Friday, December 04, 2009

Stephen Colbert reenacts nuclear holocaust for Georgetown professor

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Master of Science in Foreign Service Professor Joseph Cirincione went on the Colbert Report this past Monday to discuss the Ploughshares Fund, a group which advocates against nuclear proliferation.

Cirincione, who is president of the Fund, was probably prepared for Colbert-level provocation, but not for anything on the order of Colbert’s epic, 51-second impression of total nuclear annihilation. (It begins at the 3:30 mark).

On the program, Cirincione seemed less than amused. He came around the next day on Twitter: “Stephen Colbert does the best imitation of a nuclear explosion I have ever seen.”

Next, he and Colbert played “sanction, bomb, or marry.” And the real fun began.

2 comments:

revereridesagain said...

I love that Colbert did the stand of trees blowing over. And the house exploding backwards. Takes me back to my childhood... good times.

Is Cirincione for real, and can Asperger's assume that particular configuration?

Pastorius said...

LOL

I love Stephen Colbert. Love the guy.