'The Colbert Report' Filming at Columbia University

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Tired of Fox News? So is ‘The Colbert Report’, who was on campus filming students. We caught up with a CC senior who had just been interviewed for the segment to mock Fox News making Columbia students look stupid.

“So The Colbert Report is coming on with unreasonable demands—he holds up a picture of somebody and swooshes it by really fast and asks them to name which political official it was. The humor is that Columbia students are really smart and answer correctly, and he’s trying to make a funny shot and gets pissed off. So I was just interviewed to answer what are the three branches of government. I actually got 2 of them right the first time, and then they did the shot again where I got all three of them right—he said ‘Son of a bitch!’ and stormed off.”

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The closer to the end of the year, the more film crews there are on campus. Today Low Steps is playing host to crew from “The Colbert Report,” who, according to arts reporter and associate copy editor Neha Sundaram, are doing a spoof on the Fox News segment from a few weeks ago.

According to a text from Sundaram, “They were just showing them random politicians and asking them to guess what number the interviewer was thinking of to comment on the absurdity of Fox’s expectations, I guess.”

Apparently the man-on-the-street is the one who ends up looking bad in Colbert’s version—so not too different from how it usually plays out. Unfortunately, the man, myth, and legend that is Stephen Colbert is not around.

Source: Columbia Spectator.