'Colbert Report' Features TNG Member at Consumers Union Testing Lab

Emilio Gonzalez was nervous when he sat down in front of the TV late Tuesday night. What to expect after a goofy day a few weeks earlier when comedian Stephen Colbert and his camera crew invaded the TNG-CWA member's dishwasher testing lab at Consumers Union?

"I wasn't sure how they would spin it," said Gonzalez, treasurer of the 260-member unit of The New York Newspaper Guild, TNG-CWA Local 31003. "It wasn't rehearsed in any way, we just went with the flow. He made it easy."

Billed as "Who's Watching the Watchdog?" Colbert was turning his cameras on Consumers Union for an "investigation" of the product raters for the "Colbert Report," a half-hour satiric news program. The segment can be viewed on the show's website, www.colbertnation.com.

Gonzalez has been a project leader testing appliances in the Yonkers, N.Y., lab for 19 years and was the only TNG-CWA member featured on the show.