Talk:Wikipedia in popular culture/scraps

The Colbert Report

Wikipedia has been referenced several times on the television show The Colbert Report, and these mentions have ultimately had an impact on Wikipedia.

Host Stephen Colbert refers to Wikipedia as his source of information for research on Sigmund Freud, on the 2006-05-09 episode of The Colbert Report. With his normal sarcastic and deadpan delivery, Colbert's segment "The Wørd" mocked Wikipedia's sometimes-questionable information with the screen posting "Even the accurate parts."

Truthiness

In a March 2006 episode of The Colbert Report, Arianna Huffington challenged Stephen Colbert, the greatest man alive on his claim that he had invented the word "truthiness." She cited Wikipedia, claiming that he had merely "popularized" the term. Regarding her source, Colbert, in character, responded: "Fuck them."

The Now Show

Steve Punt made a short reference to Wikipedia on the 2006-08-04, edition of The Now Show. Discussing GCSE students stealing coursework off the internet, he claimed some assignments can be proven as being taken from the web as they are signed From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and all the nouns are blue.

Sounds Like Canada

On the 2006-08-09 broadcast of the national radio program Sounds Like Canada, during an interview with Cory Doctorow, host Jian Ghomeshi said that whenever he looks himself up in Wikipedia, he finds inaccuracies. Doctorow responded that Ghomeshi should make the corrections himself. Ghomeshi said "Is that allowed?" and Doctorow said that in his opinion it was.

Richard Roeper

Richard Roeper's February 9, 2006 column mentioned that his birthday as given on his Wikipedia biography was incorrect, listing August 1, 1960 instead of October 17, 1960. It had been listed as August 1 since the article's creation on December 31, 2003, and was corrected on the date of his column. (This correction was later reverted due to lack of third-party sources.) On his TV show the weekend of August 12, 2006, Roeper mentioned to guest movie critic Kevin Smith that he had looked up his own biography on Wikipedia and that it falsely stated Killer Klowns from Outer Space was one of his all-time favorite movies. The article did in fact state this from June 28 until the show's airing on August 12.

External links

• Fred the Notable Monkey on Newgrounds — a cartoon short in which Clydex the Platypus gets a Wikipedia entry and Fred's entry is threatened to be deleted
• Wikiality — Stephen Colbert comments on Wikipedia
• Global Language Monitor on Top Television Buzzwords
• Angered Wiki-User — Stephen Colbert receives an angered call from someone who uses Wikipedia