Stephen Colbert 2008 'Webby Person of the Year'
By Bill W. Saturday May 10, 2008 7:15pm
Stephen Colbert may have already earned the title of "Greatest Living American" but now he can add "Webby Person of the Year." [...]
Colbert's use of the Internet, including challenging the "truthiness" of Wikipedia, attracting 78 members per minute to the Facebook page for his candidacy for president and his ability to get fans to rack up donations online for DonorsChoose.org earned him the award.
Over the past few weeks, Colbert fans have helped raise more than $188,000 through DonorsChoose.org in honor of their favorite presidential candidate to provide nearly 45,000 PA students with needed books, technology, and supplies. Last year, when Stephen Colbert ran for president, supporters donated more than $65,000 for South Carolina classrooms.
The star-studded International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences' Webbys awards ceremony will take place June 10 in NYC at the Museum of American Finance and guests will include Colbert and Webby Artist of the Year will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas, whose Barack Obama speech inspired "Yes, We Can" video went beyond viral. You can still get tickets now before they run out.
Oh, and yeah, I'll say it before Stephen does: suck on that, TIME!
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Awesome! Maybe now Stephen can consider himself greater than Rain.
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Oh love the Colbert award and yeah TIME can suck on it too !
Best regards ,,
what....no love for chocalate rain?
That's 2-0, Papa bear!
Although funny, Colbert is not as good as Stewart....and find neither as funny as Lewis Black when it comes to political humour.
I heard Colbert went to get a new building permit to add an "Awards Room" to his house. I suggest he build a big one. Colbert. One of the true geniuses of the 21st. century.
Why is this post causing me to scroll to the side to see it? I mean, this one post seems to cause the whole page to go off the side when, for instance, this comments page doesn't and C&L has never before. It not only means I must scroll right to catch some of the header words but I also *miss all the ads* on the right which I don't think your advertisers will appreciate.
Actually, now this comments page is asking me to scroll a little to the right as well. Not as much as main page but still unusual.
ConcernedCanuck @ 5:
I don't know what it is about this guy, but I don't find Colbert funny at all. How he manages to keep his show going is beyond me.
I never found Colbert funny.
Jon Stewart understands humour and comic timing much better.
Stephen would be best advised to apply for his previous job as correspondent with the Daily Show.
He's got my vote...do I count? I'm not really sure what the Webbie's are or who they decide who gets them :(
The start-up I work at, Zannel, also won a Judges Choice 2008 Webby last week, for Best Mobile Social Network. All the other mobile winners are major corporations (NY Times, Nike, etc.), and we're the only start-up. Check it out -- it's a great political organizing tool as well as the way most of our users use it, for lifecasting, on you phone at wap.zannel.com, on the web at www.zannel.com.
Our CEO and CTO will be there at the ceremony with Stephen...I'm so jealous!
It's pointless to compare Colbert to Jon Stewart. Their styles are very, very different.
Each guy rocks as far as I'm concerned.
I've never seen him in real life but on TV he doesn't look all that webby.
Stewart/Colbert complement each other well. Stewart deconstucts the news to pick apart the absurdities while Colbert reconstructs the news in the persona of his blowhard character to illustrate these absurdities in action. As a satirist he has no peer, IMO. BTW the Webby award is not for his comedy, it's for his interaction with viewers via the web, which is unique.
Although humor is always in the ear of the beholder
Colbert > nitwits who don’t appreciate what he does.
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