Colbert Report's second Olympic show takes the piss out of Europeans

Last night’s episode of the Colbert Report took the focus off Canada—if only for a moment—as he took a tour of a few international houses set up around Vancouver during the games.

Of course Colbert couldn’t resist taking at least one jab at Canadians—and he knew just where to hit us: February 21's Canada-U.S. men’s hockey game that caused agony for an entire nation.

“It’s Canada’s national pastime,” he said. “That would be like America losing at deep fat frying.”

Ok, maybe the jab wasn’t so bad. And it was off to the international houses he went.

Who else but Stephen Colbert could make a Swiss man lose his temper, get a group of rowdy Irishmen to listen to literature, and have Russians warm up to an American?

The Swiss House was up first and, in typical Colbert fashion, he couldn’t help but poke fun at them when talking to house director Manuel Salchli.

“Nothing would be more entertaining than to see a Swiss person attack an American,” Colbert decried, as he did his finest to piss off the usually calm and collected Swiss.

If it was up to Colbert, the country would be “Swissland” instead of Switzerland and the native tongue would be German and not the widely spoken Swiss-German.

The visit finished off with a rousing game of fondue pong—not quite as much fun as beer pong—but it was off to the Irish House next, where booze would be aplenty.

A rambunctious crowd greeted Colbert but quickly quieted down when he began reading excerpts from Ulysses. Clearly someone in the crowd wasn’t a James Joyce fan because a fight broke out.

Colbert decided to make his way to the final destination, Sochi House, for a little chatter with the Russians about Vladimir Putin and a “rematch” of the 1980 Miracle on Ice hockey game—on a table hockey game this time around.

The successful tour of the houses ended with Colbert returning to where else but the Irish House.

Hey, why not? It’s where everyone one seems to be during these Games.

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patsy cline

Feb 24, 2010 at 1:19pm

I guess Colbert didn't have to wait three hours in the pouring rain to get into those "free" venues. The VIPs are whisked to the front of the line, I bet, and the drinking, sodden masses from Surrey are encouraged to wait forever for a freebie. Nasty, nasty, nasty corporate boondoggle.