Flashback: Gravitas-Off

This is still one of my favorite clips from The Colbert Report. In the very first episode of the show, Stephen Colbert and Stone Phillips have a Gravitas-Off:

Stephen is one sexy beast

Colbert. Stephen Colbert. [WHAT?!]

And he's gonna use a drain auger to snake out my U-trap. MeeeOW!

Thank you, Stephen!

Stephen Colbert, that is.

It appears that you love us just as much as we love you! You knew we were smitten by your address to the Princeton Class of 2008, but bummed that the only way we could -sorta- hear it was via low-quality cell phone video posted on YouTube. So what do you do for your adoring fans? You served it up to us on a silver platter in last night's segment of The Word: Oh, The Places You'll Stay.

Bless you.

Oh, Stephen!

Stephen Colbert, that is.

What? Who did you think I meant?

Anyway... the man who makes my heart skip a beat just received yet another well-deserved accolade:

"The Great Princeton Class of 2008 Understandable Vanity Award."

I'd post the article and the tasty photos here, but I don't want to risk being sued by the author, photographer, or the Associated Press - so I'll just send you to this link:

Colbert tells grads: Please don't change the world

And some morsels from YouTube:

Stephen Colbert's 2008 Princeton Class Day Speech: Don't Follow Jesus, Follow Me



Stephen Colbert's 2008 Princeton Class Day Speech: Don't Change the World



Let me know if you find the entire speech somewhere on the internet.