The Colbert Report

White House Beer Summit

Season 5 • 07/30/2009

Nothing says unity like three men sitting together and insisting on three different brands of beer.

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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
06:51

The Word - He Who Smelt It, Dealt It
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Racism is nothing more than an unpleasant nuisance that is best to ignore, like a fart.
07/29/2009
00:14

Intro - 7/30/09
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Stephen can't start the show because his roommate, Frank, is sitting at his desk.
07/30/2009
04:37

Kathryn Bigelow
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Kathryn Bigelow's war movie, "The Hurt Locker," is getting great reviews, despite not having explosions and ear-splitting sound effects.
07/30/2009
03:55

Tip/Wag - Man-Words & Movits!
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Educators ban man-words from textbooks, and Stephen discovers America's newest pop sensation, Movits!
07/30/2009
02:06

Sign Off - Taco Bell Spokesdog
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Taco Bell's beloved spokesdog, Gidget, is on a farm upstate, playing with other dogs that are dead.
07/30/2009
05:55

MeTunes - Hit of the Summer
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Stephen can't get behind current hits from The Black Eyed Peas, Jeremih and Sean Kingston, so he creates his own song of the summer.
07/30/2009
02:49

White House Beer Summit
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Barack Obama, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and James Crowley insist on three different brands of foreign beer for their White House meeting.
07/30/2009
05:07

Tony Zinni
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General Tony Zinni cites David Petraeus, Barack Obama and Richard Branson as examples of great leaders.
08/03/2009
00:03

Sign Off - Goodnight
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That's it for the show, everybody.
08/03/2009
05:14

Bears & Balls - How to Pay for Health Care
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Democrats want to pay for health care reform by taxing sodas and killing old people.
08/03/2009
04:46

Nailed 'Em - War on Birth Control
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The Fairfax County School Board nails a teen junkie for taking birth control in the cafeteria.
08/03/2009
02:56

Dominic Philip's Book Habit
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Stephen cures Dominic Philip's reading habit by sending him an entire box of books and forcing him to read every last one of them.
08/03/2009
00:31

Intro - 8/3/09
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President Obama finds a way to pay for health care, and General Anthony Zinni will wax Stephen's chest.
08/03/2009
04:57

The Word - Hippie Replacement
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Soon America's grassroots people-power movements will be rid of the one thing that's holding them back: people.
08/04/2009
06:24

Kurt Andersen
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According to Kurt Andersen, the economic and health crises give Americans a brief chance to get things where they want them.
08/04/2009
00:10

Sign Off - Love Makes the World Go Round
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Love makes the world go round, so stop hogging all the credit, physics.
08/04/2009
04:57

Colbert Bump Cocktail - David Wondrich
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David Wondrich serves Stephen drinks from the Great Depression and the Civil War, and invents a Colbert Bump cocktail.
08/04/2009
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