Colbert Urges Nation to Buy Lightsabers

December 3, 2008

Not to be out-geeked by The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, on the Dec. 1 episode of The Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert wagged his finger at the National Toy Hall of Fame curator Christopher Bench for inducting the stick into the museum and called it “all natural, the perfect price.”

Colbert says of Bench:

Wrong! Free is never the perfect price! Retailers depend on holiday toy sales but thanks to Mr. Bench here, parents are gonna realize that sticks literally grow on trees. He makes me so mad I want to poke him in the eye, with not a stick, but a Star Wars Force FX authentic replica lightsaber. (Waves lightsaber around.) Just $79.99!

Check out the full episode on Hulu.com:
VIDEO: The Colbert Report
(Colbert waves the lightsaber at around 11:30)

Get your own Star Wars Force FX Lightsaber at Star Wars Shop.

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3 Responses to “Colbert Urges Nation to Buy Lightsabers”

  1. CDR M Says:
    December 4, 2008 at 5:58 am

    Where can one find this at the $79.99 price?????

  2. Gordon McCabe Says:
    December 5, 2008 at 9:14 am

    I have a question about light sabers, or, to be more accurate, a question about the optics of light sabers, which one of the readers of this blog might be able to answer:

    http://mccabism.blogspot.com/2008/12/light-sabres-and-fluorescent-tubes.html

    Any ideas?

  3. The Official Star Wars Blog » Colbert Eats an Ewok! Says:
    April 28, 2009 at 4:34 pm

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