Stephen Colbert Makes the Case for Embracing Technology, Texting at Funerals
On last night's 'Colbert Report,' Stephen Colbert sat down with Sherry Turkle, an MIT professor who recently wrote a book about the devastating effects that technology has had on the human race. Throughout the interview, Turkle tirelessly argues that things like social networking and text messaging are turning us into alienated, soulless automatons. And, as he always does, Colbert deftly shoots ...
[Disclaimer: The author of this article has the same name as the one-eyed, purple-haired alien in 'Futurama,' and, therefore, everything the show does is sacred to her.]
The best thing about pre-cancellation 'Futurama' was that it was delightfully dated, with jokes about pop-up ads, AOL and pre-iPod Apple -- all of which were especially funny because the show takes place in the future. ...
In what The New York Times is calling "the first major fracture" between TV execs and the video streaming Web site, Viacom has decided to pull both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert from Hulu's lineup of shows. The specifics remain uncertain, but it seems that the two parties couldn't agree on how to divide the swelling ad revenue that both shows have yielded. As Hulu's Andy Forssell wrote in a ...
Does your 11pm bedtime make getting your daily John Stewart and Stephen Colbert fix difficult? The solution is now as close as your Web browser. Both the 'Daily Show with John Stewart' and 'The Colbert Report' are available now via Hulu, the ad-supported Web site co-created by NBC Universal and News Corp. Full-length TV shows and movies on Hulu are streamed to a user's desktop and are ...
MTV Networks, the company behind MTV (obviously), VH1, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, CMT, Spike, and The N, has announced plans to offer every episode of 'South Park', ever, online, for free. Are you done dancing for joy yet? We'll wait. So here's the deal. SouthParkStudios.com, which currently hosts a small video clip collection as well as some downloadable extras, will include every clip of ...









