And Nothing But the Truthiness: The Rise (and Further Rise) of Stephen Colbert by Lisa Rogak

Author:Lisa Rogak
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 0312616104
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2011-10-10T22:00:00+00:00

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“We didn’t know he was a retired lawyer, which is the most dangerous kind of lawyer.”

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“Where are you from?”

“A small cable news show out of New York.”

“What channel?”

“45, 47, I don’t know if you get it here.”

Hack must have said okay and not probed further.

“If they ask which network, then we say Comedy Central and start packing our bags,” said Colbert. “Hack sued, but as part of the settlement, we agreed to never show “Grandfatherland” again.”

After that, Comedy Central set strict guidelines in place for correspondents and writers to follow. “We all know to avoid certain topics as well as jokes that could start a lawsuit,” Colbert said, “and every day, a script of the show goes to our legal adviser to be okayed before the taping. For instance, the Church of Scientology is not the subject of jokes on The Daily Show. And we do not put beloved children’s characters into adult situations. And when working off a sound bite, no matter how mean the man-on-the-street sounds, we can’t follow him up by saying something like, ‘This man then left to check on the body in his trunk.’”

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Before long, the Three Idiots were at it again.

Amy Sedaris wanted to write a book about a worm. Editors at Hyperion had been following Amy’s career—since Strangers went off the air in 2000, she had appeared in a few movies, including Maid in Manhattan with Jennifer Lopez, and she had been featured sporadically as a publicist on Sex and the City—and in 2002, they called her in for a meeting to see if she had any book ideas.

She and Dinello had once developed a Second City sketch about a worm, which was based on an ongoing story about an orange ceramic worm she and her brother David adopted when they were kids. “We named him Montgomery, and we used to make up stories about him,” she said. The worm’s long gone, but she always thought it would make a great children’s book. The plot: “More or less, it’s about a worm trying to figure out what kind of worm he is, so he goes on these adventures,” she said.

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