Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
The other was on a recent Colbert Report on Comedy Central, where Colbert was talking about Sigmund Freud, and proudly announced that he had prepared for the segment by reading Freud's *entire* Wikipedia entry, even the accurate parts.
What I found interesting is that one wouldn't get the joke if one didn't already know that WP has highly variable quality. While clearly Colbert's writers are familiar with WP, I wonder how many of the viewers were puzzled by the reference.
Stan