COLBERT CHRISTMAS, A: THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL! (TV)
Summary
A television Christmas special hosted by Stephen Colbert of “The Colbert Report,” featuring a soundtrack of original music.
Highlights include: Colbert performing “Another Christmas Song”; a sketch featuring Colbert, Elvis Costello, and Toby Keith; Keith performing “Have I Got a Present for You”; Colbert and Willie Nelson (as one of the Wise Men) performing “Little Dealer Boy,” a parody of “The Little Drummer Boy”; a sketch featuring Colbert and Jon Stewart, and performing “Can I Interest You in Hanukkah?”; a sketch featuring John Legend as a forest ranger, performing the song “Nutmeg”; Feist appearing as an anthropomorphic Christmas ornament, performing “Please Be Patient”; Colbert and Costello (having just been consumed by a bear) performing “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding?,” accompanied by Keith, Feist, Nelson, and Legend; a sketch featuring a confrontation between Santa Claus and a bear; and Colbert and Costello performing “There Are Much Worse Things to Believe In.” Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: Comedy Central
- DATE: November 30, 1999 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:44:25
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: 125235
- GENRE: Specials
- SUBJECT HEADING: TV - Specials
- SERIES RUN: Comedy Central - TV, 2008
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Stephen Colbert … Executive Producer, Writer
- Allison Silverman … Executive Producer
- Richard Dahm … Co-Executive Producer, Writer
- Meredith Bennett … Co-Executive Producer
- Matt Lappin … Producer
- Tanya Michnevich Bracco … Line Producer
- Jim Hoskinson … Director
- Michael Brumm … Writer
- Peter Gwinn … Writer
- Adam Schlesinger … Music by, Theme Music by
- David Javerbaum … Lyricist
- DJ Gray … Choreographer
- Steven M. Gold … Theme Music by
- Stephen Colbert … Host, Performer
- Elvis Costello … Performer
- Toby Keith … Performer
- Feist … Performer
- John Legend … Performer
- Willie Nelson … Performer
- Jon Stewart … Performer
- George Wendt … Cast, Santa
- Matt Brady … Cast, Female Bear
- Richard Dahm … Cast, Wisconsin Cop