Colbert gets his rocks off

[Simon_Cowbell]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/05/colbert-passes-stones-wit_n_411438.html

****ing brilliant.

Funniest guy in my lifetime

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Colbert is probably the only reason anyone is talking about the winter olympics.

 

[JackReacher]

Are people talking about the Winter Olympics? Hell, I forgot all about it until I saw a commercial on NBC this past weekend.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Are people talking about the Winter Olympics? Hell, I forgot all about it until I saw a commercial on NBC this past weekend.

When Colbert makes the SI cover, it tells you what SI thinks about the athletes.

I'm with you, I could not give half a **** about it.

 

[JackReacher]

Colbert made the SI cover? What the hell for?

I enjoy the Winter Olympics. I'll watch the speed skating, some of the downhill skiing and prolly some of the curling. And I like the luge, too.

That said, I'll prolly watch five minutes of each.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Short of the US making the Gold medal game in hockey I won't watch a second of it. I hope the networks don't shut down their programming opposite the Olympics, because I'm guessing the majority of people will not be watching either.

 

[JackReacher]

Don't the Olympics always get huge ratings?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Don't the Olympics always get huge ratings?

Winter less so than Summer, in large part because the U.S. doesn't usually fare very well. Figure skating does well, skiing, hockey, speedskating does OK.

I covered the 2002 games and even when I was in SLC I got the sense that very few people cared.

 

[JackReacher]

Old people love the figure skating.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

The majority of the events are fine.

The accompanying nose-picking horse**** is not.

 

[BTExpress]

In 2006 Olympic ratings were second or worse on five of 17 nights. And NBC couldn't even claim victory for the February "sweeps" month.

 

[da man]

With the exception of figure skating, I love, love, love the Winter Olympics. Ski jumping, luge, short-track speedskating, downhill -- those guys are freaking crazy.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I enjoy watching the different sports at the Olympics, but except for hockey, I won't watch any of them for the next four years. I could care less about glorified X-Games events.

And all I do watch is the games. I use the remote when NBC does their other BS.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I remember doing a story in 2002 about how many athletes were skipping the Olympics because their sponsors would rather have them compete in the X-Games.

 

[Bubbler]

I like the Winter Olympics better than the Summer ones, but that doesn't mean I'm going to be glued to it. Downhill skiing, bobsled, some hockey, that's about it.

 

[JC]

I remember doing a story in 2002 about how many athletes were skipping the Olympics because their sponsors would rather have them compete in the X-Games.

which sport and which athletes?

 

[JR]

Don't the Olympics always get huge ratings?

Winter less so than Summer, in large part because the U.S. doesn't usually fare very well.

Well, that's just incorrect. US came second in medals after Germany in Turin. And the medals were in events like skiing, snowboarding and speed skating. Fairly high profile events.

But then if I were forced to watch NBC's coverage I'd switch to the Food Network. ****ing awful television.

I'll take the Winter Olympics any day.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

The Winter Games totally whored itself out with all the new pothead, XGame sports

 

[GB-Hack]

Yes, for goodness sakes, we can't have people playing new, popular sports at the Olympics.

When did a sport have to be created by in order for it to be of Olympic quality, Simon?

 

[DanOregon]

I actually prefer the Winter Games because there are fewer sports and you feel like you have a better grasp on the sports, all 10 of them, than you do the summer games. Throw in the scenery, Vancouver will be spectacular, but I figure rainy downtown V-town won't get as much screen time as Whistler, and it should be a good show.