Comedy Central's first attempt at black (as in African American) comedy following Dave Chappelle's untimely 2006 departure, Chocolate News, premieres tomorrow night. In the same vein as prime time heavyweights The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, Chocolate News will attempt to mock news of the day with a wry, liberal bent. From what I've seen, it's not going to work.
ALIENS GET A CHANCE TO HAVE THEIR OWN COLBERT "Should this world ever cease to exist, Stephen Colbert will live on. The comedian's DNA will be digitized and sent to the International Space Station, Comedy Central was to announce Monday. In October, video game designer Richard Garriott will travel to the station and deposit Colbert's genes for an 'Immortality Drive.' 'I am thrilled to have my DNA shot into space, as this brings me one step closer to my lifelong dream of being the baby at the end of 2001,' Colbert said in a statement, referring to the 1968 landmark science fiction film '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Garriott, one of few private citizens to travel into space, is collecting material for a time capsule of human DNA, a history of humanity's greatest achievements and personal messages. The host of 'The Colbert Report' will essentially be preserved so that aliens can clone him."
DO YOU HAVE TO LET IT LINGER? "Smartypants magazine editor to CNN: If Comedy Central can do it, why can't we? That was a good part of New Yorker editor David Remnick's argument to Wolf Blitzer about the controversy the current issue of the magazine has whipped up by portraying Barack Obama and his wife as a couple of gun-slinging, bin Laden-loving terrorists on its cover. Remnick likened what the magazine has done to what 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report' do every weeknight on television. He said the point of the cover was to satirize the many right-wing rumors and innuendoes that have spread virally about the Democratic candidate."
Michelle Obama appeared on The Colbert Report to promote her husband's presidential campaign, and promote she did: She side-stepped any potentially funny joke in order to tell us how Barack is going to change the country. Listen lady, we know. We've heard it all before. The least you could do is play along with Colbert and appear to have a sense of humor.
Video after the jump.
• Colbert is struggling, but we hate Two and a Half Men! How to feel about the writer's strike? [Jossip]
• Let's get one thing straight: Mariah Carey would, indeed, rather sing with JLo than a pig. [DListed]
• It's like he wants you to hate his clothes. [PS]
• There's a charity called Teens for Jeans and Rachel Bilson is shilling for them. Donate if you're for jeans or Rachel Bilson (or both). Adults in khakis need not apply. [HT]
• Taylor Hicks has lost his record deal! Don't tell your lonely aunt, she's sad enough. [ICYDK]
• Jennifer Beals, we should let you know that we've never gotten over our Flashdance crush. Do you like us, too? [INO]
• Fear for this fetus: "On her last prison visit [Amy Winehouse] told Blake that she wants to try and get pregnant as soon as she can. [Yeeeah]
• Photoshop can be scary! [CityRag]
Some rinky-dink poll is claiming that comedian Stephen Colbert could be the presidential front-runner within a month. It's probably nothing, but if it's true: Wow! Even when the youth are politically active they're still ruining everything.
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