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Stephen Colbert Put on Notice

Published January 2nd, 2009 in PR Stunts | 1 Comment »

 


 The Colbert Report
ThreatDown – Happiness

 

Are we a greater threat than happiness? Sadly, yes.

Resolutions are like wars: You can choose to win a small battle (drop a waistline inch or two) or you can aim to take it all (go Schwarzenneger on your abs). At The Elevator Pitch, we go big or we go to the bar. That’s why our resolution for 2009 is to get ourselves mentioned on the biggest show on late night television that doesn’t appear on basic cable, doesn’t include a disclaimer about nudity and extreme violence, and isn’t hosted by Jon Stewart. The Colbert Report: we want you to want us to know that you know we exist.

It’s a blatant ploy to get rich. Stephen Colbert acknowledges our presence, you say what’s up with that, you come visit, you tell your friends to come visit, they tell their friends, and so on, until we can spin all that attention into credit default swaps and sell them to what’s left of Iceland.

We will not relent until The Colbert Report recognizes us as a threat, or friend of the show, or thing to put on notice, or just throws us a bone, and not necessarily the femur, either; we’ll take a knuckle or the cartilage about the ear. So, come on, Stephen, just four words: “The Elevator Pitch [and verb of your choice].”

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Politics in Canada Raises Eyebrows

Published December 12th, 2008 in News Hits | No Comments »

Canadian politicsCanadian politicians are like hockey: They only get attention outside of their nation when they shock and appall.

When Jon Stewart earlier this week kicked off The Daily Show with a lampoon of the strange happenings in Ottawa, it marked a new low for a nation in the middle of an unprecedented political calamity.

Stewart remarked that the attempt by opposition parties to oust Prime Minister Stephen Harper was baffling for Americans to comprehend.

“Force him from office? You can do that?” Stewart said. “Because we’ve had no confidence in our guy for quite some time now, and he’s taking forever to leave.”

The Daily Show’s jokes followed scathing criticism in The Economist, which called the opposition’s attempted coup and Harper’s petulant response “un-Canadian”, and critical coverage in mainstream media outlets around the world.

When Harper, a Conservative, shut down Parliament until January 26 in order to save his job, Canadians were outraged and the rest of the world became curious. Embroiled in the most turbulent economic crisis in a lifetime, the nation’s leader decided to halt government at a time the country is in great need of economic stimulus. That’s un-Democratic to his rivals, unbelievably stupid to many of his constituents and bizarre to everyone else.

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