Hillary Clintonis scheduled to appear on the super popular The Colbert Report for the very first time ever this Thursday!! MSNBC's Chris 'my bosses made me apologize to Hillary' Matthews 'blurted' the news out at a show taping on Monday. The news was confirmed to the source by a person close to the Comedy Central 'news' program, who insisted on anonymity because the date of the visit hadn't been publicly announced. Barack Obama has thus far declined Colbert's invitation to appear on the show. But his wife, Michelle, will a... lire la suite
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Hillary Clintonis scheduled to appear on the super popular The Colbert Report for the very first time ever this Thursday!! Barack Obama has thus far declined Colbert's invitation to appear on the show. But his wife, Michelle, will appear on Colbert Tuesday.
One minute after Stephen Colbert said on the air, “Firefox 3 just got the Colbert Bump,” downloads of the new versions spiked. You can even see subsequent spikes with the re-runs. (By the way, I love my FF 3 so much, I feel like mocking IE 7 users. But I don’t, obviously, [...]
· Colbert Bump - Firefox 3 proves its existence Colbert Bump - Firefox 3 proves its existence On the evening of Firefox 3 Download Day, Stephen Colbert of “The Colbert Report” gave Firefox 3 his “Colbert Bump”, further buoying the already giddy and exhausted crowd of folks involved with the launch efforts. The Mozilla Metrics team has since combed through the download logs looking to see if the “Colbert Bump” actually had any effect on the traffic to the website. “Download Day was a wild success, and we were happy to share some thanks and credit with Stephen. However, a few questions naturally arose, e.g., what was the direct impact of the Colbert Bump? and could the effect be precisely measured?” It turns out that there was a significant spike in the downloads exactly one and two minutes after “the Bump”. For the details, read the full post at the Blog of Metrics.
Tune into just about any episode of The Colbert Report, and you'll hear Stephen Colbert extolling the virtues of the "Colbert bump," the phenomenon wherein candidates, authors, and musicians appearing on his show experience an immediate surge in popularity and sales of whatever they happen to be hawking. Among the many bumps for which Colbert has claimed credit, see Toby Keith's #1 album last year, Salman Rushdie's knighthood, and the fact that the names Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee mean something to you. Now, James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, has just completed a study demonstrating the "first scientific evidence of Stephen Colbert's influence on political campaigns." Yes, Virginia, the Colbert bump is real. Fowler examined the rate and amount of fundraising done by House candidates who appeared on Colbert's show for his "Better Know a District" segment. Democrats who appear on the show raise 44 percent more money in the 30 days after appearing on the show than Dems that don't appear. But it's bad news for Republicans: No bump. Their donations stay flat. Advice for Barack and Hillary, given that Colbert is taking his show on the road next week to Pennsylvania in advance of the presidential primary there: Get thee to the Report.
An analysis of the Colbert Bump, the jump in sales that follows an author's appearance on The Colbert Report. (via plasticbag) (link)
"Democrats who appear on 'The Colbert Report' enjoy a significant increase in the number and total amount of donations they receive over the next 3040 days when compared to similar candidates who do not appear on the show," according to a summary of [political scientist James Fowler's study by the American Political Science Association. (The report is in the July issue of APSA's journal, PS.) Republicans do not experience the "Colbert bump." In fact, their fundraising tends to taper after they appear on Colbert's satirical talk show, "hinting at a possible 'Colbert bust' for the GOP," APSA said.
With The Colbert Report still out of commission until Jan. 7. and even then is still going to suck, thanks to the ongoing writer’s strike, the only way to get fresh material from Stephen Colbert is to look to the past. This clip from Chicago’s Second City is from 1990, but hey... it’s new to me.