Comments on: Richard Wilkins mocked on Colbert Report

By: Jeremy Sear

Jeremy Sear — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:49:30 +0000

Uh - look above at the URL. They got the show wrong at first (TDS instead of TCR).

By: David Noble

David Noble — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:15:33 +0000

Jeremy, you can google it easy enough - Crikey didn’t work for me either.

By: Brian Kelly

Brian Kelly — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:01:51 +0000

Jeremy, They did not at any stage announce or confirm Goldblum’s “death”. Given he was not even in the country at the time, how could they.

By: Jeremy Sear

Jeremy Sear — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:12:17 +0000

Did New Zealand police confirm the original URL?

By: Brian Kelly

Brian Kelly — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:41:34 +0000

What a complete goose Wilkins is. At no time did New Zealand police confirm Jeff Goldblum’s “death”. A simple phonecall to New Zealand police would have discovered this. Wilkins is such a good reporter he doesn’t bother to confirm, in the simplest of ways, any of his “news flashes”. There’s one born every minute but I think for ten minutes before Wilkin’s birth none was born so he had to make up for it.

By: gnosis

gnosis — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:09:41 +0000

It wasn’t so long ago John Howard was featured on the Colbert Report over his remarks about an Obama win being a win for terrorists. He’s in good gaffe company there.

By: observer

observer — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:06:07 +0000

“as Stephen Colbert and actor Jeff Goldblum mocks …”

It should be “mock” - plural.

By: Heathdon McGregor

Heathdon McGregor — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:50:04 +0000

My favourite Richard Wilkins error, apart from the greatest game show ever- Keynotes!, is when for an April fools day joke triple j ran a story on their breakfast news that due to the slowness of infrastructure the olympics have been taken off Sydney.

Mr Wilkins reported it on Nine