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The Colbert Report

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The Colbert Report	comment	The Colbert Report (pronounced "Col-bear Re-pore") is an Emmy Award-winningnote (Best Writing - Variety, 2008, 2010, and 2013-14; Best Variety, 2013-14) American satirical late-night news talk show produced as a Spin-Off from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, featuring the screen persona of news anchor Stephen Colbert. The show operated as a parody of news talk programs such as The O Reilly Factor (such that the show was pitched as "Stephen Colbert parodying Bill O'Reilly", leading to it being picked up immediately without a pilot), and aired on Comedy Central immediately after its sister program.The character of Colbert himself can be best described as a loudmouth cable news pundit who embodies every left-wing stereotype about Bush-era conservatives in one convenient shell; indeed, most of Colbert's political jokes were little more than strawman arguments of the opposition. It should probably be noted (or perhaps not) that Stephen Colbert, the fake news anchor, was in fact a character that Stephen Colbert, professional comedian, played. He did not believe the views he espoused on the show (for the most part), and has referred to the character as "a well-meaning, poorly informed, high-status idiot."Much like its progenitor, The Colbert Report read the real news in a humorous tone, but where it was unique was that it functioned as a kind of sitcom, with guest stars playing themselves and a funny premise. Whereas The Daily Show is mainly Jon Stewart reading the news and making funny observations, The Colbert Report revolved around a character and his interaction with the real world. There were recurring characters and plot points (such as Colbert's broken wrist), and indeed, during the show's first year of existence, Colbert even had a Sitcom Arch-Nemesis in the form of fellow comedian David Cross, who played fictional liberal talking head "Russ Lieber" before the character was written out of the series.The show also coined the words "truthiness"note well, there is a technical usage in programming that potentially predates the show, but outside of that circle, undoubtedly and "wikiality". The latter one is a portmanteau of "Wikipedia" and "reality", and is basically the practice of Rewriting Reality by bringing democracy to information on the basis that "if enough people agree on it, it becomes true" — the example given being Colbert's assertion that elephant populations had tripled since 31 January 2006.The Colbert Report ended on December 18, 2014, with Stephen succeeding David Letterman as host of The Late Show with The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which premiered in September 2015. Fellow Daily Show alum Larry Wilmore took the Colbert Report's spot with his own spinoff The Nightly Show, which lasted from January 2015 to August 2016. In September 2017, the show received a Spiritual Successor in the form of The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, another show hosted by a former Daily Show correspondent who takes on a faux-conservative persona and lasted from 2017 to 2018. note though The Opposition parodies alt-right media sources such as Alex Jones rather than The Colbert Report's focus on mainstream cable news pundits such as Bill O'Reilly.
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The Colbert Report / int_10937270	comment	Noisy Nature: That eagle cry in the opening credits does not sound like an eagle.
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The Colbert Report / int_13b7c384	type	Pizza Boy Special Delivery
The Colbert Report / int_13b7c384	comment	Pizza Boy Special Delivery: Fresh Hot Slice with Representative Brad Sherman.
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The Colbert Report / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Colbert Report / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Parodied with flying colors on the episode the night after the 2012 Election.
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The Colbert Report / int_14fdbb05	comment	Mirth to Power: The most prominent modern example of this trade.
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The Colbert Report / int_15929a2d	type	Man in a Kilt
The Colbert Report / int_15929a2d	comment	Man in a Kilt: Stephen wears a kilt to show solidarity for Scotland in his segment on the Scottish independence referendum.
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The Colbert Report / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Colbert Report / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Colbert claims that it'll take more than a 4-star general to get him to shave his hair off. Guess who appears to give an executive order for General Rey Odierno to shave Colbert's head. Colbert asks to see some of Rain's supposed "Ninja badassedness." Cut to a video clip of Rain displaying awesome ninja badassedness.
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The Colbert Report / int_1722aaf	type	Hitler Ate Sugar
The Colbert Report / int_1722aaf	comment	Hitler Ate Sugar: Charles Manson believes in global warming. After Fox News accused the US Olympic team of being unpatriotic and "softly anti-American" by not being covered in stars and stripes from top to toe:
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The Colbert Report / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
The Colbert Report / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: It seems that Stephen has some very deep approval-from-a-father-figure issues.
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The Colbert Report / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Colbert Report / int_17ce80aa	comment	Particularly when he lectured the movie people on the legendarium — most particularly when he explains the relationship of the LOTR Appendix and The Hobbit to Peter Jackson.
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The Colbert Report / int_18f2b2b	type	Hypocritical Heartwarming
The Colbert Report / int_18f2b2b	comment	Hypocritical Heartwarming: As he says on his last show, all of his accomplishments are actually the Colbert Nation's. He's just the guy who gets paid for it.
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The Colbert Report / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
The Colbert Report / int_191a3673	comment	Graceful Loser: Jon Stewart shows up to tell Stephen that he bears no ill will over the Colbert Report breaking his Emmy winning streak. Subverted because, as an Executive Producer of the Colbert Report, Stephen's Emmy also belongs to him.
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The Colbert Report / int_1a01fd1c	comment	Kayfabe: This is what makes it so hard for many people to "get" the show or the character. Is he sending a message this time, or is he just making people laugh? Is what the character Colbert says what the real Colbert thinks, or its exact opposite? Well, he keeps the line very blurred. Colbert once testified to Congress, under oath. In character. On the other hand, he'll talk to the audience out of character off-camera, "to humanize myself in your eyes before I say these terrible things."
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The Colbert Report / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: "RICKLES!" "BENNETT!" "MANILOW!" "RAAAAAAIIINNNN!" The dance-off has him saying Rain's name about five times in a row in various different ways. "BASIC HUMAN DECENCYYYY!" "KANYE!" "OBAMA!" "GORE!" "FALLON!!"
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The Colbert Report / int_1a65689d	comment	Korean pop star Rain, who became Stephen's arch-nemesis due to taking cruel pleasure in beating him at things.
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The Colbert Report / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
The Colbert Report / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: Used along with a sudden camera change while Stephen tells the nation something allegedly horrifying in order to promote his March to Keep Fear Alive. Also, in the January 4, 2010 episode (first after the new year), he says, "I just hope the butt fat I had injected into my cheeks wasn't from the butt-" (scare chord) "...of a murderer."
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The Colbert Report / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
The Colbert Report / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Seriously, don't believe us? Three words: Jane Fonda Interview. It's all the proof you need. Invoked with Sexy Hotdog Man.
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The Colbert Report / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
The Colbert Report / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: The occasional segment "Monkey On The Lam" opens with a graphic of a monkey riding a sheep while shooting a gun in the air.
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The Colbert Report / int_1d2b0c27	type	Hamster-Wheel Power
The Colbert Report / int_1d2b0c27	comment	Hamster-Wheel Power: Stephen once suggested puppies licking peanut butter off turbine blades could make them spin as a source of alternative energy.
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The Colbert Report / int_1d6ac70d	type	Dagwood Sandwich
The Colbert Report / int_1d6ac70d	comment	Dagwood Sandwich: After seeing a burger where the buns were replaced with grilled cheese sandwiches, Colbert contemplated a grilled cheese sandwich where the bread was replaced with grilled cheese sandwiches... ad infinitum. "Prepare yourselves nation, for I have invented... The Mobius Melt", a sandwich that you theoretically cannot stop eating. He then recalls his other favorite fractal sandwich, the "Mandelbrot BLT — the more you zoom in, the more bacon there is. What will explode first, your heart, or your mind?"
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The Colbert Report / int_1d8733d3	type	Overly Narrow Superlative
The Colbert Report / int_1d8733d3	comment	Overly Narrow Superlative: Colbert on Fox Business — "It is the first place I turn for financial news when it is left on at my dentist."
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The Colbert Report / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Colbert Report / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: When does Sir Dr. Stephen T Colbert DFA plan on retiring? Half an hour after Jon Stewart.note In actual fact, they retired within seven months of each other, and Stewart announced that he was leaving The Daily Show all of eight weeks after the Report went off the air. To the shock of nobody (and the joy of everybody), Jon Stewart joined the staff of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as an executive producer. You really can't keep these two apart.
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The Colbert Report / int_1e1f2e51	type	Raygun Gothic
The Colbert Report / int_1e1f2e51	comment	Raygun Gothic: Tek Jansen is an Affectionate Parody of the genre.
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The Colbert Report / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
The Colbert Report / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall During his appearance on the show in September 2011, Al Gore mentioned Colbert's "character." Holding back laughter, Colbert responded: "My character? What the hell are you talking about, sir? ... Well, 'Al Gore', thank you so much for joining us." Later when he signed off, Colbert said, air quotes included, "For The Colbert Report, I'm 'Stephen Colbert.' "
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The Colbert Report / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
The Colbert Report / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Stephen's attorney Gorlock is a legal alien. During a segment titled "Fear for All", Stephen talks to Aaron Hicklin, editor-in-chief of 'Out' magazine:
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The Colbert Report / int_1f0f3d6f	type	Cute Kitten
The Colbert Report / int_1f0f3d6f	comment	Cute Kitten: On March 5, 2009, while discussing the imploding U.S. Economy with Jim Cramer of CNBC, Colbert had videos of kittens and puppies playing behind Mr. Cramer, saying that this would make people feel better about the economy. He once brought an actual kitten onto the show to help accentuate a joke that involved killing it- but, thankfully, it was Played for Laughs.
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The Colbert Report / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
The Colbert Report / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: Stephen Colbert's "I Need A Drink," a segment he did in response to the string of international disasters that happened in the couple of weeks before July 29, 2014. He started out with a Bud Light Lime and by the end of the segment was drinking isopropyl alcohol. Which still didn't work, as either the booze was broken, or the news was just too damn sobering. This sequence previously provided the Trope Image.
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The Colbert Report / int_20af79d3	type	Oral Fixation
The Colbert Report / int_20af79d3	comment	Oral Fixation: Stephen often licks things, not to mention his pen-chewing habit.
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The Colbert Report / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Colbert Report / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: on his 6/27/2013 show, in response to Mayor Bloomberg wanting to ban sparklers from the 4th of July celebrations, Stephen got his fire marshal to wear an Uncle Sam-style hat and fake beard and hold a lit sparkler. It then cuts to technical difficulties, followed by Stephen comforting the fire marshal's wife, and then lighting a sparkler as a way to mourn her. Technical difficulties show up again, then we see Stephen comforting the couple's two children before giving them sparklers to play with. As they walk off, he yells "Oh, and kids, remember those need parental super-...they'll be fine."
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The Colbert Report / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Colbert Report / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: An unintentional one in this episode when Stephen forgot about the mousetrap that he had placed on his desk earlier in the show.
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The Colbert Report / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
The Colbert Report / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: "I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth..." Stephen Colbert really is a devout Catholic (he even teaches Sunday School, presumably why he can recite the Nicene Creed from memory).
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The Colbert Report / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
The Colbert Report / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: Sweetness, a gun which Colbert treats like a cross between Mr. Flibble and Sooty. And Ham-Rove, a canned pressed ham with glasses that came about because Karl Rove looks like one.
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The Colbert Report / int_2484396e	type	Know-Nothing Know-It-All
The Colbert Report / int_2484396e	comment	Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Stephen portrays himself as an extremely far-right Republican/Christian Know-Nothing Know-It-All.
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The Colbert Report / int_256a851b	type	GermanicDepressive
The Colbert Report / int_256a851b	comment	Germanic Depressive: Recurring character and German ambassador to the UN, Hans Beinholtz.
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The Colbert Report / int_256eb742	type	Nerdgasm
The Colbert Report / int_256eb742	comment	Nerdgasm: Stephen had a four-day Nerdgasm in December 2012 in the form of "Hobbit Week", celebrating the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, in which he interviewed Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Andy Serkis, and Peter Jackson — in which he seemed genuinely excited to talk — and decked out the whole set in Tolkien paraphernalia. There was probably some kind of deal involved, but no doubt Stephen (described by Jackson as "the biggest Tolkien geek I have ever met") would have done it regardless. Particularly when he lectured the movie people on the legendarium — most particularly when he explains the relationship of the LOTR Appendix and The Hobbit to Peter Jackson.
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The Colbert Report / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Colbert Report / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: When the iPhone was first introduced, some reports began calling it a "God Machine". Colbert says, "That's not a God Machine. This... is a God Machine!" And he brings out the God Machine from his The Daily Show segment "This Week in God", and it pushes it to make Colbert's "beep boop boop" sounds.
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The Colbert Report / int_27be0280	type	Porn Stache
The Colbert Report / int_27be0280	comment	Porn Stache: Stephen is rocking the porn stache in his hypothetical gay porn career.
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The Colbert Report / int_2821d59c	type	Anatomically Impossible Sex
The Colbert Report / int_2821d59c	comment	Anatomically Impossible Sex: Stephen gives advice on how to make babies and he gets quite a few things wrong.
