js: colbert taped early tonite so cld speak at Time 100, Colbert is on the list at #1, above Nelson Mandela..

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Team Party Crash: 'Time' 100 Party (Gawker) ... and a lesson in making Stephen Colbert's wife feel bad.
We descend upon Stephen Colbert and introduce ourselves, noting that we did a poll on his speech at the White House Correspondents dinner and that our esteemed readers think he’s a great American patriot. He laughs, but has no idea that the Times had been following the issue. In fact, he doesn’t read any of his press: “I say, show me in two weeks!” Meanwhile, his wife informs us that she read a Gawker Stalker sighting of her husband seen with a blonde. But Missus Colbert, while lovely, is clearly not blonde. We feel very badly about this obvious betrayal and hope they see a counselor.

Stephen and the TIME 100 list (community.livejournal.com/colbert_report with pic) For those who have not picked up the TIME issue featuring Stephen Colbert on the "100 Most Influential" list, here’s a link to that...http://www.time.com/time/2006/time100/
...a "Six Degrees of..." game...http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2006/time100/
...and pictures from the listers’ party (there’s one of Stephen). As much as I dislike Bill O’Reiley, I can understand how he would be considered "influential," but what the heck has Will Smith done lately to deserve mention? http://www.time.com/time/2006/time100/sixdegrees_of_separation/
cmmt: Did anyone notice that Stephen also made The Joel 100?

From the Magazine The TIME 100 Meet the Other 100
These People Matter Most—to Me By JOEL STEIN From the May 8, 2006 issue of TIME magazine
ESSAY: The People Who Matter Most to Joel
I took a long, careful look at this year's Time 100, and I came to this conclusion: these people don't matter to my life. But no matter how many times I suggest we focus the Time 100 on the people who actually affect us—the buyer at Wal-Mart, the office IT person, the two guys who sing the Applebee's Shrimp Sensations song—no one listens to me.
I decided to steal from my favorite part of the Time 100, where someone like Tom Cruise writes about director J.J. Abrams. So I got people who mean an awful lot to me to write about other people who mean an awful lot to me. One of the four people with the distinction of making the Time 100 and the Joel 100™ was George W. Bush. & Colbert & who? & who?
Undoubtedly, blogs will be alight discussing whether certain people really deserved to make the Joel 100™, or if there was some logrolling going on. I deny such accusations. People spent a lot of time on the Joel 100™, and as with all such lists, our intentions were purely academic. This is a brave first stab at history. And if history means Dora at Yuca's Taco stand throws an extra taco in the bag, perhaps the cochinita pibil ones that history finds especially delicious, then history will be very grateful.