{"id":651482,"date":"2013-04-09T13:53:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T17:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=74542"},"modified":"2013-04-09T17:01:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T21:01:03","slug":"bill-and-teds-excellent-initiative-a-great-suggestion-from-stephen-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651482","title":{"rendered":"Bill and TED&rsquo;s Excellent Initiative? A great suggestion from Stephen Colbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/full-episodes\/mon-april-8-2013-bill-clinton\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74544\" alt=\"Clinton-on-Colbert\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/clinton-on-colbert.jpg?w=900\"   \/><\/a>The description of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/full-episodes\/mon-april-8-2013-bill-clinton\">last night\u2019s episode of <i>The Colbert Report <\/i><\/a>reads: \u201cAt the Clinton Global Initiative University Meeting, President Bill Clinton discusses foreign aid, poverty, TED Talks, Twitter and the Colbert Galactic Initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/bill_clinton_on_rebuilding_rwanda.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/1993_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Clinton on rebuilding Rwanda\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Bill Clinton on rebuilding Rwanda<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a>So how did TED enter the conversation? Colbert suggested that Clinton, who accepted the TED Prize in 2007 with the talk \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/bill_clinton_on_rebuilding_rwanda.html\">On rebuilding Rwanda<\/a>,\u201d team up with us for \u201cBill and TED\u2019s Excellent Initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The moment came right after Colbert asked Clinton why he helps people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s totally selfish,\u201d Clinton admitted. \u201cI do it because I\u2019m good at it and I\u2019m not good enough to play golf on the senior tour, and I don\u2019t play my saxophone as much as I used to \u2026 I [help people] because, I think after the life I\u2019ve been given by the American people, I\u2019d be kind of a slug if I didn\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you done TED Talks?\u201d Colbert asked, trying to figure out the difference between TED, the Clinton Global Initiative and Burning Man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have, and I like them,\u201d Clinton said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you ever thought of having the Clinton Global Initiative and TED Talks team up to make Bill and Ted\u2019s Excellent Initiative?\u201d asked Colbert, to big applause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a wonderful idea,\u201d replied Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quickmeme.com\/meme\/3tswou\/\">QuickMeme.com<\/a> for capturing the moment:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74570\" alt=\"Bill-and-TED-meme\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/bill-and-ted-meme.jpg?w=900\"   \/><\/p>\n<p>And another TED-related Comedy Central bonus from yesterday\u2019s <i>The Daily Show<\/i>: Kees Moeliker was a guest in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/mon-april-8-2013\/beasts-of-the-southern-wild\">segment about pubic lice<\/a>. Last week, we posted his talk \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/kees_moeliker_how_a_dead_duck_changed_my_life.html\">How a dead duck changed my life<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74542\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74542\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=74542&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/eVDYGtQqTVg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The description of last night\u2019s episode of The Colbert Report reads: \u201cAt the Clinton Global Initiative University Meeting, President Bill Clinton discusses foreign aid, poverty, TED Talks, Twitter and the Colbert Galactic Initiative.\u201d Bill Clinton on rebuilding RwandaSo how did TED enter the conversation? Colbert suggested that Clinton, who accepted the TED Prize in 2007 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}