Thanks to YouTube user rx2008 from ThePartyParty.com for the creation of this hilarious vid!

Logo will be playing my very favorite SWC episode, “Hit and Run” on Tuesday, September 7th at 10p EST, so definitely set your TiVo if you haven’t seen it yet. Also, if you haven’t seen “Hit and Run”, you may want to skip the below video as it spoils the ending. But oh, Noblet and his discussion of his “friendship” with Jellineck always cracks me up.

I know we here at No Fact Zone are super jazzed about the special shows “Been There: Won That: The Returnification of the American-Do Troopscape” on Wednesday, September 8 and Thursday, September 9 that are being done for the returning Iraq troops. We’ve had requests from people asking, where can you get tickets to the show if you’re a veteran? And we’ve found the answer – you can go to the IAVA website!

Join an exclusive, all-IAVA studio audience for a special taping focused on returning veterans from Iraq of Comedy Central’s hit late-night show “The Colbert Report” – Click here to be part of the studio audience!

Stephen Colbert and MTV Networks Entertainment Group President Doug Herzog

Comedy Central President Michele Ganeless and Stephen Colbert

Evelyn McGee-Colbert and Stephen Colbert at the Comedy Central Emmy party -2010

Also, you can check out Stephen and Evie Colbert on the red carpet for the event in this YouTube vid (about 2:57 in):

Also, I couldn’t find a large copy of this pic, but how awesome does Stephen Colbert look in a tux and aviator glasses? That would be hella awesome, btw.

h/t ColbertNation.com forum members SeldomNite and hecolbernaion for the pics!

The idea for a Glenn-Beck style rally for the Colbert Nation started with a post at Reddit.com (which of this post, has received 9,557 up votes and 6,152 down votes):

I was woken in the middle of the night by this(along with the sound of my cat getting ready to pee on the rug).

Think about it. It’ll be just like Colbert’s mockery of GW Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondent’s Dinner, but 500,000 people will be able to participate with him. We’ll all stay totally in character as teabaggers. The kid with the microphone that interviews all the idiots at these things can come by and we’ll ramble into his microphone.

This would be the high water mark of American satire. Half a million people pretending to suspend all rational thought in unison. Perfect harmony. It’ll feel like San Francisco in the late 60s, only we won’t be able to get any acid.

I know you’re out there somewhere, Stephen, watching LOLcat gifs along side us. We need you. There’s no way to have a logical public discussion with the teabaggers. The best we can do is to mimic them. Show them a mirror and hopefully some will realize how ridiculous they actually are… Or maybe they won’t even realize that they’re being mocked, which could be even more awesome.

Within 24 hours, a Facebook page dedicated to the movement was founded.:

My Fellow Americans, this is a dark time in our history, and only one man can bring the light of Truthiness back to Washington. But first we need to bring Stephen Colbert to DC.

So let’s get 100,000 of us here to convince [The Colbert Report] that they should do an event on the DC Mall this Fall.

This movement has caught on so quickly that a fan site has been created in its honor – ColbertRally.com. This is what the Colbert Rally founders have said about the movement:

Do we honestly want Colbert to hold a rally? Definitely. Is this some left-wing agenda driven response to Glenn Beck’s rally? No, but we do want to make a parody of it, and who better to do it then Stephen Colbert. Our goal is to stir people up to be a part of a fun light-hearted movement to NOT take politics too seriously, and have a few good laughs along the way.

The movement has been covered in such online news forums as Crooks and Liars, Huffington Post, the New York Observer, MediaMatters blog, the Comedy Central Insiders Blog and We Love DC. The Newsington web comic has even drawn an adorable little comic strip about it!

Also, just FYI, No Fact Zone has multiple Completists in the DC area. So we could have some seriously kick arse coverage of an event like this. You know, if it actually happened or something. Just sayin’.

Editor’s Note:
The Facebook page has published two mailing addresses for exec producers on the show. I’m not sure if those e-mails are even correct, but even if they are, I feel fully aware that they have been made aware of the movement. Please, Zoners, do not spam members of the ‘Colbert Report’ staff. Thank you.

You can view the whole collection of photos (more than fifty of them!) at the JSC’s web site. And if you want to relive the awesomeness of Stephen’s astronaut training, the videos for “Fallback Position: Astronaut” are here: part 1, part 2, and part 3.

A big thank you to NASA and the JSC folks for sharing the photos with everyone!

Stephen Colbert builds a human centipede from the Colbert Report staff (screencap courtesy of io9.com)

Stephen Colbert’s part in the 2010 Emmy awards, while small, was mentioned all over the Emmy coverage that hit the news cycle this morning. Many praised his efforts as one of the highlights of the evening, and others booed the Emmy voters for not giving him the Emmy that they felt he deserved. We can relate to that sentiment.

So sit back, dig in, and absorb today’s Emmy zeitgeist.

