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the colbert report

Daily Show senior correspondent Stephen Colbert is getting his very own spin-off, reports today’s New York Times. (“‘Daily Show’ Personality Gets His Own Platform” - 05/04/05)

It sounds like they’ve turned the Colbert Report fake program teaser — in which Colbert shouts down his guests, Hardball-style — and turned it into an actual show, which will debut this fall.

Comedy Central said yesterday that it was giving Mr. Colbert his own show: a half-hour that is expected to follow “The Daily Show” on weeknights and will lampoon those cable-news shows that are dominated by the personality and sensibility of a single host. Think, he said, of Bill O’Reilly and Chris Matthews and Sean Hannity…

Comedy Central is considering ripping an actual page from the cable news networks it so often mocks, and having Mr. Stewart, at the end of his half-hour show, share a split-screen with Mr. Colbert, in what is known in the news business as a “throw” or “toss.”

“It could be kind of seamless,” said Doug Herzog, president of Comedy Central and Spike TV, who presided over the debut of “The Daily Show” in 1996. “It would have the effect of extending ‘The Daily Show’ to a full hour.” …

“We’re going to deal with truth on my program,” Mr. Colbert said. “We’re going to catch the world in the headlights of my justice.”

This makes me wonder … is an “all fake news” network that far behind?