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i'm not sold on this new "indie rock circlejerk" direction. enjoyed frampton's part though. he's kind of the troy mcclure of erstwhile guitar gods.

― reading murder books, tryin' to stay hip (get bent), Thursday, 21 December 2006 05:02 (seventeen years ago) link

surreal

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

using Kissinger in any scripted laugh-getting context, however, is just short of booking Hitler. Fucking sad.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

god, fuck this episode in the ear.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

agreed the war criminal inclusion was kinda shocking.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

(but I liked the Apples in Stereo song and the Decembrists are awful so I'm glad Frampton was there to actually play a decent solo)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

so, i missed something last night?

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

it was just sad. oddly, both colbert and stewart were in my dream last night. we were all riding the subway together.

― reading murder books, tryin' to stay hip (get bent), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

what exactly went down

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 21 December 2006 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

The great Decembrists "shred-off". Most of it left me with a gape-on.

I was disappointed in the Kissinger inclusion but OTOH it looked like he had to be strapped into his chair and spoke with great effort so maybe he is about to die.

― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Thursday, 21 December 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't think it was sad at all - maybe overdone but I laughed at a bunch. Basically the whole episode was an overblown musical "contest" between Colbert and the Decembrists (really just their lead guitarist) with lots of inexplicable "guest stars".

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 December 2006 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Hooray! ILX Dead Pool '07 ahoy.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 21 December 2006 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I loved the Apples In Stereo song/video backdrop.

― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Thursday, 21 December 2006 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Doesn't sound like it has anything on Hip-hopketball: A Jazzebration.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 21 December 2006 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link

any songs referring to Charlene?

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 21 December 2006 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Pitchfork has a decent write-up of the goings-on, although they fail to mention that in addition to the ridiculous amount of guest stars on the program itself, the whole show was dramatically introduced by Morley Safer. I liked the Apples in Stereo song and all the initial schtick, but once Kissinger appeared it went to this weird uncomfortable place. Like, I guess "Stephen" the character would be thrilled to have Kissinger on his show, but the episode was so goofy I wasn't really prepared to be deconstructing his in-character vs. out-of-character motives and it just came off icky.

― reddening (reddening), Friday, 22 December 2006 01:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah without Kissinger it would have been goofily funny (not hilarious, but good-natured), but the inclusion of Kissinger was so weird and discomfiting that I didn't know how to react and it made me feel unclean for the rest of the show. Morley Safer was the best part, I thought.

― max (maxreax), Friday, 22 December 2006 02:13 (seventeen years ago) link

No Charlene, but AiS was all about hating on bears, and appeared to be performed by a bear (but in possibly AN Other sense of the word).

― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Friday, 22 December 2006 02:33 (seventeen years ago) link

ok the war criminal stopped me in my tracks too but am I the only one who laughed through clinched teeth? I think his lines were the funniest thing on there.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 22 December 2006 05:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I believe in killing animals with extreme cruelty if it'll make a good movie, but not in making Kissinger funny.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 December 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay now I'm slightly sad that I missed this. Only slightly, though.

My wife's comment on the whole thing: "Wait, The Decemberists is a real band? They didn't make that up?"

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't worry Dan. Knowing Comedy Central it will be repeated fifty gazillion times while they are on winter vacation.

― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link

ok the weird thing about the ep was that it totally fit with character and had a couple of amusing bits but it really was just not funny on the whole, it was just this almost like character development exercise? also I am not a fan of decemberists or apples in stereo so whatev.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

the Ayn Rand bedtime story tease on Daily Show WAS great

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

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