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The Colbert Report / int_28a1d0b	type	Sunk Cost Fallacy
The Colbert Report / int_28a1d0b	comment	Sunk Cost Fallacy: When discussing torture, Stephen summed this fallacy up nicely: "We must do whatever it takes to justify what we've already done."
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The Colbert Report / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
The Colbert Report / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Parodied as part of the show's main premise.
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The Colbert Report / int_2937826d	type	Hurricane of Puns
The Colbert Report / int_2937826d	comment	Hurricane of Puns Summer's Eve vaginal puppeteer ads.
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The Colbert Report / int_29c5faf	type	Background Halo
The Colbert Report / int_29c5faf	comment	Background Halo: done deliberately; when the camera is facing Colbert's desk straight-on, stars circle his head.
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The Colbert Report / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Colbert Report / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: When discussing that "all things must come to an end," Stephen mentions, "Eventually, this show will be canceled."
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The Colbert Report / int_2a195285	type	Revolvers Are Just Better
The Colbert Report / int_2a195285	comment	Revolvers Are Just Better: Sweetness, Stephen's third-generation Colt Detective Special that talks to Stephen, or so he claims.
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The Colbert Report / int_2b5ab7c1	comment	Analogy Backfire: Stephen turns Rick Santorum's Iraq War The Lord of the Rings analogy into an analogy backfire. Can be seen here. Since Stephen is a big LOTR fan, he probably couldn't wait to sink his teeth into that one. Republican politician Andre Bauer compared poor people to animals which is an analogy backfire on its own, but Stephen, of course, made it even more of a backfire by following the analogy to its logical conclusion. "I'm as straight as the Mississippi!"
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The Colbert Report / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
The Colbert Report / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: The December 13, 2012 episode featured Breaking Abbey, the plot of Breaking Bad with the setting and cast of Downton Abbey, complete with some of the latter series' cast members reprising their roles. This gives us gems such as:
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The Colbert Report / int_2edf787f	type	Significant Birth Date
The Colbert Report / int_2edf787f	comment	Significant Birth Date: The eagle named after Stephen was born on Patriots' Day. Stephen hopes that this will be a significant birthday and that Stephen, Jr., will grow up to become the first raptor president.
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The Colbert Report / int_304f9e0b	type	Flowery Insults
The Colbert Report / int_304f9e0b	comment	Flowery Insults: Usually "[Job description], and [flowery insult], [Person's name]" "Minority leader, and septuagenarian ninja turtle, Mitch McConnell" "Texas GOP congressman, and human fence post, Louie Gohmert" "Pundit, and part-time weather balloon, Rush Limbaugh" "New CBS anchor, and Century 21 realtor, Scott Pelley" "Florida congresswoman, and home-perm after model, Debbie Wasserman Schultz" "MSNBC host, and talking block of smoked gouda, Ed Schultz." "Iowa representative and man-trying-to-forget-what-he-buried-in-that-cornfield, Steve King" "Pennsylvania House Majority Leader and keeper of America's strategic forehead reserve, Mike Turzai" â€œPeople have said to me, â€˜Stephen you gotta understand, you donâ€™t even know your history. Youâ€™re dumb. Youâ€™re dense. Youâ€™re a mental midget with the IQ of a butter dish, whose mind is a black hole that sucks all surrounding thought into it in an infinite singularity of pure stupidity. Stephen, Iâ€™m surprised you can even dress yourself. I bet you have to rub peanut butter inside your lips to remember to open your mouth to breathe. I have never met, and I hope to never meet again, a man so pervasively astoundingly unyieldingly ignorant.â€™ To which I say, then you havenâ€™t met Louis Gohmert.â€�
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The Colbert Report / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
The Colbert Report / int_31083edb	comment	Logic Bomb: Stephen tried to have his Pandertron 8000 interpret some doubletalk from Newt Gingrich; it shorted out and decided to remove the source of illogical paradoxes by killing all humans.
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The Colbert Report / int_31df118	type	Attention Whore
The Colbert Report / int_31df118	comment	Attention Whore: Mocked. Stephen inverts the traditional interview, where the subject comes onto the set to a round of applause. Instead, the subject sits in a corner of the set and Stephen does a victory lap to get the applause for himself before beginning the interview.
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The Colbert Report / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
The Colbert Report / int_32da548d	comment	The genuine Colbert also admitted in interviews to gaining a lot of respect for K-Pop artist Rain after the dance-off, saying that he knew he was "in the presence of a master".
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The Colbert Report / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
The Colbert Report / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: Remember "Better Know a District"? Or the "On Notice" and "Dead to Me" boards? Those were fun.
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The Colbert Report / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Colbert Report / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: In an effort to be declared the Worst Person in the World by Olbermann, Stephen slapped a baby with a puppy. Could have been seen here if it wasn't for the fact that there was an unfortunate technical mishap preventing anyone from seeing it happen.
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The Colbert Report / int_356b1efb	comment	Hammerspace: The unseen part of Stephen Colbert's desk is like a country unto itself. Comedy Central has kindly compiled the highlights, but This Very Wiki kept score too, and tallies up: a fax machine, a "stay the course" notebook, telephone, pitchfork (and presumably other Angry Mob accoutrements), the Apology Box, a Big Red Button, Rahm Emanuel's finger, Abraham Lincoln's skull, a Starbucks, a rival Starbucks (now defunct), a Foot Locker, the Atone Phone for apologetic Jews, a suitcase with John Oliver inside, a (probably endless) supply of Ben & Jerry's Americone Dream, a washing machine, and a secret prison for terrorists, now closed. April 8, 2009, saw that the desk also yielded three Jewish slaves (whom Stephen promptly freed), and he admitted it also has a few Asians and a pyramid (incomplete), August 2009 saw Stephen produce a desk lamp from under the desk — a desk lamp that is apparently very good at arguing about health care reform. Stephen also keeps an emergency supply of sugar, and of a four-ounce Mini Gulp (for when the Big Gulp is shrunk) in his desk. Other mysteries yielded by that treasure trove include a poll-sausage making machine and the Ham-Head of Karl Rove, and, of course, a Shofar. And probably the entire line of Prescott Pharmaceutical supplies — up to an including a freaking snake. As of August 2011, he has a chicken and bars of gold stored under there, along with other potential forms of currency if the economy collapses. In February 2012 he produced two kittens, named Whiskers and Other Whiskers ... And last but not least, he keeps his lovingly-polished Emmys and his Peabody award under his desk, which he pulls out for his Heroic Gloating. Any more references needed, just see the list of videos helpfully categorized under the tag "Under the Desk."
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The Colbert Report / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The Colbert Report / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: French-Canadian Stephane Colbert.
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The Colbert Report / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
The Colbert Report / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Throughout the final few episodes, Grimmy keeps strongly hinting to Stephen that this is going to happen at the end. However the final episode subverts it; Stephen actually kills Grimmy.
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The Colbert Report / int_38e4b69d	type	Mister Seahorse
The Colbert Report / int_38e4b69d	comment	Mister Seahorse: Stephen's been pregnant at least twice on the show, once by his Evil Twin and once tragically by a box of Cheerios.
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The Colbert Report / int_39271aee	type	The Backwards Я
The Colbert Report / int_39271aee	comment	The Backwards Я: "Cold War Update", done in faux Cyrillic.
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The Colbert Report / int_3950c1f0	type	Poe's Law
The Colbert Report / int_3950c1f0	comment	Poe's Law: The entire show is an example. To this day many think he's a serious far-right pundit and not just a parody, whether it's conservatives who love his show because they think he's a fellow conservative, or liberals who hate it for the same reason. May also apply to a smaller extent with moderate conservatives who think the show is about telling extremists to Stop Being Stereotypical. The fact that the real Colbert generally avoids saying where he truly stands and admits to occasionally agreeing with his character probably contributes, though he has suggested in the past that he's a liberal and Democrat.
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The Colbert Report / int_39ed1c8a	type	Conspiracy Theorist
The Colbert Report / int_39ed1c8a	comment	Conspiracy Theorist: In one segment, Colbert profiles a man named Andrew who claims that, in 1967, he was teleported to Mars in a top secret government CIA project that teleported hundreds of children. The man's roommate was apparently President Barack Obama. The next part is about a birth certificate conspiracy theorist who thinks that Obama was married to his college roommate. Colbert then combines the two to claim that Obama was in a gay marriage with Andrew. A segment that debuted late in the run focused on Stephen's theories was titled Stephen Colbert's Bat***t Crazy.
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The Colbert Report / int_3b982a5a	type	Crowd Chant
The Colbert Report / int_3b982a5a	comment	Crowd Chant: Stephen Colbert often leads his audience in chants of "U.S.A!" or "I was right!" in this rhythm. And, of course, the show usually starts with enthusiastic chants of "Ste-ven!"
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The Colbert Report / int_3cebf628	type	Irishman and a Jew
The Colbert Report / int_3cebf628	comment	Irishman and a Jew: The Report's sister show is anchored by Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Leibowitz). The dynamic between the two seems to tap into this old Vaudeville trope, though probably quite unintentionally. As in most such pairings, the Jewish half is sarcastic and exasperated with a world gone mad. In contrast, Colbert (who self-identifies as Irish-American) is irrationally self-confident and totally oblivious to the world around him, in keeping with the Irish half of many such pairings. It probably helps that Colbert's patriotism would put even George M. Cohan to shame.
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The Colbert Report / int_3cfeeb48	type	I Die Free
The Colbert Report / int_3cfeeb48	comment	I Die Free: After he concludes that the government has bought all the ammunition in America, Colbert declares that they will never get him alive and shoots himself in the head. Fortunately, the feds have already taken all his ammo.
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The Colbert Report / int_3d29fed	type	NoKillLikeOverKill
The Colbert Report / int_3d29fed	comment	No Kill like Overkill: "That was not strip-mining; that's how I hunt quail."
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The Colbert Report / int_3e490be	type	Internet Counterattack
The Colbert Report / int_3e490be	comment	Internet Counterattack: Invoked frequently. Notable instances include a campaign to get a bridge in Hungary named after him through internet voting, and against Wikipedia} to enforce "wikiality."
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The Colbert Report / int_3ece9e25	type	Konami Code
The Colbert Report / int_3ece9e25	comment	Konami Code: Stephen lays it down during his episode topics intro Couch Gags for the February 26, 2013 episode.
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The Colbert Report / int_3f8e8a54	type	Kwyjibo
The Colbert Report / int_3f8e8a54	comment	Kwyjibo: When it is announced that Scrabble will allow proper names to be used Stephen announces his new middle name Qxyzzy. In short, he's made up a word worth an obnoxious amount of points.
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The Colbert Report / int_3fa09be0	type	A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma
The Colbert Report / int_3fa09be0	comment	A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma: When Stephen uncovered "lost footage" from an interview with Bill O'Reilly, Stephen introduced it as "a conundrum wrapped in a riddle covered with a spicy enigma sauce."
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The Colbert Report / int_3fbdb8aa	type	Quote Mine
The Colbert Report / int_3fbdb8aa	comment	Quote Mine: the Edit Challenge. Colbert does a similar thing when talking about people that called Paul Ryan's speech "misleading", "breathtakingly dishonest", and "world record for greatest number of blatant lies" into "breathtaking", "lead", "world", and "shone" (from "dishonest).
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The Colbert Report / int_40b1b353	type	Chess with Death
The Colbert Report / int_40b1b353	comment	Chess with Death: The "Cheating Death" segments begin with a brief black and white clip (a la The Seventh Seal) of Stephen cheating Death in some game. Usually, they're playing chess and Stephen uses Look, a Distraction! to switch pieces around, but every so often he's running a three-card monte game instead. In the series finale, Stephen tries to do a "Cheating Death" segment, only for Grimmy to try to kill him during the opening clip.
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The Colbert Report / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
The Colbert Report / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: During the July 25, 2012 episode, Stephen fired his entire staff to prove that he doesn't need help to be successful. The Word segment for that episode is filmed with a hand-camera and Stephen uses a whiteboard to show the bullet points.
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The Colbert Report / int_42064d3c	type	Left It In
The Colbert Report / int_42064d3c	comment	Left It In: Commonly Played for Laughs.
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The Colbert Report / int_42affc96	type	Under the Mistletoe
The Colbert Report / int_42affc96	comment	Under the Mistletoe: A running gag. Stephen ends up under the mistletoe with everyone who comes inside his cabin except Santa and Elvis but only ends up kissing the aforementioned bear, everyone else finding a way out of it.
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The Colbert Report / int_43964f3	type	Worst News Judgment Ever
The Colbert Report / int_43964f3	comment	Worst News Judgment Ever: The show did a segment covering how a man in Athens, GA saying it was "too hot to fish" became a story in that town's newspaper, and somehow became a story in The New York Times.
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The Colbert Report / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
The Colbert Report / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Done jokingly with Bobby the stage manager (Eric Drysdale), who was barbecued and eaten by Stephen in his farewell appearance. When Bobby's ghost came back for a guest spot like a kind of Jacob Marley, Stephen ate the ghost, too.
