On Thursday’s Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert reported that Newt Gingrich was playing Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger at his campaign events without the band’s permission prompting them to sue the former Speaker of the House. “The power anthem from Rocky 3…an obvious parallel for Newt. He’s an underdog, a born scrapper, and he’s fighting for the chance to be smacked around by a black guy!”

During a segment on CNN’s Newsroom, anchor Brooke Baldwin was utterly flummoxed by the notion that college students were getting their news from Stephen Colbert and Comedy Central. “Hang on, hang on! I have to stop you. Look — you said this is where students are getting their news?!” Baldwin asked incredulously. “On Comedy Central?!”

After discussing things over with his lawyer and former chairman of the FEC, Trevor Potter, Stephen Colbert transmorgified his Super PAC powers to Daily Show anchor Jon Stewart, and officially announced he was forming a presidential exploratory committee, “I’m doing It!”

According to New York Times reporter Brian Stelter, late-night host Stephen Colbert announced on his program that he is transfersing his super PAC to Jon Stewart.

On last night’s Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert got George Stephanopoulos to open up about how he got Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney to say that states have the constitutional right to outlaw contraceptives during Saturday night’s debate.

Since Rick Santorum’s photo finish in Iowa, Republican voters are finally starting to listen to him bring the “true, hot and heavy and strictly missionary,” Stephen Colbert said Monday.

Last night on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert spent the better part of the first half of his show mocking a late-night failure by Erin Burnett to properly “flick” a graphic from one touchscreen to another. It quickly got Burnett’s attention, apparently, as she had a few corrections for the fake news host tonight– and a challenge for him to come flick along with her.

Conan O’Brien was in New York City all week for special tapings of his show, and on Thursday he found a couple of celebrities had snuck into his audience. While addressing the crowd post-monologue, O’Brien turns, surprised, to find himself Jon Stewart in the audience, and when he has to leave to record The Daily Show, he finds the next person waiting on the standby line was none other than Stephen Colbert.

Last night, Stephen Colbert began a mission to turn the Occupy Wall Street movement into his own pet cause, dressed up as Che Guevara and trying to bribe protesters with food and SuperPAC money to hand over their organization. He didn’t succeed yesterday, and so today he continued, offering the two protesters he met with yesterday a personal masseuses, palmfuls of hundred dollar bills, and letting them that their insistence on corporations not being people was racist.

On Tuesday night’s Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert lauded Herman Cain’s quirky new ad starring his chief-of-staff blowing cigarette smoke into the camera. Colbert lit up his own cigs and chided critics that said the former Godfather Pizza CEO was shooting himself in the foot for the video. “He’s not shooting himself in the foot. he’s shooting himself in the lungs! This is sending the strong message that herman cain doesn’t just want to be president of the United States, He wants to be the president of flavor country.”

On Thursday’s edition of the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert was shocked that troops in Afghanistan might not be that excited to be recieving shipments of Bill O’Reilly‘s book as opposed to survival supplies like food and soap. “Soldier, there are plenty of ways Papa Bear’s books can be useful on the front line. You can use them as sandbags, or as armor for a humvee, or you know, you guys always need toilet paper. I am sure Bill would be honored.”

On Monday’s Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert came up with a solution for saving the billions of jobs that John McCain says we’re losing over regulation, legalizing “dwarf tossing.”

Stephen Colbert lauded Herman Cain‘s surge in the polls on Wednesday’s Colbert Report, saying the former Godfather Pizza CEO “picks up all the voters who don’t like Mitt Romney, used to like Rick Perry and can’t have Chris Christie.”

“Republican voters have been reduced to using the same criteria as a 4 AM barroom pickup,” Colbert zinged. “He has a pulse and no visible cold sores and folks, that is a good thing because Cain is on everybody’s lips.”

On Wednesday’s Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert was jealously enraged at the bizarre news that George Clooney invited fellow newsmen Charlie Rose and David Gergen to skinny dip at his Italian villa. “It could have been my body glistening in the italian moonlight!” Colbert exclaimed.

