Stephen Colbert will be playing host to some chaps from Harmonix as they give him a Rock Band 2 rendition of his song Charlene (I’m Right Behind You).
Eighties stalker anthem Charlene recently appeared as free Rock Band DLC.
The show will broadcast tonight (Wednesday 17th September) at 11:30 PM EST on Comedy Central.
You can check out a video of Stephen performing Charlene, in the actual nineteen eighties. It in no way resembles David Brent’s Free Love On The Free Love Freeway, at least not in any way that is actionable in court.
RB2 on Colbert Report Tonight[Rockband.com] (image: http://www.shipbrook.com/onnotice/)
Video games got a little face time on the Colbert report last night when the show’s namesake let loose on Japan and their grab-and-peel election coverage technology.
That’s the best you can do? I happen to know that you have robots, slapping machines, human Tetris, Katamari and sex bots, you could have just written the candidates names on meat hats and let a lizard pick the winner.
Colbert got into such a froth he actually used Mario’s name in vain. I’ve moved the vid to the jump because it was hanging up our page for some reason.
Colbert is many things, but a graciously loser isn’t one of them. After going off on Miyamoto for swiping the top spot in Time’s 100 most influential people list (and calling Donkey Kong a game about hate crime), he settles on the person he’s rally mad at. No, not himself: RAIN!!!
Hit up the jump to catch Colbert breaking it down, as the kids say, in a head-to-head dance-off with adorable Korean pop singer on Dance Dance Revolution.
Water Cooler Games’ Ian Bogost let me know last week he was going to be on The Colbert Report. He sounded half totally freaked out and half jazzed. I don’t blame him. I don’t know how I would stand up to that eyebrow, and god forbid Colbert releases both on you.
Watch the show tonight at 11:30 p.m. on Comedy Central if you want to see how he does… I’m sure well since he will be talking about his new book, Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Video Games, and, I’m sure, his gig with the New York Times which I find endlessly fascinating (Hey, it finally gives me a topic I can discuss with those non-gamers out there that I frequently bump into.) More »
