Kamen to appear on Colbert Report?

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Conor Ryan

FIRSTcast had Dean before it was cool!

Who said it was cool

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by Conor Ryan

FIRSTcast had Dean before it was cool!

it was ALWAYS cool! =P


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

[Greg Perkins]

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.

[Liz Smith]

Originally Posted by Greg Perkins

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.

Just my own $.02..
Let the bad rep start flowing.

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.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Greg Perkins

Maybe I'm just the sour apple of the group, but I don't really find Steven Colbert that funny; ... Just my own $.02.. Let the bad rep start flowing.

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!

[Manoel]

Originally Posted by Richard

I sincerely hope no one on CD is going to neg rep you for thinking (...)

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!

[chris31]

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.

[KelliV]

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.

[FIRST Rocks]

Originally Posted by Greg Perkins

and then the whole thing about the mexicans was a little politically incorrect.

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

[nuggetsyl]

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.

[Andrew Blair]

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.

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Andrew Blair

That whole segment was rather tame, but made Colbert and Dean look a little better for it.

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.

[galewind]

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.

[jakk]

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

[Jon K.]

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

Originally Posted by jakk

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

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