Just watched Stephen Colbert rattle off the ENTIRE Nicene Creed (also known as The Apostles Creed) on his show, while answering the rehetorical question "what do I believe?" but in the most conversationally casual way and at top speed. It takes a few minutes to say the whole thing, but even at top speed it was still rather long, so the laughs from the audience rose and fell as it became more and more drawn out, and by the end they were applauding and cheering because of the whole delivery of the thing... just fantastic.
The Colbert Report has replaced The Daily Show in my affections, and while I'll always love TDS, TCR is more consistently funny to me. I can't recommend it heartily enough - there's a section called "The Word" where an almost anarchic subtitler puts comments in a field based on everything Stephen says, and it's absolutely brilliant satire & wit. Then there's "The Threatdown" where he lists, in reverse order, the top 5 threats to American culture and way of life, and it almost always ends with "Number one... BEARS." It's the consistency of this choice that makes it, 3 months later, even funnier than it was the first time.
Comedy Central, M-Th at 10:30 pm CST, and some repeats through the day. Watch it!
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We often leave out the safety of our pic-i-nic baskets when discussing homeland security.
are you saying you watch it too? I don't remember that bit...
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