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  • May 13, 2008: Stephen reenacts Bill O'Reilly's infamous ''Inside Edition'' meltdown. But not before first letting the audience know about his Teeny Weenie, courtesy of his staff jacking his teleprompter.
  • June 19, 2008: The entire review Colbert had with Cookie Monster. Half because the jokes were very funny, and half because it showed Cookie Monster acting like an adult without derailing him as so many parodies of kid's shows do.
    Cookie Monster: Me had crazy times in the 70s and 80s, okay? Me like the Robert Downey Jr. of cookies!!
  • July 16, 2008: The entire episode of The Colbert Report with Rush thanks to Jimmy's constant meddling causing the Colbert Anthem to be replaced by "Limelight" and Stephen's teleprompter to be rewritten to the lyrics of "By-Tor and the Snow Dog."
  • October 27, 2008: During "The Word: It's Alive!", Stephen humorously berates the neocons trying to distance themselves from Sarah Palin.

     2009 
  • April 29, 2009: What happens to girls on Ibuprofen? At about 4:50, you can find out too!.
  • June 8, 2009: From Operation Iraqi Stephen:
    President Barack Obama: General, as the Commander-in-Chief, I hereby order you to shave that man's head.
    General Ray Odierno: Yes, Mr. President!
    • Don't forget Obama getting off a few jokes of his own:
    President Barack Obama: First, I want to send my greeting to the men and women of our armed forces in Iraq. And I and all Americans thank you for your service.
    Stephen Colbert: You're welcome, Mr. President!
    President Barack Obama: ...I wasn't talking to you. Now, second, General, I overheard your conversation about Stephen's hair.
    Stephen Colbert: Wait a second, you overheard? Are your spy satellites really that good?
    President Barack Obama: No, but my ears are really that big.
  • June 10, 2009: The segment where Colbert and Hollywood nice guy Tom Hanks prepare a care package for the troops is pure gold. Let's just say, Hilarity Ensues. It's all topped off with Tom Hanks sucker punching Colbert into a crate and sending him to Iraq.
  • June 18, 2009: "Murder in the White House" coverage — of President Obama managing to kill a fly during a televised interview — continues, and Jeff Goldblum joins Stephen to speak up on behalf of flies everywhere. This continues into the next episode as the guest in question turns up to defend nasal spray Zicam after a recall, even though they have no personal stake in that matter, and Stephen finally has to ask them to leave and stop giving stirring speeches.
  • August 18, 2009: the tip of the hat, wag of the finger segment
  • September 30, 2009: Stephen Colbert may have failed to rename Node 3 after himself, but he got a pretty sweet consolation prize. Ladies and gentlemen, NASA proudly presents the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill. It's a Moment Of Fun with Acronyms. At this point, the patch◊ is just gravy. This also counts as a CMOA.
    • Even better during the show itself where Colbert showed a clip of a CNN anchor breaking off the news asking if this was serious.
  • Al Gore on Worthy Opponent, especially making Colbert go through on a really stupid claim by dunking his head.
  • Colbert's segment on the wikiscanner, when he revealed that a person from the New York Times wrote on the George W. Bush page of Wikipedia the phrase "jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk."
  • December 9, 2009: Let's get right to the news everybody's talking about - MONKEYS!

     2010 
  • January 11, 2010: Stephen coming to the defense of Old Man Potter from It's a Wonderful Life, claiming he was a hero and that George Bailey was a violent monster. He then claims that Old Man Potter's grandson, Harry, would go on to defeat Lord Voldemort.
  • January 13, 2010: This "Sport Report", about ten seconds into the report itself:
    "First up — (only half of the graphic shows up) Basketball! (the other half shows up late) I always been a hu— (head desks, flails around) No! We're going! We're going!"
    • Pretty much the beginning of any Sport Report segment, where Colbert plays air guitar (complete with vocal sound effects) for at least ten seconds after the intro sequence, getting increasingly ridiculous every time. Best, and most recent, example is this.
  • January 18, 2010: This scene:
    Stephen: If a diamond is a girl's best friend, then coal is its hotter, younger sister. In the early days of coal mining, it was dirty, dangerous work as seen in this sad footage.
    (Cue clip from Dig Dug.)
    Stephen: We lost a lot of good men to inflatable dragons. Thankfully, modern science has found a much safer way to get our coal: BLOWING THE TOPS OFF MOUNTAINS! AWESOME! OH DADDY!
  • May 3, 2010: now-Senator Elizabeth Warren came on the Report to explain why we need an agency to protect consumers. At the end of the segment:
    Stephen: Why do we need to wear a belt with our suspenders? We already have one set of regulators.
    Elizabeth Warren: No, actually right now we don't have any pants on.
  • May 4, 2010: The Word: Flight Risk, but Michael J. Fox interrupts him to talk about his memoir "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future", refusing to leave until Stephen agrees to promote it.
  • May 11, 2010: New regulations regarding sperm donation in Australia leads to a shortage of supply. Stephen's solution? Jacking off in the bathroom of an Outback Steakhouse.
  • June 30, 2010: Mysteries of the Ancient Unknown...KING TUT'S PENIS!note 
  • July 7, 2010: The Stephen Colbert/Steve Carrell verbal smackdown in a July 2010 episode.
    • That same episode, returning to the Even Steven segment with Steve Carell.
      Steve: What's the matter, Jon Stewart's teat doesn't come with an extension cord?
      Stephen: Ooh, ten chairs! You could seat everyone who saw Dan in Real Life!
  • July 27, 2010: Stephen Colbert... vs. Kevin freaking Kline on who can out-pronunciate each other. Followed by who can act out famous Shakespeare characters the best using only facial expressions and grunts.
    • In that same episode, Colbert finds out that plants can apparently think and remember. He proceeds to yell at his plant Phil and shove it in the garbage, screaming: "Oh yeah! Try to make chlorophyll in there, motherfucker!"
  • July 28, 2010: This installment of the long running series "Stephen Colbert's 2010 Midterm Republican Gubernatorial Primary Battle Watch '010", featuring the first appearance of Basil Marceaux.com. The whole thing is utterly insane, and ends with Colbert breaking down when he discusses Basil Marceaux.com's role as an agent of the Freedman's Bureau. Also, this part:
    Stephen: I believe Islam is the one great and true cult, praise be to Allah and the Nike's he wears, all glory and honor to the comet that hides his spaceship!
