Kamen to appear on Colbert Report?
 

I think this would be for tomorrow (Thursday) night.

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/t...rt/index.jhtml

Anyone have any information on this?

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Two of my heroes in the same room...? This should be good.

Also, I don't have to worry about taping it because of every second of that show is put on youtube nearly right away.

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The Colbert Report is awsome! I cant wait to see this episode.

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OH GOD!!!!

guys.....you gotta help me out here. I've a class from 7:20-10:00 (pm), and by the time I'll get to my downtown apartment it will be like 12 or even after. If someone can post a link to YouTube over here, after the show, that would be AWESOME!

(Finally i got something to look forward to at work for Friday morning :p )

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Not anymore the copyright lawyers took them down last week as well as the Daily Show.

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And shortly thereafter, Viacom allowed YouTube to leave the clips up for the time being, as they wanted to work out a deal.

Granted, such uploads might be a little touch-and-go until a deal is reached.

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Thanks for the heads-up! I am not going to be home tonight, so I went online and told me TiVo to grab it for me.

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Without a doubt one of my favorite Tivo functions right there.

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Moral of the story: where there is a will there is a way. I'll watch it, just I don't know what medium yet!

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According to my Media Center and local cable listings.
It will be shown at:
10:30 PM Tonight
Then tomorrow (Friday) at:
12:30 AM
7:30 AM
1:30 PM
7:30 PM

P.S. Those are all central time zone

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One part of me hopes a FIRST robot will be in attendance tonight, just to see Colbert get "nailed" for once. ;)

(Then again, the Colbert Nation has taken enough hits this week.)

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hear hear! wonder whose bot?

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This could be good. :D

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It's my understanding that the Report originates from New York City, so 25 and 522 are both in the neighborhood.

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And 395 perhaps? ;)

I doubt FIRST will be involved much (of course that means it will), my guess it'll be more about the Segway.

Question: Will Colbert ride on a segway over to the interview area?

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I highly doubt that this is going to be a FIRST related visit, I would put money on this being a talk about the water machine or new segway. If FIRST gets mentioned it will only probably be 1 sentance.

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Agreed.
Itll all be about the Segway, and for the most part, Colbert mocking it. Reguardless, Colbert is always funny, so it'll be a good show.

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One of the interesting things about the Colbert Report is to see how much he tries to actually back each guest into a corner. Usually when he has a politician or member of the media, he will do everything he can to get them to become flustered or say something they don't mean. However, when Ned Lamont, the challenger to Lieberman for the Connecticut Senate seat was on the program, Colbert didn't try to hardball him at all. In fact, it almost seemed as if the questions Colbert were asking were softballs.

I wonder how Colbert feels about the advancement of science and technology in America. I predict he will ridicule the Segway, but then I bet he will back off and let Dean get out his message.

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So what if Steve Colbert is using this opportunity to announce his sponsorship of a new FIRST team - similar to his sponsorship of a youth hockey team. How 'bout that for an awesome sponsor?

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i can assure u that 522 wasnt called.. lol

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My prediction is that it's going to be on the new Segway golf caddy that was announced today (?) Will be intersting to see which way Colbert chooses to spin it. And how Dean reacts.

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Wow, wow, wow. Just wow. I am so excited! I am definitely staying up late tonight... no way in heck that I will miss this!I volunteer the Who'sCTEKS. :)

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*Is willing to rename 116 so we can be like the Saginaw Spirit and have our progress monitored! ;) *

But anyway, while it may or may not be on youtube, it will be on comedycentral.com, so you can just watch it there! http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/t...nt/index.jhtml

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I think you're right on both counts.

It would be fun to see Dean pour some nasty liquid into the top of the water machine, wait a few minutes while Colbert yacks about how nerdy the Segway is and blah blah, then take a drink of the machine's output and challenge Colbert to do the same! :D

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This reminds me of a specific test that was done at deka when I was there.... http://asap.ap.org/stories/240474.s

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Anyone watching?

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I'm watching! :)

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Stevens riding an ibot!!!


and their talking about FIRST!

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and they are talking about FIRST! :) (so much for all the nay-sayers!)

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I bet he's already working on that immigration invention...

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thanks dave....

good interview, very good

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I do believe I just saw Dean match Colbert. For every joke Colbert had, Dean had a response that gained cheers.

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Quote of the night... "Now by mentioning this on my show, aren't you just encouraging our enemies to build 6 story buildings?"

Or something along those lines :p that was awesome, I'm glad I DVR'd it :cool:

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Dean: We encourage kids to learn about science, technology....
Colbert: And does that include creation science?
Dean: .... Well we teach kids to be very creative.....

I vote this belongs in the spotlight. Heh.

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I was quite impressed with the interview. More FIRST then I expected and Dean was funnier than I expected.

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Agreed. Colbert was great, Dean played along well. FIRST got promotion thank heavens... any chance that Stephen could be at Atlanta this upcoming season??? Time to start sending invitations... ;)

AWESOME!!! (in conclusion)

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A great interview with Dean tonight. Quite possibly one of the best outings from Dean that I've seen in a while. He was very lively, funny, and quick with a response. I think we need Colbert prompting him at the awards ceremonies. (HA!)

