Aptostichus stephencolberti: Stephen Colbert Gets A Spider Named After Him

GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) _ A trapdoor spider species found along the coast of California last year is the new eight-legged tribute to Stephen Colbert.

How will the faux conservative talk show host take this news? Viewers of the Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report" will find out Wednesday when East Carolina University biologist Jason Bond appears as a guest.

Bond specializes in spiders and millipedes. He and students study both new and known species and provide names for the new ones.

Colbert's namesake is Aptostichus (ap-TAS'-tih-kus) stephencolberti. Because Colbert doesn't pronounce the "t" in his last name, it will also be silent in the spider's name.

Colbert demanded that a spider species carry his name after learning that Bond named a spider for rocker Neil Young.

Comments

[TchoupitoulasCanal]

How funny! I don't know if there is an appropriate "spider shower" gift, but I'll try to come up with one.....

[Jamesdean]

jo n ste wart and ste phen col bert are the best political/social commentators, period.

[kellygrrrl]

Congrats Stephen!
another Life Goal to cross off the "Bucket List"

Nation rejoices in your successiness!

[apoyo]

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy!

[monty]

LOL! I love Stephen Colber(t).

[mlaiuppa]

LOL.

Trapdoor. How appropos

[ugmold]

Me Ego...I'll name one of my turds after him, then flush. Geez he love himself a bit to much

[magneato]

Ugmold-
It seems Colbert's shtick is lost on you.
He's only pretending to be an egomaniaca­l,blowhard­, right wing crackpot.(­ie Oreilly and Limbaugh)
In real life he's actually quite humble and nice.

[monty]

You realize that it's an act, don't you? Like Borat. He's not a real person, even though he plays one on TV. Do you live under a rock?

[kellygrrrl]

got irony?

[helmboy]

its a joke. really, get a sense of humor.

[smilodon1]

wayoutleft: what????

I'd be honored to have a new species named after me. With my luck, it would be a nematode and they all look alike.

[wayoutleft]

colbert and huffpo are collaboratively testing the theoretical limits of overexposure in this time-space continuum. public relations scientists had previously thought this level of overexposure was only possible with constantly stimulated electrode implants; but field research at huffpo indicates that overexposure at the level of constant awareness is possible with saturation blogging alone. the breakthrough is the unanticipated effect of reducing awareness of anything besides colbert to near-zero levels.

[omechengineeru]

well, at this point him and jon stewart are the only ones talking about the issues, so i guess its warranted.

[helmboy]

why are these not posting under the right place? this is for wayoutleft, the humor challenged.

[helmboy]

yawn.

[BigFootJesus]

Wow, multi-syllabic stupidity.