Charlie Gibson's Holiday Alter-Ego: "Charles Blitzen"

"ABC World News" anchor Charlie Gibson dips a toe in the waters beyond his 6:30 pm timeslot, venturing into prime time tomorrow evening to cameo in "Elmo's Christmas Countdown," a Sesame Street holiday special in which Gibson voices the character of Charles Blitzen, the Reindeer anchor of CDN, anchoring their "Christmas Countdown Report." Other guest stars/voices include Ben Stiller, Alicia Keys, Sheryl Crow, Jennifer Hudson, Anne Hathaway and Jamie Foxs, plus Big Bird, Grover, Cookie Monster, Ernie & Bert, The Count, and Oscar the Grouch, who most recently guest-starred with Anderson Cooper on Sesame Street in October. In August, NBC anchor Brian Williams also appeared on Sesame Street, introducing the word of the day, which was "squid." CBS anchor Katie Couric previously worked with Elmo in 1997 on the Sesame Street video "Learning To Share."

Gibson's next foray into prime time will be on January 5, 2008, when he will moderate the ABC/Facebook debates in New Hampshire — both the Dems and the GOP, back-to-back, 90-minutes each, from 7 - 11 pm. That, if I may say, is a very long time.

Who's Charles Blitzen? [ABC News]

Related:
Sesame Street - Learning to Share [Amazon.com]
Brian Williams: "Good Day, And Good Squid" [ETP]

Comments

[godlessclif]

10:01 AM on 12/23/2007

I love Gibby, I gotta see this!!

[BeerHolder]

02:51 AM on 12/23/2007

Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh, drink his blood and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

[OckhamsElectricRazor]

09:49 PM on 12/22/2007

Former fluffy multi-millionaire morning show hosts telling America what to buy. What a sham they have become. Their talent and motivation drained years before, now they are just spoiled and fluffy with nothing to say. Poor babies! They are just teaching the public how easy it is to do without them!