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The Colbert Report / int_44990492	type	Parody Commercial
The Colbert Report / int_44990492	comment	Parody Commercial: Several examples. Stephen made his own version of an anti-gay marriage ad. Which, according to Bill O'Reilly, is now playing "in Hell". Stephen showed this commercial from his sponsor Prescott Oil. Parody of the We Care commercial. Stephen has also made his own extreme ad for mayo. Parody of the Totally Radical commercial. In a parody of attack ads Stephen attacks Willie Nelson. Stephen is not happy that Willie also got an ice cream flavor. Stephen shows a few rejected versions of a Tiger Woods Nike commercial. Stephen showed this ad telling you to stock up on gold, women, and sheep before the apocalypse. Stephen made his own health care Infomercial. Everything that comes from the Colbert SuperPAC.
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The Colbert Report / int_45007296	type	Metaphorgotten
The Colbert Report / int_45007296	comment	Metaphorgotten:
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The Colbert Report / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Colbert Report / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Usually, the line "You sir, are a formidable opponent" is said by Colbert to Colbert in the eponymous segment. But George Will earned the right to be called that by Stephen. The genuine Colbert also admitted in interviews to gaining a lot of respect for K-Pop artist Rain after the dance-off, saying that he knew he was "in the presence of a master".
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The Colbert Report / int_460ffa29	type	Transparent Closet
The Colbert Report / int_460ffa29	comment	Transparent Closet: It's heavily implied outright stated that Stephen (in-character) has repressed homosexual tendencies. Baby carrots are trying to make him gay. Colbert's test for determining if one of his male employees is gay is showing him a picture of a shirtless Matthew McConaughey and asking if they find it sexy. If they answer no Colbert says they are gay and in denial because a straight man would acknowledge how sexy he is.
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The Colbert Report / int_463084f4	type	Giving Someone the Pointer Finger
The Colbert Report / int_463084f4	comment	Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: One of Colbert's favorite poses. Not to mention his Tip of the Hat / Wag of the Finger segment
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The Colbert Report / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
The Colbert Report / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: Ordered by President Barack Obama and done by Commander Gen. Odierno no less, to show that he'd really gone through (a little) basic training. See it all here. Looking back on it, he thinks his hair never grew back the same.
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The Colbert Report / int_4733b5a5	type	Saying Too Much
The Colbert Report / int_4733b5a5	comment	Saying Too Much: Most infamously, in response to Bill O'Reilly's claim that Colbert "blew me right away".
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The Colbert Report / int_4766ca14	type	Volleying Insults
The Colbert Report / int_4766ca14	comment	Volleying Insults: Even Stevphens with Steve Carell. Many insults were thrown back and forth. A snippet: And of course with Rain (via recorded messages):
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The Colbert Report / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Colbert Report / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Stephen Colbert the character is a jerk, but he can't help but let his heart of gold shine through on occasion. Especially when he is helping various charities. Colbert the actor has said the character really does want to do the right thing and thinks he is but is too misinformed and arrogant to realize he has no idea what he's talking about.
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The Colbert Report / int_47b6a1e5	type	"Just Joking" Justification
The Colbert Report / int_47b6a1e5	comment	"Sarah Palin is a fucking retard!'' See, it's just satire."
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The Colbert Report / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Colbert Report / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Poor Bobby. Stephen humiliates Bobby for mixing up two photos. Stephen performs a humiliating employee performance review with Bobby. Tad also had moments of this. Jay the Intern
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The Colbert Report / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
The Colbert Report / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: There is a short clip of a roaring bear that is shown pretty much every time Stephen mentions bears, especially during the Threatdown segments. A clip of Michael Stipe sitting on Stephen's shelf shouting "HEY-OH!" gets used to keep up the Running Gag he now lives there.
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The Colbert Report / int_4e34d653	type	See You in Hell
The Colbert Report / int_4e34d653	comment	See You in Hell: Parodied at the end of each "Cheating Death" health segment: "This is Stephen Colbert, and I'll see you in health!"
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The Colbert Report / int_4ff6f484	comment	Trash the Set: Smaug demolishes a whole section of the set just so he has enough room to appear on the show. Of course, this doesn't really happen, as it's all CGI and back to normal by the next show- or Colbert has some wicked skilled repairmen.
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The Colbert Report / int_501de366	type	Temporal Paradox
The Colbert Report / int_501de366	comment	Temporal Paradox: When Stephen wanted to lure his future self into the present to talk with him, he threatened to stick a fork into a toaster unless his future self came back to stop him. His future self did come back, but present Stephen went through with sticking the fork into the toaster anyway, thus killing him. When future Stephen saw that 2009 Stephen was dead, he decided to take 2009 Stephen's place so that he could still exist 500 years from now to continue hosting his show. Makes sense, doesn't it?
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The Colbert Report / int_5028baf2	comment	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: While Stephen talking about how the Pentagon was teaching robots about ethics, his robot Bleep Blorp came out from backstage and told him about how it had learned about ethics from its cousin, a coffee maker in the Pentagon. They had a short discussion which ended when Bleep Blorp asked "What is this thing you humans call love?" and Stephen volunteered to show it, before simply pulling out its kill switch, deactivating it.
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The Colbert Report / int_50c58a13	type	Exit, Pursued by a Bear
The Colbert Report / int_50c58a13	comment	Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Doesn't happen, but the final "The Word" segment includes the phrase as one of its little snippets.
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The Colbert Report / int_5111ff0	type	Kill the Poor
The Colbert Report / int_5111ff0	comment	Kill the Poor: Stephen has, on at least one occasion, equated the "War on Poverty" with the "War on Drugs" and has wondered why we haven't yet made poverty illegal. During one banter segment with Jon Stewart at the end of The Daily Show's 10th Anniversary episode, Colbert remarked about how Stewart's show is all about supporting "the underdog" and Colbert can't believe how he ever backed that "losing horse." That's why Colbert on his own show now supports "the overdog" (specifically, big business). When concluding his point, Colbert quotes the Trope Namer! When offering solutions to help the poor and unemployed without having to raise taxes for the wealthy, Colbert suggested that rich people should buy the natural rights of poorer individuals and took Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal seriously, calling for poor children to be sold as food for extra cash. Colbert wants the Occupy Wall Street "pity party" to end so that Wall Street can get back to their own party — snorting the ground-up bones of the poor.
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The Colbert Report / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Colbert Report / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The first and last segments of "Better Know a District" were with Congressman Jack Kingston of Georgia, who was in his last term by 2014. The first and final shows began with Stephen leaping over the word "Grippest" with his flag. The first and last shows also featured The Word. The Colbert Report began as a spin-off of The Daily Show. In the end, it spun back into its parent series when Stephen said his last line and cut back to Jon on his set.
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The Colbert Report / int_535156bc	type	Christmas Special
The Colbert Report / int_535156bc	comment	Christmas Special: "A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All" Badass Santa: Santa wrestles with, then manages to kill, a bear. Bears Are Bad News: Zigzagged. The bear traps Stephen in his cabin, eats Elvis Costello, sings with everyone, makes out with Stephen, then tries to eat him. Christmas Songs: "Another Christmas Song", which is all about getting people to buy "Another Christmas Song" so Stephen can collect the royalties. Also, an Anti-Christmas Song performed by Toby Keith, about the alleged left-wing "war on Christmas" and how real Americans will fight back. Let's Duet: Stephen duets with Willie Nelson, Jon Stewart, and Elvis Costello. Saving Christmas: ...for him. Serious Business: For John Legend it's all about the nutmeg. Also works as a great double entendre. Special Effects Failure: on purpose, and in buckets. Stylistic Suck: as an Affectionate Parody of the variety-show Christmas specials from The '50s to The '80s, all Chroma Key sequences are done as crudely as possible. Under the Mistletoe: A running gag. Stephen ends up under the mistletoe with everyone who comes inside his cabin except Santa and Elvis but only ends up kissing the aforementioned bear, everyone else finding a way out of it.
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The Colbert Report / int_541c0283	type	Jumping the Shark
The Colbert Report / int_541c0283	comment	Jumping the Shark: Invoked literally, as the title sequence for the second-to-last episode has Stephen jumping over the phrase "The Shark".
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The Colbert Report / int_54367e5d	type	Mathematician's Answer
The Colbert Report / int_54367e5d	comment	Mathematician's Answer:
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The Colbert Report / int_54ff97ae	type	"Sesame Street" Cred
The Colbert Report / int_54ff97ae	comment	"Sesame Street" Cred: Inverted, when Cookie Monster appeared in his show.
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The Colbert Report / int_57a937f1	type	HeÃ¤vy MÃ«tal Ãœmlaut
The Colbert Report / int_57a937f1	comment	HeÃ¤vy MÃ«tal Ãœmlaut: The WÃ¸rd.
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The Colbert Report / int_598ad6e2	type	Even the Guys Want Him
The Colbert Report / int_598ad6e2	comment	Even the Guys Want Him: While in Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Games, a camera pan over the crowd revealed one cardboard sign bearing the words "Marry me, Stephen! (It's legal here!)"
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The Colbert Report / int_59aa1ff8	type	Deface of the Moon
The Colbert Report / int_59aa1ff8	comment	Deface of the Moon: All part of a new way to report on the news.
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The Colbert Report / int_59d9cfbd	type	Let's Duet
The Colbert Report / int_59d9cfbd	comment	Let's Duet: Stephen really likes getting people to sing with him. The list includes, but is not limited to, Jon Stewart, Dolly Parton, Alicia Keys, Julie Andrews, Harry Belafonte, Placido Domingo, Emmylou Harris, Elvis Costello, Alan Cumming, and pretty much everyone who has ever been on his show.
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The Colbert Report / int_5a23602	type	Big Ol' Eyebrows
The Colbert Report / int_5a23602	comment	Big Ol' Eyebrows: Not physically big, but his eyebrows are often Large Hams in their own right.
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The Colbert Report / int_5addd374	type	Your Makeup Is Running
The Colbert Report / int_5addd374	comment	Your Makeup Is Running: The inauguration of Barack Obama caused Stephen to cry with massive amounts of mascara running and snot hanging from his nose.
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The Colbert Report / int_5b0a8d6a	type	Racial Face Blindness
The Colbert Report / int_5b0a8d6a	comment	Racial Face Blindness: A Running Gag had Stephen claim he was unable to see race, even his own, to the point that he had to rely on other people to tell him heâ€™s white. â€œAnd I believe them because [stereotypical white trait or behavior].â€�
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The Colbert Report / int_5c290805	type	Cone of Shame
The Colbert Report / int_5c290805	comment	Cone of Shame: Stephen wears one while recovering from a broken wrist. He attempts to pour drugs into his mouth. One wonders how he got the bottle open.
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The Colbert Report / int_6056f853	type	Homoerotic Subtext
The Colbert Report / int_6056f853	comment	Homoerotic Subtext: The March Fourth, 2011 episode had an appearance by Jimmy Fallon as a promotion for his and Stephen's flavours of ice cream, Late Night Snack and Americone Dream. After they sang a song about friendship based on ice cream metaphors, it got...unsubtle. Not That There's Anything Wrong with That. They also were both pretty torn up about their 6-month best friendship ending... enough to break out into a duet.
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The Colbert Report / int_62663d88	type	Men Don't Cry
The Colbert Report / int_62663d88	comment	Men Don't Cry: Except when they do.
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The Colbert Report / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
The Colbert Report / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty: Encounters a real one for his bit of basic training prior to "Operation Iraqi Stephen".
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The Colbert Report / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
The Colbert Report / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: Lampshaded, predicted, deliberately engineered (twice in a row!) yet still hilarious.
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The Colbert Report / int_646407bd	type	We Named the Monkey "Jack"
The Colbert Report / int_646407bd	comment	We Named the Monkey "Jack": The stuffed moose seen in the Vancouver shows was named "Ebersol"; when he went over to NBC Late-Night he was renamed "Colbert", and now that he's going on exhibit at NBC he'll get another name because Comedy Central and NBC are rival companies.
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The Colbert Report / int_64b2ff00	type	Jesus Was Way Cool
The Colbert Report / int_64b2ff00	comment	Jesus Was Way Cool: In amongst all the biting parody, the real Stephen Colbert's devout but socially-progressive Catholicism — the man is a Sunday-school teacher! — manages to sneak in more than once, including one notable sequence where "Stephen" (the character) quite inadvertently concludes that the real Jesus would actually be a liberal Democrat.
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The Colbert Report / int_65331274	type	Flynning
The Colbert Report / int_65331274	comment	Flynning: Colbert and Elijah Wood, both of them using versions of Sting (Colbert brandishing one given to him by Peter Jackson).
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The Colbert Report / int_653c5c73	type	Cannot Spit It Out
The Colbert Report / int_653c5c73	comment	Cannot Spit It Out: In this hilarious Cheating Death segment.
