And now a collab between you and Daily Show Ponies would be perfect.

>>19324031932403

Let him know.

Interesting premise. If you can pull of Colbert's satire and wit, I can guarantee that this story will indefinitely be featured!

>>19324221932422 Message sent, as per your request.

The great thing about this is that "Coltbert" is pronounced the same as "Colbert." The T's are silent.

I recommend the center tags for your breaks.

Do want.

I haven't read this yet and I already know this is going to be incredible.

"I don't want to be sued by Earth."

LOL

As big a fan as I am of the Colbert Report (I mean like, a ridiculously huge fan), I just couldn't really get into this chapter.  The biggest issue for me is that the dialogue felt really stilted.  I mean, I've watched interviews with Stephen Colbert out-of-character, and he sounds nothing like what you've written.  Plus, the whole concept of being plucked from your world, dropped into another, and then asked to learn up on the local politics and history in order to do a comedy show on it seems kinda...well, creepy, for a start. A pain in the butt. Probably not the ideal situation to come up with brilliant comedy.

I think what would have been funnier (and now I'm crossing the gap from commenting on the story as it exists to saying how I would do it, which I admit might be a dick move on my part, but I hope it illustrates what my expectations for the fic were when I saw the title) is rather than having Stephen Colbert the human turned into a pony and teleported to Equestria, you just start out with a pony/Equestrian version of Stephen Colbert and just jump right into him doing an episode of his show. No complicated origin story, no issues about the well-being of the character or how he gets along in Equestria, and you can introduce the politics of Equestria through the comedy of the show, so you get to jump right into the real meat of the story.  But, like I say, this is just how I would imagine doing it, so maybe there's something to your approach I'm not picking up on yet.

Stephen Colbert literal crossover? Sign me up!

>>19337861933786

I was planning on doing just ponified versions of the shows, but I found that I would get bored of this very quickly. It's called a prologue because the meat of the story isn't there yet. The first chapter of your fiction is very well done, but not something that I want to rinse, lather, and repeat. Variety is the spice of life and status quo is the starch. I tagged the story as an adventure because, quite frankly, this is what it's going to be. If it wasn't, the definition of the story would simply be, "Join Stephen Coltbert as he provides the conservative viewpoint on Equestria so that you don't have to."

Plus, my author's note says that episode 1 will be the next chapter.

The pacing is intentional, but if Colbert seems out of character, I can concede to that. I've only seen a few clips of him out of character. His Playboy interview, his character breaking when he testified for the Mexican workers, and the few breaks that he does on his show.

I am really hopeing this turns out well

Hopefully i can say this without it being a lie later

Looool

At first I was like:

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But then I was like:

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Hmm, lemme give this a read...

A good reason to change a human to a Pony when taking them to Equestria would be due the the different diseases. We would not want a plague to start in Equestria because of the common cold you know.

so much potential!!!!!! please know what you are doing! please please please please please!!!

Oh GOD YES.

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I'm interested to see what exactly Celestia's concerned about. Is she unconsciously demonizing new ideologies? Is Equestria really being corrupted? Or is society unaware of its problems, and needs the Colbert Bump?

Also, is who's the new Jim? Is he a Rush fan too?

Not much to say on the writing side of things this early. The dialog was formal to the point of being stale, but then again it WAS business talk. I'm left wanting seconds.

You bungled an opportunity to make a "purple mountains" joke when Colbert saw the exterior environment for the first time. Equestrian mountains could actually be purple.

I'll give you an actual in-character chapter, but so far I'm not digging it.

Thank the lord some one finally made a Colbert report.

Huh, Colbert in Equestria? I've heard of ponies on the daily show but this is new. Cool

You, fellow brony, have my attention. subbed!

You lost me in the middle of the lunch. Not feeling it, kinda dry.

A for effort and everything! At least it's written well.

The number one threat to Equestria…Ursas!

Going to read later for now.

I really hope you can pull of Stephen Colbert's personality right.

>>19337861933786 A ridiculously huge fan, you say?

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Aw snap son.

POLITICS?! Agh, you beat me to it.

ALL OF MY YES!!! CAN`T WAIT ANOTHER CHAPTAH!!!

This.... Sounds..... AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you mind if I travel through the ColtBert Verse in my story?

Equestria Again: Rebecoming the Harmony We Never Weren't

*Auto-follows and likes because Coltbert. Will read later*

I admit, this is an entertaining read. However, you may want to be careful of the dialogue. A good portion of it feels forced.

Won't this be interesting...

Freedom at odds with harmony?

No, 'anarchy' is at odds with harmony.

'Stupidity' is at odds with harmony.

'Selfishness' is at odds with harmony.

'Apathy' is at odds with harmony.

An intelligent, sensible, compassionate, empathetic, generous person can have absolute freedom and will never do anything 'bad' due to it being against his or her core personality.  Such a person will innately desire harmony and do only things which bring about harmony.  This is confusing abstract social concepts with personal responsibility and interpersonal relationships.  

Okay,  I was expecting this chapter to be the show, but I can wait. Fav'd

>>19374381937438

You are correct. I'm referring to American "Freedom". Perhaps I should have been more specific.

