http://www.reflector.com/featr/content/features/stories/2008/08/06/2008/08/06/ColbertTonight.html

Quote :

"Tonight, East Carolina University biologist Jason Bond will appear on "The Colbert Report" (11:30 p.m. on Comedy Central) with a handful of trapdoor spiders to help Colbert make his decision. Greg Eans/The Daily Reflector Jason E. Bond, PhD, Associate Professor in the Departmant of Biology at East Carolina University, holds a common Tarantula in his lab at the Howell Science Complex on campus in Greenville."

Quote :

"Bond agreed in a June 24 phone interview with Colbert to name one of his 27 recently discovered species after the comedian and talk-show host. Bond's decision earlier this year to name a trapdoor spider after rock star Neil Young (Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi) caught Colbert's attention. Colbert's spider will be named Aptastichus stephencolberti."

anyone see this tonight?

8/7/2008 2:17:40 AM

I think too much shit gets named after Stephen Colbert.

8/7/2008 2:21:11 AM

I think Stephen Colbert is a genius. He's gotten people who are smarter than he is to name shit after him and just generally be a celebrity.

8/7/2008 2:23:21 AM

his comedic genius is now blown way out of proportion.

8/7/2008 2:25:00 AM