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Richard Garriott's appearance on The Colbert Report

by Shawn Schuster Sep 19th 2008 at 7:00PM

Filed under: Sci-fi, Culture, Events, real-world, MMO industry, Tabula Rasa

As announced earlier in the week, Richard Garriott made his Comedy Central debut last night with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report. This appearance by Garriott was in conjunction with his Operation Immortality project that will take place next month. Stephen Colbert will be joining many other popular celebrities by adding his digitized DNA to the Immortality Drive which will accompany Garriott on his space flight, and remain on the International Space Station in the event of Earth's destruction.

Admittedly, the Garriott appearance is very brief. In fact, he didn't actually "appear" on the show at all, but called in from his space flight training grounds in Russia. This was a bit on the disappointing side, yet we understand Garriott's time restraints with that whole space flight thing and all. Plus, it turns out this interview was done literally ten minutes before Garriott was to be quarantined for the flight. Sadly enough, there was no mention of Tabula Rasa during the interview at all. Regardless, it's a funny little interview.

Tags: comedy-central, destination-games, dna, ncsoft, operation-immortality, richard-garriott, stephen-colbert, tabula-rasa, the-colbert-report

Richard Garriott to appear on The Colbert Report

by Shawn Schuster Sep 16th 2008 at 5:30PM

Filed under: Sci-fi, Culture, Events, real-world, MMO industry, Tabula Rasa, Humor

If the recent news of Stephen Colbert joining Operation Immortality has you scratching your head, you may be pleased to learn that Tabula Rasa's Richard Garriott will appear on Colbert's show, The Colbert Report, to discuss his flight to the International Space Station, Operation Immortality and Colbert's participation with the project.

This particular episode will air on Comedy Central tomorrow, September 17th, immediately following the Jon Stewart Show at 11:30pm EDT/10:30pm CDT. With Colbert's dry humor and satirical wit, we're sure there will be more than a few jokes made at Garriott's expense.

Tags: comedy-central, destination-games, ncsoft, operation-immortality, richard-garriott, stephen-colbert, tabula-rasa, the-colbert-report, tr

Stephen Colbert joins the gene pool at TR's Operation Immortality

by Shawn Schuster Sep 8th 2008 at 5:00PM

Filed under: Real life, Sci-fi, Culture, Events, real-world, MMO industry, Tabula Rasa

Professional athletes, writers, musicians and entrepreneurs have nothing on Operation Immortality's latest DNA recipient: Stephen Colbert. The star of the hit Comedy Central show The Colbert Report will have his DNA digitized and sent to the International Space Station with Richard Garriott for the wildly-popular Tabula Rasa promotion Operation Immortality.

"I am thrilled to have my DNA shot into space, as this brings me one step closer to my life-long dream of being the baby at the end of 2001," said Colbert. Garriott comments on the decision to add Colbert to the growing list of popular celebrities joining the project, "Is there a better person for us to turn to for this high-level responsibility?"

Tags: colbert-report, comedy-central, destination-games, ncsoft, operation-immortality, richard-garriott, stephen-colbert, tabula-rasa, tr

Is Azeroth a red state or a blue state?

by Akela Talamasca Apr 23rd 2008 at 8:30AM

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Real life, Contests, Events, real-world, Professions, News items, Politics, Humor

We knew there were geeks in the writer's stable at Comedy Central, but now it's confirmed: there are gamers, too. For their Indecision 2008 site, Comedy Central has put together a handy one-sheet of the three major candidates, and what they will need to focus on to win the votes of various classes in World of Warcraft.

Anyone with general knowledge could have put this together, but there's one particular bit that makes us think at least one writer is a WoW player: For the Druid vote, Hilary Clinton needs to understand that they dislike that "Her dominant stance disrupts Feral Combat spells." Look over the list and see if you can find the candidate who best represents your character!

[Via TenTonHammer]

Tags: azeroth, barack-obama, blue-state, candidates, comedy-central, druid, feral-combat, hilary-clinton, indecision-2008, john-mccain, red-state, world-of-warcraft