Stephen Colbert and the cast of “Modern Family” are next up as “Good Morning America” guest hosts for Robin Roberts, who is scheduled to undergo a bone marrow transplant this week. The surging ABC morning show hasn’t missed a beat since Roberts exited on Aug. 30. The co-host has MDS, a blood and bone marrow disease, and is out indefinitely for treatment that includes a transplant of marrow donated by her sister, Sally-Ann Roberts. Robin Roberts had to undergo chemotherapy before the procedure, said Tom Cibrowski, the show’s senior executive producer. Cibrowski offered more details about the schedule of substitutes for Roberts, which is expected to include Oprah Winfrey and newswomen Barbara Walters, Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer sometime next month. Celebrities will be deployed in much the same way as Jessica Simpson was one day last week, appearing on the pop culture-heavy second hour alongside show regulars George Stephanopoulos, Josh Elliott, Lara Spencer and Amy Robach. “It shows them in a different light for a little bit and you get to see them do something different,” Cibrowski said. “It might be a little funny if they have to read the prompter and there’s some slip-up. It’s all spontaneous.” Full Article: NY Daily News.
(Thanks to Victoria for the Tip!) Not surprisingly, the super-lucky students at Fordham gave Stephen a resounding thumbs up on his appearance at “The Cardinal and Colbert” on September 14th. Jesuit priest Sam Sawyer, SJ has written a piece called “A Cardinal and Comedian Walk into a Gym” for The Jesuit Post describing the students reactions to the event, including the following video: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5qc_NCCa6c&w=560&h=315] Continue reading “Fordham Students React to ‘The Cardinal and Colbert’” » To all those in attendance last night, I hope you all had a wonderful evening (it was definitely worth camping out for tickets), and to all of those who made the even to possible – Thank You!! As was predicted the media embargo was broken by the few media representatives in attendance the minute Twitter fired up with #DolanColbert and #dolbert. Guests Tweeted some of the evenings best quotes, and even managed a few Twit Pics from afar. Father Martin and Cardinal Dolan have both published their opening remarks from the event on their respective sites, which you can find excerpts from below. Also included is a great write-up from ‘The New York Times’ and a pre-event interview with Father Martin by ‘The Washington Post’. Apologies for the length of the post, life has gotten in the way and taken up all of my free time at present. If I do not have time to post any photo’s from the event you can find them re-blogged on our social media accounts – Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, tumblr and Instgram (@ColbertNewsHub) – of which the direct links can be found located on our side bar. Continue reading “Recap: ‘The Cardinal and Colbert: Humour, Joy and the Spiritual Life’ at Fordham University.” »
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Last night at the 9/11 Memorial Benefit Dinner, Stephen Colbert told guests they’d be eating “sub-prime rib, a meal bundled from other dinners.” The main course for almost 1,000 guests at Cipriani Wall Street turned out to be braised short ribs and a bundle of asparagus with leeks — accompanied by the emcee’s convention humor. Colbert gestured toward an empty chair to introduce his co- host, Clint Eastwood. He also teased guests eager to watch Michelle Obama at the Democratic National Convention. “All of us here tonight share the same noble purpose of not watching the DNC,” Colbert declared. Source: Bloomberg News.
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Comedy Central has once again joined forces with Jon Stewart’s Busboy Productions for its fourth biennial special event, “Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs.” Taping on Saturday, October 13, 2012, at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, the benefit will feature Jon Stewart hosting an evening filled with live performances, sketches and short films from a roster of comedy and celebrity all-stars. Tickets for the general public will go on sale via Ticketmaster on Friday, September 7 at 10am ET. This year’s event will premiere on Comedy Central on Sunday, October 21, 2012, at 8/7c.