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The Colbert Report / int_659468c1	type	Christmas Songs
The Colbert Report / int_659468c1	comment	Christmas Songs: "Another Christmas Song", which is all about getting people to buy "Another Christmas Song" so Stephen can collect the royalties. Also, an Anti-Christmas Song performed by Toby Keith, about the alleged left-wing "war on Christmas" and how real Americans will fight back.
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The Colbert Report / int_69cc2a27	type	Hilariously Abusive Childhood
The Colbert Report / int_69cc2a27	comment	Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Varies. Much more explicit in I Am America, including the margin note
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The Colbert Report / int_6a6c1f35	type	The Power of Rock
The Colbert Report / int_6a6c1f35	comment	The Power of Rock: His guitar duel with Wilco.
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The Colbert Report / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Colbert Report / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: The idea of schools banning tater tots turns into a massive rant spurred by Stephen's childhood memories about getting heinously bullied, then drowning his sorrows with a plate of tots, then finally snapping and getting his revenge on the bully by slamming his head over and over into a locker, which finishes with him breaking down and sobbing over his childhood trauma while munching on tater tots at his desk. The rivalry between Jimmy Fallon over their Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor popularities, Colbert's "Americone Dream" and Fallon's "Late Night Snack". Apparently, potato chips in your ice cream is taboo. When sugar becomes scarce, Stephen breaks out a reserve supply and pours a whole bag down his mouth.
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The Colbert Report / int_6b5ab38a	type	Fan Community Nicknames
The Colbert Report / int_6b5ab38a	comment	Fan Community Nicknames: invoked Has dubbed his viewers the Colbert Nation, and occasionally refers to them as heroes too. "And who are the Heroes? The people who watch this show."
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The Colbert Report / int_6c8ce91f	type	Insult to Rocks
The Colbert Report / int_6c8ce91f	comment	Insult to Rocks: In the midst of heaping abuse on Canton, Kansas, Stephen says that converting the town to a landfill would be an insult to landfills.
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The Colbert Report / int_6cf80934	type	Big Word Shout
The Colbert Report / int_6cf80934	comment	NIBIRUUUUU!
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The Colbert Report / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Colbert Report / int_6d7bc0f	comment	He fronted the 80s Fake Band Stephen and the Colberts.
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The Colbert Report / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
The Colbert Report / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: Seriously, that drill Sergeant couldn't wait to get rid of him.
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The Colbert Report / int_6f0966ad	type	Real Joke Name
The Colbert Report / int_6f0966ad	comment	Real Joke Name: The crawl on the bottom of the screen showing donors to Colbert's Super PAC included a "Suq Madiq", who apparently has a father named Liqa Madiq and a mother named Munchma Quchi. Colbert proceeded to break character and laugh uncontrollably. He referred to them again in the April 4, 2012 episode, thanking Suq Madiq along with Harry Balsac and Apoop Mapanz. Munchma Quchi was mentioned yet again in the July 15, 2013 episode, where she apparently works for KTVU as the one who penned the script for the news regarding the (fake) pilots in the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 disaster (Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk, and Bang Ding Ow).
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The Colbert Report / int_6fba77ef	type	Moon-Landing Hoax
The Colbert Report / int_6fba77ef	comment	Moon-Landing Hoax: Stephen Colbert turned how his character doesn't believe in the Moon landing into a Running Gag. On the June 7, 2006, edition, Colbert said "Tonight's guest is a pioneer in Mars exploration. Hopefully tonight he'll explain how they faked a space landing there too." On the July 27, 2006, episode, Colbert said "And here's the Smithsonian Institute's Air and Space Museum, where you can see the original rocks from the soundstage where they faked the Moon landing. It's a part of Hollywood history." On the August 1, 2007, edition, Colbert said, "Unless you've been on the moon this week, you know I broke my wrist. And if you have been on the moon, congratulations, you are the first!"
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The Colbert Report / int_6fbfa62f	type	Air Guitar
The Colbert Report / int_6fbfa62f	comment	Air Guitar: At the beginning of every 'Sport Report' segment Stephen rocks out on the air guitar. At one point he points out that he can play air guitar even with a broken wrist.
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The Colbert Report / int_714342fb	type	Erotic Eating
The Colbert Report / int_714342fb	comment	Erotic Eating: The coffee. And The pizza. There's also the bit with the sausage near the end of this clip... The fact that Baird is a psychologist just makes it that much better. This clip has Stephen discussing how he was one of Maxim's Hot 100, then licks a lollipop to demonstrate.
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The Colbert Report / int_720e28a4	type	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
The Colbert Report / int_720e28a4	comment	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: The theme song of Tek Jansen Alpha Squad 7 describes its protagonist as doing the following: On one edition of Threat Down, every entry is either robots or bears. The list concludes that the number-one threat is robot bears.
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The Colbert Report / int_743437c4	type	Chroma Key
The Colbert Report / int_743437c4	comment	Chroma Key: Formidable Opponent, in which Stephen debates himself, and the Green Screen Challenges. The green-screen "window" during the Vancouver segments, which started out with a normal view of the city, went up into a blimp, then went into NBC's studios (Brian Williams: Will you go away?!). Also when interviewing a Wisconsin Senator in Chicago 20 Million BC.
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The Colbert Report / int_74b5724e	type	We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties
The Colbert Report / int_74b5724e	comment	We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties: An occasional gag used for particularly outrageous character moments, such as the angry sulk scene at the beginning of the first show following Barack Obama's re-election.
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The Colbert Report / int_74b85afd	type	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!
The Colbert Report / int_74b85afd	comment	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: Colbert asks John Yarmuth his opinion on "kittens in woodchippers" and Yarmuth promotes this as a method of disposing of excess kittens. Linked here for your perusal. Made funnier by realizing that John Yarmuth was (at the time) showing a series of political ads in a similar vein (and explicitly parodying some very negative ads at the time from the Other Team).
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The Colbert Report / int_751bd286	type	Is This Thing Still On?
The Colbert Report / int_751bd286	comment	Is This Thing Still On?: Stephen has had several such incidents. There was the Ching Chong Ding Dong incident. He also had an angry rant very similar to Bill O'Reilly.
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The Colbert Report / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
The Colbert Report / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs: Obviously. Every trope that isn't already a comedy trope is played for laughs.
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The Colbert Report / int_768fb522	type	Side Effects Include...
The Colbert Report / int_768fb522	comment	Side Effects Include...: Parodied in the "Cheating Death" segments (which open with a Chess with Death sequence where Stephen distracts Death and moves the pieces), where Colbert advertises sponsor Prescott Pharmaceuticals' cure-all drug whose name is usually a variant on "Vaxadrine." Side effects include "minor heart explosions", "speaking in tongues", "braintooth", "tracheal meerkat colonies", "carcassing", "ADHDEAD", "Mind of Mencia", and "involuntary Narnia adventures". Also growth of teeth.note Often in your mouth! When going through a (mock) vetting by Bill Clinton vetter Cliff Sloan in an attempt to get a position on Barack Obama's cabinet, Stephen is taken to task for these endorsements.
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The Colbert Report / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
The Colbert Report / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: "German Ambassador" Hans Beinholtz.
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The Colbert Report / int_7815ba15	type	N-Word Privileges
The Colbert Report / int_7815ba15	comment	N-Word Privileges: Since Colbert doesn't see race, not having this is one of the ways he knows he's white.
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The Colbert Report / int_78d0ebcf	type	Crying Wolf
The Colbert Report / int_78d0ebcf	comment	Crying Wolf: Stephen warns about crying wolf or rather crying zombie in the end of this clip about college students playing zombie tag. According to Stephen, this game will leave us vulnerable when the rage virus escapes.
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The Colbert Report / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Colbert Report / int_7a12aabf	comment	New Media Are Evil. Stephen takes on the bloggers with the help of Papa Bear.
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The Colbert Report / int_7a17d1ca	type	Eagleland
The Colbert Report / int_7a17d1ca	comment	Eagle Land: Stephen is so patriotic he fathered a baby Bald Eagle. The San Francisco Zoo named a newly hatched male bird 'Stephen Jr.' Really, all you need to know about the show is that the eagle in the opening credits is named Liberty.
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The Colbert Report / int_7b2118c5	type	Bait-and-Switch Comparison
The Colbert Report / int_7b2118c5	comment	Bait-and-Switch Comparison
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The Colbert Report / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
The Colbert Report / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: In Stephen's interview with Republican Congressman candidate Jake Rush, Rush expresses some concern when Stephen shows off his gun, Sweetness, and points her barrel at his own head.
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The Colbert Report / int_7d4a47d1	type	Let Us Never Speak of This Again
The Colbert Report / int_7d4a47d1	comment	Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Said after Stephen rehires his staff after firing them to prove that he doesn't need help.
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The Colbert Report / int_7e38c1a7	type	Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue"
The Colbert Report / int_7e38c1a7	comment	Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": Tek Jansen, a Captain Space, Defender of Earth!, who has "obviously had hundreds of girlfriends".
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The Colbert Report / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
The Colbert Report / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: In the most literal way possible. In his interview with Smaug, Stephen decided to taunt him a bit about Bilbo getting the better of him. Smaug replied by setting the studio on fire.
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The Colbert Report / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
The Colbert Report / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: "Charlene II (I'm Over You)" is absolutely dripping with how Stephen is totally, completely over Charlene... not that he's 100% against the concept of a relationship with her. You know, hypothetically. And towards Jimmy Fallon, too.
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The Colbert Report / int_7f48a2b2	type	"YEAH!" Shot
The Colbert Report / int_7f48a2b2	comment	"YEAH!" Shot: Parodied at the end of the "I Tried to Sign Up for Obamacare" segment. Colbert celebrates not getting insurance by happily leaping into the air, and the scene freezes... and then the scene plays again and he falls painfully to the ground.
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The Colbert Report / int_7f64efd5	type	Enforced Plug
The Colbert Report / int_7f64efd5	comment	Enforced Plug: Stephen parodies this often with Doritos, once even spending an entire week on location in "Chili-delphia, the city of brotherly crunch." In a weird sort of reverse Product Placement, Doritos hadn't actually paid him when he started the gag, but apparently, a deal has been reached involving the large exchange of Nacho Cheese Doritos. In a segment about health care Stephen suddenly drinks and enjoys Sierra Mist.
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The Colbert Report / int_7fd142ef	type	Shared Universe
The Colbert Report / int_7fd142ef	comment	Shared Universe: Colbert has recently confessed that, as far as he's concerned, The Colbert Report shares the same universe as Strangers with Candy. In fact, Tim Meadow's black Republican P.K. Winsome is the same character as Tim Meadow's opportunistic grief councilor Percy Kittens from Strangers with Candy.
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The Colbert Report / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Colbert Report / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: "I am ... [an] Emmy winner, Grammy winner, Peabody winner, and Free Pepsi winner." "Folks, there is a lot of depressing news out there. Chemical weapons in Syria, radiation in Fukushima, Breaking Bad is ending." Colbert leads into his I Need a Drink segment by listing all the tough times humans have gone through — battles in Gaza, Russia shelling Ukraine, Taliban advances in Afghanistan, and no more Weird Al videos.
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The Colbert Report / int_8096d501	type	Wiki Vandal
The Colbert Report / int_8096d501	comment	Wiki Vandal: Wikiality, the process of something becoming true because enough people believe it. At one point it was deemed on Wikipedia that the population of elephants had tripled because people had deemed it so.
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The Colbert Report / int_80d0d980	type	The Generic Guy
The Colbert Report / int_80d0d980	comment	The Generic Guy: In the aftermath of the 2012 U.S. Presidential election, Stephen has had trouble remembering the name of... gosh-darn-it, what's his name?note Mitt Romney
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The Colbert Report / int_80d55f20	type	Cuteness Proximity
The Colbert Report / int_80d55f20	comment	Cuteness Proximity: Stephen normally hates and fears bears The Godless Killing Machines, but pictures of cute little bear cubs invariably send him into hopeless Baby Talk. An attempt to de-cuteinize one cub failed when putting the cub's face on bin Laden's body just made terrorism adorable. He couldn't help but admit that Rain dressed up in a hedgehog costume was adorable. Or that Rain, in general, is adorable.
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The Colbert Report / int_81c8844	type	Push Polling
The Colbert Report / int_81c8844	comment	Push Polling: Parodied. <insert person>, Great <relative position> or Greatest <relative position>? (George Bush, Great President or Greatest President?) And trying to Take a Third Option by flat saying the subject wasn't great at all just gets you "I'll just put you down for 'great', then, because that's not as great..."
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The Colbert Report / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Colbert Report / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Oh, yes. Since Karl Rove refuses to come on the show, his substitute is literally a large canned ham with glasses. The resemblance is amazing. Jeff Goldblum. This is becoming something of a Running Gag. And Colbert himself at many points can turn into one of these. He starts every episode trying to get in as many dramatic poses as possible.
