It's been ten years since his decade-defining Comedy Central show debuted. It's been eight years since he famously turned down $50 million to continue his television career. Then he disappeared, popping up only occasionally to remind he's still alive. But Dave Chapelle may finally be coming back to the people he left so abruptly all those years ago. Does he still have it?
The entertainment industry's looking pretty experimental these days, with the announcement of a new five-day-long comedy festival on Twitter. Yes, there is a hashtag involved.
Think back to September: Mitt Romney was still a constant in the news cycle and for a brief moment we were enthralled with a video of a pig rescuing a baby goat. But that video—like too much of what works its way into the online news cycle—was a fake.
Today: A sci-fi update looks surprisingly entertaining, Damon Lindelof has been given some more work, and Cee Lo Green is an actor now.
Today in publishing and literature: Comedy Central's new publishing imprint, bestselling self-published e-book writer Kerry Wilkinson scores a three book deal, and Thursday is World Book Day.
The FBI announced Tuesday that Viacom receiving "suspicious mailings" addressed to Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, and the Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer reported that three Congressional offices also received suspicious packages containing powdery substances.
The first shred of information about why the taping of the Colbert Report was suspended this week has been reported by the The Wall Street Journal and it's not happy.
We're crossing our fingers that the "unforeseen reason" causing Comedy Central to suspend production of the Colbert Report for the second half of this week is something in the nature of a happy surprise, not anything more serious.
The latest plot twist in Stephen Colbert's continuing civics lesson on campaign finance came last night: he announced that he would not run for president and demanded Jon Stewart give him back his but The Daily Show host refused. We asked a lawyer what's going on.
If Stephen Colbert's announcement to explore a presidential run was one part ratings ploy, it was at least two parts civics lesson.
“I am proud to announce that I am forming an exploratory committee to lay the groundwork for my possible candidacy for president of the United States of America of South Carolina,” Colbert said.
He'll follow in the footsteps of Donald Trump, Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff
Clean government advocates are dreaded the FEC ruling. But it turned out okay
The Comedy Central host can raise unlimited funds to influence the 2012 elections
"I hope I'm never again this happy over someone's death," admitted Colbert
The two TV hosts have been trading compliments as of late
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