The Colbert Report/Episodes/EpGuide/Episode 456
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Production Info
| Date: October 2, 2008 | Season: | Episode: 456 | Production code: 4125 |
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Intro
~ Stephen Colbert October 2, 2008 The Colbert Report
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The Vice Presidential Debate
- Dr. Colbert accepts the mob's applause (for tonight) and will repay is some day
- Dr. Colbert expects a gaff from Joe Biden
- Sarah Palin hit it out of the park
- or in Alaska, she hit it all the way to Russia
- Palin called people from Pakistan: alpacas
- they both make nice sweaters
- to divert attention from the debate
- Dr. Colbert shoots
an audience membera former lover in the throws of passion
- Dr. Colbert shoots
- amazing personal stories
- Dr. Colbert spent 2 years under cover in the theater department to root out hippies
- McCain is like MacBeth
- a passionate man prized for his military heroism
- MacBeth was a McMaverick
- plagued by a ghost who keeps popping up at the wrong times
- running mate plagued by witches
- more like Prospero from the "Tempest"
- saddled with a hideous
- Obama is like Hamlet
- haunted by his father and father figure
- drove a good woman insane
- Obama may be like Othello
- noted Shakespearean scholar, Professor Stephen Greenblatt author of Will of the World
- came down from ivory tower
- could answer in iambic pentameter
- McCain has Shakespearean parallels
- Shakespeare spoke to the groundlings
- would have loved Sarah Palin, but played by a young boy
- Obama might be Puck
- casts a spell on people who already have donkey heads
- tried to fuck with Dr. Colbert, who out-quoted him!
Formidable Opponent
- The Ballsiest Bailout Debate
- like syphilitic
- the cure $700 billion
- regulation is like taking a shower with a raincoat on
Interview
- Naomi Klein
- shock doctrine sounds like a great way to get information from a prisoner
- says torture is okay
- claims authorities are taking advantage of us during a disaster
- taking advantage really means taking initiative and responsibility
- people are becoming shock resistance
- invented the word Disaster Capitalism
- she sounds upset that she's not a banker
- prison industrial complex is part of disaster capitalism
Epilogue
- that's all she wrote
- a lot of Dr. Colbert's writers are women.
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