Colbert can't hang with his buddy Muhammad :(

I guess everyone is now kind of immune to images of Muhammad being censored out. It happened again on Thursday's Colbert Report, as he was trying to show a picture of himself with his buddy Muhammad, resulting in the image to the right. There was then a quick editing cut to Colbert just sitting at his desk, which makes the small percentage of my brain devoted to conspiracies wonder if he had said more, and it got cut by Comedy Central.

Speaking of Comedy Central, they are still cowards. And hypocritical, given their stance on Jesus and their attitude toward other religions. I'm an atheist, so I don't have a dog in this fight, but Comedy Central is letting the extremists win when they decide to censor images of Muhammad because they're offensive as opposed to anything else. You know, like when they had Buddha doing lines of cocaine in episode "201".

And predictably, this has emboldened nutty fanatics of other religions to point out the hypocrisy. I imagine at some point, either they'll make a threat in an attempt to get something removed from an episode, or Parker and Stone will quit the show or bring it to another network. Their current contract runs through 2013, and it wouldn't surprise me if they abruptly quit after that, or tried to give Comedy Central a big "F U" finger on the way out.

Programming note: I'll have a late entry tonight, since Betty White is hosting Saturday Night Live. Woohoo! I'm hoping it's a good episode, and between her and Jay-Z, there is a lot of potential here.

TV Review: South Parks starts season 14 on strong note

Ah, South Park. Good times as always. “Why would a man who is rich and famous try to have sex with lots of women???” The episode also starts with a great spoof of the Thanksgiving night event.

Butters freaks out about seeing a vagina for the first time, which is great for his reaction. Various Butters' quotes from the episode: “Did you see the bush on that lady???” “It was just so big and bushy, sir! Why does it look like that?” “Are there berries in it?”

Unfortunately though, it means that Kenny, Kyle and Butters have sex addiction, and are ordered to be separated from the rest of the students. And of course, Kenny dies from auto-erotic asphyxiation. And at his funeral, Butters tries to trim a bush into what he saw between the lady's legs.

From there, the episode is mostly about a Wizard Alien that is casting a spell on all the men in the United States, making them cheat on their wives when they have lots of money. Outside of a segment with monkeys, this portion is less successful, but the Butters quotes alone make this episode worth watching.

Grade: B+