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Is Stephen Colbert a MI fan?

MaclimesZeroMaclimesZero
edited September 2010 in Tales of Monkey Island
Tonight, on Stephen's show, he was interviewing an author who wrote a book about animal conditions in zoos, including an anecdote in which several monkeys simply swim away from their water-surrounded enclosure. Stephen says (paraphrasing), "You should call it Escape From Monkey Island!" You can almost hear the capital letters dropping into place as he says. It was almost TOO obvious. Am I just hearing things, because of my love for Monkey Island, or did he really reference it?

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  • Papa PishuPapa Pishu
    edited August 2010
    Everyone is a fan of Monkey Island, they just don't know it yet.
  • Zachspyfox033Zachspyfox033
    edited August 2010
    I just saw it and the moment he said it I just knew he was an MI fan. I was just about to post about it when I saw your thread. Even before he said, "This book should be called Escape From Monkey Island," he referred to the island of monkeys as Monkey Island, and the moment I head that I thought that he might be an MI fan, but once he said Escape From Monkey Island I knew he was a fan.
  • Lennie MelvinLennie Melvin
    edited August 2010
    i wanna see this! what show is it?
  • MonkeyManiaMonkeyMania
    edited August 2010
    Nah, he's just a fan of Escape From Monkey Island and hates all the other games.
  • MaclimesZeroMaclimesZero
    edited August 2010
    Lennie Melvin wrote: »
    i wanna see this! what show is it?

    The Colbert Report. (Pronounced "kohl-bare ree-poor").

    If you are somehow unfamiliar with it, it's an American political satire talk show that runs nightly on Comedy Central, starring the hilarious Stephen Colbert.

    Specifically, it was the episode for August 18, 2010.
  • Chyron8472Chyron8472
    edited August 2010
    here: http://www.megavideo.com/?v=ou76axuy
    That's the episode some1 put on Megavideo (so ppl outside the USA can watch it.)

    For US residents, watch it here: http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/wed-august-18-2010-thomas-french


    Stephen Colbert is awesome. I recommend watching the whole thing, but if anyone cares, he starts talking about monkeys and "These guys [...] tried to create a Monkey Island" @ ~ 17:45, and says "I think [the book] should be called 'Escape from Monkey Island.'" @ ~ 18:35.
  • Lennie MelvinLennie Melvin
    edited August 2010
    I love you Chyron :D thanks so much
  • MaclimesZeroMaclimesZero
    edited August 2010
    Awesome! Thanks Chyron!
  • ThunderSockThunderSock
    edited August 2010
    That was pretty bizarre, the audience was probably going "wut", exept for about two people.
  • FlahFlah
    edited August 2010
    I don't live in the US so I can't see the clip. But, if it's about the Caribbean island populated by transplanted rhesus macaques, it really is called Monkey Island. Let me tell you, I was incredibly disappointed when I actually saw the documentary as a kid. No cannibals, no pirate princesses, no ghosts. Just a lot of normal, albeit surprisingly intelligent, monkeys. I doubt they could crew a ship, though.
  • Chyron8472Chyron8472
    edited August 2010
    Flah wrote: »
    I don't live in the US so I can't see the clip.
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    here: http://www.megavideo.com/?v=ou76axuy
    That's the episode some1 put on Megavideo (so ppl outside the USA can watch it.)

    what's wrong with watching it from there?

    And no, it's not about that.


    Also, those links are not to a clip, but to the entire episode.
  • doodinthemooddoodinthemood
    edited September 2010
    woop thanks for the megavideo link chyron :D I do quite like Colbert and hardly ever get to see his stuff over here. Also yup, def sounds to me like a reference. Maybe more in the future, though they'd be hard to get in.
  • Chyron8472Chyron8472
    edited September 2010
    Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are hosts of talk shows which claim to satirize current events (usually involving US politics.)

    When they are confronted about the newsworthiness of their shows' contents, they both claim openly to "only host a comedy show on a comedy TV network." Many people however, (including myself) prefer their depiction of political news instead of other, umm... more official, news programs because said other programs claim to be "fair and balanced" or the like, while Jon and Stephen show how obviously biased, skewed and contradictory those other news programs/stations really are in their views.

    Yes, I'm talking about Fox News. Jon and Stephen pick on Fox News alot (and rightly so) but not exclusively.

    Here is a good example of how great Jon Stewart is in a serious discussion. He was invited on to a political debate show called Crossfire which originally was designed to show different political points of view on various issues. The show instead became a place in which people from different political parties could argue and fight without actually furthering the overall discussion. When Jon came on their show, he told them to "stop hurting America." When they called him on not being funny, he said he can go back to his show and be funny again, but their show would still suck.

    Suffice it to say, Jon's and Stephen's shows are designed to be funny, but at their core they really do show credible points of view, especially when exposing the absurdity of views displayed by other political commentators.
  • akaimizuakaimizu
    edited September 2010
    Who isn't a fan of Monkey Island?
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