>>19374441937444  That would be 'consumerism'.  

Lets see where this goes

...

Humans in Equestria isn't stupid... as long as it is not about some depressed, 22-year-old white male that has a bad life and kills himself.

Fav'd!

ALL NAMES MUST BE PONY PUNS.

Big fan of Colbert and Stewart. Not too sure of this story at the moment.

You've earned a watch for the moment.

Colbert is Best Pony! Now if you Can Pull Off Letterman, That would Be Something.

>>19374441937444 "American Freedom"? Bucking LOL'd

Just like in America America the place were capitolism rules but nobody has any money but we all have overly priced @$/& on the capitol city high charity the flood took it over and covered it in some goey stuff that came only be described as "holy hell this $&)@ stinks"

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!

Waiting for next chapter.... where is it HMMM?!

>>19398821939882

In a separate word document while I complete it.

Great start.  Had to read it between breaks since I was watching Daily Show and Colbert at the time.  

Imagine if Steve gave a shout out to this story...

-Kiryu

>>19404371940437

If he did, I would probably cum in my pants. I pray that I'm wearing pants if that happens.

And yet, I started reading this right after the Thursday episode...

>>19406721940672

Lucky bastard. I have to wait an hour and a half for it.

This made me realize I need to watch some more of this show with my sister.

I'd obsess over the Coltbert Report.

>>19407011940701

Dear Princess Celestia:

Today, I learned that Satellite TV cheats your way to watch any TV show 3 hours before basic cable airing! (in the West Coast, that is!)

Sincerely yours:

A Stewart / Colbert fan

YEs this is one that Is like going to be classic

keep it up and keep going

Make sure to keep writing this intelligently  

This is quite the interesting premise, and I will admit I like Celestia's motives a lot more than I thought I would when reading the description (honestly, I thought you were going to have her as a Tyrantlestia, "I must preserve harmony by destroying free will" sort of character.  Then I realized you were talking about a completely different kind of "freedom" from the one I was thinking.  The bad kind, specifically), but I must defer judgement until seeing the show itself.  That being said, I don't wish to miss it in my trepidation/"This could be really good...or really bad", so I'll fave this story, with the knowledge that I could un-fave if need be.

Now to find this "The Daily Show" crossover that ponies are talking about...

I like this so far... How Stephen Colbert is different from his show character, and how he considers the logistics of the show is promising.

Is Celestia working alone in this? Could another gifted unicorn help her with the dimensional teleport?

Kinda miffed there was no mention of Colbert's J.R.R. Tolken nerdery in how he accepted a world with magic.

+1 follower. Let's see how the episodes go before I add a thumb.

>>19427351942735

I thought that would be a decent inference over the fact that he didn't go batshit bonkers and instead was curious. I just keep fucking up, don't I? xD

>>19427611942761

Not a big failure, you mentioned other nerd facets of him (Star Trek, sci-fi), but after Hobbit Week I think at least a mention would be appropriate.

Now that I think about it, there's some good political corruption in LotR that I can see Colbert mocking.

I don't have time for a more in depth review, so I'll keep it to one awesome thought.

What if this were featured on the actual Colbert Report?

Yeah, just let that thought sink in.

Looks promising, even though I'm usually not in to fanfiction involving real people, or even characters from a live action TV show.

-RisingOne

First episode chapter is done. I'm having it go through a few prereaders before I release it. Thanks for all the pressure my beautiful readers, I appreciate it <3

I am Equestria! (And so Can You!)

>>19512011951201

Biggest selling book that hits the news stands around the empire!!

Plus Equesticone Dream ice cream.

>>19599541959954

Stop giving me ideas! I might actually roll with this.

>>19599661959966

It is the writer to use the ideas given to him/her or not.

I liked it before even reading, purely on principle.

Featured On Equestria daily...

First: This has huge potential. It takes no stretch of imagination to see parts of this being read on the Colbert Report. So naturally, you are going to be given more criticism from Bronies who have this in mind. Don't feel daunted though. I think we all want to see this take off, but we also see potential out-of-context Brony labeling should Colbert ever read this.

This is where most of the concern lies: Steven Colbert's character. It seems it is not on target. His show persona and home persona are not the same. Also, I saw an interview where he stated that he didn't allow his children to watch his show because (to the effect of,) he didn't want them to confuse his character on the show with who he was. I suggest you pick only one side to depict and stick with it. If it's the show side, Colbert's home and family take a back seat to his snarky ego and studio.

Secondly, it takes off quite slowly. You can probably give the same information "Colbert reads the scroll and goes to bed," in less words. If you don't need details, toss them. For example: "That was indeed the case, he was questioning this letter. However, because of his questions, he only grew more curious. He continued to read." This can be shown, not told. If I were him, I would have read the scroll right away, laughed, traveled home in a sentence or two, and sign it later.

Princess Celestia's dialog and her depiction are spot on, I believe. But parts like "but if it is to save my empire, I couldn't care less about my body," have potential to be taken out of context. I'm sure you can see how. You KNOW what he already thinks of Bronies.

