Bill O'Reilly

...former improv comic and Daily Show correspondent. Colbert the character is a put-on, a caricature of a self-righteous right-wing blowhard a la Bill O'Reilly (whom Colbert calls "Papa Bear"). Stretching partisanship past the point of...

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...had a good long sip of the Glenn Beck Kool-Aid: I think this means that Colbert is preparing to abandon Bill O'Reilly as his ideological hero for Beck's loonier shores of libertarianism. This is a momentous occasion, and quite a coup for...

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...the media. Cable television personality Colbert spoke in the persona of the character he plays on Comedy Central's popular The Colbert Report, a parody of a conservative pundit in the fashion of Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. Colbert's...

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Colbert mocks Bill O'Reilly tantrum Thanks to Stephen Colbert, many of us who didn't know about the popular old "Bill O'Reilley Inside Edition tantrum video" drawing attention on YouTube now know about it. Maybe O'Reilly should seek...

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...show on January 18, 2007. As a souvenir, Colbert "stole" a microwave from the O'Reilly green room-in fact, he informed O'Reilly of his intention to take the microwave beforehand-later displaying it on his own show. He later sent over a...

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...the "T" in one case, leaving it silent in the other (as Colbert does on his program). "Bill, I'm whoever you want me to be," answered the comedian. O'Reilly interviewed Colbert with a generally bemused attitude: "Don't you owe me an...

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...was coming from commentators...like Bill O'Reilly. And it went from there," writes Sklar. Colbert also described a "key point" in playing an O'Reilly role. "He trumpets his power while in the same breath declaring his victimhood," he said.

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