like my new line of snack foods stephen colbert's just eat it. every box comes with a complimentary blindfold. you put on the blindfold, open the box, and stick it in your mouth. (laughter) though word of warning, don't let it near your rat, or he is a dead man. we'll be right back. cheers because is welcome

definitely not coordinating with stephen colbert superpac! >> all right. so the joke there being that citizens united allows you to create a super pac that raises money and spends money on ads, quit that super pac, hand off the reins to your best friend, run for office while your best friend supports your candidacy with money from that super pac. >> can i run ads supporting stephen colbert who i believe in very deeply and perhaps attacking his potential opponents who i don't believe in at all? >> yes, you can as long as you do not coordinate. >> can i legally hire stephen's current super pac staff? to produce these ads that will be in no way coordinated with stephen? >> yes. >> okay. so check this out. that comedy routine is now reality in the state of montana. ryan zinky, a former state senator and navy s.e.a.l. is running for congress but before that he was running a super pac called special operations for america. >> special operations for america is a grass roots pac, you know, aimed at giving the military a voice. giving special operations to guys on

it's me, stephen colbert." as you can see -- ( cheers ) here i am, dressed as a roast turkey enjoying a drum stick, because nothing evokes the hardship of the first colonies like cannibalism. ( laughter ) for just three increasing payments of $39.99, i'll be your thanksgiving guest of honor. all that's left is take your credit card numbers and record the dvd, let's do that part right now. jim, come on, let's do it. >> okay, here we go. >> stephen: oh, hi! thanks for inviting me-- insert name" family. but before we begin, a prayer of thanksgiving. dear lord, jesus christ, the one true savior who will some day judge those sitting at this table. thank you for this bounty, which we are about to take partake of. also thanks for not making us indians. talk about a rough ride. amen, let's eat. okay! ( cheers and applause ) okay. mmm-mmm! oboy! mmm-mmm. so tender! you would have to be an idiot to be a vegetarian. ( laughter ) i'm talking to you, karen. sure, saving a lot of animals by not eating this dead one. oh, oh,

whereas i, i stephen colbert live solely to entertain the people. (cheers and applause) now folks, you say stephen, i'm a people, how do i choice. well, for the 2014 addrd was, folk, the american academy of peopling is allowing to you cast your votes through the people's choice web site, their iphone app or via social media like facebook or twitter which makes them #relevant. and they say there is very important, you can vote as often as you like and encourage your friends to vote too. hmmmm, i wonder if i have any friends i can encourage to vote for me? (cheers and applause) you ready to do this, nation? oh, go to people's choice.com and vote for me in the category of favorite late night talk show host. voting ends december 5th but please do not vote more than 6 billion times. that might seem suspicious. we'll be right back. >> welcome back, everybody, my guest tonight is an professor with the new book the story of the human body evolution, health and disease. >> i picked health. >> please welcome daniel lieberman. (cheers and applause) hey, good t

colbert's november sweeps prostacular. jimmy, juice it! >> november sweep prostacular. >> stephen: nation, welcome to the prostacular. gentlemen, bring out the privacy curtain, let's do it, guys. all right. nation, any newsman can get some old doctor to stick his digital up your analog. but sweeps is all about guest stars. >> did someone say guest stars? (cheers and applause) stars, john lithgow, john, i got to ask you, john, what are you doing here? >> stephen, i'm here to examine your prostate. (laughter) as research for an acting role. >> stephen: oh, what's the play? >> the glass menagerie. (laughter) >> stephen: now folks, that's a guest star. >> guest star, did someone say guest star? (cheers and applause) >> stephen: host of television's katie, television's katie couric. katie what are you doing here. >> stephen, i'm here to examine your prostate. >> stephen: both of you? i thought-- but i never thought i would say this but i wish i had two prostates. >> well, maybe you do. that's what we're here for. >> stephen: we

these guys, jon stewart and stephen colbert against those guys with no match. up next, mayor of toronto, it's hard to take him seriously. his tv show was canceled already. then there was this defensive interview on the "today" show this morning. take a look at how he tried to turn the tables on nbc's matt lauer. >> say you had gone out drinking or you were drunk and say something happened to your family -- >> the lives of a million people don't land on my decisions. >> hold on. say your son or daughter just got killed in an accident, are you going to be able to handle that? >> yao got taxpayers depending on you. >> i take personality on them too. >> when it comes to comic relief, rob ford is the gift that keeps on giving. the latest viral he has to capitalize on his newfound infamy is on the volvo commercial of jean-claude van damme splitting between two trucks. those who know the ad know it's painful to watch. but in this case it's a hilarious site to behold. >> i stand here before you. what you see is a body crafted to perfection. a pair of legs engineered to