  • When talking about how a magazine cover digitally removed a woman standing next to President Obama for the photograph, Stephen Colbert says, "Everyone, I am a big fan of Photoshop. And so is my friend Abe Lincoln." A picture then appears of him with his arm around a portrait of Abe. The joke continues on as he removes the oil slick from the Gulf, replaces that with clean tropical water, puts the picture into the size requirements for a magazine cover, and then puts on text: "Stephen Colbert solves oil disaster!" Once he was done, he looked at the camera and said, "Nobel Prize, please! Wait..." After a few clicks on the computer, a picture of him holding the Nobel Prize appears in the top left corner. The huge smile on his face as he points to the picture just makes it better.
  • Stephen Colbert was unimpressed with how Barack Obama announced the soldiers were coming back to America. His version of how it should have been done is the most Crazy Is Cool thing he could have ever described.
  • Everything Stephen did in relation to the 2010 Olympics, including:
    • Helping the US speed skating team raise money after their main source of income went bust and "racing" against Shani Davis to show there was no hard feelings after Shani apparently took Canada's side in the "Icehole" insult battle.
    • Trying out for the US bobsled team with Team 1 (AKA "The Night Train"; he blacked out and had a 2001 Acid Sequence) and the curling team.
    • Technically, since it was for NBC not the Report, but Colbert's appearance during the Vancouver Olympics (which includes riding a stuffed moose and climbing into the studio's fake fireplace while exclaiming how awesome NBC is for its "realism") had the host and the film crew dying of laughter.
    • And of course Colbert's Vancouver Olympics shows, where he used a blue screen "window" to relocate the studio from a mountain top to a blimp to NBC studios, and used his own fake fireplace to do satellite interviews.
    • Also this sign: Marry Me Stephen, It's Legal Here!
  • August 5, 2010: Stephen tells us how to ruin gay marriage. Apparently, it involves getting into a long-term relationship with a gay Jewish man named Jonathan, getting engaged to him and then jilting him at the altar. He breaks down in tears partway through telling the story. Even funnier if you imagine the man being Jon Stewart.
  • August 25, 2010: Stephen Colbert presents: Mysteries of the Ancient Unknown: King Tut's Penis, part II: THE RES-ERECTION!note 
    • Hell, any time the hilarious chanting is used is a Funny Moment.
      • Whenever that odd-sounding note sounds, it's accompanied by Colbert wiggling his eyebrows up and down, independent of one another. This is done for the duration of the note. But one time the note was mistimed, and ended up with the note being cut off and Colbert Corpsing.
  • The Colbert Report's segment for their Emmy nomination for writing:
    Stephen (paraphrased): My staff do everything together, as if they were one organism. (Holds up bloody bone saw) Or they will be once I make them into a human centipede. Stand still you—!
  • Stephen Colbert gets married to his hand.
  • September 20, 2010: And that's why Isa Blyth gets a wag of my finger... for being a century long tease.
  • September 27, 2010: The Delawert Report.
  • September 29, 2010: Koalas are being infected with chlamydia at a rapid rate. Threat #2 on the ThreatDown: Whoever's F@%$&*% Our Koalas! (2:00) (Colbert starts laughing so hard he breaks character.)
    • Earlier in the segment:
      Stephen: Nation, I love the Guinness Book of World Records. It is by far the best alcohol-sponsored reference book. Sorry, Captain Morgan's Rhyming Dictionary. It's a thousand pages of words that rhyme with "arr", like carr, and starr, and Tennessee Senatarr Lamarr Alexandarr.
  • October 6, 2010: The segment on the Rawesome Foods raids in June 2010:
    Stephen: Rawesome member James Stewart explains the complex etymology of the co-op's name.
    James Stewart: The word "awesome" with an "R" in front of it.
    Stephen: [voice-over] But everything isn't so rawesome: on the morning of June 30, armed government agents swarmed into this private business, and carried out a blitzkrieg raid. [Images of Rawesome employees are shown] These terrified Rawesome members will never forget where they were when the s**t went down.
    Arnel Kalindes: I was, uh, in Minnesota.
    Stephen: OK that doesn't help. Anybody else wanna tell us what happened?
    • Later, one employee mentions the types of raw milk offered, including camel milk.
  • October 11, 2010: Stephen Colbert finds out that semen was used by Mi:6 as an experimental invisible ink during World War I. He takes this concept and runs with it.
  • October 14, 2010: Stephen buys his audience tickets for a Chinatown bus:
    Stephen: I will pay for everyone here tonight to travel to Washington, D.C. on a bus from Chinatown. That's right, the Shin Wu Bus Line - departing somewhere in the bowels of Chinatown and dropping you off at an undetermined location in the D.C. metro area. [shows map of Washington D.C. with a question mark over it] On Shin Wu, you'll learn the latest Mandarin curse words from your driver. And Shin Wu boasts the latest in comfort technology, like seats. And often has windows. Remember, on Shin Wu, your chicken rides for free. A quick disclaimer: Shin Wu takes no responsibility for engine failure, lack of toilet, or chicken bites. And just to be clear, I am not putting you up in a hotel, paying for your meals, or bringing you back to New York.
  • Also doubling as a CMOA, his entire Curb-Stomp Battle against a British Petroleum exec who gets run over repeatedly by a sea turtle in a hybrid while the bing.com logo flashes and Stephen sets some seagulls on him.
  • November 15: 2010: Stephen admitting he murdered Mr. Goodwrench.
  • November 30, 2010: A segment on the increasingly blatant Product Placement in Days of Our Lives is followed by Paul Dinello interrupting the next scene as Stephen's evil fraternal twin Pavlos. Cue a soap parody with equally blatant product placement, culminating in a box of Cheerios jumping up and Taking the Bullet for Stephen.
    Stephen: CHEERIOS! CHEERIOS, NO! WHY DID YOU TAKE THAT BULLET FOR ME?! CHEERIOS, NOOOOO! You can't die, Cheerios! I'm carrying your baby!
  • Stephen figuring out that there are more germs on the average keyboard than the average toilet seat.
