Daft Punk did not, after all, appear on the Colbert Report. According to Stephen Colbert, there was a mixup in the rights for him to have Daft Punk perform on his show. He said that Viacom, the owner of Comedy Central and a plethora of other TV networks (including MTV) informed him that his show could not host the french duo due to their planned appearance in the MTV Music Video awards next month. Apparently, MTV has a contract to get an exclusive Daft Punk TV appearance, meaning that they could not perform on The Colbert Report. This is more likely than not some dumb publicity stunt by Viacom to get viewership for VMAs. It is very hard to believe that a conflicting interest such as this would not come to light until the last second.
Robin Thicke performed his hit, Blurred Lines, in Daft Punk’s stead.
UPDATE: You can now watch the full episode of The Colbert Report, in all of its disappointing glory
http://www.hulu.com/watch/519396
Its stupid that a company owns rights over a person/group. They can barely make their own choices anymore.
All the waiting and excitement, just to see this BS get announced.
“Were up all night to make Money”.
Let’s give credit to Colbert for the awesome video he put together on short notice with all the star cameos. It was a nice FU to MTV.
Wow, this really sucks.
Lame 🙁
Fuck MTV
That doesn’t make any sense. If Viacom owns owns both CC and MTV then why would there be a contract in the first place? So the reason why CC can’t have them perform is because Viacom has an exclusivity agreement…with itself? lol…
Out of all the people that get canceled one group I ACTUALLY care about gets canceled…. My luck.
DAMMIT VIACOM NOBODY GIVES A SHIT ABOUT MTV ANYMORE.
Hey! Blurred Lines for the umpteenth time on yet another talk show. I’m so glad it was chosen to fill in for Daft Punk in order to suck out the last bit of fucks I gave for Robin Thicke. Cheers!
MTV is gona fuck up EDM like they do to other genres other thatn rap and hiphop -.- arent they having fun promoting prego teens..
It was obviously a move by Viacom to get more people to watch the VMA’s. People got excited to see them on Colbert and they still are….just now to see them at the VMA’s.
Sorry left hand, my right hand has exclusive rights to jerk me off.
best episode of Colbert ever.
Can you guys sort of change the title of this article its not really Colbert’s fault they didn’t show up…
Ew, Henry Kissinger, I hope that fucker dies. Elite banker scum right there…
freakin hilarious!