these guys, jon stewart and stephen colbert against those guys with no match. up next, mayor of toronto, it's hard to take him seriously. his tv show was canceled already. then there was this defensive interview on the "today" show this morning. take a look at how he tried to turn the tables on nbc's matt lauer. >> say you had gone out drinking or you were drunk and say something happened to your family -- >> the lives of a million people don't land on my decisions. >> hold on. say your son or daughter just got killed in an accident, are you going to be able to handle that? >> yao got taxpayers depending on you. >> i take personality on them too. >> when it comes to comic relief, rob ford is the gift that keeps on giving. the latest viral he has to capitalize on his newfound infamy is on the volvo commercial of jean-claude van damme splitting between two trucks. those who know the ad know it's painful to watch. but in this case it's a hilarious site to behold. >> i stand here before you. what you see is a body crafted to perfection. a pair of legs engineered to

like my new line of snack foods stephen colbert's just eat it. every box comes with a complimentary blindfold. you put on the blindfold, open the box, and stick it in your mouth. (laughter) though word of warning, don't let it near your rat, or he is a dead man. we'll be right back. cheers because is welcome back, everybody, my guest tonight hosts a show on public radio as a tribute i'll be calling this one in, please welcome brian lehrer. (applause) plaus. >> stephen: brian, hey, nice to meet you, thanks for coming on. listen, i'm a long-time fan, first time hoster. thanks for coming on, for the people out there who perhaps do not get the radio in new york, you are the host of brian lehrer show near at wnyc here in new york. i think the finest local news in new york. >> (cheers and applause) >> because i generally don't do local news. >> no competition, that's good. >> stephen: all right. now brian, we have a new mayor in new york city. (cheers and applause) bill de blasio. and as a wealthy new yorker, i am terrified this guy ran on tax geigs li

." >> definitely stephen colbert. sheer brilliance. >> steve carell. >> and we also have chris said kelsey grammer from cheers to frazier falls into seattle. >> he was solid. a lot of good once out there. let's leave you as we head into "morning joe" "morning joe" wit from robin williams. >> remember me mork from ork. you once called me the nutso from outer space. >> i think i'm dreaming something like that, you know. ♪ >> people look at what's taken place in washington and they say not enough is getting done to help me with my life. and regardless of what congress does i'm the president of the united states and they expect me to do something about it. i think it's legitimate for me to win back some credibility

that was stephen colbert on trey radel. the first member of congress ever to plead geelt cocaine possession while in office. i guess there's a first for everything. but as it turns out radel's also the first congressman to be known as a hip pop conservative. a title he bestowed upon himself back in july. he credits it for his more rebellious side and look at politics. look at this interview that he gave last spring. >> is there a lyric or a song that explains how you feel about the situation in washington? >> you know, the first one that i would have to refer to would be fight the power by public enemy. this is a song that came out, really, if you really get down to it, in many ways reflects the conservative message. i think at the end of the day and this is where i take my love of hip hop music, of where you can see where there have been issues and problems with heavy handed either law enforcement like the department of justice like we've seen right now or heavy handed government in and of itself. >> earlier today radel ch

stephen colbert not surprised. >> there is another new report on the national security agency today, an italian magazine reports that the nsa may have spied on the pope. and some cardinals. sources at the magazine have been told that the nsa eaves dropped on vati itican phone ca before the conclave. i'm a devout catholic, but i believe the nsa must spy on the vatican. they're tapping the direct line to god. and as i pointed out, this guy has a beard, spent a lot of time in the middle east, and i keep hearing he has some plan that for some reason always involves your grandma dying. >> halloween gaft networks the chance to show off their personalities and you might expect david letterman very impressed. >> it's halloween and all your tv show hosts put on the halloween outfits. this is matt lauer today on the "today" show. that's george stephanopoulos dressed as george clooney. next we have hoda and kathie lee. these are adult men and women making a living on network television. and we do have 60 minutes, take a look. >> that's good. one guy missing from that is willie geist. he may hav

let's start with late-night, new revelations about obama care and impacting prices has stephen colbert up in arms. >> obama care will have men and women paying the same amount for health care, but since women live longer and have babies, shouldn't they pay more? >> under the new law, they are including essential health benefits, and those essential health benefits include maternity, pediatric dental and vision, contraceptive services and free birth control pills, none of which are young man needs or wants. [ laughter ] >> did you catch that? under obama care, men will pay the same amount as women, and yet, we still don't get to pass a cantaloupe with toe nails through our genitals. >>> now to "the daily show," where jon stewart is going north to of the border, dealing with mayor ron ford and his apology for admitted mistakes. >> i shouldn't have gotten hammered down at the danforth. if you're going to have a couple drinks, you stay at home and that's it. you don't make a public spectacle of yourself. [ laughter ] >> one, i would very much like to know what happened down at the danforth

