Welcome to Better Know a Guest, your weekly guide to the wonderful and diverse array of personalities appearing on ‘The Colbert Report’ and ‘The Daily Show’ each week.
Hey there Hubsters! Here’s to hoping all your weekends were fantastic, and that we’ll have an enjoyable week of shows ahead of us. As an announcement, due to extra work for my senior year of undergrad (senior thesis, anyone?), I unfortunately have to give up the BKAG posts to keep up with academic assignments. If anyone is interested in taking up the posts, get in touch with Katt at [email protected] The Hub staff are very busy, and would appreciate the addition of a new staff member.
Based on one of the guests this week, I’m expecting a discussion of pressing international issues (particularly unrest in Ukraine, the ebola crisis in West Africa, a conflict that broke out in South Sudan over the weekend between rebels and the government, and more). Of course, we’ve had some interesting news in the US as well, including the stalling of immigration policy reform, new developments in the Michael Brown case, the mysterious crash of an American couple’s plane near Jamaica, request for the Supreme Court to consider state’s rights to outlaw gay marriage, and an American anti-federalist group that is sending a message of complaint to Washington via horseback. As always, let us know what you hope our hosts will discuss in this week’s round of shows!
Stephen’s guests this week are two actors, an author, and an American diplomat.
Jon’s guests this week are a US Senator, a UN official, and an author.
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Hello, Hubsters!
Happy tax week for all us Americans; we got an extra couple of days to file this year. Joy, joy. *Dripping sarcasm—what IS the government going to do with our hard-earned money?*
Stephen gave us some great shows last week, yes? Michelle Obama rocked it with her little “thought bubble performance” (“I’m not talking to YOU, Stephen”; “Have you thought of shaving your head?”) and Sergeant Brian Escovedo handled himself wonderfully; I think he has a good future as a political pundit. Plus the “tweets like Grassley” and “Lady Heroes” segments were fantastic.
Plus, Mr. “Google it” sanctimonious Santorum has dropped out of the race. I’m torn: I’m glad to know there’s no way he will become president, but sad that he’s no longer wreaking havoc with Romney’s campaign. And no longer providing comic fodder to Jon and Stephen. Well, maybe he’ll still do that; it depends on whether he keeps quiet for the duration of the election season or not. Well, we still have Newtsie.
Now I must share with you a story about…BEARS! Apparently, Vermont governor Peter Shumlin was chased by bears in his backyard–when he was in a state of undress. Read it here! THREATDOWN! I couldn’t help but think of Stephen. And doesn’t that photo look like something he would use, with the bear’s mouth open in a wide bellow? Since I like Shumlin, I’m glad the bears didn’t get him. I am, however, hoping against hope that this makes it into next week’s Report.
I’m still in mad freelance mode this week, so this post should I hope be short and sweet and to the point. Though once I get started…who knows? And we do have some amazing-sounding shows coming up. I’m particularly excited for Monday. So let’s go!
PLEASE NOTE THAT WEDNESDAY’S GUEST HAS CHANGED: IT WILL NOW BE ARIANNA HUFFINGTON.
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Welcome to Better Know a Guest, your weekly guide to the wonderful and diverse array of personalities appearing on ‘The Colbert Report’ and ‘The Daily Show’ each week.
Hey there Hubsters! Here’s to hoping all your weekends were fantastic, and that we’ll have an enjoyable week of shows ahead of us. As an announcement, due to extra work for my senior year of undergrad (senior thesis, anyone?), I unfortunately have to give up the BKAG posts to keep up with academic assignments. If anyone is interested in taking up the posts, get in touch with Katt at [email protected] The Hub staff are very busy, and would appreciate the addition of a new staff member.
Based on one of the guests this week, I’m expecting a discussion of pressing international issues (particularly unrest in Ukraine, the ebola crisis in West Africa, a conflict that broke out in South Sudan over the weekend between rebels and the government, and more). Of course, we’ve had some interesting news in the US as well, including the stalling of immigration policy reform, new developments in the Michael Brown case, the mysterious crash of an American couple’s plane near Jamaica, request for the Supreme Court to consider state’s rights to outlaw gay marriage, and an American anti-federalist group that is sending a message of complaint to Washington via horseback. As always, let us know what you hope our hosts will discuss in this week’s round of shows!
Stephen’s guests this week are two actors, an author, and an American diplomat.
Jon’s guests this week are a US Senator, a UN official, and an author.
Continue reading
Hello, Hubsters!
Happy tax week for all us Americans; we got an extra couple of days to file this year. Joy, joy. *Dripping sarcasm—what IS the government going to do with our hard-earned money?*
Stephen gave us some great shows last week, yes? Michelle Obama rocked it with her little “thought bubble performance” (“I’m not talking to YOU, Stephen”; “Have you thought of shaving your head?”) and Sergeant Brian Escovedo handled himself wonderfully; I think he has a good future as a political pundit. Plus the “tweets like Grassley” and “Lady Heroes” segments were fantastic.
Plus, Mr. “Google it” sanctimonious Santorum has dropped out of the race. I’m torn: I’m glad to know there’s no way he will become president, but sad that he’s no longer wreaking havoc with Romney’s campaign. And no longer providing comic fodder to Jon and Stephen. Well, maybe he’ll still do that; it depends on whether he keeps quiet for the duration of the election season or not. Well, we still have Newtsie.
Now I must share with you a story about…BEARS! Apparently, Vermont governor Peter Shumlin was chased by bears in his backyard–when he was in a state of undress. Read it here! THREATDOWN! I couldn’t help but think of Stephen. And doesn’t that photo look like something he would use, with the bear’s mouth open in a wide bellow? Since I like Shumlin, I’m glad the bears didn’t get him. I am, however, hoping against hope that this makes it into next week’s Report.
I’m still in mad freelance mode this week, so this post should I hope be short and sweet and to the point. Though once I get started…who knows? And we do have some amazing-sounding shows coming up. I’m particularly excited for Monday. So let’s go!
PLEASE NOTE THAT WEDNESDAY’S GUEST HAS CHANGED: IT WILL NOW BE ARIANNA HUFFINGTON.
Continue reading