Originally published at: Stephen Colbert responds to the Tyre Nichols murder with a word: Evil | Boing Boing
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Always my favorite segment of the old show, but wasn’t it based on something similar from O RLY?
Yes I know Colbert channeled O RLY for the character, but I recall Billo having some sort of similar schtick that “The WORD” was directly based on.
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Yeah it was… Since his whole show as a parody of Bill O’Reilly (which you note), it’s not a huge surprise that he would have similar segments. I think since he was responding to right wing talking points by Jim Jordan, the callback makes sense.
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I loved THE WORD for its double delivery, that really felt like my brain was being fully engaged. This one felt… slow. So I watched an old one from the Report and confirmed that yeah, (1) there used to be more text and (2) shorter pauses to react to that text.
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