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Posted Oct 19th 2006 9:35AM by TMZ Staff
Political pundit and all-around great American Stephen Colbert is giving back to the nation that has warmly embraced him like a mother embraces her American-born child.
As announced on last night's "Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert is auctioning off the famous portrait of himself standing in front of a portrait of himself (see picture to clear up any confusion). The proceeds from the auction will benefit Save the Children.
"I've already saved the world. How hard could saving the children be?" Colbert said.
Now let's say you don't have the extra cash lying around for your very own Colbert portrait within a portrait (again see picture), how about showing your political leanings with a Colbert for President bumper sticker? Of course Colbert is bringing Vice President Stewart along for the ride.
So get out there and spend those tax cuts. America needs your cash!
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Tags: bumper sticker, BumperSticker, colbert report, ColbertReport, john stewart, JohnStewart, painting, paiting, panting, political pundit, PoliticalPundit, portrait, stephen colbert, StephenColbert
Posted Sep 9th 2006 6:00AM by TMZ Staff
For many around the country, this week was all about back-to-school. But in the Zone, where reading, writing and arithmetic take a backseat to autograph signing, it was more along the lines of back-to-DUIs, back-to-skeletons-in-the-closet and back-to-New-York, Jon.
Jon Stewart:
There's nothing quite like the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences running away from its most recent previous Oscar show host, as fast as it possibly can. It happened with Chris Rock, and now it's happened again in the wake of The Daily Show host's stint on The Yearly Show. By rushing out the news of Ellen De Generes' selection as the next MC, a full four months on the calendar before Stewart was announced as savior in 2005, AMPAS is treating him like an Emmy loser rather than the winner that he is. There was no mention of Stewart in the press release that went out to the media late Thursday, just backhanded jabs such as this quote from producer Laura Ziskin: "the show requires someone who can keep the show alive and fresh and moving, as well as someone who is a flat-out great entertainer." Oh well, if early Internet petitioners have their way, Stewart will be in the running in the fall of 2008 for a much bigger MC-ing gig, one that will probably require the adoption of a middle initial.
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Filed under: The Z List
Tags: carls jr., CarlsJr., ellen, ellen de generes, EllenDeGeneres, EllenDeGenres, in-n-out, john stewart, JohnStewart, marc e. platt, MarcE.Platt, oscars, path to 9/11, PathTo9/11, the daily show, TheDailyShow, william shatner, WilliamShatner
Posted Feb 24th 2006 6:40PM by TMZ Staff
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich wasn't in on the joke. Blagojevich says he didn't realize "The Daily Show" was a comedy spoof of the news when he sat down for an interview that ended up poking fun at the sometimes-puzzled Democratic governor.
"It was going to be an interview on contraceptives ... that's all I knew about it," Blagojevich laughingly told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in a story for Thursday's editions. "I had no idea I was going to be asked if I was 'the gay governor.'"
The interview focused on his executive order requiring pharmacies to fill prescriptions for emergency birth control.
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Tags: daily show, DailyShow, governor, john stewart, JohnStewart
Posted Feb 18th 2006 6:44PM by TMZ Staff
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jon Stewart just won the Heisman the comedians' version. As host of the Academy Awards, Stewart joins an elite group that includes Steve Martin, Billy Crystal, Bob Hope and Johnny Carson.
"It doesn't mean you're going to have a good pro career, or even do well in the bowl game," Stewart says, sitting in his Manhattan office behind a desk cluttered with papers. "But to get to that point means something. Now you're in the club."
Membership requires entertaining a television audience of more than 40 million, plus getting laughs from some of the most powerful people in Hollywood.
Stewart's up for the challenge. It's why he took the gig. The huge audience. The intense glare.
"For a comedian," he says, "it feels like the ultimate stage."
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Filed under: TV
Tags: John Stewart, JohnStewart, Oscars
