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08/27/08

01:11:53 pm, Categories: Announcements [A], 232 words

Secular Coalition on Colbert

Lori Lipman Brown, director of the Secular Coalition for America, will be featured in The Colbert Report's "Better Know a Lobby" series during the broadcast tomorrow night, Thursday, August 28 at 11:30pm EST, 10:30 central on the Comedy Central cable channel.
Of course, even in the fake news business, events can overtake programming schedules, but barring breaking news, the segment will run on Thursday.
Lori spent two hours being grilled by Stephen Colbert in his New York City Studio on Wednesday, August 13th for the fifth in Colbert's 35,000 part series, "Better Know a Lobby".
Representing "The Fightin' Heathens," Brown gamely explained secular values, endured Mr. Colbert's withering (and hilarious) interrogation and played along with some outrageous antics, all the while sporting her prized WRISTSTRONG bracelet.
The Secular Coalition expects the final product, a roughly 5-minute segment, to be entertaining - perhaps even enlightening - and is eager to see how big a "Colbert Bump" the segment produces for the organization.
Previously, the series has profiled the Brady Campaign (Fightin'
Pacifists), Sierra Club (Fightin' Treehuggers), Human Rights Campaign (Fightin' Gays) and the Drug Policy Alliance (Fightin' Stoners).
We will post a link to the interview on our home page as soon as it is available. In the meantime, please feel free to post and share this exciting news.
Thanks very much!
Anne

Anne Singer, Communications Director
Secular Coalition for America

e-mail: anne@secular.org
www.secular.org

12 comments

Comments:

Comment from: neowolfe [Member]

I love being the first to post, there is no danger of addressing responses to the wrong person. That's become important to me. :)

I love Stephen Colbert. He's been my favorite comedian since he was on the Jon Stewart's gig, doing "This Week in God". But, I think his performance has been even better after he got his spinoff. I think his characature of the far right conservative and Bush supporter, through ironic humor, has done more for the liberal movement than all the blogs put together.

I think, though, that Ms Singer may be a little optimitic when she speculates that the spot might be enlightening. That's not what Colbert does. He gives guests just enough time between interuptions to make a few plugs, and the rest is setup for his comedy routine. But I plan to be watching, in fact, I cant wait.

NeoWolfe

08/27/08 @ 14:16

Comment from: Bubba [Member]

"Fightin' Heathens" HAHA I like it!

08/27/08 @ 15:08

Comment from: fireemblem555 [Member]

He is playing a character on his show, but its really hard to tell when he is joking from when he is serious.

08/27/08 @ 20:48

Comment from: pixel [Member]

The way you can tell if he's joking - his lips will be moving!

08/27/08 @ 23:11

Comment from: Dorky Mommy [Member]

Stephen Colbert provides a wonderful service for rational people, by showing just how ridiculous the narrow minded folks can be. I never miss his show, and I am really looking forward to the "Fightin' Heathens" segment. I'm proud to line up beside them.

08/28/08 @ 11:02

Comment from: marthafulopreed [Member]

OK, what confuses me is that Wikipedia states that Stephen Colbert "is also a practicing Roman Catholic, as well as a Sunday school teacher"

08/28/08 @ 14:09

Comment from: neowolfe [Member]

martha.......whatever,
your name is worse than my email address, and it's totally wrong.
Let me clear up the confusion. Stephen Colbert is the one of the most irreverent human beings that ever existed, and makes fun of evangelicals and fundamentalists by pretending to be one. He is absolutely side splitting funny.
And as I understand, Wikipedia also has no record of Einstein's theory of a stable universe. Maybe they only keep records of things that don't matter.

NeoWolfe

08/28/08 @ 14:52

Comment from: ga4ry [Member]

wikipedia gets thing askew from time to time, in this case, catholics don't do sunday school, thats a prot indoctrination method.

08/29/08 @ 09:12

Comment from: fireemblem555 [Member]

I watched the Colbert Report last night and didn't see that segment, that happen to anyone else?

Also, he has said on his show that he is a Sunday School teacher before.

08/29/08 @ 14:23

Comment from: David Silverman [Member] · http://www.atheists.org/

Yup. Wasn't on. Probably a last-minute schedule shift. Keep an eye on the show -- it will probably air in a few days.

08/29/08 @ 16:45

Comment from: I'M Not A Bear! [Member]

Did anyone catch the first part of the introduction before the interview? I heard something that sounded like the Secular Coalition got the boot by the DNC. (heard it from another room) I hope someone caught that part, because I certainly want to hear the details.

08/30/08 @ 05:18

Comment from: fireemblem555 [Member]

They were denied participation in the interfaith conference.

08/30/08 @ 10:57

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