The Colbert Report

Sarah Palin Will Be Missed

Season 5 • 07/27/2009

Stephen randomly pulls his speech out of a hat to say goodbye to Sarah Palin.

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02:40

The Longest Solar Eclipse of the Century
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Xenu returned Asia's sun, but he will devour it again unless India returns America's outsourced jobs and China forgives the national debt.
07/22/2009
00:05

Sign Off - Goodnight
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That's it for The Report, everybody.
07/22/2009
04:51

Zev Chafets
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Zev Chafets doesn't have a problem with steroid use in baseball, but he is concerned about its cover-up.
07/23/2009
00:12

Sign Off - TiVo
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Stephen doesn't want to know how the show ends because he's TiVo'ing it.
07/23/2009
05:45

Health Care Hell-Scare - Die-agnosis: Mur-DR
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Stephen invites expert victims from Canada, France and Spain to relay their horrible experiences of socialized medicine.
07/23/2009
03:04

Health Care Reform Is the Matrix
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President Obama's health care reform is a dystopian future filled with chaos and floor-length leather trench coats.
07/23/2009
05:59

ThreatDown - Henry Louis Gates Jr., Bill Gates & Wilford Brimley
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. commits the perfect crime, Bill Gates tries to control the weather, and Wilford Brimley has too much free time.
07/23/2009
00:37

Intro - 7/27/09
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A report on tasers may shock you, and Swedish band Movits! helps Stephen put his Ikea futon together.
07/27/2009
03:37

Movits!
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Because the guys from Movits! are from Sweden, they're forced to have the same hair length and glasses.
07/27/2009
04:14

Nailed 'Em - Library Crime
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The local library bans Dominic Philip after spotting a photo of him tooting a kazoo in their summer reading parade.
07/27/2009
02:50

Sarah Palin Will Be Missed
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Stephen says goodbye to Sarah Palin in the same way he imagines she writes her own speeches.
07/27/2009
04:57

Womb Raiders - Orly Taitz
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Stephen thanks Orly Taitz for being one of the few people willing to compare the Obama administration to Nazi Germany.
07/28/2009
05:45

Arianna Huffington
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Arianna Huffington was born in the United States, but she cultivated an accent to give herself an air of being an ethnic minority.
07/28/2009
02:11

President Obama's Teachable Moment
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Obama's teaching: if you arrest a black man under questionable circumstances, you get to have a beer with the president.
07/28/2009
00:20

Sign Off - Devil's Tricks
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One of the greatest tricks the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
07/28/2009
06:18

Womb Raiders - The Fight for the Truth Behind Obama's Birth
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Stephen wants to hear from one of the sperm that witnessed President Obama's conception in order to verify his birthplace.
07/28/2009
00:31

Intro - 7/29/09
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Lance Armstrong comes in third in the Tour de France, and Kevin Baker says Obama is the new Hoover.
07/29/2009
03:19

Sport Report - Tour de France & Robotic Baseball
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A person who isn't Lance Armstrong wins the Tour de France, and Japanese robots make baseball interesting.
07/29/2009
00:21

Sign Off - Watch Without Blinking
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If you watch this episode again without blinking, you get three percent more programming.
07/29/2009
03:04

Frank the Roommate
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After Viacom's profits fall by 32%, Stephen cuts his costs by taking on a roommate.
07/29/2009
05:17

Kevin Baker
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Kevin Baker believes President Obama sees what needs to be done but is too reluctant to break with Congress.
07/29/2009
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