Best of the Emmys

• Greatest geek moments from the 2010 Emmys – IO9.com:
  
  “Strangely enough, one of the highlights of the night, besides Ricky Gervais handing out beer to the front row, was Stephen Colbert’s Human Centipede name-check. While accepting his nomination for writing team on the Stephen Colbert Report, the comedian claimed his writing team was “the greatest staff in the world. These people think together, they move together, they act as if they’re one living creature. Or they soon will — once I make them a human centipede.” A collective shriek was heard round the nation when Moms everywhere googled “Human Centipede.” Well played, sir.”
• Top Moments: Jimmy Fallon, Will Arnett and Ricky Gervais Keep Things Light – SeattlePI.com:
  
  “10. Best Presentation Patter, Part I: Introducing the best supporting actress in a comedy category, Stephen Colbert announces that the night is all about the ladies. ‘Many of you look lovely tonight,’ he deadpans. Jane Lynch, the winner of the award, goes on to thank her parents for ‘being so unintentionally hilarious.’”



• Emmy’s 8 Best Moments: ‘Glee,’ Alexander Skarsgard And That Amazing Opening Sketch! – MTV.com:
  
  “Jane accepted her first ever Emmy win by calling it “outlandish,” kissing Stephen Colbert on the lips and thanking her “lord and creator, Ryan Murphy, for creating the role of a lifetime,” and told her fellow castmates, “You’re young, and you’re wonderful and fresh-faced and, when I’m not seething with jealousy, I love you.”
• The 2010 Emmy Awards Had a Great Host, but Odd Pacing – TV Squad blog:
  
  “More good stuff: Even though it felt like the producers were rushing, I did welcome the elimination of the presenter banter. Only people who knew how to do it well — Fey, Colbert, Joel McHale — got to be funny. Even then, they kept it to one or two lines.”
• 2010 Emmy recap: Party time at AMC, HBO – NewsObserver.com:
  
  “Stephen Colbert, who is funny just walking, comes out to present to the Best Emmy for Supporting Actress in a Comedy.”
• Horror at the 2010 Emmy Awards – Fearnet.com:
  
  “But the real horror winner on TV’s biggest night has to be The Human Centipede. In a pretaped nominee video, Stephen Colbert lauded his Colbert Report team as “the greatest staff in the world. These people think together, they move together, they act as if they’re one living creature. Or they soon will, once I make them a human centipede.” As a topper, the text “100% Medically Accurate” appeared on screen as Colbert’s staffers ran in terror”
• Liveblogging The 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards – LAist.com:
  
  “Stephen Colbert is up to his usual schmarm and manages to overtly underhandedly insult women while exalting them.”

Worst of the Emmys (i.e. WTF, Emmy Voters?!)

• Emmy Awards: Best and worst moments – National Post:
  
  “Love Jon Stewart. Love The Daily Show. Don’t really mind that it has now won eight in a row. But, this year especially, The Daily Show over The Colbert Report? Really? Thankfully, we have Stephen Colbert to look forward to. He’ll be talking about that all week. Just you wait.”
• What’s behind Emmy surprises? Were voters drunk? – LA Times Gold Derby blog:
  
  “But “The Daily Show” romp, mysteriously, continues. Not even boatloads of Hollywood sentiment behind Conan O’Brien’s “Tonight Show,” the vast popularity of Betty White’s stellar episode of “Saturday Night Live” or Stephen Colbert’s gutsy visit to Iraq in his “Colbert Report” submission could topple “Daily Show.” Why? I don’t have a clue.”
• VIDEO: Emmy Highlights – Mad Men & Modern Family Among Big Winners – RadarOnline.com:
  
  “It was hard not to feel just a tiny bit awkward during the award for Best Variety or Music Special. When Fallon walked into the audience to sing a song with Stephen Colbert, the camera picked up Conan O’Brien sitting just behind the them, trying his best to look unaffected.”
• Hey, Jon Stewart: Give back this Emmy for ‘The Daily Show’! – Gold Derby blog:
  
  “Pssst! Do you want to know what secret weapon Jon Stewart used to claim Emmy victory for “The Daily Show” as best variety series for an unprecedented eighth time in a row? Roland Martin’s ascot.

  . . .

  That’s it. That is what so wowed Emmy voters to choose “The Daily Show” over “The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien” (which submitted his historic, heart-tugging farewell episode), “Saturday Night Live” (the Betty White spectacular) and “The Colbert Report” (Stephen Colbert gets a visit via satellite from Barack Obama while Colbert entertains troops in Iraq).

Obviously, if such a tepid “Daily Show” entry can beat all that, then it’s destined to continue winning its Emmy category … forever.”

Behind The Scenes at the Emmys

• Emmy Awards 2010: What the Cameras Didn’t See – CBS News:
  
  “Jane Lynch and Stephen Colbert experienced a different kind of physicality, however, after Colbert presented Lynch with her Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. The pair had to be chased down and grabbed by an Emmy staffer when they exited the stage the wrong way.”