Good evening and welcome to tonight's edition of the The Daily Show/Colbert Report chat thread. Remember to give a shout-out to our long-time host TiaRachel who is taking a few weeks off.
Everyone is welcome to jump in and join us. Turn on the tee vee and tune into to Comedy Central...Or don't. There's always plenty of discussions that have absolutely nothing to do with the shows.
Let's take a look at Jon and Stephen's guests tonight.
The Daily Show: Joe Nocera
Joe Nocera is a business columnist for the New York Times.
NYT bio
Joe Nocera became a business columnist for The New York Times in April 2005. Mr. Nocera also contributes to The New York Times Magazine as a business writer. In addition to his work at The Times, he serves as a regular business commentator for NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon.
And he writes a blog at the Grey Lady too.
He was on Colbert last September.
He even has a Fan Blog!
He writes books. His most recent one is Good Guys and Bad Guys: Behind the Scenes with the Saints and Scoundrels of American Business (and Everything in Between)
The Colbert Report: Carl Wilson
It seems that Stephen's guest is Carl Wilson, music critic, as opposed to Carl Wilson, deceased Beach Boy.
Carl Wilson's blog.
He wrote a book: Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (33 1/3) Why are all these book titles so long?
Continuum 33 1/3
33 1/3 is a series of short books about a wide variety of albums, by artists ranging from James Brown to the Beastie Boys. Launched in September 2003, the series now contains over 50 titles and is acclaimed and loved by fans, musicians and scholars alike.
Review of this specific volume:
Instead, this book goes very deeply right. Like most rock critics, Carl Wilson—a writer and editor at Canada’s national paper, The Globe and Mail—has always reflexively detested Céline. "From the start," he writes in Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, "her music struck me as bland monotony raised to a pitch of obnoxious bombast—R&B with the sex and slyness surgically removed, French chanson severed from its wit and soul ... Oprah Winfrey–approved chicken soup for the consumerist soul, a neverending crescendo of personal affirmation deaf to social conflict and context." (As another critic once put it: "I think most people would rather be processed through the digestive tract of an anaconda than be Céline Dion for a day.")
Oh, he writes for this Globe and Mail Canadian newspaper.
Monday was the 105th birthday of Theodore Geisel, affectionately known as Dr. Seuss.
Theodore Geisel is so much more than children's books! His work includes political cartoons and a stint in the Army (WWII). There seems to be different "stories" around the inspiration for some of his books including a boat engine, a challenge of a word limitation, and a literacy article by Life magazine. And he was a lifelong Lutheran, just like me!
Seussville.com from Random House.
Dr. Seuss community site including info on a sculpture garden.
MSN has a bio too: here.
So go read a book! After the show, of course. ;-)