Colbert figures Google owes him $700 million from the YouTube acquisition

Posted Oct 16th 2006 12:54PM by Melly Alazraki
Filed under: Television, Google (GOOG)

I howled when I watched this last week but had no idea I would actually find it on the Internet. But of course I would. Clips from The Colbert Report are all over YouTube, why not this particular one of Colbert claiming Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) owes him $700 million from Google's purchase prise for YouTube then? Here's how Colbert, in his 'truthiness' fashion, figures this out:

"...my show is all over the YouTube. You put my name into YouTube, you pull up more than 26 hundred videos, that's gotta be like a third of all videos. That means I've got $500 million coming to me. That doesn't even count the times we mention YouTube on the show."

Colbert then counts the times he indeed mentioned YouTube, and for each mention he adds $50 million to the $500 million he already calculated. The last mention is even a complete fake voice over. Too funny.

Well, Google, Colbert will accept cash or money orders.

You can watch the video on YouTube for yourselves of course.

Via Google Blogoscopped.

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