colbert sentences and i work he has but it's not just you going to coco bear and i work together we were on stage together many times but we worked in the box office at second set every second city selling tickets selling tickets and taking reservations yes that's where we did most of our work with stephen koepp there in the box office the funny thing is that i actually did do forty things that i remember of somebody was a jerk to me on the phone because that's where it was on the phone ok i would tell them that i'm putting them in the puppet section it's the hardest section as puppets of marionettes they go what is this i go well during the show from the ceiling marionette strap up drop down and puppets come out so i would mark that i would put p.s. next their name was rarely on there and they'd know puppet section so i would show up on the puppet section i just to watch and you'd have these people who were jocks but the whole show they'd be looking everywhere for it. how did you meet larry david at the gentle lovemaking seminar disposed of both of us trying to tone it down we were

last night stephen colbert has sought out a source from inside the cbs newsroom. take a look at what he found. >> now, poncho, you were interning the night all hell broke loose at "60 minutes." >> yes, i was definitely there that night because i'm an actual human witness. >> tell us what happened, poncho. >> well, i was coming back from getting chewing tobacco for leslie stall when i heard explosions of shouting. >> who did you see? >> it was hillary clinton. she was swinging a bike chain and yelling we're here to kill the story, who wants to eat some chain! >> so it was hillary clinton who made cbs apologize? >> yes. >> i knew it. >> in case you didn't notice, the so-called source there was newsroom actor sam waterstern. and then he made an on-air apology. >> we checked with our sources. we made a mistake. we should not have used him in our report. and for that we're very sorry. the most important thing to everyone here at the colbert report is the truth. and the truth is it's somebody else's fault. >> anyway, creepy uncle sam is back. you might remember when the

he's kind of like the stephen colbert of canada. >> just like you, rob ford knows when you go into a friend's crack house, they offer you crack, it's rude not to the smoke that crack. >> all right. the funny man behind the bullhorn ian mcintyre, toronto based aker, write ewriter, come. clearly not a fan of the mayor. if this wasn't real, it would be hilarious. all of those moments when we are laughing at what is happening here, but this thing is crazy. it's absolutely crazy. do the people in toronto think it's funny? are they laughing because they really want to krip? >> hi there, suzanne. i'm having a hard time hearing you. there's another protest going on right behind me at the moment. i'm not sure if he's doing a bit or if he means it. he's pretty loud. >> tell us what's happening here. you were part of this rally and people were very angry. threw asked you to. >> he can to kind of lighten the mood a little bit. do they need laughs andhinkthis? >> very sick of it. i mean, i know it's interesting because the rob ford has gotten international headlines like the last week. but we've

that was stephen colbert on trey radel. i guess there's a first for everything. but as it turns out radel's also the first congressman to be known as a hip pop conservative. in an article he wrote for buzzfeed. he credits his love of hip hop and gangster on his love of politics. look at this interview he gave last spring. >> is there a lyric or a song that explains how you feel about the situation in washington? >> you know, the first one that i would have to refer to would be "fight the power" by public enemy. this is a song that came out, really, if you really get down to it, in many ways reflects the conservative message. i think at the end of the day and this is where i take my love of hip hop music, of where you can see where there have been issues and problems with heavy handed either law enforcement like the department of justice like we've seen right now or heavy handed government in and of itself. >> earlier today radel checked into rehab. anyway, speaking of drug use, mayor rob ford got an unlikely tribute last night from ron burgundy of "anchorman" fam

. >> and that was stephen colbert weighing in on the controversy this week over "the washington post" columnist richard cohen and the famous line about new york's soon to be mayor bill deblasio and wrote people with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of new york. the horror. like the obamas in the white house, the deblasios are basically a typical american family. that is the reality of where america is today and while he's correct that attitudes need to catch up, achieving a postracial world, this is what it's going to look like. this is america in 2013. it's the reality. interestingly enough, the romney campaign and fox news tried to deny it and boy were they in for a surprise on election day. all they had to do is read the census. not everyone can keep up with the times and many americans are afraid of change. and i know and have lived it in my own personal experience as a mixed race person and now in 2013 we still see plenty of backlash and resistance to the trends that are shaping our nation. i would say for the better. and i will bet yo

colbert last night. >> what i'm interested in doing is being the governor of new jersey. what i'm focused on is doing my job in the state of new jersey. i'm the governor of new jersey. for me, i'm the governor of new jersey and my job is to run the state of new jersey. >> yes, he's just the governor of new jersey. that's why he went on meet the jersey, fox news jersey sunday face the turnpike and this new jersey with new jersey. >> i don't know which i like more. anyway, i'm joined by a visiting fellow who writes for national review and bloomberg view and an editorial writer for "the washington post." all right, ramesh. beat us up for doing polling too early. >> you're doing polling too early. >> but that's okay. it did sort of present a reality check. christie had the best week he's ever had ever. if he's making the electability argument, he's got a long way to go. >> i don't think there's going to be anything in those numbers that will be shocking to the governor or his advisers. they know the republican party is weak right now and divided and there are people who won't

