What was the date of that particular show?

December 12th

God gave humans the truth, and then the devil came and he said "let's organize it, we'll call it religion."

I don't know where I read the lines, they seem so damned true.

Yeah. Especially the thing about the invisible man in the sky, that's got to be the truth.

Was that supposed to be funny?

[[I'm assuming what he said is accurate]]Bravo, that was a history lesson i enjoyed.

You should all read (or listen to) the David Sedaris short story, "Six to Eight Black Men". It's about the Dutch (I think it's Dutch) Christmas tradition, and is not only true, but also hilarious... Colbert has definitely read it himself.

http://people.cornell.edu/pages/bs16/Christmas/6to8blackmen.txt

just. as jesus. intended.

regarding sinterklaas: http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~erik/sint/sint.html

That... was great. And accurate to boot. Good ol' Zwarte Piet and his Moorish little antics!

Now if only we could get people to stop spreading the myth about the origins of the red & white candy cane...

Hi,

when ever I open onegoodmove.org/gm1 I get a Quicktime plugin error.

Why is it so?

the comment won't post here (without telling me what's questionable about it; part of it sits below the linked post.

part of the comment that won't post here is at the link

Sinterklaas is purely for children and apart from presents and candy, it doesn't really get celebrated, unlike christmas.