title: Stephen Colbert Has a Date with Doge on “The Late Show”
listing: comedy/talk-shows, celebrity interviews, technology influences
In a groundbreaking episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” the popular TV comedy host will be interviewing Doge, the internet meme and Shiba Inu Doge coin celebrity created during the crypto frenzy of 2013. This is not a drill, a typo or an April Fool’s joke: Doge’s creator, Billy Markus, confirmed via Twitter. The interview will take place on February 23 on CBS.
Doge, which features a photo of an adorable male Shiba Inu, became an instant hit on the internet in 2013 when Markus incorporated the Doge language to Reddit comments in his free time, which later became a meme and the basis for a dedicated currency. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, held a Twitter poll asking whether Doge or Bitcoin should be hypothetically accepted for payments. Interestingly, the meme coin outperformed Bitcoin with 74.3% of the Twitter poll vote in favor.
The popularity of Doge has led to numerous social media endorsements and articles from tech publications. Andrew Ross Sorkin, editor of New York Times’ DealBook, published an article titled “Dogecoin: One Man’s Joke Changes Crypto-Landscape,” hours before Musk tweeted about uploading a Doge-themed “Saturday Night Live” sketch.
This historic interview, where Colbert aims to uncover Doge’s true, elusive, and possibly subversive intentions on the world of finance, is not to be missed.
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