Did anyone see that episode last night?
I am searching frantically for a clip from last night’s show, where Steven Colbert was a bobble-head. They were making fun of the Doll that was “kidnapped” in Iraq. That had to be some of the funniest stuff I’d seen in a long time.
If anyone has any idea where I can find it, please post a link. Otherwise, very fuuny show, IMO.
I would just keep checking here. They probably just haven’t added it yet. I agree, it had me in tears.
It’s going to be rerun tonight at 11:30 eastern.
I realize it will also be ran at 7 p.m. tonight. I was looking for a clip online so I have it at my fingertips, to forward it on and to cheer me up from time to time. My boss doesn’t have cable and I wanted her to see it.
I can cap it for you.
Finally! They posted it. Very, very funny.
Stephen Colbert “Bobblehead” Clip
It should be the second one on the top row.
Freaking hilarious.
I can’t help but wonder how they pulled off this stunt. The Special Ops Cody story broke that day, IIRC. Perhaps they commissioned a bobblehead doll to be made that afternoon? It IS New York. I suppose there might be rush services of this nature out there.
I did some searches online to see if there was an existing doll, but found nothing.
I’d be interesting to get a little anecdote for this one. Most of the Show’s prop gags are typically low-tech, blue screen affairs. Not that a bobble head is ILM material, but it obviously took more than a trip to wardrobe and a stock photo to pull off that bit.
Don’t suppose anyone would know any more about this…?
I loved the “insurgent.”
Ageed: the speed of the screed impressed indeed.
Maybe they were originally going for a Jayson Blair reference re: Colbert’s report from the front and it morphed into this funnier bit about the dolls. Or maybe they did make all this up on the spur of the moment. Either way, it’s funny as hell.
At the risk of sounding like an idiot, I gotta ask – are the correspondents’ interviews all real – the sit down ones – or are some of them spliced?
Seems like there’s never a shot where we see both of their faces. We’ll see the back of Samantha Bee’s head and the interviewee’s face, then Bee’s face and the back or over the shoulder of somebody who could be the interviewee but who might be someone else.
If they’re all real, you have to wonder why the interviewees don’t know it’s a put on.
There are plenty of normal, real interviews where they only send one camera, just because it’s cheaper and simpler. They’ll put the camera on the interviewee, often showing part of the back of the interviewer’s head, and then they move the camera do some question and reaction reel to splice in later. When the cut to the interviewer with his “I’m listening really hard face” or nodding sagely, that’s a splice.
“Real” news shows try to make this as subtle as possible, but as with every other element of the infotainment industry, TDS hams it up whenever possible.
I’m waiting for the bobblehead to go on sale!
Podkayne, thanks. There have been so many times when someone is talking but we see them from behind, and their jaws aren’t moving. That got me wondering if any of the interviews were faked.
And I think that the kinds of shot were you can see that the interviewer’s jaw isn’t moving are thrown in as a very subtle parody of “real” interviews, but I could be giving them too much credit. 
I think they did more interviews in earlier seasons (especially the Craig Killborn days) where it was clear that the person wasn’t answering the same question the audience heard, but I think they moved away from that. I used to find the interviews in general cringingly unwatchable. They almost always seemed to humaliate some poor schmuck who wasn’t clear about what was going on. It’s my impression that they’ve moved away from that, and the humor these dayscomes from either giving some jerk enough rope to hang himself or mocking the interviewer-character. Or maybe I’m just becoming more insenstive.
And sometimes it’s just serendipity – like a week or so ago when they interviewed both sides of a tempest over Peanuts sculptures in Charles Schultz’ home town of St Paul.
The old lady who wanted them out of the park had badly-fitting dentures, and their defender had a slight speech impediment – so they both made reference to “Penis statues.” Didn’t have to try very hard on that one. 
Actually, I think it was just a Minnesotan accent. Some of my relatives from Up Nort’ had same penis/peanuts pronunciation.