Colbert wears sweater, sings with Willie Nelson in Christmas special
pinstripes for a cardigan sweater, red turtleneck and furry boots. Following the tradition of Andy Williams and Bing Crosby, Colbert hosts his own holiday special in "A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All." The hour-long special airs Sunday at 9 p.m. EST and will on Tuesday be released as a DVD, complete with a Yule log of burning books. Clearly in the Christmas spirit, at the first mention of old holiday specials, Colbert launches into renditions of Williams' "Little Altar Boy" and Crosby and D

Stephen Colbert Celebrates Christmas With Elvis Costello, Feist, Willie Nelson
Stephen Colbert will spend the holidays with Elvis Costello, Feist, John Legend, Willie Nelson and Toby Keith on the host’s Comedy Central special A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!. The one-hour special, scheduled to air on November 18th, has a plot about Colbert being snowed in in an upstate New York cabin, so he and his musical friends play tunes to pass the time. All the original songs were written by Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger and David Javerbaum, who also collaborate

Stephen hosting Costello, Feist for "Colbert Christmas"
Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert is getting an early start on Christmas, enlisting musicians Elvis Costello, Feist, Toby Keith, John Legend and Willie Nelson for a one-hour holiday special that will air November 23 on the cable network.... <a href="http://www.postchronicle.com/news/entertainment/article_212173508.shtml"><b>More</b>

Stephen Colbert To Host Musical Christmas Special
NEW YORK (AP) - O come, all ye Colbert faithful. Stephen Colbert will host his own Christmas special this year, Comedy Central announced Tuesday. "A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!" will air Nov. 23 as a one-hour special. It will be a musical special featuring John Legend, Elvis Costello, Toby Keith, Willie Nelson, Feist — and "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, who's slated to sing a duet with Colbert of a song simply titled "Hanukkah." (The song Colbert is to sing with Nelson appears

"Time Out New York" Interview with Stephen Colbert
 Ring of truthinessStephen Colbert spreads holid—ahem…Christmas cheer. By Steve Heisler Not one to shy away from self-serving pomp and circumstance, The Colbert Report ventures into Christmas-special territory with A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! Sunday 23. The hour-long satire takes on the “war on Christmas”—a perceived trend toward PC greetings like “Happy Holidays”—and welcomes the musical talents of John Legend, Elvis Costello and Fei

Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp, Neil Young Lead Farm Aid’s Northeast Invasion
The heartland came east again this year as Farm Aid made its first foray into New England with an all-day blowout Saturday at Comcast Center in Mansfield, Mass. Now in its 23rd year, the pro-agrarian music fest featured headliners Dave Matthews, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson reeling off hits and old favorites while extolling the virtues of local family farms. In his succinct way, Matthews put it best: “I like good food!” he exclaimed midway through an acoustic set with frequent

John Legend On Steven Colbert’s Christmas Special (Video)
Real talk is that I only watch maybe three channels, and Comedy Central is one of them because of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Colbert is having a Christmas special this Sunday with a few guest stars, and John Legend is playing what appears to be a park ranger in this sucker.. Props to Aura. ~ by Meka on November 19, 2008. Posted in Hip Hop, Video Tags: comedy central, John Legend, Stephen Colbert One Response to “John Legend On Steven Colbert’s Chri

Toby Keith, Willie Nelson Join Stephen Colbert's Christmas Special
Toby Keith and Willie Nelson will be a part of Stephen Colbert's holiday special this year.

Toby Keith, Willie Nelson Join Stephen Colbert's Christmas Special
Toby Keith and Willie Nelson will be a part of Stephen Colbert's holiday special this year.

Farm Aid's Nelson, Mellencamp, Young and Matthews Urge Congress to Redirect Bailout to Working Men and Women, Farmers
Open Letter to Congress Calls for $1 Billion Investment in Farm Communities to Solve America's Economic, Environmental, Energy and Health Problems SOMERVILLE, Mass., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to the $700 billion Wall Street bailout currently being considered by Congress, the Farm Aid Board of Directors Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews sent an open letter to Congressional leaders urging them to redirect funds to farm communities and working men an

Singing Jew Jon Stewart Is The Highlight of A Colbert Christmas [Things We Actually Like]
newVideoPlayer("/colbert.flv", 506, 423,""); Faux-conservative political pundit comedian Stephen Colbert is ending a banner year—what with the election and all—with a folksy little homage to Christmas specials of yesteryear, called A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All. Judging from the clips we've seen, it looks really funny and refreshingly not completely about politics, and hey! His old Daily Show boss Jon Stewart even stops by for a song. And Stewart can sing. Who knew? Get a snippe

Dan Strone, Seven Figure Lit Agent for Seinfeld and Silverman: 'I Don’t Make People Spend the Money'
Trident Media Group C.E.O. and literary agent Daniel Strone oversaw two of the season's most high-stakes book auctions last week, fielding eye-popping offers from publishers across the city without giving them so much as a proposal for either project. Sarah Silverman's book, which Mr. Strone sold to HarperCollins on Thursday, went for about $2.5 million dollars. Jerry Seinfeld's, which publishers found out about last Monday, is said to have attracted bids over $7 million. At this point, Mr. Seinfeld's dea

