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Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert’s words of wisdom: Get Amazon Prime and worry less about Starbucks cup names

Stephen Colbert took time during “The Late Show” this week to give mention to a couple little Seattle companies. In a mock… Read More

Paul Allen bankrolls 611 teacher projects in Washington state in celebrity ‘flash funding’ initiative

Hundreds of schools in Washington state — 329 of them, to be exact — are in for a surprise. Microsoft co-founder… Read More

Stephen Colbert hosts ‘Legend of Zelda’ orchestra to celebrate ‘Tri Force Heroes’ release

If anyone has doubts about whether the fine arts and pop culture can happily co-exist, they should watch this latest… Read More

Stephen Colbert unveils ‘RejecTED,’ the TED Talks that don’t make it

Stephen Colbert unleashed a new series of TED Talks last night on the Late Show — failed TED Talks. As… Read More

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick heckled by protestors on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Uber CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick was a guest on Stephen Colbert’s new Late Show this week and ran into a bit of… Read More

You can now take a whimsical drive with Stephen Colbert on Waze

Late-night talk show host and all-around funnyman Stephen Colbert is the latest celebrity to lend his voice to Google’s navigation… Read More

Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ opening week lineup features Elon Musk

Stephen Colbert’s opening week of The Late Show features a killer lineup of Hollywood “It” stars like George Clooney, Amy… Read More

Stephen Colbert checks in with Neil deGrasse Tyson in this super-scientific Pluto Flyby update

Let’s check back in on Pluto, shall we? In the midst of celebrating the news that Pluto successfully completed its… Read More

Stephen Colbert has his own Street View: Google marks final show with virtual tour of ‘Colbert Report’ studios

Stephen Colbert is bidding Comedy Central adieu to head to the greener pastures of The Late Show this week, but… Read More

Video: Barack Obama steps in for Stephen Colbert

Being a lame duck certainly has some advantages. If nothing else, it allows the president more time to do stuff… Read More

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TGI Friday’s drone mistletoe stunt goes awry, injuring photographer

As if you needed another reason to avoid TGI Friday’s, a mistletoe-toting drone hit a photographer at an event in… Read More

Stephen Colbert lets inner ‘Star Wars’ geek shine on lightsaber analysis

On Monday night, Stephen Colbert did a special report on a “major conflict in a troubled desert region.” The problem?… Read More

Amazon promotes a Hachette title that it’s not willing to provide on pre-order

Amazon calls Edan Lepucki’s new book California one of the “best books of July,” but the highly anticipated novel about a post-apocalyptic… Read More

Stephen Colbert tells viewers to put T-Mobile phones ‘in your butt’

When T-Mobile paid Comedy Central for some advertising on The Colbert Report, the Bellevue-based company probably wasn’t expecting the hilarity… Read More

Bill Gates says Steve Jobs was “always cooler than me”

Steve Jobs may have been “cooler” than Bill Gates, and that’s OK. The Microsoft co-founder and chairman made his first-ever… Read More

Stephen Colbert visits Google to promote his book, has no idea Google sells books

Stephen Colbert is rarely serious, at least not when he’s in character, but the TV host seemed genuinely surprised during… Read More

‘Slut factories’ and Super PACs: Melinda Gates on ‘Colbert’

Did Stephen Colbert just get away with calling the Gates Foundation a ‘slut factory?’ Last night the cantankerous faux right-winger… Read More

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