The Colbert Report

Brett Favre Returns to Football

Season 6 • 08/18/2010

Brett Favre returns to football for his 20th NFL season, and Stephen sharpens his broom handle.

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Fox News and Republican Party Make It Official

Fox News and the Republican Party finally make it official -- their all-white wedding will be beautiful.
08/17/2010
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Intro - 8/17/10

Stephen examines the meat industry and talks to Barry Levine about the National Enquirer's credibility.
08/17/2010
03:02

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Newsweek Ranks the World's Best Countries

Newsweek's list of the world's best countries is based on useless criteria like education, quality of life and health.
08/17/2010
06:04

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Barry Levine

Stephen asks Barry Levine whom he has to sleep with to make it onto the National Enquirer cover.
08/17/2010
06:58

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Better Know a Lobby - American Meat Institute

J. Patrick Boyle believes Americans are great people, but he doesn't agree that they would make quality meat.
08/17/2010
00:36

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Intro - 8/18/10

Laura Schlessinger gets in trouble over racially charged comments, and Thomas French talks about what it takes to build a zoo.
08/18/2010
04:41

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Don't Shoot the Schlessinger

The First Amendment guarantees all Americans the right to say what they want on the air without having their sponsors drop them.
08/18/2010
00:07

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Sign Off - Sharpened Broom Handle

Stephen sharpens his broom handle to stab in Brett Favre's eyeball.
08/18/2010
06:11

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Thomas French

Spending six years at a zoo made Thomas French start to see people's primal behavior underneath.
08/18/2010
05:00

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The Word - Borderline Personality

It's impossible for America's border patrol to cover hundreds of miles of Arizona desert, but it'd be easy from the Mexican side.
08/18/2010
03:16

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Brett Favre Returns to Football

Stephen's shocking retirement announcement will hopefully make front-page headlines everywhere.
08/18/2010
00:26

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Intro - 8/19/10

Stephen wonders if there is still oil in the Gulf after the BP oil spill and talks to Jon Krakauer about inheriting glory.
08/19/2010
07:18

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The Word - What If You Threw a Peace and Nobody Came?

President Obama's announcement of the impending conclusion of the Iraq war isn't a declaration of victory -- it's a pizza delivery slogan.
08/19/2010
00:04

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Sign Off - Goodnight

Stephen says goodnight.
08/19/2010
07:03

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Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer explains how the Bush administration turned Pat Tillman's death into a propaganda tool.
08/19/2010
05:11

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All's Well That Ends Oil Well - Michael Blum

As the shrimp season begins, Michael Blum discusses the human health risks caused by the BP oil spill.
08/19/2010
01:46

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Stephen Wins an Emmy

The blanks are empty in Stephen's teleprompter Mad Libs because his writers spent the weekend in Los Angeles winning an Emmy.
08/23/2010
06:44

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The Word - Losing His Religion

President Obama must prove he's Christian by Twittering from the church pew and carrying a Bible everywhere.
08/23/2010
06:28

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Leslie Kean

Leslie Kean describes the hard evidence of UFOs and calls for more investigation.
08/23/2010
00:04

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Sign Off - Balloon

Stephen signs off with a balloon.
08/23/2010
04:46

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Aqua ThreatDown - Oyster Sluts, Japanese Hackers & Israeli Regulators

Oysters suffer a herpes outbreak, a Japanese hacker replaces files with images of squid, and Israeli regulators may close the Jordan River.
08/23/2010
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