Colbert Airs Harvard KSG IHOP IOP

Last night the Colbert Report aired the segment he taped in Cambridge two and a half weeks ago. Comedy Central has posted, in two parts, the Stephen Colbert goes to Harvard bit where he plays up the part of his on air personality and not his general comedic presence. Unlike the appearance in front of a capacity crowd of those who either won tickets in the ticket lottery or bought them from scalpers (you can see the full stream here), the televised bit was Colbert in the Report guise. He had classroom scenes, on camera interviews, and a presentation taped before the crowd. Mostly the shtick was general outward ignorance, jokes about testicles (Student Advisory Committees – get it? SACs), and an homage to Bill O'Reilly (he presents them with a huge portrait of the talk show host), a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government. He even poked fun a bit at the hosting division at KSG, the Institute of Politics or IOP, saying that too many people were showing up looking for pancakes before they started using the KSG brand prominently. Luckily the IHOP opened across Elliot St. so now hungry students can get their pancakes and politics on the same street. Best piece of advice from Colbert in the forum - "don't look to me for information, because sometimes...I lie."

We've embedded this super long above discussion from Google Video here because the real video stream from the KSG presentation is being finicky and we'd have to upgrade our flash player to actually see the clips on the Comedy Central Colbert page.