    Stephen: I've only got 1 question... who's rubbing their asses on our keyboards? They can at least leave a nice little note saying "I rubbed my ass here".

     2011 
  • February 2, 2011: Stephen trying his best to get a cat named Christiane Aman-purr to psychicly predict the outcome of the crisis in Egypt, by having it choose between two different food bowls marked "Democratic Uprising" and "Islamic Power Grab".
  • March 3, 2011: On the subject of Jimmy Fallon's new B&J ice cream, Stephen is angry that Jimmy got a Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream flavor named after him as well. Fallon comes on the show to challenge him. They have an ice cream fight, and eat so much they get brain freeze and hallucinate that they're in Ben and Jerry world. And then they make up with a song. It's as amazing as it sounds.
    Stephen: Your ice-cream is pretty good...for 12:30. It's just not ready for the 11:30 time slot yet!
    Jimmy: Thanks, Steve. Your ice-cream is okay, too...as a palate cleanser for Tosh.0.
    Stephen: And your ice-cream is like a Jimmy Fallon SNL sketch—halfway through you break down laughing and you can't finish it! (Jimmy suppresses his laughter)
    Jimmy: Your ice-cream is like your cameo in Bewitched...I don't have an insult, I just wanted to remind everyone you were in Bewitched.
    Stephen: YOU SON OF A BITCH!
  • March 9, 2011: Colbert mentions going on a religion bender (i.e. Catholicism) while trying to give up religion on Lent. He almost makes it, but in the closing days he going and getting drunk on religion the way people go out and get shitfaced. He even remembers saying a "Hail Mary" and an "Our Father" at the same time—"that's right, the Catholic speedball."
    • Vacsa-not-masturbating. "It is a set of realistic prosthetic arms, that make it look like you're just going about your business, so that no one will know that you're going about your business." Cue Colbert hiding his mouth behind the suit's jacket to conceal just how hard he's laughing. Furthermore, showing that Vacsa-Not Masturbating can be used to free you up to handle the issue of restless leg syndrome at a romantic dinner, driving to work, even during a high profile TV interview, with the last photo showing Colbert.
  • April 12, 2011: Stephen Colbert's Twitter campaign on Jon Kyl using the hashtag: #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement. Some examples:
    Stephen: Once a year, Jon Kyl retreats to the Arizona Desert and deposits 2 million egg sacs under the sand. #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement.
    Stephen: On weekends, Jon Kyl shoots manatees with paintball guns. #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement.
    Stephen: Citing religious reasons, Jon Kyl refuses to utter the number 8. #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement.
  • April 26, 2011: This Current Events article. You know it's gonna be a long segment when the tazer used to help in the introduction decides to phone it in...
    Colbert: Folks, there is electricity in the air, (reaches under his desk) and if you resist arrest, in your central nervous system! (brandishes tazer, to no avail) It's fucking broken...
  • May 1, 2011: Most if not all of The Colbert Report on Bin Laden was a party on SEAL Team Six assassinating him.
    WELCOME TO THE REPORT! WE GOT HIM!!! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! WOOOOOO!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
    • Highlights include:
    • The aforementioned celebration.
    • Because Barack Obama did kill Bin Laden he was going to lay off the insults and sets an egg timer for how long he'll lay off the insults. Then parodies Obama walking out to give the announcement claiming it to be self indulgent.
    • "Folks, I can not put this any plainer that golly gee willikers, by which I mean suck my giant American balls Al Qaeda."
    • His inability to get over Bin Laden being shot in the eye.
      Stephen: I am as giddy as a schoolgirl who just shot Bin Laden in the eye. In the eye! Hey, Osama, No 3D movies for you in hell.
    • And as he jogs over to speak to one of his guests he turns to the camera, goes "whooo!" and makes a finger gun motion by his eye.
      Stephen: And I hope I am never again this happy over someone's death. And I'm sure, I know if I saw myself in the mirror I would be appalled by the look on my face." (holds up mirror) "Nope I like this. That's a good look. I want to stay like this forever."
    • After a report on college kids celebrating Stephan Colbert brings up how young they would have been when 9/11 happened, so he brings up a montage on the spate of shark attacks that was the big news before the terrorist attack.
      Stephen: See? Just sharks. So with Bin Laden gone we have nothing to worry about so long as no one chums the ocean." (cue report on Bin Laden's burial at sea) "Noooooo!!! You fools!!! Don't you realize the Fukishima plant is leaking massive amounts of radiation into the sea, and if a mutant shark combines with Bin Laden's DNA we could be facing the summer of Fin Laden!!!
    • Bin Laden's death raises a lot of questions. For example, whether Muammar Gaddafi owns a bullet proof pair of Ray Bans.
    • And at the end of the show Stephan Colbert's face lights up when the egg timer rings, meaning he can make fun of Barack Obama again.
  • May 17, 2011: Stephen tries not to talk about Arnold Schwarzenegger's sex scandal while discussing oil subsidies.
  • May 19, 2011: Colbert making a Really Dead Montage of the entirety of civilization due to the belief that the world was going to end on May 21st.
    Colbert: Goodbye! I'll see you in hell!
  • June 6, 2011: The segment on Sarah Palin's History-mobile tour:
    Colbert: Folks, and the entire tour is to raise awareness about America's great history. So far she's lived up to her promise by visiting Gettysburg, the Liberty Bell, and the Alexander Hamilton Service Area at Exit 15E of the New Jersey Turnpike. It's where Hamilton famously swore he'd never eat at Roy Rogers again.
  • June 7, 2011: Colbert reports on Italian officials seizing a shipment of tap shoes headed for North Korea, which has a ban from the UN on "luxury goods" being shipped to Kim Jong Il's government. Colbert runs with the absurdity of the implications, and then brings out a tap dancing troupe composed of six dancers cosplaying as Dear Leader.
    • And then Colbert joins in.
  • June 21-23, 2011: Stephen's entire several-part segment with Jack White. The entire time, Jack seemed to be wondering just how the hell he got himself into this.
    Stephen: Think The Black Belles are ready for the Colbert Bump?
    Jack: What's a Colbert Bump?
    Stephen: You, motherfucker are about to find out!
