Stephen Colbert: Barack Obama wants to steal my Emmy!
"I've already been robbed three times, folks!" Stephen Colbert fumed about his Emmy losses on Comedy Central recently. "Manilow! Bennett! Rickles!"
Whom he fears next: "Barack Obama!"
Stephen Colbert did win an Emmy this year for writing, but he's referring to his string of losses in the category for best performance in a variety show and his dread that "the world's biggest celebrity" might upstage him next year for appearing in his political infomercial last week. Watch his rant below — it's a scream. Actually, lots of screams.
But as James Hibbert points out at his Hollywood Reporter blog The Live Feed, Barack Obama's show will not really be eligible. Just to make sure, Hibbert checked with awards chief John Leverence at the TV academy, who said, "I don't have a specific reference in the rules that would make it ineligible, but telethons are eligible only if they are not political. Though the ad was not specifically for raising money, it would be close enough to the spirit of that rule to be ineligible."
(Comedy Central)
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Many people are surprised to learn that Stephen Colbert was born in France. As a young boy in the town of Fronsac in the Bordeaux region, he would go home each day after school and work for his parents on the family farm. After his father's goat-cheese business failed, Colbert went by boat to the U.S. To help make ends meet (and egged on by friends who adored his Franco-American delivery and comic timing), Colbert performed at a small comedy club in New York City one Friday night on a lark. As the French say, "Il a tue [He killed]!" You know the rest of the story.
Posted by: Sonalee | November 05, 2008 at 09:32 PM