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The Colbert Report / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
The Colbert Report / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: The Nicene Creed. Also shown when you mention he's the youngest of eleven children: "JimmyEddieMaryBillyMargoTommyJayLuluPaulPeterStephen."
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The Colbert Report / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
The Colbert Report / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: Stephen kills Grimmy in self-defense, which somehow makes him immortal. He rides off into the sky on Santa's sleigh, along with Abraham Lincoln the unicorn and Alex Trebek.
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The Colbert Report / int_83ea0763	type	Rouge Angles of Satin
The Colbert Report / int_83ea0763	comment	Rouge Angles of Satin: Coupled with not using spellcheck at all when Stephen sings America's praises.
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The Colbert Report / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
The Colbert Report / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Cross-series, Colbert is the red to Jon Stewart's blue. This heavily influences their shows and how they handle the same stories, Stewart acts like he's Surrounded by Idiots who are inept and corrupt journalists and politicians, while Colbert is a Hot-Blooded idiot who snarkily agrees with the people Stewart is criticizing. Carries over to their crossovers together as well.
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The Colbert Report / int_84fcef95	type	Media Scaremongering
The Colbert Report / int_84fcef95	comment	Media Scaremongering: If there's fear to be mongered, Stephen's the one to do it. It's pretty much the point of Threat Down. Kinda Deconstructed at one point, where a failed terrorist attempt caused most of the media to call the bomb pathetic. Colbert then reminds everyone that they ARE scared out of their gourds "so the terrorist has succeeded and therefore doesn't have to prove his point by trying another attack".
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The Colbert Report / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
The Colbert Report / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: Colbert suspects presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich of being an elf with Hammerspace pockets.
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The Colbert Report / int_85e7c12f	type	Puppy-Dog Eyes
The Colbert Report / int_85e7c12f	comment	Puppy-Dog Eyes: This is how Colbert tries to convince Julie Andrews to sing "Accentuate the Positive" with him — he just starts singing it himself while gazing at her with the softest, puppiest, most pleading pair of big brown eyes you ever did see. She joins in.
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The Colbert Report / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Colbert Report / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: In the episode that aired shortly after Owen Bundy and several other dozen heavily armed ranchers forced federal law enforcement agents to back down from apprehending Bundy for refusing to pay over $1 million in livestock grazing fees he accrued over the years, Colbert began singing "The Ballad of Owen Bundy" in commemoration of his victory. When Bundy told a news crew: "let me tell you something else I know about the Negro," Colbert stopped singing, and allowed Bundy to explain himself. Bundy went on to say that because of the current high rates of incarceration, substance abuse, unemployment, and single mother households, African Americans have no idea as to how to live in freedom and would be better off as slaves, specially since parents in enslaved families got to raise their children together and never separated.
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The Colbert Report / int_879b744c	type	Badass Santa
The Colbert Report / int_879b744c	comment	Badass Santa: Santa wrestles with, then manages to kill, a bear.
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The Colbert Report / int_899cc5c1	type	Drinking Game
The Colbert Report / int_899cc5c1	comment	Drinking Game: Inverted. The "official" Colbert Report drinking game is to take a drink every time Stephen criticizes America. "That's right; he doesn't. Stay sober and vigilant!" At the RNC, he took a drink every time he saw an old white guy.
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The Colbert Report / int_89a17726	type	Spell My Name with an S
The Colbert Report / int_89a17726	comment	Spell My Name With A PH: The segment about "Stephens With A PH". The first subject was Stephen King; Stephen Fry will also be featured (eventually).
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The Colbert Report / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
The Colbert Report / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Colbert stalks his ex-girlfriend Charlene, despite her restraining order against him. So he formed a prog-rock band "Stephen and the Colberts" and wrote a song about it. It later became a song in Rock Band. Apparently he is so over Charlene now...by the way, who is Alan?
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The Colbert Report / int_8cf3fc5	type	Helpless with Laughter
The Colbert Report / int_8cf3fc5	comment	Helpless with Laughter: In one episode Stephen discusses the latest donors providing hurricane relief to New York City in 2012, including one from Arab-American viewer Suq Madiq. He just manages to keep a straight face as he explains that Suq's father Liqa Madiq must be proud of him; however, when he brings up Suq's mother (who still goes by her maiden name) "Munchma Quchi", Stephen cracks up and goes on giggling for a solid thirty seconds.
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The Colbert Report / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
The Colbert Report / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: When most people claim they "don't see race", they mean they avoid taking race into account when interacting with people. When Stephen says it, he means he literally can't tell what race people are — he can't even tell his own race; other people tell him he's white and he believes it because he fits the stereotypes.
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The Colbert Report / int_8d411e7c	type	SpecialEffectsFailure
The Colbert Report / int_8d411e7c	comment	Special Effects Failure: on purpose, and in buckets.
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The Colbert Report / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
The Colbert Report / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News: Zigzagged. The bear traps Stephen in his cabin, eats Elvis Costello, sings with everyone, makes out with Stephen, then tries to eat him.
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The Colbert Report / int_8f1f3f3e	type	Soccer-Hating Americans
The Colbert Report / int_8f1f3f3e	comment	Soccer-Hating Americans: In advance of the 2014 World Cup, Stephen announced he was feeling "the soccer equivalent of excitement" and eagerly awaited a series of 1-1 ties.
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The Colbert Report / int_8f7b77d3	type	Cargo Ship
The Colbert Report / int_8f7b77d3	comment	Cargo Ship: In-universe, Colbert is very attached to his gun, Sweetness, caressing it, whispering to it and kissing it whenever he brings it out. He also holds the gun up to his ear as if it is speaking to him. (The ear in question is Colbert's deaf ear.)
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The Colbert Report / int_8fc70212	type	Voice Clip Song
The Colbert Report / int_8fc70212	comment	Voice Clip Song: According to some liberal pundit, Mitt Romney's stay-at-home wife has "never worked a day in her life". Naturally, this was made into a techno remix by Stephen.
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The Colbert Report / int_90984c54	type	Glamour Failure
The Colbert Report / int_90984c54	comment	Glamour Failure: The enemy within segments feature a family getting their picture taken, the picture that shows up has the family replaced with aliens.
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The Colbert Report / int_9156bc50	type	Death by Gluttony
The Colbert Report / int_9156bc50	comment	Death by Gluttony: The Mandel-BLT, where the bacon approaches infinite density as you zoom in. What will explode first? Your heart, or your mind?
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The Colbert Report / int_92dfffae	type	Retraux
The Colbert Report / int_92dfffae	comment	Retraux: Colbert's retrospective on the 40th anniversary of Nixon's resignation, complete with 1970s-style costuming, graphics and him smoking a cigarette while doing the interviews.
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The Colbert Report / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
The Colbert Report / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: Jon Stewart and nearly a couple of hundred guests who had appeared the Report show up for the curtain call (including Smaug, Big Bird, and Cookie Monster), along with every member of the show staff.
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The Colbert Report / int_950329d8	type	Dynamic Entry
The Colbert Report / int_950329d8	comment	Dynamic Entry: Smaug the Golden enters the studio for an interview by smashing his head through the wall.
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The Colbert Report / int_9578bb87	type	Canis Latinicus
The Colbert Report / int_9578bb87	comment	Canis Latinicus: The motto for his Iraq shows? "Veritasiness."
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The Colbert Report / int_9676f715	type	Feigning Intelligence
The Colbert Report / int_9676f715	comment	Feigning Intelligence / Obfuscating Stupidity: Coupled with I've Heard of That â€” What Is It? Stephen frequently uses a word correctly in a sentence, then admits he has no idea what it means. It is unclear whether the character is feigning stupidity or feigning intelligence.
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The Colbert Report / int_97f253c1	type	Egocentric Team Naming
The Colbert Report / int_97f253c1	comment	Egocentric Team Naming: mocked, claiming to have had a band in the eighties called "Stephen and the Colberts."
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The Colbert Report / int_9918518b	type	Press X to Die
The Colbert Report / int_9918518b	comment	Press X to Die: The Machine That Turns Itself Off. note Doesn't seem like an example of this trope? Consider it from the machine's perspective. A more literal example.
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The Colbert Report / int_99213234	type	Death Takes a Holiday
The Colbert Report / int_99213234	comment	Death Takes a Holiday: Colbert kills the Reaper on his last episode.
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The Colbert Report / int_9a42558d	type	Animal Nemesis
The Colbert Report / int_9a42558d	comment	Animal Nemesis: Colbert loathes bears.
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The Colbert Report / int_9ab240e4	type	Rapid-Fire Typing
The Colbert Report / int_9ab240e4	comment	Rapid-Fire Typing: Any time he types anything, on anything. Typewriters, computers, phones, 10 keys, everything! Including smacking the keys with the back of his hand.
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The Colbert Report / int_9ae0cca6	type	Character Blog
The Colbert Report / int_9ae0cca6	comment	Character Blog: The @stephenathome Twitter.
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The Colbert Report / int_9c464123	type	Saving Christmas
The Colbert Report / int_9c464123	comment	Saving Christmas: ...for him.
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The Colbert Report / int_9cfb804f	type	The Krampus
The Colbert Report / int_9cfb804f	comment	The Krampus: Stephen decides to join forces with Krampus to fight the eeeeeevil liberal secularists' War on Christmas. He offers Krampus some cookies and milk, which Krampus promptly whips with a rusty chain, then threatens to drag Stephen to Hell.
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The Colbert Report / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Colbert Report / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Lampshaded in this segment before a Richard Branson interview. Colbert once said, "Eventually, this show will be canceled" in jest a few years before deciding to end it in 2014. Toward the end of the show's run, Stephen kept invoking this trope by referencing foreshadowing while Grimmy the Grim Reaper made threatening motions towards him.
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The Colbert Report / int_9eaf2be0	type	Three-Point Landing
The Colbert Report / int_9eaf2be0	comment	Three-Point Landing: In the opening credits, with an American flag.
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The Colbert Report / int_9edfdf1f	type	Studio Audience
The Colbert Report / int_9edfdf1f	comment	Studio Audience: Obviously.
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The Colbert Report / int_9f80e1da	type	Sarcasm Mode
The Colbert Report / int_9f80e1da	comment	Sarcasm Mode: On a meta level, 90% of the show is this.
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The Colbert Report / int_9f81bd21	comment	Stealth Parody: Believed by some to be a parody of the left-wing lens. If so, it's a rather brilliant one, as many reading this very opinion take it to mean he's thought to be sincere.
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The Colbert Report / int_9fc04a54	comment	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Absolutely, he is!
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The Colbert Report / int_a0797fb3	comment	Stunned Silence: Stephen's response when he learns that among the victims of "News of the World" hacking scandal were the voicemails of victims of 9/11, families of British soldiers killed in the war in Afghanistan and the voicemail of a missing 13-year-old girl. "News of the World" even took the liberty of deleting some of the girl's messages when her voicemail started to fill up leading to her family being given false hope that she might still be alive.
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The Colbert Report / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag: Which Pringles flavor is ''not'' being recalled? The animated intro to the 2012 presidential election episode. Why rely on sunlight for health when we have these great blood pressure medications?
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The Colbert Report / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: He carried and swung a golf club on stage in Iraq, explicitly stating it was in homage to Bob Hope.
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The Colbert Report / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: We all knew Sweetness was going to go off eventually. He later repeats the incident, accidentally shooting an audience member in the leg with his finger.
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The Colbert Report / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Recommended as a way for Republican candidates to stop talking about rape after a slew of them made some questionable remarks about it. Specifically, he prescribed jabbing a pencil in their eye, up to their brain cavity and poking at their brain until thoughts of mentioning rape go away.
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The Colbert Report / int_a426ae28	comment	Multiple-Choice Past: Everything before Colbert started at The Daily Show is pretty fuzzy. Among other things he was a midday anchor in North Carolina in 1987. Before he was a newsman he was in Stephen and the Colberts and before that he was a carnival roustabout. Back in the 80's Stephen had a radio show in Chicago. When Ricky Martin came out as gay, Stephen showed that he's a longtime Martin fan by playing a (fake) clip of himself as a local news anchor. In the clip, Stephen mentions "She Bangs," which was recorded in 2000, as a "new song." Stephen actually joined The Daily Show in 1997, suggesting there may be some overlap between his fake past and his time on the show. He fronted the 80s Fake Band Stephen and the Colberts.
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The Colbert Report / int_a448674	comment	Gratuitous Latin: Stephen's fireplace has 'VIDERI QUAM ESSE' engraved on it. Appropriately enough, the fireplace houses a monitor that displays an image of flickering burning logs.
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The Colbert Report / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Any time that a serious tragedy occurs, the tone can get pretty somber at times, in sharp contrast to the comedic aspect of the show. As in this example, where Stephen takes a couple of shots at an elderly gay couplenote "I don't know how you're going to break this to your parents. It's gonna kill them." The couple were 77 and 85 at the time. who are the first to be married in the state of New York. The mood quickly changes when he covers the massacre of 80 in Norway.
