# Cookie Monster to Colbert: "Me Still Eat Cookie" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 20, 2008, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-monster-to-colbert-me-still-eat-cookie/453588 "2008-06-20T14:19:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-monster-to-colbert-me-still-eat-cookie/453588/21 "2008-06-20T18:17:56Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] Did they get the actual Sesame Street performers for this? The puppeteering was really good, spot-on, even if the voice occasionally sounded a little more Robert Smigel than Sesame Street. [/QUOTE] According to Wikipedia, although Frank Oz still occasionally performs as Cookie Monster, [David Rudman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rudman) has been performing Cookie Monster on Sesame Street since 2001. So it was probably him on _Colbert_. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-monster-to-colbert-me-still-eat-cookie/453588/22 "2008-06-20T18:30:13Z")
[QUOTE=bleach] Cookie Monster once upstaged Martha Stewart as a guest on Martha’s show. If you like Cookie Monster, it’s worth your time. Part 1 [Part 2](http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1596962). [/QUOTE] “Purity!” Oh, god, I’m crying. That was excellent. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-monster-to-colbert-me-still-eat-cookie/453588/23 "2008-06-21T13:55:08Z")
Thanks for posting that. 🙂 The one night this week I DON’T watch Colbert… ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-monster-to-colbert-me-still-eat-cookie/453588/24 "2008-06-21T16:06:19Z")
[QUOTE=bleach] Cookie Monster once upstaged Martha Stewart as a guest on Martha’s show. If you like Cookie Monster, it’s worth your time. Part 1 [Part 2](http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1596962). [/QUOTE] Somebody please tell me they too were getting turned on when Martha was caressing Cookie Monster. Then she says, “I’m going to take real good care of you in just a few minutes…” Whew… ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-monster-to-colbert-me-still-eat-cookie/453588/25 "2008-06-21T18:06:02Z")
Then there’s the [NPR interview with Cookie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eZ22B-2F5M) \ What sound do you like? \ Nom Nom Nom Nom! \ what proffesion, other than your own, would you _least_ like to try? \ (looks right at camera, googly eyes akimbo) Opthamology! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-monster-to-colbert-me-still-eat-cookie/453588/26 "2008-06-21T18:57:14Z")
[QUOTE=bleach] Cookie Monster once upstaged Martha Stewart as a guest on Martha’s show. If you like Cookie Monster, it’s worth your time. Part 1 [Part 2](http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1596962). [/QUOTE] No exaggeration, that’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in months. Laugh out loud fall off my chair have to rewind the clip funny. Total anarchy in the temple of straightlaced normalcy, like Marx Bros lunacy. At times it looked like the puppeteers were doing everything possible to get Martha to kick them. Genius. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-monster-to-colbert-me-still-eat-cookie/453588/27 "2008-06-21T19:30:34Z")
[QUOTE=Merkwurdigliebe] Jon Stewart has such an honest likability that simply can’t be copied. He’s so comfortable in his own skin on the show and it works really well. [/QUOTE] While I’m definitely a Jon Stewart fan, he basically gets to be everybody’s non-threatening liberal friend. Colbert is playing a character we should despise and still makes him charming, without breaking character (mostly). And it’s not just a matter of not knowing that Colbert the comedian is not Colbert the character, it’s a matter of actually finding the deluded, arrogant, ignorant, hypocritical, arch-conservative bloviator strangely likable. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-monster-to-colbert-me-still-eat-cookie/453588/28 "2008-06-21T19:56:42Z")
[QUOTE=TWDuke] While I’m definitely a Jon Stewart fan, he basically gets to be everybody’s non-threatening liberal friend. Colbert is playing a character we should despise and still makes him charming, without breaking character (mostly). And it’s not just a matter of not knowing that Colbert the comedian is not Colbert the character, it’s a matter of actually finding the deluded, arrogant, ignorant, hypocritical, arch-conservative bloviator strangely likable. [/QUOTE] Well said. A cult-of-personality satire. Er, a satire cult of personality. You know what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-monster-to-colbert-me-still-eat-cookie/453588/29 "2008-06-22T00:18:27Z")
I think I’m the only person who finds Colbert completely unfunny. At least in this role. ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-monster-to-colbert-me-still-eat-cookie/453588/30 "2008-06-22T00:26:11Z")
[QUOTE=Yookeroo] I think I’m the only person who finds Colbert completely unfunny. At least in this role. [/QUOTE] …long lost brother? Is this what it feels like…when doves cry? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-monster-to-colbert-me-still-eat-cookie/453588/31 "2008-06-22T02:36:05Z")
[QUOTE=bleach] Cookie Monster once upstaged Martha Stewart as a guest on Martha’s show. If you like Cookie Monster, it’s worth your time. Part 1 [Part 2](http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1596962). [/QUOTE] That’s Frank Oz for sure, this time. ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-monster-to-colbert-me-still-eat-cookie/453588/32 "2008-06-22T03:01:03Z")
[QUOTE=cantara] …reminded of the Family Guy shot of CM locked in a bathroom stall, squeezing cookie dough onto a spoon heated with a lighter anxiously muttering “come onnnn”. (can’t youtube from work…) [/QUOTE] ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/v-x491Ex3a8/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/v-x491Ex3a8?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-monster-to-colbert-me-still-eat-cookie/453588.md?page=1)