I confess — I sometimes find Stephen Colbert’s schtick wearing. But other times…whoa, this is beautiful. He got stood up by a musical guest, Daft Punk, so he complains about it bitterly and hilariously.
Ooops, stuffed it below the fold because the stupid videos are on autoplay. Why do people configure their videos that way? Are they just incompetent?
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But then, he bounces back joyously. Hey, he’s a good dancer!
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Anthony K says
No autoplay up here in Canada. You sure you posted the video correctly?
Gregory in Seattle says
No autoplay in my browser either: I have IE 10. No autoplay on Firefox 22.0, either. It might be a browser version issue, not a configuration one.
In any case, yes: even more brilliant than usual.
gussnarp says
Had the autoplay issue with embedded Daily Show clips at Friendly Atheist, where I discovered the FlashControl extension for Chrome. Boom, no more autoplay videos anywhere. Flash content comes up as a grey box with the flash logo in the center, if I want to load and run the flash, I just click it. And I can whitelist sites like YouTube where everything is Flash. The best part? I no longer use AdBlock Plus, since I mainly used it to stop video ads autoplaying. Now I’m not hurting the meager revenue streams of my favorite sites as much.
AussieMike says
Geo-blocked!! For shame!!
At least the geo-block message is funny.
“Sorry but this video is unavailable from your location.
It is one of the detriments if living under a monarchy.
But in case you can’t give up your Vegemite and move to America you can watch clips from the Colbert Report at thecomedychannel.com.au”
And what do you know. There it is.
unbound says
@1 – Mano Singham regularly links Daily Show and Colbert clips. Here is information to view outside US –
Francisco Bacopa says
Hours of paperwork and planning must have gone into that second segment.
carlie says
That. Was. Amazing. Do not fuck with Colbert.
If it really went down like he described, I can’t imagine the pile of exhausted crew and interns putting all of that together in 24 hours or so that was left in its wake.
carlie says
Francisco – if I’m not mistaken, most of the shows were owned by the same company, so they may have been able to get one blanket set of permissions and do a quick callout to all of the shows taping that day to see who was game for a few minutes of filming. I don’t know how the Colbert people managed to fit it all in along with producing the rest of their own show, though.
CX316 says
Thankyou ProxMate. That was amazing and us Aussies should never have to miss out on stuff like that :P
Anyone manage to get a list of all the random guests?
Elizabeth Hamilton says
Is there anyway to upload a .jpg to comments? I’d love to show the geo-blocked image we get here in France, it’s really funny.
jenniferphillips says
@Carlie,
I happened to catch a few minutes of Jimmy Fallon’s late night show last week, and within that few minutes, Stephen Colbert came out of the wings and danced with him. It just seemed like silly randomness at the time but obviously was part of a larger ‘crossover’ scheme. At any rate, it wasn’t all taped on the same day as Colbert’s ‘Daft Punk’d’ show aired (this past Tuesday night). Still made me giggle, tho :)
Elizabeth Hamilton says
LOVE COLBERT
carlie says
jenniferphillips – I like Jimmy Fallon so much, from what I’ve seen. He seems to have a very kind sense of humor compared to most other comedians, and the attitude of being thrilled with how his life’s turned out rather than cynical about everything.
Draken says
I’m in the kingdom of Denmark. Still I miss the geoblock message.
mattand says
When Colbert debuted seven years ago (yikes!), I remember predicting it would get old fast. Mainly because how much milage could he milk out of mocking Bill O’Reilly and Fox News?
Christ, was I wrong.
I’m sure one day I’ll get sick of Colbert, but it won’t be any time soon. Hell, just the fact that I still know conservatives who love the show but don’t get the joke is worth it.
davidgentile says
@15
Hugh Laurie
Jon Stewart
Jimmy Fallon
Jeff Bridges
Ashton Kutcher
Matt Damon
Charlie Rose
Brian Cranston
Breaking Bad cast
Henry Kissinger
AGT cast
davidgentile says
@9
rq says
No geoblock here; this looked like so much fun!
Even doing it last minute. Awesome!
Frank Paulson says
Hmm, Comedy Central and MTV are both owned by Viacom. I think I smell a cross-promotional rat here.
Julien Rousseau says
So you’re saying they’re low information viewers ;)
colnago80 says
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Nick Gotts says
#21: colnago80 is the genocidal racist banned here under the nym slc1.
Thomathy, Gay Where it Counts says
But then he has Robin Thicke on, singing that rapey song.
Is that good?
I’m not sure that’s good.
Thomathy, Gay Where it Counts says
For Canada:
SQB says
What, “Get You Alone”? That’s an old song. Or does he have several?
xmnr says
A less well produced (and less secular) dance:
http://youtu.be/mXGhjOwvnNQ
Suido says
As an Australian using Chrome, I recommend the extension Media Hint, available for free from the web store.
playonwords says
They’re not on autoplay over here (UK)
Colbert videos are unavailable …