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Stephen Colbert the legendary faux news anchor and host of "The Colbert Report" is bringing holiday cheer to the American public with a Christmas special on Comedy Central filled with songs and several musical guests.
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The host of the "Colbert Report" talks about his upcoming Christmas special.
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The permanently suit-clad Stephen Colbert has traded in his pinstripes for a cardigan sweater, red turtleneck and furry boots.
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do you think it's kind of ridiculous that one person doesn't do midday anymo On television, the holidays have traditionally been a time when celebrities pretend to welcome you into their homes. (The homes themselves are often pretend.) They trot out family members, light a fire, sing the good old songs and dress to imply a winter wonderland just outside. We learn that behind the friendly face, or facade, is an even friendlier face or facade. A degree of cheerful amateurism is allowed.
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Stephen Colbert is delightful, a few of the song parodies are clever, but over all, the show is too long and more than a little strained, much like the holiday specials it mocks.
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Early in Comedy Central's A Colbert Christmas, airing Sunday night, flag-waving country singer Toby Keith stops by Colbert's cabin in the snowy woods.
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Early in Comedy Central's A Colbert Christmas, airing Sunday night, flag-waving country singer Toby Keith stops by Colbert's cabin in the snowy woods. They get to talking about what's happened to Christmas in our society—you go to the mall and people say "Season's Greetings," you can't put a Nativity scene in front of a courthouse. [...]
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Stephen Colbert gets to show off his singing voice, and his screaming voice, in "A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All," a holiday special like no other.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Who diluted the holiday cheer?...
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The maker of toys based on a range of television series including Doctor Who and High School Musical warned annual profits would not meet expectations as shoppers cut back on Christmas presents
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Student finds parody of "12 Days of Christmas" a disgrace.
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Manitoba will likely reap some benefits from the economic downturn facing other provinces during the holiday shopping season, according to some analysts.
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The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cA Colbert Christmas: Jon StewartColbert at ChristmasColbert Christmas DVDGreen ScreenBill O'Reilly Interview
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Testing the child of Malawi's Mary and Joseph for HIV
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Dec 1 - German shoppers aren't letting recession scare them away from stores in the run-up to Christmas, but the sales outlook for 2009 remains cloudy.
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As Canadians in other parts of the country cut back on luxury expenses, Calgarians are still willing to pay companies thousands of dollars to have their homes decorated for Christmas.
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In Austria, Santa keeps track of who's been naughty and nice -- and unleases a 7-foot-tall horned devil on the naughty. He's called the Krampus, and he's unlike any Christmas tradition you've ever seen.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Holiday albums have usually been the domain of big stars -- think Bing Crosby, Dean Martin or Josh Groban. But this year, an influx of indie artists and labels are getting into the holiday spirit, all with different goals in mind.
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Scotland sees the lowest growth in pre-Christmas shopping sales in eight years, according to new figures.
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In the old days people went to "Christmas City," a.k.a. Bethlehem, Pa., just to see the holiday lights: piously white on the Moravian north side, gaudily multicolored on the south side. Today it's the month-long Christmas Festival and Christkindlmarkt that attract more than 400,000 people to this...
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This should be my last post for a while, though I will try to post one or two additional "Battlestar Galactica-thon" recaps in the next couple of weeks. We'll see how much energy I have over the holidays. I may just sit around and watch the "Flight of the Conchords" DVD screener I recently got from HBO several dozen times. Before I check out though, I thought I'd pass on two bits of holiday programming news. How could I pass them up? They involve "Star Wars" and "Christmas on Mars," the Flaming Lips' sci-fi epic. First of all, Cartoon Network...
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The boxes of letters arrive at Kandahar Airfield by the planeload, filled with candid Christmas cards to Canadian troops serving in a country ravaged by conflict.
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Burglaries jump by a fifth at Christmas so make sure your festive season doesn't end in tears by tweaking your cover.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Existing home sales fell by a record amount last month as the recession picked up pace although a collapse in gasoline prices gave consumer sentiment a rare lift, data on Tuesday showed.
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IF only we could place Irish golf on the stock market!
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The economies of the world spluttered and stalled on the final bend before Christmas yesterday - as the UK economy shrank at a rate not seen since 1990 amid another dismal outpouring of US data.
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London stocks eased lower on Wednesday as investors wound up positions early on the last trading day of the week, a half-day session ahead of the Christmas break
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An aboriginal women's group in Portage la Prairie is hosting a feast to bring holiday cheer to those who have nowhere to go on Christmas Day.
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IT was a journey she thought would never end.
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Down by seven points in the final minutes to woeful Washington and their home winning streak in serious jeopardy, the Cavaliers clamped down on defense, made their free throws and scored 11 straight points in the final 1:33 to beat the Wizards 93-89 Thursday night.
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What can be considered as common in the Anglo-saxon countries is not at all usual in France. Christmas records are very few, compared to the English or the American markets. The most famous French Season's song, Petit Papa Noël (recorded
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Japanese consumer electronics group, Sony, has ruled out cutting the price of the PS3 console before Christmas, insisting that it is better value than rivals half its price
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There's nothing wrong with Disney," says Tori Amos, "but my benchmarks are more West Side Story meets Jesus Christ Superstar. I'm trying to write a musical that will be relevant to a 16-year-old today, a rite of passage for a young girl into womanhood.
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Thousands of Scots face a pre-Christmas TV blackout because they are unprepared for the arrival of digital TV, it has been revealed.
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Japanese consumer electronics group, Sony, has ruled out cutting the price of the PS3 console before Christmas, insisting that it is better value than rivals half its price
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Company profits warnings have soared to their highest level for seven years and Ernst & Young warn worse is still to come
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THE family of a man seriously injured in an accident in Chicago in August are praying he will home before Christmas.
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