Stephen Colbert on blind activist Chen Guangcheng's miraculous escape: "Apparently losing your sight doesn't only make your hearing better, it makes your balls bigger."
Stephen Colbert has delicate advice for Chen Guangcheng
Watch: Jon Huntsman on the Colbert Report
Okay we still can't get our hands on an embed code yet, but you can watch part of Jon Huntsman's interview on the Colbert Report here. He talks about his Mormonism and, of course, speaks some Chinese. (Just can't get enough of making those strange sounds come out of a white dude's mouth, eh America?) Ever the charmer, Huntsman obliges the usual request by saying, in Mandarin, "I wish you'd be my running mate, Stephen" (我很想你做我的副美国总统).
New Yorker's China correspondent Evan Osnos @ M on the Bund this Thursday!
Evan Osnos, the New Yorker's impeccably-coiffed Beijing-based China correspondent, is in town for another chatty discussion with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, history professor at the University of California Irvine, and author of the China-primer China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know.
Video: Stephen Colbert's thoughts on Disney English in China
Disney English is old news, we know, but let's just take a break from the train crash tragedy for a minute and see what Colbert can come up with. "We cannot allow a princess gap!"
Stephen Colbert takes on Rush Limbaugh for racist Chinese impersonation
Just the other day, Rush Limbaugh created a stir with his impersonation of a Pentecostal pastor President Hu Jintao. Stephen Colbert says he's "offended by Rush's cheap, insensitive rip-off of my character Ching Chong Ding Dong" and offered a translation of Limbaugh's gibberish:
John Legend at the Shanghai Yunfeng Theater
Week Around the -Ists
- Gothamist went to the scene of the Trump Soho construction collapse, which left one construction worker dead and others injured (an indirect culprit - Manhattan's hot real estate market, causing rushed construction jobs).
- Shanghaiist is confused by media reports as to whether Playboy will be available in China during the year of the Olympics.
- LAist got fugged in an interview with the Go Fug Yourself girls.
This week in -ist: Elsewhere in the Gothamist Network
Valentine's Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network wanted to express would like to tell you, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we love you, our readers. Don't let it get to your heads, though. There are plenty of things we love, you included. Just be glad you're not amongst the things we hate.