As far as products and projects, Dean talked about the IBot, FIRST, and a soldier "vertical assist" device, as well as mentioning the Dialysis Machine and Insulin Pump. Quite a bit to discuss in a 5 minute interview. I'm sure someone else will post a full transcript about it, so I'll end my play-by-play here.

Anyways, I'm glad I stayed awake for it. I highly recommend finding a way to watch a recording of it.

BEN

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I totally agree!!!! I think everyone got a kick outa that there. Who knows what we will be doing in robotics in years to come... especially if he keeps making crazy suggestions like that lol

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That was awesome! :D


I can see it now....

FIRST Email Blast: Attention FIRST Teams!

Due to recent events that have come to our attention, we are releasing the 2007 FRC game early. Your task will be to launch your human player to the top of a six story building. We're extremely sorry, but the FIRST offices will be closed while we add two more floors to our building. Thanks!

Go Teams!

:p

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Caution... low flying FIRST members :p

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Anyone have a URL to this yet?

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It sounds like it was good. I recorded it because I was at the Rutgers game tonight. I'll probably watch it sometime tomorrow.

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oh my god. two of my heroes in the same room, TELEVISED.

i honestly thought there was going to be some serious mocking, but i think it turned out really, really well. even GP got mentioned!

=] go dean! [and colbert, of course...] what a great show. glad i taped it.

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Haha, I thought Dean was going to get pwned by Colbert.

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OMG i was flipping threw the channels and stopped when i heard dean's name !!!
great timing i might add . Now we just need to not only get Colbert as a guest but as an announcer or going around and interviewing teams !!!

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I missed it live, but they have it on the Comedy Centeral MotherLoad

Part 1: http://www.comedycentral.com/motherl...ml_video=78037
Part 2: http://www.comedycentral.com/motherl...ml_video=78036

:D

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Gah, I just spent 7 hours setting up my other computer as a DVR to record this for me, and now I find out I could have just waited...

Unfortunately in the interest of sleep last night and this morning, I have to wait 7 more hours.

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it will also be on this morning at 8:30/7:30 est/cst :D

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I passed out before I could watch it...rawr. Does anyone wanna send me a copy? I know all you FIRSTers taped it!

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So I was all set to watch it, and around the start of the show I dozed in the common room.

I woke up, and the repeat was airing....and proceeded to re-doze. About all I saw was Colbert on an IBOT during the end credits. Luckily, the roommate is DVRing the repeat for me, so I'm gonna get it one way or another. :D

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It is wise never to underestimate Mr. Kamen.
He is a visionary and a leader and he does his own homework.

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Dean did very well. And Colbert, measured relative to his treatment of some guests, seemed to be throwing Dean softballs. Of course, Dean is a slugger, and maybe Colbert wasn't prepared for that.

Colbert's score using the Fantasy Colbert League point system would be pretty low for this one.

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I thought the episode was really done well. Seeing Dean and Colbert together was hilarious. Now if only we could get Dave and Woody on the show, or all three of them at the same time.

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It would have been great had they shown a clip or given the URL for the website.

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Eh, his Leno segment awhile back really sucked, I think Dean's grown more into the role of a face of inventing and technology more. I was affraid he'd turn out like the Woz's interview, which, really blew.

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Comedy Central repeats the Daily Show and Colbert Report the following day at 8/8:30 EST, so it should be on this evening.

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the 1390 guys turned off one of the TVs during their Halo party and turned on the show. I thought it was a very good report (t silent.)

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If you don't see it before next meeting let me know, I'll transfer it from my Tivo.

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dean did surprisingly well compared to the normally serious guy he is. he kept the jokes with stephen going and was able to handle stephen's normal antics very well. i say he did a good job explaining FIRST and all that kind of stuff. Good job dean

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FIRSTcast had Dean before it was cool!

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Who said it was cool :p

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it was ALWAYS cool! =P


edit:: darn, tom got to it too. but dean's always been cool, sorry conor.

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Maybe I'm just the sour apple of the group, but I don't really find Steven Colbert that funny; I could stand him when he was on the Daily Show and would do segments. I thought he mocked the message that Dean was trying to portray, and Dean was just quick with the comebacks. I don't know, maybe it's just I've never seen Mr. Kamen in a humorous role before, and this was a little startling. I mean Colbert's comments (albeit in humor) were borerline rude. Like "We could put a hemi in this thing" "Do the students build combat robots?" and then the whole thing about the mexicans was a little politically incorrect.
However even with the comments, Dean did a pretty good job explaining FIRST and his inventions.
Just my own $.02..
Let the bad rep start flowing.

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I believe the point of the show is that he is mocking all of the ignorant, single minded media shows. The humor is in the fact that he is acting and his "opinions" and questions are slightly outrageous and closed minded.

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I sincerely hope no one on CD is going to neg rep you for thinking that the opinions and attitudes Colbert personifies are not funny. They aren't.

