The Colbert Report

Neil Gaiman

Season 5 • 03/16/2009

Neil Gaiman says children's fiction always has darkness in it.

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04:01

Mahmoud's Non-Consensual Endorsement Deal
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If Iran is going to use Stephen to sell products he hasn't endorsed over there, he'll use Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to sell products over here.
03/12/2009
02:06

Craziest F#?king Thing I've Ever Heard - Barreleye Fish
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National Geographic releases footage of a fish that has a see-through head and twitching green sacks of goo for eyes.
03/12/2009
07:51

It Could Be Worse - Simon Johnson
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Simon Johnson explains why America's economy resembles an unstable, emerging market.
03/12/2009
00:05

Goodnight
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That's it for the Report tonight.
03/12/2009
05:15

Peter Singer
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Peter Singer urges Stephen to give money to poor people rather than enjoying it himself.
03/12/2009
02:26

Stephen's Angry Mob Will Crush AIG
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The government can't stop AIG, but Stephen's angry mob can.
03/16/2009
00:19

Stephen Wants to Hug You
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Stephen wants to hug every one of you.
03/16/2009
05:00

Better Know a Governor - Mark Sanford Update
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Stephen asks South Carolina's Mark Sanford what barbeque sauce he wants for his last meal.
03/16/2009
00:33

Intro - 3/16/09
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Your tax money is being spent on executive bonuses. At least it's not going to welfare.
03/16/2009
05:21

The New Deal - Jonathan Chait
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Jonathan Chait believes the New Deal was successful because it eased people's misery.
03/16/2009
05:31

Neil Gaiman
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Neil Gaiman replaces being scared of dead people with being afraid of living people in his new book "The Graveyard Book."
03/16/2009
00:23

Persian Gulf Countdown Clock
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Stephen is one day closer, or further away, to going to the Persian Gulf.
03/17/2009
03:34

Shout Out - The Colbert Report Overseas
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The Colbert Report is definitely going to visit our troops sometime in the near or distant future -- or past.
03/17/2009
00:32

Intro - 3/17/09
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How will the wealthy weather the economic crisis? Easy, they have weather-control machines.
03/17/2009
05:04

World of Nahlej - Shmeat
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PETA funds a scientist developing meat from tissue culture.
03/17/2009
05:51

David Grann
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David Grann follows the footsteps of an explorer searching for a lost civilization.
03/17/2009
04:20

Colbert Aluminum - Cigar Nubs, Faux Poor & Blixseth
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Cigars get shorter, the British elite act poor, and Tim Blixseth sells his private island.
03/17/2009
07:10

The Word - Keeping Our Heads
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Stephen propses that CEOs be stripped naked and locked together in a Thunderdome scenario with screaming taxpayer spectators.
03/18/2009
00:31

Intro - 3/18/09
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Scientists dig up something unexpected, and no, it's not a social life.
03/18/2009
03:36

Tip/Wag - Mississippi, Talk Shows & SyFy
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Mississippi ends child selling, talk shows move to Connecticut, and the SciFi Channel changes its name.
03/18/2009
00:11

Sam's Club Time
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That's it for time until Stephen runs to Sam's Club and picks up some more.
03/18/2009
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