A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!
A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! is a Christmas special that debuted on Comedy Central on November 23, 2008.
A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!
David Javerbaum
Adam Schlesinger
English
Allison Silverman
Stephen Colbert
60 minutes
(including commercials)
Spartina Productions
Comedy Central (USA)
CTV (Canada)
The Comedy Network (Canada)
November 23, 2008
The plot is that Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report, while heading to the film studio to shoot his Christmas special with Elvis Costello, becomes trapped in a cabin in "bear country" (upstate New York or Vermont) when he hears a bear prowling outside. A number of his friends stop by the cabin to sing Christmas songs with him as Stephen tries to find ways to escape the cabin and make his Christmas as special as possible, ending by revealing that the titular "greatest gift of all" is the DVD release of the special.
Reception[edit]
The special has received generally favorable reviews. It currently has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 78%.[2] Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times wrote that "Mr. Colbert is delightful, a few of the song parodies are clever, but over all, the show is too long and more than a little strained, much like the holiday specials it mocks".[3] Some critics noted that the production values of the special were low, but Tim Goodman of the San Francisco Chronicle said "that's part of the reason it's so funny". Goodman concluded that "it's not a classic, but there are worse ways to spend an hour".[4] The album won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.