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The Colbert Report / int_a6275bef	comment	Cool Sword: AndÃºril. Stephen regularly shows it off just to remind people he still has it.
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The Colbert Report / int_a62e50b8	type	Scandalgate
The Colbert Report / int_a62e50b8	comment	Scandalgate: Stephen referred to Michelle Obama shaking the hand of Indonesia's Health Minister as "Handergate." Then there's the "Asparagusgate". In fact, he has covered quite a few "gates" so far.
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The Colbert Report / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: "That's three. Three times makes it true."
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The Colbert Report / int_a7382a73	comment	Also a brief Imagine Spot where the Colbert Report apparently went into Sweet Mode, pink shirt, big smile, the works. Can be seen at the end of this clip
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The Colbert Report / int_a73cfb7f	comment	Animate Inanimate Object: Stephen is defeated in a health care reform debate by a table and a desklamp. He is the only one who can hear them though.
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The Colbert Report / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Brian Kilmeade of FOX & Friends is always referred to as "Brown-haired guy who is not Steve Doocy."
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The Colbert Report / int_acedb8f5	comment	Oscar Bait: "For your Oscar consideration."
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The Colbert Report / int_adf84dea	comment	What Beautiful Eyes!: Stephen Colbert thinks Anderson Cooper's eyes are gorgeous. In all fairness, so do a sizable number of fangirls. And fanboys.
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The Colbert Report / int_ae1c0901	type	The Blind Leading the Blind
The Colbert Report / int_ae1c0901	comment	The Blind Leading the Blind: Stephen lives this trope, but it is especially highlighted in the Stephen's Sound Advice segments.
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The Colbert Report / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Stephen is frequently snarky, but rarely deadpan. The captions during The Word segments, however, frequently take dry sarcasm up to eleven.
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The Colbert Report / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: George Bush: great president or greatest president? X or Y? Pick a side, we're at war. Tons of variations on this: "Checkmate!" or "I just nailed you." when interviewing people he disagrees with. Sometimes when the audience is clapping for the guest he'll say "I haven't nailed him yet but thanks." "[X], please!" Whenever a guest agrees with him (usually on a very minor point) "Apology accepted" At the beginning of shows: "Nation, in here, out there..." "This is America." "I don't see race, people tell me I'm white and I believe them because I <stereotypical white trait/hobby>" "Nation, anyone who watches this show regularly knows that I love/hate <topic/person he's never mentioned before>" "Tonight on 'Better Know a District,' [name of state]'s nth,' THE FIGHTIN' nTH!" "Once again, my apologies to Doris Kearns Goodwin." Anything on the internet: "Ron Paul 2012!" "If you watch this show, and I hope you do..."
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The Colbert Report / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: In a segment of Formidable Opponent where Stephen debates himself one of the Stephens argue that torture is constitutional. The constitution might forbid cruel and unusual punishment but that's not a problem according to Stephen if torture is used so often it is no longer unusual. Stephen's campaign to get a bridge named after himself in Hungary on the grounds that there was no rule stating the namesake of the bridge had to be Hungarian. He later found out they did have to speak the language, however (and to be dead).
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The Colbert Report / int_b352279a	type	Attack of the Killer Whatever
The Colbert Report / int_b352279a	comment	Attack of the Killer Whatever: A Styrofoam cup which Stephen had irradiated for several days in a microwave (to demonstrate the Libertarian opposition to safety regulations) apparently grew to human-like size, developed limbs, and came back to attack him.On the show's website, the clip is marked Revenge of the Styrofoam Cups.
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The Colbert Report / int_b3860333	type	Droste Image
The Colbert Report / int_b3860333	comment	Droste Image: The portrait in the studio of Stephen is one of these, more so with each passing year. The original portrait showed Stephen standing in front and to the left of a portrait of himself. In the show's first episode, at one point Stephen came back from a commercial break standing in front and to the left of the portrait saying "What's the most important thing a TV journalist needs? Humility." Each anniversary the portrait has been replaced with a new one showing Stephen standing in front of the previous one: 1st: To the left 2nd: To the right, arms crossed, glowering over his lack of an Emmy 3rd: To the left, holding an Emmy 4th: To the right, wearing a military uniform and haircut, saluting (in honor of his visit to Iraq) 5th: To the left, wearing an olive wreath on his head (in honor of the Report's sponsorship of the U.S. Olympic speedskating team), with the Grammy he won for A Colbert Christmas hung like an Olympic medal around his neck 6th: To the right, holding the F.E.C. ruling allowing him to form his SuperPAC 7th: To the left, holding a copy of his book America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't 8th: To the right, holding his two Emmys. In the final episode, the final portrait was shown with Colbert removed from every level of it, leaving only empty frames.
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The Colbert Report / int_b3de39a6	comment	Sex Bot: On reporting about the world's first Sex Bot And it wasn't the Japanese, it's us! Ain't that a kick in the head?
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The Colbert Report / int_b475abfb	comment	Gut Feeling: Colbert considers this the only valid way to make a decision.
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The Colbert Report / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: This man makes his entire career out of these.
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The Colbert Report / int_b5b4f78e	comment	The Tag: "Oh, hi! I didn't see you there."
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The Colbert Report / int_b6af057e	comment	Double Vision: Formidable Opponent. Bonus points that they're usually Color-Coded for Your Convenience- one wears a red tie (Conservative bias) and the other wears a blue tie (Liberal bias).
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The Colbert Report / int_b6b5ebf4	comment	The Straight Man: Jay the Intern. Poor guy.
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The Colbert Report / int_b6db5695	comment	Political Overcorrectness: Colbert will occasionally make a clumsy stab at political correctness, such as calling a black hole an "African-American hole." Russ Lieber, Colbert's liberal foil for the first year of the show, is unable to make any kind of statement without backtracking and stumbling over himself in an attempt to stay politically correct.
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The Colbert Report / int_b6dc59fd	comment	Word, Schmord!: "Evolution, Schmevolution" Week.
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The Colbert Report / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor Rare for this show, this instance happened to be unintentional. On the topic of Texas governor Rick Perry's inarticulacy, Colbert said, "Some of our greatest presidents have been tongue-tied on occasion," backing it up with a clip from George W. Bush's "Fool Me Once" flob. "Is that intelligible? No. That sounds like the fevered ramblings of a syphilitic brain." Colbert then finished his diatribe with a flob. Stephen Colbert informs Seth Meyers that making fun of the news is inappropriate.
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The Colbert Report / int_b7f082b6	comment	Logical Fallacies: Colbert's own special brand of tortured logic permeates just about every explanation or piece of reasoning on the show. The lead-up to the epic MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois ran on a deeply bizarre use of "the transitive property of Huckabee". Not to mention his method of deducing everything from the truth about the Illuminati to the results of the 2008 presidential election, which consists of him free-associating words at random.
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The Colbert Report / int_b84491a3	type	Wrong Insult Offence
The Colbert Report / int_b84491a3	comment	Wrong Insult Offence: While covering the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash, Stephen made mention of an incident in which the fictitious pilot names "Sum Ting Wong", "Wi Tu Lo", "Ho Lee Fuk" and "Bang Ding Ow" were broadcast on the news.
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The Colbert Report / int_b84adf36	comment	By "No", I Mean "Yes": On a proposal in Alabama to use prisoners to replace migrant workers:
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The Colbert Report / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
The Colbert Report / int_ba236071	comment	Also, in the January 4, 2010 episode (first after the new year), he says, "I just hope the butt fat I had injected into my cheeks wasn't from the butt-" (scare chord) "...of a murderer."
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The Colbert Report / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: He had an Actual Pacifist play Marry/Dump/Bomb with Iran, Pakistan, or North Korea. He bombed North Korea. Clip found here.
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The Colbert Report / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: The entire premise of the show is that it is all about the Colbert character, and the stories, the set and the introductory sequence all fuel his self-aggrandizing egomania.
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The Colbert Report / int_bb44f503	type	Robot War
The Colbert Report / int_bb44f503	comment	Robot War: Most times robots are mentioned Stephen warns about how they will turn against us and start a Robot War. This segment of the threatdown contains two instances of Stephen's dire warning.
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The Colbert Report / int_bbb150a8	comment	Celebrity Is Overrated: Stephen doesn't think so. "You people are like water in the desert."
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The Colbert Report / int_bbd2a2c	comment	Alter-Ego Acting: Colbert in character and Colbert out of character are two very different people.
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The Colbert Report / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Colbert Report / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Colbert uses these to expert hilarious effect. (Strokes his gun Sweetness)'' "All-You-Can-Eat" means "All-You-Can-Eat-For-Life!" We're gonna get us some banana pudding, motherfuckers! "Sarah Palin is a fucking retard!'' See, it's just satire." Also had one when Jimmy Fallon got his revenge on Stephen. Initially, Stephen claimed that Jimmy would match the $26,000 auction price for Stephen's portrait (which went to charity clearinghouse Donors Choose), and donate the money to Donors Choose. Jimmy replied that he had never said such a thing. Rather than turn it into another mock feud, Jimmy instead challenged viewers of both shows to donate $26,000 within a week to Donors Choose. If so, then Jimmy claimed Stephen would come on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and sing Rebecca Black's "Friday" with The Roots. Stephen's response: WTF?!...and he later did go on Fallon's show and and sing the song. The #CancelColbert controversy, in which outrage at an out-of-context tweet from his joke mocking the racist name of the Washington Redskins charity ended up vastly overshadowing any potential outcry over the real-life racist organization that inspired the joke. Ironically, this led to supporters of #CancelColbert attacking the Native activists who started the original protest against the real-life racist organization with the claim that they were getting in the way of the fight against racism. This resulted in a pissed off Stephen dropping a prominently uncensored s-bomb in the middle, even though "shit" is normally bleeped out.
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The Colbert Report / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: During an interview with Nell Irvin Painter she refers to the Scots Irish as properly Irish. Colbert promptly corrects (2:10) her with: "There's no Irish blood in Scots-Irish People. They are Scottish Presbyterians, who were given land in Ireland. THEY TOOK OUR LAND AND DROVE MY PEOPLE ACROSS THE RIVER SHANNON, WHERE WE WERE FORCED TO FARM ROCKS BY OLIVER CROMWELL AND I WILL SEE HIM ROT IN HELL BEFORE YOU CALL SCOTS-IRISH PEOPLE IRISH! DO YOU WANNA FIGHT?!" Then they arm wrestle. Do not steal his Super PAC money (Jon Stewart) or call him out on pointless spending (Nancy Pelosi)- he will chase you down and make you pay.
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The Colbert Report / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Colbert mentions being in a loving and strictly heterosexual marriage with a woman named Lorraine. Nevertheless he makes several comments suggesting all is not as it seems. Upon NOT having his show called out for intolerance by GLAAD's television report, he concluded that one of his staff members had to be gay... and by process of elimination he determined that it was apparently himself. Surprisingly, he didn't put up much of a fight to this revelation... And then in a later episode that week, he delved into a quite detailed fantasy about how to eliminate gay marriage- encouraging his straight male viewers to go to gay bars and become friends with gay men, living in a cottage in California and opening up a dog grooming parlor, and ending up with him getting engaged to an apparently Jewish man named Jonathan, before then leaving him at the altar with the words "NO WAY, I'M NOT GAY!" He then proceeded to cry about it. Not to mention the muscular shirtless cameraman hired from RentBoy.com. He didn't say you could stop dancing!
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The Colbert Report / int_bd9f9111	comment	Strawman Has a Point: Often done intentionally. And quite often (accidentally) by Colbert himself. Because Colbert is a professional comedian with his own talk show, and quite a few of the guests he brings on are authors, or otherwise un-charismatic and poorly trained to defend their point from critics, Colbert comes out on top of quite a few arguments with people who are supposed to strike back at him but don't know how. Colbert noted in an interview that this was a problem in the early days of the show, no one in Washington would come on his show because people are naturally reluctant to be interviewed by someone who they know is willfully going to be ignorant and twist what they say.
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The Colbert Report / int_bdbfd01c	type	Perfectly Cromulent Word
The Colbert Report / int_bdbfd01c	comment	Perfectly Cromulent Word: As mentioned above, The Colbert Report coined the words "truthiness" and "wikiality", which have since caught on among people.
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The Colbert Report / int_bddb820f	type	Must Have Caffeine
The Colbert Report / int_bddb820f	comment	Must Have Caffeine: Colbert's... interesting relationship with coffee.
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The Colbert Report / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
The Colbert Report / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Stephen expresses bewilderment at how Dennis Kucinich got married to his (taller, younger, redheaded) wife.
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The Colbert Report / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
The Colbert Report / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: NASA's space treadmill "Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill" (C.O.L.B.E.R.T.) And now there's video of it being installed on the ISS. Rushing to the defense of the persecuted rich, Colbert formed the Protecting Industry Titans and Yachtsmen Party. On October 10, 2013 Colbert introduced his new news delivery method, the Big Unbelievably Large LED Super Hyper Information Technology.
