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Great Moments in the Evolution Debate - The Scopes Monkey Trial

Season 10 • 09/15/2005

Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debate at the Scopes Monkey Trial.

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Hurricane Katrina: After the Aftermath - What, Me Sorry?
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The president takes responsibility for the federal government's poor response to Katrina, inciting spit takes and head explosions far and wide.
09/14/2005
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Evolution, Schmevolution - Panel: Edward J. Larson, William A. Dembski, Ellie Crystal
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Jon brings the same superficiality and unprofessionalism that he normally brings to interviews to a panel on evolution.
09/14/2005
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Back in Black - Evolution, Schmevolution
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Lewis Black explains how dinosaurs were perfectly equipped to hunt down and kill plants and how the Hoover Dam makes a great altar.
09/14/2005
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Happy Birthday to U.N.
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President Bush commends the U.N. on 60 years of defending freedom, then asks Condi if he can have a potty break.
09/15/2005
01:35

Recap - Evolution
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Jon recaps the evolution debate and speculates on how the world is going to end.
09/15/2005
05:25

Gwyneth Paltrow
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Gwyneth Paltrow discusses her new movie, "Proof," and going to see her husband's shows.
09/15/2005
00:55

The Future of Robots
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Scientists in Japan, long at the cutting edge of shiny, beepy, useless things, are working furiously to create ever more complicated robots.
09/15/2005
00:18

Moment of Zen - Brass
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Scopes Monkey Trial footage of a monkey playing a trombone fades into current footage of a robot playing the trumpet.
09/15/2005
02:58

Evolution's Evolution
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On the final night of The Daily Show's special evolution week, Jon examines human attempts to intelligently design nature.
09/15/2005
06:04

Southward Christian Soldiers
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The Christian Right moves six of its soldiers to South Carolina in order to finally make its voice heard in Washington.
09/15/2005
00:58

Great Moments in the Evolution Debate - The Scopes Monkey Trial
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Clarence Darrow asks William Jennings Bryan if he's ever spent time with men of learning at the Scopes Monkey Trial.
09/15/2005
05:08

Alan Alda
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Alan Alda talks about growing up in the wings of burlesque shows while his father pursued his career as a tit-singer.
09/20/2005
01:38

Katrina: After the Aftermath
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The environmental impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast fish hatcheries may end the livelihood of all but the most retarded of local fishermen.
09/20/2005
05:33

Face for Rent
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A Seattle entrepreneur creates bum-vertising: a perfect business model in which bums advertise his gambling site, and the gambling then leads to more bums.
09/20/2005
02:37

Intro - Emmy Awards
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That wasn't sadness on Jon's face during the Black Eyed Peas' Emmy performance, it was marveling.
09/20/2005
00:17

Moment of Zen - Hurricane Rita Warning
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On the heels of Hurricane Katrina, newscasters warn viewers of the impending disaster of Hurricane Rita.
09/20/2005
03:09

Rita's Digest
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It was right around the time that a river, that used to be a street, swept away a boat, that used to be Rob Corddry's news van, that he decided, "F**k this."
09/20/2005
03:00

Faith-Based Accounting
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George W. Bush believes that the government should be limited not in size, but in effectiveness.
09/21/2005
02:44

Headlines - Debt Becomes Him
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In Russia blue jeans and a bottle of Jack Daniels will get you two women for a month.
09/21/2005
01:28

Black Hole
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Hurricane Rita has strengthened to a Category 12 hurricane.
09/21/2005
05:41

Ricky Gervais
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Jon and Ricky Gervais talk about "The Office" and what it's like to have your work covered.
09/21/2005
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