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Colbert none too pleased about loss to Miyamoto

by Justin McElroy on May 6th 2008 5:30PM

Everyone knows that Time's online Person Of The Year poll (which was topped by Shigeru Miyamoto, Korean pop sensation Rain and Stephen Colbert, respectively) was kind of joke. ... Well, everyone, that is, except Colbert himself, who took his loss to Shiggy none too well as you can see in the first video after the break.

But even as he scoffed at Miyamoto's contribution to the world, Colbert used a video game to settle his long-standing beef with Rain. The brave among you can watch the fateful Dance Dance Revolution competition we've also safely embedded after the break.

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Tags: comedy-central, shigeru-miyamoto, stephen-colbert

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"If I threw barrels at an Italian plumber, they would call it a hate crime!" ha.

Miyamoto didn't even invent the Wii. He didn't even have as much influence as with previous Nintendo consoles (N64's controller built around Mario64).

he came up with the ideas and myamoto had the whole mario 64 idea

Aye, and it was his and EAD's concerns with load times that got Nintendo stock on cartridges in the N64 days and with MiniDVDs in the GC days

actually he's right. Calling Miyamoto influential in this day and age is a misdemeanor, especially because it overshadows all the people at Nintendo who do work.
Miyamoto is just a figurehead now. they hang on to him because he represents what Nintendo is today. Nowadays he does very little real work.

He wasn't as integral to the actual development of stuff like Wii Fit and Super Mario Galaxy, but if anyone remembers "Upend the tea table" he literally re-made Twilight Princess

"Nowadays he does very little real work"

Oh definitely. Especially not with Galaxy at all.

/sarcasm

Colbert's got some moves for a nerdy white guy. Freakin hilarious

Colbert, you just suck. This is the second year in a row you've lost! Capitan America wouldn't have lost TWICE. You should really give back his shield since you're no longer worthy of it.

Perhaps Mr. Miyamoto would enjoy having it in his office...

The Cap lost the Civil War, then got himself Assassinated. That's two major losses in a pretty damn short period of time.

Sorry Fernando, Stewart jumped the shark. Colbert passed up Stewart last summer.

John Stewart > Stephen Colbert

Bill Maher > *

Joel McHale > *

Voted down?

mmmm... Jon Stewart is funnier than Colbert.

lol

Joel McHale is not at all funny... is not even in the same level as Stewart or Colbert.

I disagree, Bill Maher can be funny but he always comes off as being a douchebag to me.

I'd say Stewart=Colbert

Who down voted Fernando? Your down votes cannot hold down the truth!

Stewart has descended into pure stupidity whereas Colbert remains great satire.

Paul Merton & Ian Hislop > John Stewart & Stephen Colbert

Sometimes Stewart is funnier (can be VERY funny, especially the one where that correspondent went to Iceland to beg them not to pull out of Iraq) but I think Colbert is funnier so that's usually what I watch :)
If I could I'd watch both every night though

John Stewart > Stephen Colbert

Why? Because Stewart owns him. No, literally. Colbert would be nothing without him.

Jimmy Norton > *

Stephen Colbert > You + Rain + Shiggy

Those videos with Rain were awesome. Colbert just keeps on bringing the epic every night.

Ah, if only we could solve the up coming election with a dance off...

Colbert rules... He far more funny than the others...

Comedy Central has no love for Canada ):

Aren't they a Viacom (MTV Networks) subsidiary?

That would explain it

You're not missing much. The Daily Show and Colbert Report are the only things worth watching. Drawn Together and Reno 911 are trash, and other than that they show MadTV reruns. I guess they have Futurama now. They cancelled the one great show they had, Stella! But what if they didn't? Yaaayyy! But they did. Boooo!

You forgot south park. Too bad chappelle show isn't on anymore they had huge ratings off that.

Honestly, Colbert doesn't belong anywhere on that list...not to mention at the top *prepares to die* but...you know...that's just my opinion...PUT DOWN THE GUN NIKO!

But miyamoto and rain do belong up at the top right? It was voted by fans meaning the results are always going to be skewed and borderline ridiculous. None of those guys are close to being "most influential" in the entire world.

I suppose, but if you went by realistically "most influential," year after year the winner would either be George W. Bush, Hu Jintao, Singh (i forget his first name), Vladimir Putin, the Dalai Lama, and Benedict XVI

Don't they have a realistic one and a vote-derived one? Obviously the vote derived one isn't going to be fair, especially with the Colbert Nation poised at their keyboards ready to strike.

Point taken, Miyamoto isn't that much of an important figure either and Rain...well he can go screw himself, there's way more influential musicians out there.

In my book,the man thats one of the biggest fathers of gaming would win every poll.
Yeh im a fanboy but not a shiggy fanboy,just a videogame fanboy,Will right or Gabe also got credit on their areas,as every other of the big devs that weve seen.

Damnit, these videos never work for me! They must only work in the U.S.

D:

I'm in the U.K. and they work...

Viacom hates Canada.

John Stewart > Colbert.

There's a difference between funny commentary on issues compared to over the top satire. I prefer stewart by far.

Sometimes Colbert is so close to the sort of things Pappa Bear O'Reilly says that it's scary... It's hard not to be 'over the top' when the stuff you're satirizing is already a satire of itself!

That Rain dance-off video is the funniest thing I've seen in months.

OMG!! what episode is this?! i MUST download it and keep it in my archives FOREVER

This is beautifully brilliant.

LOL

RAIN!

Is it just me, or did Cobert totally look like Travis Touchdown from No More Heroes during the dance off?

How is colbert influential? Because he makes fun of the republican party? Oh what a great pick for spot 3. I think chuck norris or that guy in the Rick rolled videos are better picks than colbert. Colbert is a freaking @$$clown.

He's influential because he had over 1.3 million fans vote for him.

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