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Stephen Colbert’s Interview With Maurice Sendak Is As Awesome As You Heard It Was [Video]

by Jamie Frevele | 5:44 pm, January 27th, 2012


You may have heard about the two-part interview that Stephen Colbert conducted with author/illustrator Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are). You may have also heard that it was pretty awesome, and everything you’ve heard is correct. We’ve posted both parts here, and we invite you to join this highly intellectual discussion on who Sendak really writes for and his opinions on one of the current presidential candidates. If we’d been a fly on the wall for this, we would have buzzed around Maurice Sendak just to see what kind of curmudgeonly reaction he’d have. Part 2 appears after the jump.

And here is Part 2, in which Sendak teaches Colbert how to write a children’s book and then they both sniff markers.

(via Colbert Nation)

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  • http://twitter.com/StephanieWarthe Stephanie Warthe

    Oh my god… best interview ever. Must catch my breath from laughing.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1245445831 Michael Nicholas Stringer

    This is funny as hell!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PXTUQYBHWYUZYLLWTRHYO3PJPM Jodie

    When I grow up, I want to be Maurice Sendak.

  • http://www.facebook.com/daniel.cicon Daniel Cicon

    Colbert-Stewart Interviews are so hit and miss.

    This one was knocked out of the park.

  • FoxyBrown

    And so can you!

  • http://twitter.com/Riviare Kimberly

    So sad that these aren’t available outside the US :(

  • http://profiles.google.com/lowsee Heidi Mason

    He has a Mr Incredible action figure :D

  • http://twitter.com/martinhurford Martin Hurford

    This was a great interview, you could tell they both had a lot of fun making it. Did you see last nights show? Colbert stated he wanted to rank no.1 in Google for ‘Super PAC’ so I made a plugin to enable WordPress sites to add a link back to his Super PAC site. It would be great if you would check it out: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/super-pac/

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WD3YTSTYAGBI4SR5JP6CDS36T4 Bacchus Plateau

    Flash sucks.  These don’t play on my $1800 computer.

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