{"id":2896,"date":"2008-09-02T20:21:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T20:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/02\/colbert-atheists-and-hermaphro\/"},"modified":"2008-09-02T20:21:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T20:21:15","slug":"colbert-atheists-and-hermaphro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/02\/colbert-atheists-and-hermaphro\/","title":{"rendered":"Colbert, Atheists, and Hermaphrodites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comedy Central is re-playing Friday’s episodes of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, which includes Stephen Colbert’s interview with Lori Lippman Brown of the Secular Coalition for America. It’s interesting to see that she doesn’t really fare any better than any of the religious nutjobs he’s had on in his various interview segments, in more or less the same way:<\/p>\n

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I doubt there’s really any way to not look somewhat silly, given his whack-job act and good video editing, but it’s always a little surprising just how unprepared a lot of his interview subjects are. You’d think they’d have some idea of what they were getting into, but there’s a point in almost all of his interviews where the person being interviewed throws a panicky look off to one side, as if to say “Get me away from this crazy person!”<\/p>\n

Which makes me (and Kate, who brought this up at dinner) wonder: How do they set these up, anyway? I remember hearing that the appearances for the Borat movie were arranged under false pretenses (fake production company names, etc.). Do the Colbert people do the same thing, or do people just consistently underestimate him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comedy Central is re-playing Friday’s episodes of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, which includes Stephen Colbert’s interview with Lori Lippman Brown of the Secular Coalition for America. It’s interesting to see that she doesn’t really fare any better than any of the religious nutjobs he’s had on in his various interview segments, in… Continue reading Colbert, Atheists, and Hermaphrodites<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,37,30,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-pop_culture","category-religion","category-television","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}