  • July 25, 2011: Making fun of the controversial commercials for Summer's Eve feminine wash (which use hands-as-puppets as "stand-ins"). The version targeted at black women is described as "having an urban feel to it", and Steve finally loses it at the Latina stand-in, which asks to "get rid of that leopard print thong; [in Spanish] <that is the tackiest thing I have ever seen in my life—and you know I've seen it!>"
    Colbert: This is America; our vaginas speak English! (loses it)
    • Stephen begins a rant by balling his hand in a manner that inadvertently resembles the "vagina puppeteering" in the commercials, then looks down and freaks out, "Oh my god, I have a vagina!" Then he looks at his other hand and shouts, "I have two vaginas!" Then both his hands get blurred out for the rest of the bit.
    • Then there's Stephen's response, where he puppets his index finger to advertise a pine-scented dick scrub. It ends with the finger going in between some toes, which gets censored as well.
    • Summer's Eve was parodied again on August 17, 2011 with a fake commercial by Jeff Bridges.
  • August 3, 2011: Threat #3 on the ThreatDown: Fake States, after the revelation that North Dakota did not swear an oath of allegiance to the U.S. Constitution in its state constitution. After announcing this item:
    Colbert: Nation (and I'm not talking to you, North Dakota), there are now over 670,000 foreigners massed on our northern South Dakota border, just waiting to stream into Real America and take the jobs we don't want to do, like living in North Dakota. We should have seen this danger coming, folks - we should have seen it coming after that terrifying documentary. (cue Fargo movie poster) They've got strange native garb, they refuse to speak English...
    (cue clips of characters in Fargo saying "Yah")
    Colbert: Yah. And they make a very disturbing sausage.
    (cue scene of Gaear Grimsrud shoving Carl Showalter's remains into the woodchipper)
    Colbert: I warned you. Now until North Dakota fixes their constitution, they are not a state, so it is time to update the flag.
    • He then pulls out his "flag updater" from a box, and denotes North Dakota's status by putting an asterisk next to one star.
  • Colbert's entire expose on Patrick Rogers.
  • August 4, 2011: An update about Colbert Super PAC takes a turn for the hilarious:
    Colbert: Of course, Colbert Super PAC is all about building bridges, and that is why I was truly gratified recently to see that, even after the things I've said about Muslims, I received a contribution from Arab-American viewer Suq Madiq.
    *hides his face behind a stack of papers as he attempts to compose himself
    Colbert: ...I trust I'm pronouncing that correctly. You've made your parents proud! Your father, Liqa Madiq, and your mother, who still goes by her maiden name—
    *breaks down laughing as "Munchma Quchi" shows up on-screen, before he has the chance to finish saying the name*
    • "Munchma Quchi" has now become a Running Gag on the show.
  • September 6, 2011: The "Cheating Death" segment introduces Vaxamalgam, the one-pod-of-pills-fused-together-fits-all cure to insomnia, drowsiness, angina, eczema, dry mouth, damp mouth, constipation, diarrhea, night terrors, day terrors, brunch terrors, sore throat, Deep Throat, lockjaw, slackjaw, Jabber Jaw, nausea, rashes, heart arrhythmia, erectile dysfunction, blood in urine, urine in blood, shingles, cedar shake, aluminum siding, or whatever that yellow one does. Depending on what condition you have, Vaxamalgam will cure it... or cause it. Side effects include asperger helper, Jimmy-crack-corneas, and explosive diorama.
    • You also should not take it with milk...but that shouldn't be a problem as it's a suppository. (Mind you, it's about the length and width of a tv remote, sooo...)
  • September 12, 2011: Colbert reports on a seemingly irrelevant story at length before revealing that the New York Times had completely plagiarized it and outright fabricated a new story.
  • September 13, 2011: Stephen's guest, Al Gore accidentally breaks the fourth wall and mentions Stephen's "character." Stephen's reaction is priceless.
  • After Stephen ended his 6-month long best friendship with Jimmy Fallon, Anderson Cooper offers his friendship to Stephen, along with a plug for his daytime show, but is rejected with a "Too soon". The exact same thing happens with Jimmy Fallon on Late Night the next night.
  • In this clip from the June 24th, 1999 shot on The Daily Show about the end of the show "Another World": Stephen's real name isn't actually Colbert, and he's Jon's bastard elevator baby.
  • November 14, 2011: Stephen Colbert relentlessly mocks the "vodka tamponing", especially when he learns that girls aren't the only ones doing it. Even worse, Stephen has to stop himself from Corpsing right in the middle of his delivery.
    Stephen: (closing out the segment) And if you salt the tampons in tequila, don't salt the rim! We'll be right back! (turns away from the camera to laugh his ass off)
  • December 12, 2011: Horrifying news! Norway has run out of butter! And they will soon be overrun by the butter cartels. When that happens, we will see such things as desperate butter mules swallowing condoms filled with sticks of Land 'O Lakes, then push them on the streets of Oslo to spreadheads tweaking on shortbread. Butter kingpins will be meeting by the docks to move bales of fresh-churned Golden Cow, then test its purity by backing apple turnovers in the back of a truck. In short: things will get ugly and delicious.

     2012 
  • The January 11, 2012 episode, where Mitt Romney's winning the New Hampshire primary and Stephen's coming to the realization that he might just have to settle for him is treated like the climax of a Romantic Comedy, complete with a gay best friend who gives advice.
  • The February 23, 2012 segment with the Wheat Thins sponsortunity. It all was funny:
    "A couple of times a year, the network sometimes asks me to do an integrated sponsorship, which I love - the money's green and I'm in. These sponsortunities have led to some of our most memorable segments, from the Hail to the Cheese Stephen Colbert's Nacho Cheese Doritos 2008 Presidential Campaign coverage, to last week's Syrian Atrocity Update, Brought to You by Fruit Roll-Ups. Fruit Roll-Ups: overthrow your tastebuds."
    • Then there's the hilariously specific memo that states that Stephen cannot be shown eating more than 16 Wheat-Thins promoting the product on the show. He jams all 16 into his mouth:
      Stephen Colbert: [with his mouth full] This feels right. But I still want more. [to the audience] Whaddaya say? Shoud I go for seventeen?
