{"id":80,"date":"2011-06-07T10:47:58","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T14:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2012-01-20T18:13:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T22:13:02","slug":"joe-meeting-stephen-colbert-for-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2011\/06\/07\/joe-meeting-stephen-colbert-for-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe: Meeting Stephen Colbert…for Class"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hey Everyone!<\/p>\n

I hope you\u2019re all having an awesome end to your school year, I know I did. And congratulations to those of you that have already graduated.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, I had the amazing opportunity to see a live taping of The Colbert Report<\/em> in New York City. As some of you may know, when you\u2019re here at BU you will probably be taking a WR 150 class. These writing classes all test the same skills, but just have different topics. Some topics include The Devil, Environmentalism, Documentary Films, and even Stephen Colbert!<\/p>\n

I was lucky enough to get into the class entitled \u201cThe Colbert Report: American Satire.\u201d The class, with Professor Michael Rodriguez, studies Colbert\u2019s unique brand of satire and how he is not only revolutionizing previously utilized styles of satire, but also creating his own unique style. It is a super fun class and I urge anyone interested in this type of thing to try and take this class, because it is NOT going to be easy to get in.<\/p>\n

Anyways, we all got to skip out on class to take a trip to NYC. The Colbert Report<\/em> interestingly films in a really random part of New York, so we didn\u2019t have a lot of time to wander around the city before the filming. But, it didn\u2019t really matter because we were all so amazed that we were about to see Stephen Colbert in person! For school!<\/p>\n

The taping was everything I thought it was going to be. It was absolutely hysterical to see him in person. But, as a film and TV student, it was even more impressive to see how much goes into just one episode of the show. His team of writers comes up to him to give him a pep-talk between every commercial break, and the show\u2019s runner is all over the place, queuing Colbert as to which camera he should be looking at.<\/p>\n

After the taping, as a special treat for our class, Colbert stayed back and answered questions out of character. Not many people get to see Colbert out of his character, so to hear him speak so eloquently and with such intelligence as a satirist was amazing. I also felt like I had a greater understanding of the show after taking the WR 150 class.<\/p>\n

So the lesson is take classes that you\u2019re interested in! Never settle for any \u201cboring\u201d classes or classes that your friends are taking. Branch out and explore all your options here at BU. You won\u2019t regret it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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