First he says the Moon Landings were fake, and then when I put him on notice about it, he "suddenly" does a flip flop.
And now Stephen Colbert mocks the meteorite market. He even calls them "meteors", and mispronounces "achondrites"!
Oh, Mr. Colbert! Must I make yet another video which will be misinterpreted by hundreds of clueless YouTube n00bs?
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January 14th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Arghhhhhhh!!!! I can’t download videos from Comedy Central for some reason. Anyone else have that problem?
BA, I’d love to see you on The Colbert Report.
January 14th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Hey, now you have a source to borrow a spacesuit glove to slap him with!
January 14th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Phil, I loved that bit he did. I’m glad there’s a video of it, so I can send it off to a friend of mine who is a meteoriticist. In fact, said friend graced my holiday haul with a few choice selections from the meteorite market.
I hope the stocks don’t go down too much!!!
January 14th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Phil, you’re not going to get on the show until you have something to plug — i.e. your book.
(BTW: Given the subject of your book — all the scary things in space that could annihilate us — I suspect you have a good chance of getting on when you start your publicity tour. Sounds like a perfect “science will kill us all” subject for Colbert. But before then? Nah.)
January 14th, 2008 at 10:52 am
“We prefer to be called “Celestial Americans” – priceless! And yes, Colbert’s people need to book the BA on his show ASAP. I’d watch that for a quarter! (Props to C.M. Kornbluth, Not Paul Verhoeven)
January 14th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Phil, your mistake here is taking Colbert for a journalist (?!). He’s a comedian/agent provacateur. Those whose political leanings match his, being those who don’t put critical thought to a lot of use, tend to consider his musings factual, and therefore believe him to be a journalist. Just consider it an honor to be mocked by him. In fact, I’m envious already.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Fred, Fred, Fred…are you new here?
Pssst…Phil’s in on the joke…
January 14th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Phil:
Tacitus is right, talk to your publisher about doing a stint on Colbert’s show to promote the book. It’d be a hoot, you & Colbert would have -SO- much fun!
Rich
January 14th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Doctor,
I’m with everyone else on this one. Pitch your book on the show, and maybe you can make the sky itself the top threat to America… unless Colbert ties it in with the Space Bear conspiracy!
January 14th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
I think Neil Tyson was on his show after his “Death by Black Hole” book came out. Was hilarious.
Either Colbert or Stewart.
January 14th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Reading some of those comments on your youtube site made my brain hurt.
Pete
January 14th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Just wanted to say that the punch delivered by Buzz was friggin priceless!!
January 14th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
I saw that clip on the Report and immediately thought of you. I’d love to see you interviewed by either Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert – it’d be a riot (and informative!)
January 15th, 2008 at 5:32 am
Amy said:
“Pssst…Phil’s in on the joke…”
There’s a joke?
January 15th, 2008 at 10:29 am
While watching the Colbert video I noticed the ‘Dr. Phil Plait is cool….Really cool’ video. When did you start using DrBuzz0 as an alias Phil?
January 16th, 2008 at 5:24 am
Well what do you expect from Colbert. After all, he IS Huckabee’s confirmed running mate.