Stephen Colbert defended Rick Perry‘s disastrous debate performance on Tuesday’s Colbert Report, saying “a president does not need to be articulate. He’s not the convincer-in-chief, he’s the commander-in-chief. And by ‘command’ I don’t mean of the English language.” While Colbert acknowledged that Perry “defiled himself with every bodily fluid known to man other than santorum“, [...]

Why won’t government regulators leave corporations alone, Stephen Colbert wondered during last night’s episode of The Colbert Report. Why shouldn’t Product-American’s be afforded the same rights as the rest of us? ”The First Amendment protects not only speech you like, but speech you don’t like,” he reminds. “Therefore government regulators must not persecute products just because they don’t fit some beurocrats narrow definition of ‘fireproof’ or ‘potable.’”

Who: Eric Stangel (Letterman), Justin Stangel (Letterman), A.D. Miles (Fallon), Steve Bodow (Daily Show), Barry Julien (Colbert), moderated by Jason Sudeikis (SNL)
What: The New York Television Festival’s “Long Day’s Journey into Late Night”
Where: 92 Y Tribeca
When: September 22, 2011
Thumbs: Up

Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert are going through somewhat of a messy break-up. After declaring themselves “Best Friends for Six Months,” they came to the sad realization this week that those six months had passed. Last night, Colbert appeared on Late Night after he and Fallon had a “falling out” on the Colbert Report that resulted in a fantastic duet of the romance classic “Somewhere Out There.”

Stephen Colbert had some fun at Tim Pawlenty‘s expense on Monday’s Colbert Report, calling the Minnesota Governor’s endorsement of Mitt Romney “like Miracle Whip endorsing Mayonnaise.”

Any Stephen Colbert clip that includes the line, “the fat cats in Des Moines think they can sit in their ivory corn silos and play puppet master with our national politics” is deserving of our undying support and enthusiasm. And so it is with Colbert’s (what’s a new way to say “epic rant”?) funny bit about a Des Moines TV station that declined to run the campaign spots produced by Colbert’s political action committee.

A Heritage Foundation recently published a report was remarkably critical of “poor” Americans who own refrigerators, microwaves and ceiling fans. Last night, Stephen Colbert both celebrated and ridiculed (celebraculed?) the conservative think tank report and Fox Business Network’s Stuart Varney for amplifying its seemingly insensitive position. Or as Colbert puts it, “if you have the strength to brush the flies off their eyeballs, then you really aren’t poor.”

Jose Antonio Vargas, the reporter who made news recently after admitting he has been in the U.S. illegally since childhood, paid a visit to The Colbert Report last night.

Vargas and host Stephen Colbert presently entered into a discussion on whether to refer to Vargas as “an illegal” or as “undocumented.” “You are what we in The America World call ‘illegal’,” said Colbert, high five-ing a bald eagle wearing wraparound sunglasses.

Nowadays, Stephen Colbert is a larger than life conservative caricature that releases rock albums, interviews legendary filmmakers, and sets ups super PACs. But back before Stephen Colbert was Stephen Colbert, Stephen Colbert was mid-aughts Bill O’Reilly. And after years of nightly adoration for “Papa Bear,” Colbert finally made it onto the show that provided the template for his post-Daily Show commentary program.

“I missed it so much,” newly-crowned Current TV executive Keith Olbermann told a pants-less Stephen Colbert in his return to television tonight in anticipation of the new Countdown. Colbert spent the interview relentlessly mocking Olbermann for his follies at MSNBC, calling him “insane,” and insisting he admit that he “lost to Bill O’Reilly.” Olbermann, of course, did nothing of the sort.

“I don’t usually have guests this deep,” Stephen Colbert admitted halfway through last night’s interview with German film legend Werner Herzog. Herzog, known for, among other things, eating his own shoe and trying to firebomb an actor’s house, provided Colbert with one of the most bizarre and unmanageable interviews in the history of the Report, calling thousands-old cave paintings “beyond than Baywatch” and philosophizing about radioactive albino crocodiles.