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The Colbert Report / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Colbert is extremely fond of this trope. For example, after seeing how terrible he looks in pink. Also, when sugar runs low, he panics and tears into a whole bag.
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The Colbert Report / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
The Colbert Report / int_c4240537	comment	Moral Event Horizon: Invoked and parodied. In order to be named Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person In The World", Colbert promised to slap a baby with a puppy. The actual slapping is conspicuously covered up by a "Technical Difficulties" screen.
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The Colbert Report / int_c4d09d24	type	Couch Gag
The Colbert Report / int_c4d09d24	comment	Couch Gag: The introductory text that appears next to Stephen also changes on occasion. This has ranged from words such as "Megamerican" to "Lincolnish", "Libertease", and "SCILF." Even "Hail Hydra" once. Before the Vancouver shows "Sponsored by Verizon. They paid for this." After Hurricane Sandy hit the Tri-State area, the phrase "Text 'Red Cross' to 90999."
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The Colbert Report / int_c4db0699	type	Intentional Engrish for Funny
The Colbert Report / int_c4db0699	comment	Intentional Engrish for Funny: Happens in one episode where he discusses a Chinese millionaire who was killed by poisoned cat stew. He says that this doesn't affect his Chinese canned cat meat stew, "Colonel Tuxedo's Happy Joy Power Cat With Eating". Its motto is "Reliable Sting of Pleasure, Trustworthy of Lunch".
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The Colbert Report / int_c4f3a09a	type	Share the Male Pain
The Colbert Report / int_c4f3a09a	comment	Share the Male Pain: After Rick Santorum compares contraception laws to the French Revolution, Colbert pulls out a banana, puts a condom on the banana, then pulls out a guillotine and guillotines the banana. The entire audience screams.
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The Colbert Report / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
The Colbert Report / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Real-life Stephen. A suspiciously high proportion of interviews with him include some variation on "nicest man in the world", and his main worry when the show was pitched was that he wouldn't be able to handle playing an asshole.
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The Colbert Report / int_c59cfa2e	type	Felony Misdemeanor
The Colbert Report / int_c59cfa2e	comment	Felony Misdemeanor: The idea behind the Nailed'Em segments is that Stephen viciously attacks someone who has got in trouble for doing something completely innocent.
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The Colbert Report / int_c5bcb6d7	type	Subverted Punchline
The Colbert Report / int_c5bcb6d7	comment	Subverted Punchline: Stephen mentioned a story about Burger King advertising Windows 7 and said that Apple needed its own fast food tie-in that would be "big...for mac." He decides it should be Carl's Jr.
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The Colbert Report / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
The Colbert Report / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Very intentional, and very funny.
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The Colbert Report / int_c69902e7	type	Church of Happyology
The Colbert Report / int_c69902e7	comment	Church of Happyology: Colbert declared himself the New Galactic Overlord. He wears a shiny cape.
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The Colbert Report / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
The Colbert Report / int_c70fc0a2	comment	Pretentious Latin Motto: "Videri Quam Esse" is engraved above the (fake) fireplace — it means "to seem to be rather than to be."
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The Colbert Report / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Colbert Report / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Among the people who've donated to Colbert's SuperPAC are Lord Sauron, John Galt, Jerri Blank, R Inglip, D.B. Cooper, and Jesus of Nazareth. And that's not mentioning the non-shout out Double Entendre Punny Name Suq Madiq, to which Stephen aired his own segment, detailing how Suq made his parents very proud, his dad Liqa Madiq, and his mother who uses her maiden name, Munchma Quchi. Another one appears in a segment about global warming where Stephen waves his arms around to mock a Republican who uses his arms to demonstrate his belief that the global climate regularly goes up and down. At 4:43 (after he appears to have finished), he finishes the "wavy arm thing" with a very quick Wave salute, which also doubles as a Take That! to the Republican party in general, given the nature of the Wave. Watch the end of this clip from the 8/7/14 show... IMAGINATION!
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The Colbert Report / int_c8146364	type	Portmanteau Couple Name
The Colbert Report / int_c8146364	comment	Portmanteau Couple Name: invoked Stephen comes up with Filliam H. Muffman for Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy. On July 30, 2014, Colbert comes up with one for each pair among Justin Beiber, Orlando Bloom, Miranda Kerr, and Selena Gomez.
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The Colbert Report / int_c86392ee	type	The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday
The Colbert Report / int_c86392ee	comment	The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: Invoked by Stephen in this segment. Stephen concludes that things keep going wrong in the clean up of the Mexican Gulf oil spill because someone keeps making wishes with a cursed monkey paw bought in such a shop.
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The Colbert Report / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
The Colbert Report / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: It's strongly suggested that a lot of Colbert's problems stem from childhood trauma — for example, his hatred of books (a shelf fell on him). His actual fear and hate of bears stems from a recurring nightmare Stephen had as a child where bears would maul him to death for apparently no reason.
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The Colbert Report / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
The Colbert Report / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: "No! Get a grip Colbert!" and various alternate phrasings.
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The Colbert Report / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: About his rivalry with Rain.
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The Colbert Report / int_cb0743c0	type	Lame Pun Reaction
The Colbert Report / int_cb0743c0	comment	Lame Pun Reaction: Subverted.
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The Colbert Report / int_cc28f3bf	type	Not That Kind of Doctor
The Colbert Report / int_cc28f3bf	comment	Not That Kind of Doctor: Stephen has an honorary doctorate in fine arts. This doesn't stop him from presenting "Cheating Death", his segment on illness, health, and pharmaceuticals, with the name "Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, DFA".
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The Colbert Report / int_cdc710ad	type	Cooking Duel
The Colbert Report / int_cdc710ad	comment	Cooking Duel: Stephen's epic dance duel with Rain, which is apparently the only universally accepted way to challenge someone and how all conflicts are solved.
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The Colbert Report / int_cec8b87a	type	This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!
The Colbert Report / int_cec8b87a	comment	This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: When, in a parody of Breaking Bad, Stephen has Vince Gilligan imprisoned in a closet, forcing him to write more episodes, he plays this trope straight in a similar manner to Breaking Bad character Jesse Pinkman.
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The Colbert Report / int_cf64a80d	type	Hostile Show Takeover
The Colbert Report / int_cf64a80d	comment	Hostile Show Takeover: Albeit a very brief one, on May 4th, 2010's show. Michael J. Fox only wanted to sell his book.... Done on December 8th, 2014, by Barack Obama
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The Colbert Report / int_d0c8e54	type	Monkeys on a Typewriter
The Colbert Report / int_d0c8e54	comment	Monkeys on a Typewriter: A June 2006 segment discusses how many monkeys are required to produce the works of various authors.
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The Colbert Report / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
The Colbert Report / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Colbert loves this trope, and rarely passes up an opportunity to use it. The more mundane the topic, the more awesome the presentation. The character of Stephen Colbert himself is pretty much an example. Dramatic, exciting music, and over-the-top graphic effects to introduce...someone to present the news. On a fake news show. (Of course, after years of this, the awesome part has become more-or-less real.) In his relaunched segment "Better Know a District", the Congressional District he's decided to highlight this time is always described with great fanfare, and with terms like "The Fighting Twenty-Seventh!" No minor political squabble is too small to justify bringing out fancy graphics with gigantic explosions or the like.
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The Colbert Report / int_d355ba37	type	Turned Against Their Masters
The Colbert Report / int_d355ba37	comment	Turned Against Their Masters: Gulpzilla, in the January 13, 2011 episode.
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The Colbert Report / int_d385f6bd	type	FrivolousLawSuit
The Colbert Report / int_d385f6bd	comment	Frivolous Law Suit: Colbert being told by his lawyer brother the many words he can't say during the Vancouver Olympics shows (including "Vancouver" and "Olympics").
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The Colbert Report / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
The Colbert Report / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: His unique interpretation of current events.
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The Colbert Report / int_d4bb4e51	type	Walking Shirtless Scene
The Colbert Report / int_d4bb4e51	comment	Colbert's test for determining if one of his male employees is gay is showing him a picture of a shirtless Matthew McConaughey and asking if they find it sexy. If they answer no Colbert says they are gay and in denial because a straight man would acknowledge how sexy he is.
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The Colbert Report / int_d4c98786	type	Writing Around Trademarks
The Colbert Report / int_d4c98786	comment	Writing Around Trademarks: "Exclusive Vancouverage of the 2010 Quadrennial Cold-Weather Athletic Competition". He relentlessly mocked the NFL's notorious jealous guarding of its trademarks by "shifting one letter." Behold coverage of the "Superb Owl"!
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The Colbert Report / int_d5a060a8	type	Interchangeable Asian Cultures
The Colbert Report / int_d5a060a8	comment	Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Invoked and exaggerated when, after Bill O'Reilly made remarks about all Asians being hardworking, Colbert took the idea and ran with it, causing the show to experience technical difficulties three times before going to a commercial break.
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The Colbert Report / int_d6653787	type	Sudden Musical Ending
The Colbert Report / int_d6653787	comment	Sudden Musical Ending: The final episode of the show ends with a giant Crowd Song with a few hundred of Stephen's past guests and the Colbert Report staff.
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The Colbert Report / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
The Colbert Report / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: According to Stephen, Donald Trump.
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The Colbert Report / int_d8ad2130	type	Anal Probing
The Colbert Report / int_d8ad2130	comment	Anal Probing: A segment about an "Alien Hunter," Derrel Simms, sees Mr. Simms recount a story about him being probed by aliens in his youth. After describing the alien probe in very phallic terms, Colbert interrupts him in a voiceover just before Simms was about to say where the probe was "jammed very painfully," exclaiming, "Okay, that's enough; I think we all know where the probe goes." Simms then reveals that it went into his nasal passage.
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The Colbert Report / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
The Colbert Report / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Stephen of course has a Hollywood Atheist view on atheists.
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The Colbert Report / int_db27d520	type	Amazing Technicolor Wildlife
The Colbert Report / int_db27d520	comment	Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: The CGI eagle from the opening credits got a red-white-and-blue makeover in later seasons.
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The Colbert Report / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
The Colbert Report / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Upon introducing Conservapedia's Conservative Bible Project to Colbert Nation, Colbert then commanded the masses to add him into it as a biblical figure — perhaps Moses, or Samson — or... In doing this, Colbert unleashed an "Unintended Denial of Service Attack" and the website went down within minutes.
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The Colbert Report / int_dc26326	type	Two Decades Behind
The Colbert Report / int_dc26326	comment	Two Decades Behind: In the April 26, 2012 episode, Stephen talks about how he can relate to youth much better than Obama. He says things like "Turn off your Atari, Obama, because the game is over" and "They know I'm young because I always carry around a full deck of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards and I love the Power Rangers."
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The Colbert Report / int_dc2912f	type	Armoured Closet Gay
The Colbert Report / int_dc2912f	comment	Armoured Closet Gay: Stephen confirms that he works out to "prevent gay strokes."
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The Colbert Report / int_dca6a9d	type	Start My Own
The Colbert Report / int_dca6a9d	comment	Start My Own: As a Take That! to losing Time Magazine No. 1 Most Influential Person of 2007 to Rain, Colbert made a music video parodying "How To Avoid The Sun", where he not only danced but also sang in Korean. Then after watching Speed Racer and realizing that Rain had a leading role, Colbert wrote his own screenplay for a sequel which apparently consists of Rain getting run over by a car for two hours.
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The Colbert Report / int_de085a36	type	Green-Skinned Space Babe
The Colbert Report / int_de085a36	comment	Green-Skinned Space Babe: Tek Jansen's "hundreds of girlfriends".
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The Colbert Report / int_dec8bfbf	type	Trash Talk
The Colbert Report / int_dec8bfbf	comment	The "Cantons Controversy," anyone? Stephen turned this into an entire series — and even a song! — of Trash Talk. By way of background, Stephen initially praised Canton, Ohio, after John McCain made a campaign stop there, while at the same time taking a jab at Canton, Georgia. The next week, he made a fake apology and directed his Trash Talk to another Canton. By the time the segments had run their course, Stephen had insulted five towns or cities named Canton in five separate states, including Where It All Began — Canton, Ohio, after Barack Obama also campaigned there.
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The Colbert Report / int_deecec48	type	Brass Balls
The Colbert Report / int_deecec48	comment	Brass Balls: Stephen Colbert talks about his brass balls quite often. They're the only thing that gives him the guts to speak the truth.
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The Colbert Report / int_e08f95fd	comment	Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: Stephen tries unsuccessfully to play the bagpipes to show solidarity for Scotland in his segment on the Scottish independence referendum.
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The Colbert Report / int_e135b3de	comment	Pass the Popcorn: This .gif◊ has started to show up as a response to internet drama.