Also, Coltbert has to see some advantage (at least his show persona,) in airing a report from Equestria. There's humor here that's missed I think.

TL;DR? Give us only the meat and potatoes. There's too much unnecessary detail at the start. Watch ten episodes of the Colbert Report and REVISE this rough draft. Before he reads "His chocolate eyes..." Agggh.

Oh, and remember: I'm pulling for this to be successful and I'm sure I'm not alone. So take the criticism and let your work grow into something worthy of the Colbert Report. Where Bronies are recognized for such great talent as this and not another AppleDash fic.

~Hippocampus

This is gona be good :D

>>19704361970436

As much as I would like to agree with you, I don't. This is the only thing I will say. There is a reason that the story is labeled, "Adventure" and not "Slice of Life". There is also a reason why the definition has extra words in it rather than "Join Stephen Coltbert as he provides the conservative viewpoint on Equestria so that you don't have to."

I will admit, it's a very different approach than simply ponifying the episodes. If I did that, I would have made this into a Youtube series. I see this as an adventure, an exploration of the idiotic concept of Colbert in Equestria. His family will have something to do with it, Celestia will have more to do with it. We just haven't gotten to it yet

I demand John Stewart be brought in for a rally to restore sanity/ keep fear alive in Equestria.

ALL HAIL KING STEWART!!!

Heh, I love how you can make his name into a pony pun without changing the sound by adding yet another silent T.

>>19374441937444 "American Freedom"?

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May the Grace of the Valar Protect You

Shire Folk

as if I didn't have enough to frickin read. Dammit! this'll be hilarious!

Congrats on EQD.

>>19729351972935

Thank you very much. Expect the episode chapter in a few days. It's ready, I'm just biding my time.

Hmm interesting...let's see where this goes. I await chapter 2.

Genius!

I eagerly await the release of "I Am Equestria (And So Can You!)"

Nicely done! Captured an episode very well. Had me laughing for a lot of the time. I look forward to Celestia's reaction.

Great job! seemed to be hitting Celestia harder then he should have, though.

Not a fan of the show but I felt the story captured it nicely. Hope Celly doesn't take it hard, or Luna.

The humor was really in tune with what one would see on the Coltbert Report, that deserves some praise. I would however like to see some more behind the scenes stuff. It seems we went from zero knowledge on Equestria whatsoever, to knowing ever pop-culture detail inside and out.

Tons of fun, especially The Word; I always love that snarky display board.

I hope Prince Blueblood gets mentioned on the show at some point. He seems like he would be a goldmine of material for a show like this.

Celestia knows what she was getting into, but Luna... not sure. I expect her to be raging her life XD

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And this is exactly why I favorited this. Keep it up, I loved it.

I sense incoming butthurt from Celestia.

XD This was EPIC! The only thing I question is how the ponies already know about The Word, Tip of the Hat, etc. Other than that, it was just like watching an episode, except I had to keep my eyes open for this.

Great way to start my morning! This sounded just like the actual report!

I hope the next chapter is about what Celestia thought of the episode, and the general census, as well as other little behind the scenes tid-bits, before we move onto the "next episode".

Oh gosh, I love it so much.  The only thing I'd add is Celestia's reactions or the reactions of some of the ponies he talks about at the end.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Okay... I laughed. A lot. Props.

Not sure my two bits on this apply, but I felt the whole chapter needed maybe one final paragraph to lead into the next one. While the chapter is solid, it feels like a piece is missing both at the beginning and at the end, there's no hook to draw me back here for the next one (though I will be back to continue this, bucking hilarious).

Other than that minor detail, writing was extremely solid, you nailed Colbert as far as I'm concerned, and you really nailed an episode's writing as well.

All in all, keep up the good work, just make sure not to leave floating chapters around, make the flow continue from Chapter 1 all the way through the end.

>>19757911975791

I completely agree. I hope the next few chapters quell some of the questions.

>>19758161975816

Good to see someone actually reply to a criticism I give for once :p

I haven't really seen that much of the real thing so I think I might enjoy this more if I did... but as it stands I am enjoying it.

Amazing chapter. You capture Colbert's (in show) Character perfectly. This chapter seemed just like an episode of the show.

WARNING MY OWN OPINION BELOW. FEEL FREE TO NOT GIVE TWO SHITS.

While i have to give u props on how well u captured the essence of the show, it needs to be a bit different. People are gonna get bored if it's essentially the same thing as the regular Colbert report. You need to show how his show becomes popular over Equestria. It seems like it was extememly popular right off the back. U also make Equestria's Culture seem a bit to much like America's. U should try to show more of the cultural diffrences and maybe behind the scenes how Colbert adjust and reacts to the changes.

MY STUPID OPINION ENDS HERE.

Keep up the good work. Either way i cant wait for more.

Yes! I know I said this on the prologue, but genius! Pure genius!

Now we just need a Ham Rove (Hay Rove?) joke and a mention of how much he hates bears

And of course his other segments, like Cheating Death, the Sport Report, and my personal favorite, That's the Craziest F!@#ing Thing I've Ever Heard!