Sex Kitten Stephen

With the Comedy Central cameras off, one of Charleston’s most popular favorite sons settled in behind the podium at the commencement for graduates at the Medical University of South Carolina.Stephen Colbert, whose father was academic vice president at the university in the early ’70s, did not bring his famous alter-ego: the excitable faux talk show pundit of The Colbert Report. Instead, he provided sentimental memories of his dad and the times they spent on campus.
Colbert did make one reference to the character that has launched a thousand fan sites; a failed, comedic presidential campaign; and a New York Times bestseller.
“Traditionally commencement speakers dole out advice on life and careers to students,” he said. “But I’ve made my career as an aggressively ignorant blowhard with a dismissive attitude toward knowledge in general and to science in particular. So, clearly I have no business in giving you any advice.”
And yet, he did. But first he summed up the student experience, gross medical mysteries and all.
“In the last four years you’ve gone from ‘I don’t want to see that,’ to ‘Hey, come look at this,’” he said.
There’s also that introduction to the requisite cadaver.
“That was awkward I have to imagine,” Colbert said. “But you got used to it. Pretty soon you were calling him Ricky. Making him your Facebook photo.”
There’s those relationships that just will never be the same.
“Your pick-up line may be ‘I love you baby,’” he said. “But inside you’re thinking, ‘Proximity to you triggers the release of phenylethamine from my hypothalamus which in turn triggers extra cellular dopamine and suffuses me with a sense of arousal and well being, reinforced by my evolutionary response to your facial symmetry, part of a hard-wired drive to produce adaptive offspring, baby.’”
He gave a shout out to pharmacists.
“How would you have graduated without them?” he asked, prompting laughter and cheers from the pharmacy graduates. “Who was your favorite study partner? Ritalin? Adorale? Provigil? Anyone have a whole study group? Besides giving me an honorary degree, I’m hoping you can also give me an honorary prescription pad. I heard if you mix OxyContin and Cialis, it gives you heat vision.”
By the end, Colbert got back to the advice.
“Whenever I honestly, sincerely give young people advice … the most common thing I say is go make mistakes. The best thing I ever did was to give myself permission to be wrong,” he said. “I can’t really give you that advice. It’s irresponsible for me to tell graduates of a medical college to go out and make as many mistakes as you can.”
So he encourage the students to, instead, lower patient expectations.
“When they walk into the examination room for the first time maybe you should be wearing the gown,” he said. “When they call you doctor, giggle.”
And if that doesn’t work?
“You just tell them at your graduation, Stephen Colbert reminded you that you are humans and, as such, you always have the right to fail,” he said.
Colbert received an honorary degree. Below are additional photos of the sash and degree presentations, as well as Colbert's guiding of a choral "Happy Birthday," to celebrate his recent 45th.

NEW YORK - Stephen Colbert slayed the competition in a “Shred Off” with the Decemberists — or at least he claimed to have.
Wednesday night’s “Colbert Report” on Comedy Central was dedicated entirely to a guitar-solo contest between the mock-news pundit and the indie-rock band, who were represented by lead guitarist Chris Funk.
The special grew out of a tongue-in-cheek feud begun by Colbert when the Decemberists asked their fans to add in the background of a music video they filmed in front of a green screen — which Colbert claimed “rode on the coattails” of his show’s earlier “Green Screen Challenge.”

Decemberists singer-songwriter Colin Meloy countered with a proposed guitar duel — which on Wednesday attracted an absurd array of guests.
The show was opened by Morley Safer of “60 Minutes,” and included appearances by Henry Kissinger, New York Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer, Peter Frampton, Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen, rock critic Anthony DeCurtis, producer Jim Anderson and Apples in Stereo’s Robert Schneider.
When it came time for Colbert to showcase his six-string prowess, he comically donned a five-necked guitar and promptly faked a cut on his hand. His call for a guitarist to stand in for the Colbert Nation was answered by Frampton.
After judges DeCurtis and Anderson split in their decision and Spitzer recused himself because of an attempted bribe from Colbert — the contest turned to Kissinger to break the deadlock.
“Tonight, I think the American people won,” the diplomat said via satellite.
Colbert, whose character considers himself the voice of the people, took that as an endorsement of victory. While the celebration began, he apologized that the star-studded affair didn’t have time for all of its guests.
“I would also like to apologize to Nelson Mandela and J.D. Salinger,” he deadpanned. “I’m sorry we did not have time, gentlemen. Please join us another night.”
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According to the AP:

Comedian Stephen Colbert will take his show, The Colbert Report, to the Persian Gulf on a USO entertainment tour, saying it will be the "closest I've ever come to being brave." In an appearance on the "Late Show with David Letterman" on Thursday, Colbert said he was invited by General David Petraeus, head of US Central Command, to entertain US troops in Iraq. Although American entertainers have long taken part in United Service Organizations tours, the Colbert visit will be the first TV show "to produce more than one episode in a combat zone," Comedy Central said in a press release. Colbert told Letterman that he had gone through "basic training" for his upcoming trip. "I did basic training. I went down to Fort Jackson in South Carolina," he said. "And I did the entire eight hours of basic training." "I got yelled at a lot. You know, I know they weren't yelling at me. But it felt like it was at me," Colbert joked. "I did simulated fire exercises with M16s with blanks in it … I made a mistake. I ran out of bullets. And naturally I surrendered, and I apologized to the other side." He did not disclose which base or bases he would visit during his stay in the Persian Gulf, saying the US military does not allow him to.

Truthiness

Steven Colbert has become a force to be reckoned with.

I intend to dedicate this blog to little known facts about the man, documented by some fun photos along the way.

I hope you enjoy yourself....