he wrestles stephen colbert. how did you prep for that wrestling scene? >> i was told it was to end in an awkward position. >> it was. >> people bend into some funny shapes to keep their jobs. >> clark johnson plays pennsylvania senator bettencourt. why did you decide to do this? >> i did homeland a lot. threats against the president. >> it's a comedy, of course, but the show's creators went to great lengths to keep it looking authentic. building realistic senator offices. they even brought a real senator to the set for a cameo. chuck schumer is the real deal, because the premise for "alpha house" is his real life. during the workweek, schumer, the third most democrat in the senator, lives with dick durbin the second most powerful democratic and congressman miller. we got the not so grand tour. >> oscar de la renta venetian blinds. >> our favorite cereal? plenty of cold cereals. >> i tried at this time other night, it's like a rock. >> at least the location of his bed is convenient. right in the living room. >> in all fairness. i did it for you. >> what w

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and they are such good talented voices, jon stewart and stephen colbert and on and on. it's-- there's a lot going on. and i have far more competition than i did when i first started out. i pretty much had the field to myself. there were a few late night comics who were doing rapid response hummer. but it was humor, it wasn't really is a tire, it was very gentle. so probably the reason i did as well as i did in the early part of my career is just through sheer novelty, now there is a whole universe of wonderful political sat fire. >> brown: okay, the new series, is alpha house, garry trudeau, thank you so much. >> thank you, jeff. >> woodruff: now to an update from the birthplace of the arab spring-- tunisia. the north african nation has struggled with democracy since the ouster of its former leader nearly three years ago. that struggle is not unique among the region's new democracies, but its attempt to right its course is without precedent in the new arab world. producer jessie deeter recently visited the country and filed this report, narrated by hari sreenivasan. >>

stephen colbert poked a little fun at christie's charm offensive on all the sunday morning talk shows this week. take a look. >> what i'm interested in doing is being the governor of new jersey. what i'm focused on is doing my job in the state of new jersey. >> i'm the governor of new jersey. >> for me, i'm the governor of new jersey and my job is to run the state of new jersey. >> yes, he's just the governor of new jersey. that's why he went on meet the jerdsy, fox news jersey, face the turnpike, and this new jersey new jerseyopolis. >> eat better and live longer. a new study by the west virginia school of medicine shows boomers are suffering from alarming levels of diabetes, high cholesterol and hypertension. doctors say it's imperative boomers practice good age appropriate nutrition to avoid disease. eat more whole grains, fruits and vegetables, eliminate salt and sugar and consider a high fiber diet. [ sniffles, coughs ] shhhh! i have a cold with this annoying runny nose. [ sniffles ] i better take something. [ male announcer ] dayquil cold and flu doesn't treat that. it doesn't?

. >>> stephen colbert tells the nsa to spy, spy away, at least on the vatican. take a look. >> i'm a devout catholic, but i believe the nsa must spy on the vatican. they're tapping the direct line to god. and as i have pointed out, this guy's got a beard, spent a lot of time in the middle east and i keep hearing he's got some plan that for some reason always involves your grandpa dying. [ male announcer ] at humana, understanding what makes you different is what makes us different. we take the time to get to know you and your unique health needs. then we help create a personalized healthcare experience that works for you. and you. and you. with 50 years of know-how, and a dedicated network of doctors, health coaches, and wellness experts, we're a partner you can rely on -- today, and tomorrow. we're going beyond insurance to become your partner in health. humana. is caused by people looking fore traffic parking.y that's remarkable that so much energy is, is wasted. streetline has looked at the problem of parking, which has not been looked at for the last 30, 40

last night stephen colbert has sought out a source from inside the cbs newsroom. take a look at what he found. >> now, poncho, you were interning the night all hell broke loose at "60 minutes." >> yes, i was definitely there that night because i'm an actual human witness. >> tell us what happened, poncho. >> well, i was coming back from getting chewing tobacco for leslie stall when i heard explosions of shouting. >> who did you see? >> it was hillary clinton. she was swinging a bike chain and yelling we're here to kill the story, who wants to eat some chain! >> so it was hillary clinton who made cbs apologize? >> yes. >> i knew it. >> in case you didn't notice, the so-called source there was newsroom actor sam waterstooen. and then he made an on-air apology. >> we checked with our sources. we made a mistake. we should not have used him in our report. and for that we're very sorry. the most important thing to everyone here at the colbert report is the truth. and the truth is it's somebody else's fault. >> anyway, creepy uncle sam is back. you might remember when th