      [Audience shouts "YEAH!" Colbert reaches below his desk and pulls out a seventeenth Wheat Thin. As he is about to put it in his mouth, the show promptly cuts to a "Technical Difficulties" image for about four seconds. When it cuts back, Colbert's mouth is empty, a lawyer is standing behind him, and Colbert is reading another sheet of paper]
      Stephen Colbert: I would like to apologize to Wheat Thins, and the entire Nabisco family of snackable products. I thought that I was building a purposeful experience relevent to the brand but I see now that I was being a crusader and/or a rebel.
  • March 1, 2012: Most of the People Who Are Destroying America - Teachers segment. FRAUD!
  • April 5, 2012: Stephen's nihilistic monologue after Stuart Varney tells us that things are getting worse because they're getting better.
    Stephen Colbert: Well, I want to echo Stu Varney's sentiments, and remind you it's always brightest before the dusk. And the fragrance of the sweetest blossom carries with it the first whiff of decay. Even the perfect infant you cradle in your arms will one day grow old and die. And your friends won't be there to comfort you, because they'll be dead too. Remember the good times, and more importantly, remember that they are over and can never happen again. Ashes. Nothing but ashes. The happiness you feel today is merely the plateau from which you will soon plummet. And during that freefall, you'll remember that you left the stove on. Barack Obama.
  • April 9, 2012: Stephen's segment about the Easter Bilby in Australia, where he mentions this:
    "I have always felt a special kinship with the land down under. After all, if my Irish great-great grandfather Seamus Connolly hadn't jumped off that Sydney-bound convict ship, right now, I'd be doing segments like Tip of the Bush Hat / Wag of the Didgeridoo, and Alpha Dingo of the Week. So I assume that Australians celebrate Easter just like us, except of course below the equator, where Jesus comes out of the tomb counter-clockwise."
  • In the April 12, 2012 episode, James Cameron's back-sass when Stephen argues with him about the Mariana Islands and the metric system.
    Stephen: It's part of America, SIR, it's not nowhere.
    Cameron: It's in the Federated States of Micronesia, SIR.
    ...
    Stephen: You've Canadian?
    Cameron: I'm Canadian, mother[BLEEP]
  • April 30, 2012: This interview turned Colbert and Diane Keaton into giggling ten-year-olds who are also drunk. It's truly charming. (Some people speculate that Keaton actually was drunk, which makes it no less funny.)
  • May 30, 2012: Mitt Romney's camp produces an app that comes with the typo, "For a Better Amercia," the best campaign app since Angry Pauls. Colbert runs with it as a new nation, and Hilarity Ensues as he recites Amercia's national anthem: a version of "America the Beautiful" with nearly every single word misspelled and mispronounced. Then, at the end, a banner drops down saying "Ronmey 2102", and Colbert chants, "S! U! A! S! U! A!"
  • Colbert in shock over the Supreme Court's decision to uphold Obamacare.
  • July 16, 2012: Colbert's segment on a Starbucks opening at a funeral home:
    Colbert: Folks, when a loved one dies, so many questions come to mind: "Why did this happen?", "Did I tell them I loved them enough?", and "Where can I get a low-foam skinny mocha latte?" Fortunately, a funeral home in South Carolina has the answer.
    [Clip about how said funeral home is adding a Starbucks to their facilities]
    Colbert: Yes, Robinson Funeral Home is serving Starbucks next to their chapel and crematory. So just be sure that's cinnamon you're sprinkling on your latte, and not Sid Bitterman (cue graphic of urn that says "Sid Bitterman"). Folks, this is a great way to ease the grieving process, because nothing soothes the pain of losing a loved one like your eulogy being drowned out by...
    [mimics the sound of a frappucino maker for several seconds, then picks up a Starbucks coffee cup from under his desk and holds it in the air]
    Colbert: [imitating a barista] "Jeff? Half caf no-foam for Jeff? Hey you, the guy crying behind the podium, are you Jeff?"
    [puts the cup away]
    Colbert: Plus, a Starbucks in a funeral home will encourage more people to come out to grieve for your loved one. You'll find yourself saying, "Wow! Who knew Uncle Ted was friends with so many aspiring screenwriters and homeless guys who need to armpit-wash in the sink?"
    [Covers his mouth as he tries to stifle his laughter]
    Colbert: Sad. Sad occasion. Now a Starbucks in a funeral home is great for mourners, but what about the deceased? Don't they also deserve coffee? [Once again he covers his mouth as he begins corpsing]
  • July 25, 2012: Stephen's reaction to one British hotel's replacing their nightstand Bibles with copies of Fifty Shades of Grey.
    Stephen: They've replaced the book of Job with the book of rim-job.
    (later)
    Stephen: You don't need a Bible. You're all alone in a hotel room, you have a panic attack in the middle of the night, wondering what all of this means. What you need is a 500 page book about an inexperienced 22-year-old getting worked over good by a sociopathic businessman with a shvantz like a kielbasa. I mean, where else are you gonna find that kind of thing in a hotel room? (image of pay-per-view porn is shown)
  • July 26, 2012: His Stephen Colbefrajilympic Expealacoverage on the opening ceremonies at the 2012 Summer Olympics. When he brings up the subject of how broadcasters have used prerecorded audio in canoeing, he plays with the idea and shows a few clips of the 2008 Summer Olympics with added in sound effects (including tennis matches with explosive hits, and fencing where clashing swords produce lightsaber sounds).
  • August 1, 2012: Stephen re-enacts the winning gymnastics routine using a Barbie that is mounted on a drill and a Twinkie on 2 sticks.
  • August 8, 2012: This Cheating Death segment about pills that have a tiny sensor that can send out reminders to other family members. The pill sends out a message once it is in Grandma's digestive tract (also the plot of the most disturbing Magic School Bus story ever).
    • Colbert's remedy is Uni-Vacsa, a digital alert system made from cutting edge technology found in an abandoned RadioShack. His description is so funny he's trying not to corpse by the end:
      Stephen: Now it couldn't be simpler: you just swallow the tablet (which is a Tablet), then activate Bluetooth to your desktop by performing a hard restart holding down your navel and your left nipple until you taste the red light. And it's all powered by eating a box of baking soda and chugging a bottle of vinegar. The resulting volcano sends a signal to an orbiting satellite, which relays your medical condition to everyone on the Dish Network.