The Colbert Report is satire, not humor. Of course, there is a mean-spirited minority that actually agrees with some of Colbert's outrages, and those nit-wits might view him as funny. The rest of us are laughing with Colbert as he mocks the nit-wits. And he does it well!

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Actually, just that part of the quote is enough ;)

I am not familiar with the show, but Dean's performance was pretty good and watching he laugh out loud after the 6-story building comment was worth the entire thing!

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Colbert has sometimes just nailed the guests to the point that nothing they could say would make them look right. Usually these people are politicians or people with strong views. Kamen isnt the type of person he usually has on. I think the fact that Kamen is all good (he invents to better mankind, unlike the scandles and lies of politicians) so Colbert didnt have as much to get Dean with.

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I wasn't that into it, but then again I am not a large Colbert fan. Dean was better than usual though. It was nice to see him laughing, I don't know if I have ever seen that before.

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Colbert tries to be politically incorrect! It's half the show.

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maybe i missed it posted here on cd but who else wants to see the super jumper in action. I bed our robots can use one.

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Wow, Colbert really disapointed me this time. I haven't watched him for awhile, but he seemed to be grasping for material. Not so much Dean's interview, but most of the rest of the show. I was impressed at his responses however- Dean handled himself (and promoted FIRST), very well I thought. That whole segment was rather tame, but made Colbert and Dean look a little better for it.

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I would have loved to see some footage from an actual FIRST event. I think it's very easy for viewers to go "oh yea robots" and just shrug it off, but if they had shown video of what FIRST is actually like and provided the URL for the FIRST website, they would have gotten a bunch of extra publicity. None of Colbert's guests usually have video though, so maybe they weren't willing to let Dean show any.

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y'know, as "off" as Colbert was on that, I honestly think he was doing a "good thing" by having Dean on there. Having read and watched a bit about Colbert's non-television life, I honestly think he's a bit of an idealist like Dean. That being said, having him on the show is a bit more difficult because, as someone suggested, there's not much comedy in it. But think of how many people may have actually thought, if only briefly, to consider the concept of encouraging America's youth to solve tomorrow's problems.

I honestly believe that both Colbert and Dean would want to see that happen. While Colbert makes his money in comedy, I think he's a lot more well-grounded and idealistic than his persona leads people to believe.

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does anyone have information about that thing that Dean is working on about the "soldier jumping 6 stories high in 1.5 secs"? Was that just the in the script or are they really making it? Wouldnt it be cool to see Dean try it out at the kickoff!!!

6 stories joke made me lmao

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I thought the segment was quite good and definately got FIRST into a different audience then normally would.

If you search CD or the Kamen forum, there are threads about it that were created as soon as the patent came out.

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Having him ride around in the iBot was better than any FIRST video. Colbert couldn't hide how cool it is. In my opinion, that invention represents FIRST more than the FRC entries. The robots are a tool to motivate High School kids to build stuff like that.

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I found the video online of the interview: Dean on the Colbert Report

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Every time I see one, I still recall Dean balancing the bridge at the 2001 Championships with his iBot. A classic FIRST video.

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Did anyone else notice that they purposefully put Colbert's interview table on a stand just so he could demonstrate the awesome climbing power of Dean's chair? :D

It was an amusing touch

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Isn't his interview table always on a stand? :confused:

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Yeah I'm pretty sure his table is always on a stand but the step up to it was added.

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Yeah just the step was added. This was needed because to climb higher steps, the user usually needs to hold on to a handrail, which would make for a bad shot.

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Sorry to disagree, but I didn't enjoy this too much.
It all seemed a little staged — as if DK paid to be promoted on the Report and Colbert had to write the interview around that, for example that Colbert's banter about the iBot carefully highlighted all its good points.

Also, DK could seriously have done better. He didn't have to respond to the question about fighting robots with a drawn out explanation of why they're graciously competing. It would've been more interesting for the audience to admit that they're "fighting" and then clarify that it's not a destructive battle and that there's no team rivalry. Am I the only one to feel this way?

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A bonzer vid! I think Colbert (err....Colbert's character) was lost for words in that. Either way, I think it gave FIRST a really good spot.

But Colbert has to show up at a RANDOM FRC in 07 to back up the spot he gave about FIRST.

I actually tried out that iBot for myself. Let me say, it is A BEAST! If they added a seat elevator to that. It's niceness times 1000 and I would try to enter the lottery JUST so I could win enough money to buy one of those bad boys.

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yeah, that would be pretty fun. but i doubt colbert would do that...

I'm pretty sure its not Beatty Engineered and Student Tweaked (i thought DK made it) :p

I enjoyed the clip, although i'm sad that I can't add it to my promotional video, with all the different setbacks. I'm sure people would love to see DK on Colbert Report...

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I absolutely love how everytime someones making the world a better place, colbert informs them that they're helping the terrorists too (not only with dean's interview, but on the Daily Show with the release of Harry Potter, "Because when children read, everyone wins.")
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