Latest aerobic musing: Has he given up on the hot dog?
Now that I'm working out for 60 minutes, I've been doing a lot more viewing of the Colbert Report. I've always liked Stephen Colbert, but just always had something else to do after the Daily Show so it slipped from my regular viewing.
In my last serious attempt to get back on the workout bandwagon before this one - back in December and January - I watched the Colbert Report pretty consistently; that's when I originally got hooked. Back then I noticed in the intro sequence, an almost subliminal graphic behind Steven that said "President Bush have a hot dog with me". It actually took me several episodes to read the full sentence, because it only barely flashes on the screen during the sequence. I always wondered what spawned that invitation. I was a newbie to the Colbert Nation then, but I still don't know the reason behind it now. However I think that I've noticed at least the last two nights, that the graphic doesn't appear in the opening sequence anymore. Either that or I'm just not paying as close attention. Sis - you're a Colbert fan - am I right about the missing hot dog invite? If so, why's he giving up now? Bush is still "president" for a few more months, officially. Anyone? Anyone out there know?
Apparently there is an online petition for getting Stephen into the white house to have a hot dog with President Bush. I came across it when searching the internets to see if I could confirm that Stephen really is asking the president to eat a hot dog with him in that intro graphic in the first place, or if I had been misreading that too :-)
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Us easterners have to stay up a lot later, 11:30, to watch the Colbert Report (should be pronounced with no Ts at all, incidentally), so it's been a while since I've been able to see a whole episode.
The title graphics do change on occasion. I remember "Freem" and "Grippy" being used. Wikipedia states that other words have included "megamerican", "Lincolnish", "superstantial", "eneagled", "flagaphile", "good", "gutly", "warrior-poet", your "President Bush have a hotdog with me", "Self-Evident" (for the broadcast from Philly), "Rock On!" (for the appearance of Rush, which did rock indeed), and "Multi-Grain".
Incidentally, Colbert has stated this ambition to eat tube steak with W on his show in non-subliminal ways as well. I believe it was in March.
Posted by Your sister on August 15, 2008 4:54 AM.