I couldn’t get water in my ear. It just drove me crazy. My mom felt so badly for me, that when I was 20, my doctor said, it’s healed enough—the thing that was wrong was still wrong, but it was better—he said, “You can go out there now.” My mom said, “OK, I’ll get you sailing lessons.” I said, “I don’t really want to now.” Which, of course, really upset her, because to her I was still a little boy. But, I said, to hell with it. I’d moved on.

So I kind of just left it behind. I’d done a little sailing, I’d snuck behind her back, and capsized, and got in trouble. But I hadn’t really done that much sailing, but the little I’d done I had enjoyed.

Then [in 2005] when I was 41, a friend called up and said, “The C2B [Charleston to Bermuda] is this year. I know somebody who’s got a boat, and you know almost all the guys on it. Do you want one of the berths on the boat? I asked my wife, and she said, “Yes. Go.” She shocked me. That was my introduction to serious sailing. I just loved it.

This past summer when we were down in Charleston—I hadn’t decided to do the C2B this year, the Charleston to Bermuda that OnDeck is doing. One day I was looking out, it was a beautiful day; I was down there for a couple of weeks. I actually called up OnDeck, not knowing I was calling up OnDeck, because they took over the maritime center in Charleston, and rented a Beneteau to take it out. Then I found out they were running the race and that’s how the whole thing started with me back involved with them again.

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Categories: Interviews, Magazine Tags: Charleston to Bermuda, Interview, Magazine