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The Colbert Report / int_e2023325	comment	Strawman Political: The character of Stephen Colbert is an extreme exaggeration of a conservative talking-head in the name of comedy. Strawman Has a Point: Often done intentionally. And quite often (accidentally) by Colbert himself. Because Colbert is a professional comedian with his own talk show, and quite a few of the guests he brings on are authors, or otherwise un-charismatic and poorly trained to defend their point from critics, Colbert comes out on top of quite a few arguments with people who are supposed to strike back at him but don't know how. Colbert noted in an interview that this was a problem in the early days of the show, no one in Washington would come on his show because people are naturally reluctant to be interviewed by someone who they know is willfully going to be ignorant and twist what they say. Parodied in the "Worthy Opponent" segments, where instead of cherry-picking a strawman who will cave in and agree with everything the pundit says, he is both strawman and pundit.
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The Colbert Report / int_e32ce9e0	type	Award Snub
The Colbert Report / int_e32ce9e0	comment	Award Snub: invoked Stephen regularly invokes this, complaining about the show or the man himself not winning awards, some of which he wouldn't even qualify for.
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The Colbert Report / int_e42e91b4	comment	Godwin's Law: The September 5, 2012 show opened with a group of democratic donkeys chanting Obama's name as images appear depicting Obama as Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro and Bane. The Democratic National Convention was referred to as "The People's Party Congress of Charlotte".
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The Colbert Report / int_e43e3c11	comment	Friend of Masked Self: On the November 13, 2008, episode, Stephen Colbert tells the audience he has a "close personal relationship" with Superman, then implies that he is Superman.
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The Colbert Report / int_e4b82f6f	comment	Fascinating Eyebrow: It's harder to find a photo where he isn't doing this.
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The Colbert Report / int_e529d5c3	comment	Torches and Pitchforks: Stephen keeps a pitchfork in the Hammerspace under his desk and since he already refers to the Studio Audience as "the mob", it was only a matter of time.
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The Colbert Report / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Aimed at idol "Papa Bear" Bill O'Reilly. Played for Laughs.
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The Colbert Report / int_e60bda	comment	The Klan: There was an animated segment on one episode called Laser Klan, featuring a group of actionized Klansfolk working for the President (Obama) to defend the nation against an alien invasion.
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The Colbert Report / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: Stephen's team of not-8-year-old-Malaysian-child-labours took a few days to sort through suggestions for Stephen's SuperPAC. The Definitely-Not-Coordinated-With-Stephen-Colbert-SuperPAC
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The Colbert Report / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: If Colbert ever drops out of character, even if only for a moment, and starts speaking as himself, you know what's being discussed is serious.
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The Colbert Report / int_e8ca5cb3	comment	Freudian Slip: From the last episode in 2011:
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The Colbert Report / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
The Colbert Report / int_ea85d6ea	comment	And when he had Steve Carell on, it was introduced as the "Carell Corral", as Stephen had gone to Hollywood, while Steve had gotten his own show... but it was all just a dream. Or Was It a Dream?? {reveal horse hoof hand} NNNNNNOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
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The Colbert Report / int_eade0fb6	comment	Marty Stu: invoked Tek Jansen, hero of Colbert's Space Opera novel, which is presented on the show in the form of animated shorts, and has inspired a Spin-Off Graphic Novel. He's badass to the Nth degree, is unbelievably good-looking, can bed any female he likes (even the non-humans)...and looks just like Colbert.
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The Colbert Report / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
The Colbert Report / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Stephen uses those exact words in this clip about Barney Frank.
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The Colbert Report / int_ed874c14	comment	Self-Made Man: Deconstructed. To prove that he is a self-made man, Stephen fired all of his staff, and shut down all of his equipment, except a desk lamp and his iPhone, which was now his camera, creating a major case of Stylistic Suck. At the end of the segment, he needs someone else's help to save him from choking on a dry-erase marker cap.
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The Colbert Report / int_edb16be9	comment	Phony Degree: While the degree (an honorary doctorate of fine arts) is real, his insistence on it getting the same respect as an earned medical degree puts Stephen's doctorate here.
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The Colbert Report / int_ee6b254	comment	Written-In Infirmity: When Stephen broke his wrist, he milked it for humorous effect by pretending to become addicted to his painkillers and delirious from overdosing, and made sure to call attention to this "Wristrong" (Wrist Strong) bracelet at every opportunity.
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The Colbert Report / int_eebf0e76	type	Translation Train Wreck
The Colbert Report / int_eebf0e76	comment	Translation Train Wreck: Parodied when Colbert showed Google Translate's take on a Korean article about his rivalry with Rain.
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The Colbert Report / int_ef2fcbe1	type	Le Film Artistique
The Colbert Report / int_ef2fcbe1	comment	Le Film Artistique: His parody of The Artist, Transformateurs: Noir de la lune, including Gratuitous French and The End... Or Is It?.
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The Colbert Report / int_f065f2bd	comment	Pompous Political Pundit: Stephen plays a parody of one.
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The Colbert Report / int_f0fe7e80	comment	But Now I Must Go: Stephen's justification for why the show ended.
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The Colbert Report / int_f16f631d	comment	Crowd Song: Stephen, all his writers, and almost every guest he had over the course of nine years all sing Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again" in the last episode of the show.
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The Colbert Report / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: One of Stephen's SuperPAC ads blasts other SuperPACs for pandering to Iowa voters with "cheap cornography" and says Iowans deserve better and then shows slow-motion footage of corn set to porn music.
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The Colbert Report / int_f247d841	comment	Intoxication Ensues: The "little stamps" presented to Colbert by his interns, which turn out to be LSD.
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The Colbert Report / int_f2dadf81	comment	And the Evil Twin universe shown in an interview clip (although there were indications that it was just Evil Twin Colbert interviewing the normal-interviewee-wearing-facial-hair).
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The Colbert Report / int_f46fb603	comment	Pungeon Master
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The Colbert Report / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: His 2008 presidential run was "sponsored by Doritos", his quest for a spot on the US Olympic team was sponsored by Dr. Pepper, Verizon, and (I think) Miller Lite, and of course he and the Colbert Nation sponsored the US Olympic speed skating team, with the logo prominently displayed on the skaters heads and thighs. During the Olympics, several family members of the speed skaters were wearing Colbert Nation hats. "I have an iPad! :D" He's also used product placement as an excuse to drink real beer (well, Bud Light Lime). On television. Twice. In the same week. There was also the night that Bing promised to donate $2,500 to relief for the Gulf oil spill every time he said "bing." He was up to the challenge. Every time Jeff Goldblum appears he makes sure to plug Law & Order: Criminal Intent, regardless of how apropos it is or isn't... but he won't be doing that anymore; the show was canceled in June 2011. In 2012, Stephen mocked sponsor Wheat Thins by reading quotes from the hilariously specific memo they had provided him to promote the product. It included such detailed instructions as "[Stephen] shall not be shown eating more than 16." He jams 16 in his mouth when he goes to add the 17th, the show suddenly has "technical difficulties." When he returns, a lawyer is on set and Stephen is mock-apologizing to Nabisco. May 20, 2013, has the Obama Scandal Booth, brought to you by Mazda. Colbert then uses several mock-taglines, such as "It's what's for dinner."
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The Colbert Report / int_f57372a1	comment	Bizarro Universe: When Stephen was discussing parallel universes, he was suddenly replaced with a long-haired pipe-smoking hippie counterpart who wanted to solve the Iraq war by making everyone share M&M's and hug each other. Also, Esteban Colberto who in our universe hosts the Spanish News/Variety show "Colberto Reporto Gigante" complete with "Chicas". Also a brief Imagine Spot where the Colbert Report apparently went into Sweet Mode, pink shirt, big smile, the works. Can be seen at the end of this clip And the Evil Twin universe shown in an interview clip (although there were indications that it was just Evil Twin Colbert interviewing the normal-interviewee-wearing-facial-hair). And when he had Steve Carell on, it was introduced as the "Carell Corral", as Stephen had gone to Hollywood, while Steve had gotten his own show... but it was all just a dream. Or Was It a Dream?? {reveal horse hoof hand} NNNNNNOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
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The Colbert Report / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: The "Ham Rove" Running Gag; Stephen can't get Karl Rove on the show, so he finds a stand-in- a rack of deli ham wearing glasses. The French-Canadian and lethally foul-mouthed Stephan Colbert.
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The Colbert Report / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: The final shows. Stephen makes peace with bears, sells his studio equipment to the general public (donating the proceeds to charity), and kills Grimmy, thus granting him immortality. He then leaves with Santa Claus, Abraham Lincoln, and Alex Trebek to find a new role in life, ending the show thanking all his crew, audience, and friends for their help before passing things back to Jon.
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The Colbert Report / int_f7611ec2	comment	Opinion Myopia: invoked Played for laughs. If someone doesn't agree with Stephen, he will twist the words to make it sound like it's actually an agreement.
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The Colbert Report / int_f7d4f121	comment	Mushroom Samba: Colbert has taken blotter acid on the show a couple of times (both as a joke). The first time, he licked an entire sheet of 10x10 blotter acid and sat in his set's "fireplace" (which was really just a flat-screen displaying a burning fireplace; Colbert thought it was real). The other time it was part of a "Cheating Death" segment in which Prescott Pharmaceuticals issued what was essentially blotter acid. And before he did it, he said, "Let's take a magic carpet ride!" Both times, his smiling face appeared on the front.
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The Colbert Report / int_f844f993	comment	DÃ©tournement: Carrying neo-conservative punditry a few bridges too far.
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The Colbert Report / int_f8c079b3	comment	With Us or Against Us: Stephen is like this about everything. Divides Supermarket Into 'Cheese' and 'Not Cheese'.
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The Colbert Report / int_f945dff4	comment	Facepalm: Stephen demonstrates the art◊ while naming the trope I Need a Freaking Drink. In the July 24, 2013 segment on New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner's latest sexting scandal, while attempting to read some of the naughty text messages in question, Stephen manages the unprecedented feat of a simultaneous quadruple facepalm.
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The Colbert Report / int_f9f2c33	comment	A clip of Michael Stipe sitting on Stephen's shelf shouting "HEY-OH!" gets used to keep up the Running Gag he now lives there.
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The Colbert Report / int_faf5732b	comment	I Call It "Vera": Sweetness.
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The Colbert Report / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: His whole talk show revolves around this.
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The Colbert Report / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: "Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow" In 2008, the election special was named "The Final Endgame Go Time Alpha Action Lift-Off Decide-icidal Hungry Man's Extreme Raw Power Ultimate Voteslam Smackdown '08 No Mercy: Judgement Day '08" In 2014, the election special was named "Midterms '014 - Detour to Gridlock, An Exciting Thing That I Am Totally Interested In— Wait! Don't Change The Channel! Here Is An Exciting Picture Of A Duckling Following A Cat Dressed As A Shark While Riding A Roomba '014"
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The Colbert Report / int_fd41610f	comment	China Takes Over the World: Alluded to in this clip.
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The Colbert Report / int_fdb355db	comment	Fun with Subtitles: Specifically, ABC's actual subtitles of Marco Rubio's rebuttal to President Obama's 2013 State of the Union. Word-Salad Humor ahoy!
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The Colbert Report / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Because segments of "The Word" take so long to get back to the initial Word, it sometimes takes the viewer by surprise. Also a Running Gag. Michael Stipe (formerly of R.E.M.) lives on Stephen's bookshelf.
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The Colbert Report / int_ff3f8c7c	comment	Pretentious Pronunciation: The Colbear Repore. The T in 'Report' is silent, because "it's French, bitch" and because his name also ends in a silent 't'. Except when Stephen gets upset when he'll pronounce it differently to himself. During the TV Strikes of 2007, when Colbert would go on the air without his writing staff, he would deliberately refer to the show as "The Colbert Report" as a sign of solidarity with his writers. The name was originally pronounced "Col-bert". Colbert's father wished to change it to "Col-Bear" but maintained the original pronunciation out of respect to his own father. He gave his children the option of choosing how to pronounce their name. This caused humorous tension when Stephen's lawyer brother came on the show since one goes by "Col-bear" while the other goes by "Col-bert". Stephen promoted his sister Elizabeth Colbert Busch on his show when she was running for Congress, pronouncing her name Colburt. When Stephen interviewed Eleanor Holmes Norton (Washington DC's non-voting delegate in the House of Representatives), Norton made a point of pronouncing the "T" in "Colbert" as a way of showing she had no patience humoring the affectations of others and wanted to get down to the business of sorting out DC statehood.
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The Colbert Report / int_ff934825	comment	Evil, Inc./MegaCorp: Stephen often shills for The Prescott Group, a shady conglomerate with divisions such as Prescott Pharmaceuticals, Prescott Oil and Prescott Finance.
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The Colbert Report / int_ffaa675b	comment	Asian Speekee Engrish: Ching Chong Ding Dong, who spouts stereotypical lines like, "Ooooh, me rikey tea!" Colbert freely admits that the character is extremely racist, but he's not racist for performing the character, because Ching Chong Ding Dong is speaking through him.
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