Dear Stephen Colbert
Just a thought from 18 October 2005 about
TV.
Hey Steve. You know I love you. I really do. Your reports on the Daily Show have been fantastic. The Week in God? Brilliant. And your voices for Harvey Birdman are my favorite part of the show. Hah hah! "Part."
But, Steve, lemme ask you a question. You know how sometimes, on Saturday Night Live, they do a sketch with some dumb joke that goes on way too long? So long that, by the end, the audience is only laughing because they think it'll make them stop?
And you know how, sometimes, the SNL people mistake that laugher for actual laughter, so they make the same joke, again and again, show after show, until finally, they're so deliriously misguided that they run out and make a movie? A full two hours of the same bad dumb joke?
And then, when the movie bombs, you know how everyone wonders, why did they ever make that piece of crap in the first place?
You know how that happens sometimes? You do? Oh, okay. Just wondering.
Wha?
This section is called Just a Thought. It's a blog where I post little pieces of what I'm thinking about at the moment. This page is an individual entry called “Dear Stephen Colbert” that I wrote on 18 October 2005.
Before this, I wrote a little something called “The Reality of My Surroundings 2” on 16 October 2005. After this, I wrote “Threaded” on 1 November 2005.
BEFORE
The Reality of My Surroundings 2
I'm coming back home from walking the pups when I see them. A gaggle of drunk fifty-somethings, grey hair all...
16 October 2005
AFTER
Threaded
After being a member of Threadless for four years, I've finally submitted a couple of designs. And they're up! Now...
1 November 2005
Working the web since 1995, Derek Powazek is the creator of many award-winning websites, a couple of which still exist. Derek is the cofounder of JPG Magazine and the CCO of 8020 Publishing. Derek lives in San Francisco with his wife, two nutty Chihuahuas, a grumpy cat, and a house full of plants named Fred. More »
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