NBC is hoping their Winter Olympics TV coverage will help viewers forget about Conan O’Brien.
On Wednesday’s episode of The Colbert Report, comedian Stephen missed out on his personal bid to qualify to the Vancouver Games as a U.S. Olympic athlete. (He thought it owed to him after he led a fundraising drive that collected $300,000 for USA Speedskating.)
It came down to this: a race between world champion speedskater Shani Davis and Colbert. The winner would get the last position on the U.S. Olympic Speedskating Team to Vancouver.
Shani had called Colbert “a Jerk”. This was a grudge match.
On the bright side, after the loss Colbert was named “Assistant Sports Psychologist” to the Team. He’s coming to Vancouver.
Event better, on the same T.V. show, NBC Olympics chairman Dick Ebersol invited Colbert to join NBC as a colour commentator, saying he could give updates on Shani Davis.
Colbert will be one of the highlights of these Games for me.
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“Colbert called Davis “to apologize for whatever I said that upset you,” then shouted “go” while the gold medallist was still driving to the rink.”
From the description in the article, it seems like that piece was way funnier than you make it sound, Rick.
Ha. I added the word “comedian” before his name to tip people off that this was not a real “Olympic trial”.
Some people have never seen the greatest comedy show in history, I’m sure.
I don’t watch Colbert but I still remember him and his pitchfork. And his other adventures. Like scheming to get a room in the space station named after him. Reading your entry, I knew it was just Colbert having another one of his adventures but I didn’t imagine it being as funny as it actually was.
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