Olympic Log Day 7: Ujjal Dosanjh gets served on the Colbert Repor

Yes, Truthiness showed up in our very own Vancouver today as literally, thousands descended upon the muddy Creekside Park near Science World. About 4500 people RSVP'd 'yes' to the facebook invite, and I do believe every single person came. I got there at 8:45am- and the crowd was already thick- taking up 90% of the grass space and left me on the sidewalk.

The show didn't start taping until 10:30-11:00. No, it wasn't live address. Far from it. Colbert made several foibles and the crowd, still enthusiastic to laugh, became less genuine in their laughs as he told the same joke up to a third time to get it right.






Highlights included:

-an eagle FLEW over the crowd before the show! I don't know if it was staged or not. Too much of a coincidence for it to not be staged...but it's Vancouver- that kind of thing does happen naturally.
-Crowd starts chanting, "Stephen, Stephen, Stephen!" Colbert says, "Now in French!" [slight pause] "Stéphane! Stéphane! Stéphane!"
-Micheal Buble was challenged to sing the Canadian national anthem to the tune of the Amercian national anthem. You could tell Colbert practised- both did a pretty stellar job
-"Actors love to live in 'Hollywood North'- because paparazzi ambush the stars AFTER they ask politely if they can ambush the stars"
-"Who's torch is that? can I see it? I'll give it back" [handed the torch]. "Yeah, I'm not going to give it back."
-"I'd like to thank Vancouver for erecting these two balls in my honour"- referring to science world and the dome.
-Ujjal Dosanjh gets SERVED- the kind of thing only Colbert can get away with:
--"You don't look Canadian..oh, i'm sorry, I was expecting somebody that look more like a 'Gordon'"
--"What caste are you?.... Indians are born into castes like I was born a Catholic (and die a Catholic)"
--"You are familiar with the phrase, 'you get what you pay for' yes or no? Well how do you explain your free healthcare and cheap medicine?"
(Colbert did an epic job of baiting Dosanjh)
-And finally, Bob Costas IS a jerk. He made a few slights at Canada.

Overall, Colbert was worth watching, even though you couldn't see him because the crowd was so thick and it was a 3 hour wait for less than half an hour of Colbert actually talking live.

Colbert will be there on Thursday, February 17 morning too. Go early- about 8am early. And don't wear nice shoes..your feet sink into the mud. RECOMMEND this Post on Progressive Bloggers CLICK HERE!