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Stephen Colbert is sitting in his office, cutting up a take-out salad and telling me what a total jerk Stephen Colbert is. He's a hypocrite. A blowhard. Pompous, superficial and vain. He is "poorly informed but highly opinionated." Colbert is speaking about his on-air persona, the pundit and star of The Colbert Report, the spin-off of Comedy Central's hit fake-news series The Daily Show. Still, after a while, he stops himself. "I think I need to start calling him Col-bear," says the actor, using the correct pronunciation of his surname...
Weirder yet, people like that total jerk. In its first two weeks, Colbert's spoof of opinion shows drew 1.2 million viewers on average (The Daily Show pulls 1.6 million), more than double Comedy Central's rating for the 11:30 p.m. E.T. time slot a year ago. The network last week extended the show's eight-week run to a full year. It's a tribute to how well Colbert, 41, plays his gasbag alter ego--or to how annoyed his viewers are with the real-life gasbags whom he nails right down to their graphics. In the opening...
...ring. She’s in tears, tearing up her garden. She’s certainly lost her Sunny demeanor (har har). Next, we have a flashback of her on a blind date that her mother set up with some Harvard hot-shot. Fittingly, he’s a jerk. Harvard Man basically leads Sun on in an attempt to get his own mother off his back—the entire time, he’s actually engaged to some girl he met at Harvard. You mean a Harvard guy is dating a Harvard girl, and they got engaged? Frankly...
...binoculars," jokes a senior vice president. "They rented space on the fourth floor." High-tech trash talk!) It's almost eerie: Apple employees all like one another, and they have a strong sense that they are the chosen of the earth, and they're not going to be a jerk about it, but all others who dwell on this mortal coil are missing out by not working here...
...polite, but also try to display a little personality. 10. Literal punching is not recommended, except when dealing with members of the Fly. Aim for the spot right between their upturned collar and their backwards visor. 11. Remember, you don’t have to be a sketchy jerk with no respect for women to get into the A.D....but it don’t hurt! 12. Don’t keep walking around with your pants unzipped, asking members if they want to get acquainted with your “final club...