  • When Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the tides, Colbert first proclaims the moon to be god, claiming that Armstrong must be punish for stepping on it, but then claims that Neil himself is god, due to being an astrophysicist.
  • August 31, 2012: Following Clint Eastwood's bizarre and memetic conversation with an empty chair representing President Obama, Colbert has the chair brought on the show to be interviewed. The chair begins to deliver an inspirational, and completely silent, speech that Colbert enthusiastically responds to. This is all accompanied by swelling, epic music, mist appearing from the background, and red, white and blue spot-lights shining down on it. It all culminates in Stephen cursing that they didn't nominate the chair to be the Republican presidential candidate instead of Romney.
  • September 7, 2012: The Colbert Bump goes rogue and Stephen is forced to kill it. Neil deGrasse Tyson suffers a sudden decease in IQ as a result of the Bump's death.
  • Stephen reports a story that a presidential candidate increases in popularity the more his Wikipedia page is edited. He first suggests the next president will be season six of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, then runs with the idea and edits the candidate he wants to win.
  • September 26, 2012: Stephens fear that Obama will restart the Ottoman Empire.
  • October 25, 2012: Stephen Ghoulbert's Spooky-Time Halloween Fun Guide. Tom Hanks offers advice about how to have an inexpensive Halloween, with children dressed suspiciously like some of Hanks' previous film roles (complete with Signature Lines!), all while strangely avoiding talking about his new movie Cloud Atlas, culminating with a guest appearance by Matt Damon in full Private Ryan costume.
  • November 7, 2012: How does Stephen open the post-election edition of The Report? Like this.
  • When Stephen is told about the Higgs Boson:
    Stephen: So, can I have my jetpack now?
    Stephen: We've won science! Can we go back to religion now?
  • Stephen suggests changing the name of Madame Tussauds to Mama Tussy's House of Man-Candles.
  • December 5, 2012: As Stephen goes to interview Andy Serkis, Ian McKellan suddenly stands in his way and declares "YOU SHALL... pass."
  • December 13, 2012: Breaking Abbey, aka the plot of Breaking Bad with the characters and setting of Downton Abbey. Bonus points for getting three of the Downton cast members to reprise their roles.

     2013 
  • January 7, 2013: Colbert invoking the wrath of the "Technical Difficulties" screen + lawyer combo not once, not twice, but THREE times in a row.
  • January 31, 2013: Stephen takes part in an experiment meant to observe intelligence in crows and fails at it. He consoles himself by emptying a bag of M&Ms into his mouth, and his face, and the floor.
  • February 6, 2013: Stephen demonstrates how he uses pennies to alleviate colds. He puts two pennies up his nose... and gets a gumball for his efforts.
  • February 7, 2013: Stephen endorses Tennessee state representative Stacey Campfield as a future presidential candidate, for his revamped "Don't Say Gay" bill note , which would require teachers to out LGBT students, as well as another bill which would cut welfare for the parents of struggling students.
  • February 13, 2013: Stephen mocking senator Marco Rubio's painfully awkward rebuttal to Obama's State of the Union address by recreating and playing up Rubio's odd tics and mannerisms. He tops it off by saying that professionals know that they should maintain eye contact to avoid awkwardness. He then proceeds to stare at the camera as he climbs over his desk, crawls over to the bookshelf for a bottle of water, and sneaks back to his desk.
  • February 20, 2013: Stephen's method of bringing up the horse meat scandal in the UK, and summarizes the blame game with a horse-race style commentary.
  • March 7, 2013: Stephen, on the eve of a two-week break, is tired about talking about news, so he talks about The Bachelor instead. Near the end of the segment, he shows a clip of a man and two women staring at each other for a minute before the man decides who to give a rose to. He wonders how something like that could attract so many viewers... so he brings out two authors and proceeds to do the same thing to determine who the night's guest is.
  • March 25, 2013: Stephen asks Junot Díaz whether Freedom University, a project which gives quality college education to people of every immigrant status, has its own sweatshirt yet. It doesn't, but Colbert had one ready: funny, awesome and heartwarming all in one neat cotton/polyester package.◊
  • April 2, 2013: Stephen dubs over a speech from Kim Jong-un, making it say that the reason Austin, Texas is on North Korea's list of U.S. cities to nuke is because the SXSW Festival has become too commercial.
    Kim: I say let's turn Austin into a desolate wasteland, like Houston.
  • April 3, 2013: Stephen pokes fun at Rep. Louie Gohmert's (R-TX) comparison of gun control to bestiality by "proving" his argument true.
    Stephen: Now, everybody knows I'm a hunter, and if I don't have a thirty-round clip to shoot these animals, what will stop me from having sex with them?
    • He then does the same with climate change and raising taxes on the rich.
  • April 10, 2013: Regarding Anthony Weiner's attempt to return to politics, Stephen goes into a double entendre-filled storm, complete with a hand popping up from under the desk for him to high-five whenever he makes a zinger.
  • April 17, 2013: Stephen and Alan Cumming skewer Brad Paisley and LL Cool J's country/rap duet "Accidental Racist" with their country/rap duet "Oopsie-Daisy Homophobe".
  • May 8, 2013: Stephen's repeated use of helium to make his voice high and squeaky while calling out the GOP's efforts to spite Obama. The next segment is about parents not using diapers for their babies, and Stephen addresses the subject in Sarcasm Mode pretty much the whole time.
  • May 9, 2013: Stephen and Carey Mulligan admit neither one has actually read The Great Gatsby, most puzzling for the latter since she's starring in the 2013 film adaptation. Fortunately, the Reading Rainbow theme starts playing, and the animated Reading Rainbow butterfly leads them to LeVar Burton, who tries to explain the basic ideas of the novel. LeVar even gives Carey his VISOR to help her understand.
    • During the conversation, it's revealed that not only has Carey not read the book, she can't read at all.
  • June 10, 2013: In the "Cold War Update" segment, in response to the low grade of the U.S. missile launch crews, Stephen develops a new video game called Call of Duty: Padded Chair, a "first-person sitter" designed to train the next generation by having the player try to resist pressing the big, beautiful, shiny, red, candy-like button. He presses the button, causing a nuclear explosion, resulting in a "GAME OVER" sign.
