Steven Colbert Unmasked - Reveals true pronunciation of “Col-Bert” during “Da Col-bert Code”
Steven Colbert’s brilliantly crafted image as an elite conservative pundit came collapsing down upon him during Thursday’s “The Colbert Report.”
During a political prognostication segment entitled the “Da Colbert Code” Colbert officially let the cat out of the bag in regard to the true pronunciation of his name. According to Wikipedia, it is pronounced thusly: koʊɫˈbεɹ. Thus, the name of his show is pronounced “The Koʊɫˈbεɹ Repεɹ.”
At the 10-minute mark of the show, however, koʊɫˈbεɹ let the cat out of the bag. While chastizing himself for being unable to find a secret code that would predict John McCain as the winner of the 2008 election over Barack Obama, koʊɫˈbεɹ had this to say - “C’mon Col-Bert.” See for yourself (at 2:42):
That’s right, Col-bert. Not Koʊɫˈbεɹ. Plain old “Col-bert.” Like former baseball slugger Nate Col-bert.
Nate Colbert
Steven Colbert
It’s over, Col-bert. The jig is officially up. You sir, are a fraud. You are the Milli Vanilli of political commentary. Or, should I say, the Milli Col-bert.
So it’s time to give back the Emmy, pack your bags and go. You have made all of us believe a falsehood - while we all felt intelligent and unique watching The Koʊɫˈbεɹ Repεɹ” it was nothing but a lie. Instead, we were just watching the plain ol’ “Col-Bert Re-Port.”
The truth has come out. Steven Col-Bert is a hoax. But let me say this - finding this out and telling people the truth truly gives me no comfεɹ.
–WKW
October 31st, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Colbert pwned himself.
When he first started his show, I thought he had a good idea but kinda sucked. But now, he has that shtick down perfect and makes me laugh my ass off every time I watch it. Especially when he refers to Bill’O as ‘papa bear’.
November 1st, 2008 at 6:12 am
I didn’t see his first couple seasons, but I saw that the reviews were hit and miss. I think it was a combo of people not quite getting it and him not quite mastering what he wanted to do with it.
But these days, his show is just great. He’s just stinging in his satire and his show is always good for two or three extremely funny moments at least.
And his take down of Bush and the media at the National Press Club Dinner was just genius.