Hang Stephen Colbert Above Your Mantle

I was gonna post this as a news story, but it's moving way too fast.

Stephen Colbert announced he was auctioning off the portrait of himself that hangs above the mantle in his studio to commemorate the one year anniversary of his show.

The auction went live at 12am EST on Wednesday. Half an hour later, it's reached over $500,000. All proceeds are going to the Save The Children charity. There are 9 days left in the auction.

The man is unstoppable.

Looks like it petered out at $600,100. That was still pretty crazy seeing it grow like that over less than an hour.

It's at 2M now! Holy guacomole!

$10 million...

i'd go gay for Stephen Colbert if he asked me to...

One hundred million, what the fuck?! That can't be real, right?

(I mean, I'd totally buy it if I had the money, but...)

$99,999,999
good job, assholes

Jeezy creezy! What's wrong with people? It's for charity. Not a joke.

He couldn't do it without you, the heroes.

Just shy of $100M for Save The Children? I'd say the tops getting the Hungarian bridge named after himself.

Gee, couldn't have seen that coming.

How do you know it's not some very very rich person bidding on it, like Ted Turner?

too bad they didnt be smart from this, they have had so they had to preapprove each bidder

huh?

Yeah. Like woah!

Steven Colbert!

*drools*

I don't be to understand wrong what be could.

Current bid: US $10,000,100.00
End time: Oct-27-06 21:00:00 PDT (9 days 12 hours)

from the ebay listing page:

at least, i think that's what you're asking. me no speak no english badly, me apologize.

Maybe Save the Children can use the money to help get the US goverment to ratify the United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child.. they're the only country in the world that hasn't. It was them and Somalia.. but Somalia recently ratified.

back down to $13,600 and still falling.

$11,100.

ouch.

$5,200 now. This auction is trapped in a time warp.