Willie and Friends Make Plea to Congress
The Farm Aid Board of Directors, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews have issued a response to the $700 billion Wall Street bailout being considered by Congress. The four sent an open letter to Congressional leaders urging them to redirect funds to farm communities and working men and women, where they can be better used to address our country's economic, environment, energy and health crises. "The proposed $700 bailout asks taxpayers to foot the bill w

Obsessive Daily Show Fan Enraged By Line Fiasco [Life Is Not A Fairytale]
Election night might have been a hopeful triumph for most Americans, but it was an evening of screaming and insults for Canadian Sharilyn Johnson, according to the epic rant she just uploaded to Huffington Post. Johnson had to be in the live Daily Show audience on election night, because she's been watching everything Jon Stewart has ever done since 1994, is also super-into Stephen Colbert, has friends on staff, knows line-runners by name, etc. etc. Johnson (on left in photo) lined up a ticket seven months

Mariah's "Right To Dream" Now Available at iTunes Canada
"Right To Dream," the original ballad written by Mariah and country legend Willie Nelson for the film Tennessee, is now available for digital download at iTunes Canada. Get it today! The song is set for digital release in the U.S. on November 25, and can be downloaded from iTunes and Amazon. In other Mimi news, Music Choice has announced the music award categories and nominees for Most Demanded - The Music Choice Video On Demand Awards, the first-ever Video On Demand awards show. Mariah received a nomina

STEPHEN COLBERT COULD ACTUALLY BE THE PRESIDENT!!
If you lived in the Marvel Universe. :(Here's the good news: Stephen Colbert is running for president in the Marvel Universe. And, according to Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada, the unhinged television superstar is gaining serious momentum. Here's the bad news: He's not doing the same in the real world. Mark Waid, TheAmazing Spider-Man writer who assimilated the faux newscaster/White House wannabe into issue No. 573 of the comic book, thinks we could use a Colbert presidency more than we could use a Pali

What's On Tonight: Kath and Kim, Eleventh Hour, It's Always Sunny
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has a new Ugly Betty, then new episodes of Grey's Anatomy and Life on Mars. CBS has a new Survivor, followed by new episodes of CSI and Eleventh Hour. NBC has new episodes of My Name Is Earl, Kath & Kim, The Office, 30 Rock, and ER. FOX has a new Kitchen Nightmares at 8. The CW has a new Smallville at 8, then a new Supernatural. TBS has four great episodes of Friends starti

What to TiVo: Thursday
Fox has a new episode and a repeat of Kitchen Nightmares NBC is new with My Name is Earl, Kath and Kim, The Office, 30 Rock, and ER CBS is new with Survivor, CSI, and Eleventh Hour ABC is new with Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, and Life on Mars The CW is new with Smallville and Supernatural Bravo is new with Tim Gunn's Guide to Style Comedy Central is new with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report FX is new with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Testees VH1 has Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Dre

Why We Should Support 'Less Bullshit' Journalists Like Campbell Brown
Always looking for the next big thing in television news media — Katie Couric, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Anderson Cooper, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and Mike Huckabee have all received the treatment — it appears we're ready to move on to our next nominee: Campbell Brown. The NBC veteran who left the network just a couple months after losing the Today show vacancy Couric left to Meredith Vieira, Brown signed with CNN and became a respectable, albeit benign and forgettable, asset. T

Get into the Christmas spirit with Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert chats with “The Early Show” reporter Harry Smith to promote “An Early Christmas with Stephen Colbert.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV2YiNHKgF4

Willie Nelson Helps Farmers Hit By Recent Hurricanes
Nelson, who is a native of Texas, announced his contributions Thursday -- which include $7,500 each to the Lutheran Social Services of the South, the Southern Mutual Help Association, the Louisiana Interchurch Conference and the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, the AP reports. The Massachusetts-based Farm Aid plans to give more aid in the future, as the extent of the hurricane damage is assessed, says the AP. Farm Aid, a benefit concert running since 1985, has raised more than $30 million since its fi

Willie Nelson Seeks Obama's Support of Family Farmers
Farm Aid president Willie Nelson has sent an open letter to Barack Obama to seek governmental support of the organization's Good Food Movement which raises awareness about the benefits of food grown on family farms.

Farm Aid Founders Ask Congress to Redirect Funds From Federal Bailout
Farm Aid board members Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews are asking Congress to redirect funds from the proposed $700 billion Wall Street bailout to farm communities and working men and women.

Farm Aid Founders Ask Congress to Redirect Funds From Federal Bailout
Farm Aid board members Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews are asking Congress to redirect funds from the proposed $700 billion Wall Street bailout to farm communities and working men and women.