Colbert gets a book deal

[Benjamin Zimmer]

>From The Book Standard...

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http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/news/author/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002200158

Stephen Colbert to Get Truthy in Real Book with Fake News

If Stephen Colbert can take a word ("truthiness"), reinvent it and
turn it into the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year with just
his fake news show, think of what his own book could do for the entire
English language.

Colbert, the host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, has signed
with Warner Books—publisher of former Daily Show colleague Jon
Stewart's bestseller, America (The Book). Colbert's as-yet-unwritten
book, to be published in September 2007, netted the newsman a solid
seven figures, Variety reported today.
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WOTY is also mentioned as one of Colbert's accomplishments in the AP
report (are they still dead to him?):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060321/ap_en_tv/books_stephen_colbert_4


--Ben Zimmer

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