    Stephen: Oh well, you can play again in 100,000 years.
  • June 20, 2013: Stephen's interview with Joss Whedon. All of it.
  • June 24, 2013: During a report on two members of the Ku Klux Klan building a death ray, Stephen shows an animation of a Klansman shouting "WHITE POWER!" and firing a laser gun.
  • June 26, 2013: Since the US Supreme Court struck down the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that apparently means racism in America is over, so Stephen celebrates by singing "Old Man River", only to incur the wrath of the "technical difficulties" screen.
  • July 16, 2013: Stephen tries to disprove a study saying that people who constantly multitask have poor cognitive abilities by doing his share of multitasking, but due to his absent-mindedness, he butters his smartphone, types on his pizza box, uses his piece of toast to call his credit card service provider, and inadvertently pays the pizza delivery man with his MacBook Air.
  • July 23, 2013:
    Stephen: It's hard to believe that only a few years ago, black and white Americans put aside their differences to hunt aliens. I mean how, how did we forget that so soon?
    (Stephen gets neuralized)
    Stephen: ...
  • July 24, 2013: Colbert Does a sequential facepalm when reading Anthony Weiner's sexts, adding a hand as they get worse. By the time he's done he's up to four hands at once.
  • July 31, 2013: After introducing a new board game where whoever gets the coin flip right wins, the other player calls heads. The coin flip was heads, so Colbert flipped the board.
  • August 5, 2013: Stephen and Hugh Laurie read a list of inappropriate words and phrases that are forbidden by the FCC from network TV but acceptable on basic cable. At different points, Stephen and Hugh look uncomfortable at their next items that they try to force the other to read instead.
  • August 6, 2013: Stephen boogies for 5 straight minutes to Daft Punk's "Get Lucky". Complete with various celebrity guest stars, including Hugh Laurie, Bryan Cranston, Henry Kissinger, and the Rockettes.
  • August 8, 2013: Given the trend of celebrities saving regular people, Stephen decides to intentionally get in danger to meet some celebrities, so he knocks a vending machine on himself. Matt Damon arrives, but spends much of his time discussing his latest movie Elysium, at one point sitting on top of the vending machine. But as he finally gets to helping Stephen, he gets a call from Jimmy Kimmel, who's gotten himself stuck in a jar of mayonnaise, and leaves to help him instead. Thankfully, Hugh Jackman showed up to get Stephen out during the commercial break.
  • August 12, 2013: Stephen and New Jersey congressman Rush Holt have a thumb war. Rush pins down Stephen's thumb while declaring thumb war, making Stephen want a rematch, which Rush wins.
  • Two Words: Perfect Polly. Also, the dead kitten game show.
  • September 26, 2013: With the return of CNN's Crossfire Stephen tries to start his own debate show featuring Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch
    Stephen: Oscar, surely you're angry.
    Oscar: No, no, I'm grouchy. A subtle, but important, emotional distinction.
    Stephen: Well I'm Angry! I'm angry that you two aren't angry!
    Oscar: Well that's silly. You need help.
  • September 30, 2013: On the eve of the 2013 government shutdown, "Breaking Gov," the plot of Breaking Bad be used to represent the US government.
  • October 1, 2013: Stephen's interview with Daniel Radcliffe ends with Radcliffe challenging Elijah Wood to a fight.
    • What makes this even funnier is that at first when Stephen asks if Radcliffe could take Wood in a Radcliffe started doing the whole, 'I respect the man and his work and we wouldn't fight,' shtick, but halfway through it he decides to drop it and call Wood out.
    • Also, how he continues the responses of a Fox News reporter to the ACA, with a combination of goofy logic, old-man speak, and social-media-nut speak.
    Stephen: Oh, so the "Affordable Health Care Act" requires everyone to buy a computer. Which you can't even order online without, you guessed it, a computer. So now I need two computers!?
    Stephen: The phone!? You mean Mr. Bell's demon box? How am I supposed to navigate this infernal contraption? I don't have a clue! I mean, look at these numbers! Why is there even a hashtag button down here? Are we supposed to tweet our health problems now?
  • October 8, 2013:
    • Stephen unintentionally Crosses the Line Twice and breaks character when he accidentally draws himself a Hitler mustache. In the middle of a discussion about Hanukkah.
    • In the same segment, Stephen attempts to draw a hand menorah, which requires him to use both hands for the outline and his mouth to draw it. It goes as poorly as expected, and he breaks down laughing as he shows the result.
  • October 23, 2013: "The ObamaCare website is a disaster, and I am loving it. This techno-turd taco will be Barack Obama's true legacy. It's his Gettysburg Address if Lincoln had said, 'Four score and Error 404, Emancipation Not Found.'"
  • October 24, 2013: Stephen's interview with Stephen Fry has this glorious Sophisticated as Hell moment from Fry after speaking of the Tolkien-themed quiz Colbert won on the set of The Hobbit.
    Stephen Fry: You cheer but do think of the implications of it. Between the ages of 13 and 17 he probably didn't know he had a penis. You were just lost in a tragic world of walking trees.
    Stephen Colbert: No, I had one. I had a golden ring on it. And I never wanted to put it down.
  • November 6, 2013: Stephen talks about how Ms. Marvel is being brought back as a Muslim American heroine.
    Stephen: This is nothing more than a Sharia creep, plain and simple. First, she's a comic character. Then she gets her own movie, then action figures. Then, next thing you know, my kids are dressing up as her for Halloween and shouting, "Trick or treat! Death to Captain America!"
  • November 7, 2013: In light of a petition to change the name of the Washington Redskins, with one American Indian describing it as their version of the N-Word, Stephen counters that by saying "Redskins" over and over, but when he attempts it with NI-!! *cut to the Technical Difficulties screen + lawyer combo*.
  • November 11, 2013: The entire "Poncho Denews" segment spoofing the controversy over the 60Minutes Benghazi story. "Poncho" is played by Sam Waterston in-character as Charley Skinner from The Newsroom. Bonus points for the greatest fake beard of all time.
  • November 19, 2013: While interviewing Robert Reich, Stephen asks him what he would suggest America do to decrease the wealth gap under two conditions: without using the word "tax", and using 10 words or less. Robert goes over 10 words in each attempt.
