Did anyone else see this? Apparently, Daft punk was going to be part of something with Colbert, but had to pull out due to appearing at the MTV music awards…a month later.
Colbert made his whole show about how ripped off he(and Hyundai) feel about it.
It was pretty funny.
I just watched it and that was great! Talk about being given lemons and making lemonade.
Great musical performance at the end.
I laughed so hard. (Ok, sorry, I have no idea who daft punk is. My bad.) But the performances had me hysterically laughing!
I don’t have any idea who the guy that played at the end, either, but he wasn’t bad.
I saw part of this. Didn’t feel all that robbed though, since Daft Punk is just awful.
Admittedly, I love GSY:BE!, so my taste may be questionable.
That was Robin Thicke. The song he sang, Blurred Lines, has been a huge hit this summer. The sexy video for it is very popular, too.
I’ll look for it! He seemed like a good kid. About the only thing I’ve listened to this summer is the radio on car trips where we play, when a song comes on, “Okay, who is this?”
We have an age difference, so I’ve learned the names of bands I’ve always known the words to the songs but not who sang them. So has he for songs that came out when his kids were listening to them. (I’m older than his adult kids; it’s not odd like that.)
Now we have gotten in the habit of things where we are just being jackasses.
Me: <At a Madonna song> Who is THIS?
Him: Obviously! It’s the Beatles.
And I do sing every song almost in the radio, and he has Identity Theft "Ooooooh Barrracuda!"d me. In a fun, he was making a joke way.
Didn’t see anything special about the video. And the constant superimposing of #THICKE over the images got to be annoying. Must be a generational thing.
Why wouldn’t they be able to do so? It’s probably the same performance they’ve done dozens of times before. If Thicke and his entourage is doing the promo circuit, they are used to setting up and breaking down in studios quickly, and adjusting to different stage sizes.
Note, I don’t know who Thicke is, I’ve never heard or seen a performance of his, and I didn’t watch Colbert.
Henry Fucking Kissinger. He has a nice big office for someone I thought was dead.
Was I the only one thinking that Daft Punk would show up at the very end and that this would turn out to be an elaborate gag? When Ashton Kutcher came out, I thought for sure that Colbert was going to say he was pulling one over on us.
Anyway I was looking forward to seeing what they do live, since their whole schtick is that they never appear in public without their helmets.
That’s not the “sexy” version of that video. YouTube took down the original video and that’s the “tame” version it was replaced with.
I’m sort of confused here. The substitute video was great, but there’s no way they put that together in a couple of hours. It seems like it would’ve taken a few weeks. Bryan Cranston and Jeff Bridges were on the Report a week or two ago and Hugh Laurie was on yesterday, and it would’ve taken time to put together all the appearances on America’s Got Talent and Charlie Rose and Jimmy Fallon.
Keep in mind that if they were planning on Daft Punk, it would still make sense for them to film Colbert dancing everywhere with everyone to their hit song. They could have been planning to cut to Colbert dancing during the performance.
That would make sense. I was assuming they would just show Daft Punk performing the whole time, and that wouldn’t have been necessary.
That dance could have been done to virtually any music. It could have been something they had in the can for another skit, but then they just overlaid the Daft Punk song on top of it and ran with it.
But I don’t think that is the explanation. More likely than not, this was all a planned publicity stunt for the MTV Music Awards. And I think it’s working. The fact that Daft Punk will be appearing on MTV is all over the entertainment sites and mainstream media. Heck, people are even talking about it on the SDMB!
…yeah…it’s almost as if the entire thing was an elaborate joke and The Colbert Report was a comedy show instead of a serious news show…
The story that I’ve heard on other message boards is that Daft Punk was originally scheduled to appear on The Colbert Report. MTV then informed Stephen (several weeks ago), that because of the VMA appearance, they would not be allowed to sing on Stephen’s show. Stephen then planned the elaborate video with all of the guests (and probably Robin Thicke as well) as part of Daft Punk’s appearance. The email he got on Tuesday at 2:00 (which was about 24 hours ahead of the taping) was to inform him that MTV was not allowing Daft Punk to appear at all. This fits both with Stephen’s insistence that the email was true and not a comedy bit, and with him having the time to film with all of the guests.
This is not the first time that Henry Kissinger has participated in a Colbert stunt. He’s been a go-to guy for these things for years.
Colbert dancing is always wonderful. Has Sam Rockwell ever been on the Colbert Report? Seeing them both dance I might die of happiness.
Also, every time he brought up Hyundai was great. “Crushing disappointment, brought to you by Hyundai.”
I don’t think it was a planned publicity stunt. Colbert seems to have no problem with publicity stunts, like with his “The Hail to the Cheese Stephen Colbert NachoCheese Doritos 2008 Presidential Campaign Coverage”. But this seems different. His exasperation seemed to be real, not just the character’s. Also, while I don’t know anything about Van Toffler, I would think most execs don’t like being made fun of on air. It could be a publicity stunt, and I wouldn’t be outraged if it was proved to be, but I’m betting it wasn’t.
Also, I haven’t had a chance to watch last night’s episode, but I hear he addresses the idea that it was a publicity stunt.
That seems about right. Here’s an article from the New York Times about it.
Also, the Kissinger part killed me. When the music was muffled, and then Stephen burst out of the closet and the music got louder. I need to look up the previous segments that Kissinger has been on; that’s great that he’s the go-to guy for these things.
And “Kick In My Balls, brought to you by Hyundai.”