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The messages are intended as a response to what’s called the Wow! signal, an intriguing radio signal detected on Aug. 15, 1977 that some thought was a call from extraterrestrials. The 72-second transmission was picked up by the Big Ear radio observatory at Ohio State University, coming from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. Because the radio signal was 30 times more powerful than the average radiation from deep space, a volunteer astronomer named Jerry Ehman who was watching the telescope data scrawled “Wow!” on a computer printout, leading to the signal’s moniker. No evidence ever arrived actually linking the transmission to an alien civilization, and no repeat message from the same direction has ever been detected, and the Wow! Signal remains a mystery. Now, exactly 35 years later, whoever sent the emission may be getting a response. A project directed by the National Geographic Channel and Arecibo Observatory beamed a package of digital information out to the heavens on Wednesday (Aug. 15) containing Twitter messages from the public, submitted via the hashtag #ChasingUFOs, as well as videos from celebrities such as Stephen Colbert, Jorge Garcia, and Leila Lopes, the 2011 Miss Universe. Source: Space.com
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Last month, a simple invite went out to the nation’s major media to cover the Sept. 14 event at Fordham University. It was billed as “a conversation about humor, faith, joy and the spiritual life,” to be moderated by James Martin, a Jesuit priest, “official chaplain” to the Comedy Central’s Colbert Report and author of Between Heaven and Mirth. On Thursday, however, Fordham sent out an Oooops note, slamming door on the media coverage, saying: “The evening has evolved from a public event to a more intimate conversation in front of members of the Fordham community. We will not be videotaping the event for distribution, nor streaming it on the Web or elsewhere.” On Friday, everyone clammed up about the clampdown. Carrie Byalick, spokeswoman for Stephen Colbert, said Friday, “Stephen Colbert looks forward to participating in an intimate event with Cardinal Dolan and Fordham students.” Dolan, never media-shy, will be there to meet Colbert, his spokesman, Joseph Zwilling, confirms with no elaboration. Fordham gets the punch line. University spokesman Bob Howe sticks to his story that: “There’s nothing nefarious about the decision. … Events like this are usually planned further in advance, and we have more time to work out the kinks before we go public. This time we got a little ahead of ourselves.” Source: USA Today.
Event Details: Fordham University. (Thanks to Justine for the Tip!)
“Rejoice Always”: @CardinalDolan and Stephen Colbert @StephenAtHome to discuss their faith with each other (and me) at #Fordham on Sept 14.
— James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) June 28, 2012
** Update: From Father Martin’s Facebook Page: “Details to follow from Fordham. In general though: at Fordham with some opening remarks from all three of us and then me moderating. And yes it will be filmed and maybe televised…maybe.” “All the arrangements will be handled by Fordham (including any media coverage and tickets). I’ll be sure to update you when Fordham announces all the details.”
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(Thanks to Victoria for the Tip!) Not surprisingly, the super-lucky students at Fordham gave Stephen a resounding thumbs up on his appearance at “The Cardinal and Colbert” on September 14th. Jesuit priest Sam Sawyer, SJ has written a piece called “A Cardinal and Comedian Walk into a Gym” for The Jesuit Post describing the students reactions to the event, including the following video: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5qc_NCCa6c&w=560&h=315] Continue reading “Fordham Students React to ‘The Cardinal and Colbert’” » To all those in attendance last night, I hope you all had a wonderful evening (it was definitely worth camping out for tickets), and to all of those who made the even to possible – Thank You!! As was predicted the media embargo was broken by the few media representatives in attendance the minute Twitter fired up with #DolanColbert and #dolbert. Guests Tweeted some of the evenings best quotes, and even managed a few Twit Pics from afar. Father Martin and Cardinal Dolan have both published their opening remarks from the event on their respective sites, which you can find excerpts from below. Also included is a great write-up from ‘The New York Times’ and a pre-event interview with Father Martin by ‘The Washington Post’. Apologies for the length of the post, life has gotten in the way and taken up all of my free time at present. If I do not have time to post any photo’s from the event you can find them re-blogged on our social media accounts – Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, tumblr and Instgram (@ColbertNewsHub) – of which the direct links can be found located on our side bar. Continue reading “Recap: ‘The Cardinal and Colbert: Humour, Joy and the Spiritual Life’ at Fordham University.” »
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Continue reading “Stephen Colbert (and his chair) at the 9/11 Memorial Benefit Dinner.” »
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Event Details: Fordham University. (Thanks to Justine for the Tip!)
** Update: From Father Martin’s Facebook Page: “Details to follow from Fordham. In general though: at Fordham with some opening remarks from all three of us and then me moderating. And yes it will be filmed and maybe televised…maybe.” “All the arrangements will be handled by Fordham (including any media coverage and tickets). I’ll be sure to update you when Fordham announces all the details.”