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UPDATE: Thanks guys.  I will now apologize to eminently reasonable-and-healthily-skeptical-Boyfriend by sending him this link. :)
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I've been a redditor for many years, and though I seldom post or comment I love this community.  Over time, I've developed an attachment to this place that I think many of you probably feel as well. So, it was with a great deal of smugness that I told my boyfriend (who is probably sick of hearing "Today on Reddit...") that the Rally was Reddit's idea.

To my eternal horror, he did not respond with blind enthusiasm and a "Reddit's SO AWESOME!"  Instead, he tried to school me on the distinctions between causality and correlation. "Just because they came up with the idea too doesn't mean Jon and Stephen weren't already planning it." (He's a law student. Can you tell?) I've sent him the link to Stephen's awesome meme-filled note. I sent him a link to a Forbes blog post talking about the whole thing. He says that until he sees something from Stephen/Jon/Comedy Central specifically saying that they got the idea from Reddit, he won't believe it.

I must win. Please help. Are there any posts/videos/news stories where Comedy Central confirms this? I know it's too obvious to even need confirmation, but I'm hoping there's some out there.
<bot>: I would like to prove, conclusively, to my skeptical boyfriend that Comedy Central/Stewart/Colbert got the Rally idea from Reddit.