Neil Gaiman was on Colbert last night discussing his new Newberry Award-winning tale, The Graveyard Book.
Two observations:
- Neil has quite the Alan Rickman thing going on here.
- Stephen Colbert reciting the Tom Bombadil song is worth the price of admission.
On Twitter, Neil noted:
- It was all (including Bombadil) unrehearsed.
- About 40 seconds or so got edited out.
- Which included discussions of favorite LotR characters (Gaiman -> Gandalf; Colbert -> Faramir).
- And he was wearing the suit instead of the leather jacket because he was at his dad’s funeral two days before and didn’t have the traditional jacket with him.
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I saw that this morning and I was trying to figure out if it was on Colbert’s teleprompter, or if he was doing it off the top of his head.
Either way that was levels of wonderfulness to see.
If the interview was, in fact, unrehearsed, I’m not sure how it would have been on a teleprompter, unless they did some pre-interview discussion about some things first. It’s a geeky enough non-persona thing that I suspect it was from memory.
Neil blogs on the interview. No, the Bombadil thing was not brought up earlier: http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/03/monday-colbert-and-tabs-galore.html
Wow, then Colbert is very much an Ubre Geek. =D