  • December 3, 2013: After hearing rumors that the Pope has a secret life, Stephen immediately assumes that he's Batpope.
  • December 10, 2013: During "The Word: Channel Serfing", Stephen rebuts a columnist who says that because there are so many entertainment options nowadays (e.g. Netflix), there's no need to raise the minimum wage.
    Stephen: The point is, being distracted from your poverty is the new form of wealth. And, by that standard, America's middle class are the richest people in history. [...] So, quit complaining. Okay? You are rich with TV. Remember, Marie Antoinette may have lived in a palace, but she never got to watch The Learning Channel.
  • December 19, 2013: Stephen tries to defend Phil Robertson's racist remarks of black people not "singing the blues" back in the day by saying that blacks had it great in the past because they had their own water fountains. He also says that black were so great back then, that white people tries to copy them, cutting to a picture of Al Jolson in blackface from The Jazz Singer.

     2014 
  • January 6, 2014: In the first show in the new year, Stephen has to scrape ice off the camera, then put salt around his desk and finally start the desk again since it's so cold.
  • January 16, 2014: Stephen gets a letter from Carol Burnett, apparently wishing him luck at the upcoming Grammy Awards, until Carol shows up and tries to explain that the letter was sarcastic, which Stephen can't get.
  • January 23, 2014: In order to appeal to Chinese viewers after showing clips of a Chinese rip-off of his show, he fires Jay the Intern and hires a new Chinese intern:
    Stephen: Ni-hao, Jao Mes. Is that how you pronounce it, Jao Mes?
    "Chinese" Intern: It's James, I grew up in Seattle.
  • January 27-30, 2014: Stephen gets around talking about the Super Bowl by doing coverage for the "Superb Owl" game.
  • January 30, 2014: The mayors of Seattle and Denver, Ed Murray and Michael Hancock, respectively, make a friendly bet in case their cities' team loses at the Super Bowl. Murray offers some salmon and Hancock offers some beefsteak. As they shake, sealing the bet, Stephen has them arrested, since gambling is illegal in New York state.
  • February 3, 2014: In his report of the conservative firestorm that erupted from Coca-Cola's Super Bowl ad, he listens to the ad where "American the Beautiful" is sung in foreign languages, followed by cutting to him covering his ears in total agony.
  • February 4, 2014: Stephen reads the last words of China's "Jade Rabbit" moon rover, with Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings playing.
  • February 12, 2014: Stephen reveals that he's the First Lady of France, and starts adopting French mannerisms such as smoking, eating a baguette, and smoking the baguette. La cerise sur le gâteau is that now, Colbert's titles in the credit include one more: Première Dame de France.
  • February 27, 2014: Say it with me now.
    La-Zer Klan!
  • March 3, 2014: In order to validate the false claims of Obamacare horror stories, Colbert brings in "actual Louisiana resident Chuck Dupree." Bad "Bad Acting" and Chewing the Scenery ensue.
    • Stephen opens the show by celebrating Black History Month with a slideshow of various African-American icons: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., Kirk Lazarus in blackface, and Macklemore.
  • March 4, 2014: Stephen goes into full detail explaining congressman Steve King's claim that prohibiting discrimination of LGBT people would allow straight people to pretend to be LGBT so if they find themselves discriminated against, they can sue for discrimination.
  • March 6, 2014: Stephen tries to sing "Happy Birthday to You" in honor of its 90th anniversary, but can't because of copyright issues. Instead, he premieres his new "royalty-free birthday song": in typical Colbert fashion, it's "The Star-Spangled Banner" with (almost) entirely-rewritten lyrics.
    "And the candles' red glare, don't set fire to your hair. You're getting so old and you're shaped like a pear."
    "Warner Music can't sue me, and the home of the brave~"
  • March 24, 2014: Stephen's segment on the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.
  • March 31, 2014: How does Stephen handle the backlash from "#CancelColbert" on Twitter? He invites Twitter co-founder Biz Smith, who gives him Twitter's kill switch, an old-style TNT detonator, to take out the Report's Twitter account.
  • April 8, 2014: During the CIA interrogation episode in which Colbert mocks Fox News' view that the people carrying out the torture problem should not be held responsible. Then suddenly:
    The past is in the past! Let it go, let it go...
    • Even more hilariously, he mistakes Elsa for Dana Perino, Fox News correspondent and former White House Press Secretary under George W. Bush.
  • April 21, 2014: The phrase of the day in the opening credits: Hail HYDRA.
  • April 24, 2014: "The Ballad of Cliven Bundy", Stephen's loving tribute to Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and Sean Hannity.
  • April 28, 2014: When Stephen learns that Popes John Paul II and John XXIII were canonized, with John Paul II's blood and John XXIII's skin sample present, he fears that the Vatican is creating a Frankenpope.
  • May 6, 2014: Colbert calls up Satan
  • June 9, 2014: Colbert introduces Scott Fistler by saying that he's photobombing a picture of a map. It's the way he casually says it that sells the moment.
  • June 19, 2014: In an argument made up solely of the word "yo", Jay the Intern is acrimoniously fired (again). Stephen breaks down, ducks under the desk and pulls out a boombox...
  • June 27, 2014: The whole of Paul Rudd's interview is a masterclass in humour with a straight face.
  • July 15, 2014: Threatdown All Bear Edition
  • July 23, 2014: When taking about the border crisis:
    'Stephen: We are all painfully aware of the ongoing tragedy along our southern border. Despite our best intentions... it remains impossible to pair an outfit with turquoise jewelry. Don't believe the man at the kiosk, you will look like an extra from Dances with Wolves.
  • August 5, 2014: Stephen complains about Hillary Clintion's book "Hard Choices", particularly the various foreign dignitaries she names. Before he can even finish stating his disbelief that Hillary could be in so many places, she walks onto the set. After a name drop-off (in which Stephen tries to drop the bomb of Former President Bill Clinton), Hillary demands that Stephen plug her book, or she won't appear on the show. Stephen points out that she's already on the show, whereupon Hillary snaps her fingers and causes a mosaic to appear over her face (a trick she says she picked up from George Lucas).
  • September 8, 2014: When discussing a new bracelet that shocks users that don't exercise enough as well as posting a status on Facebook, Colbert discussed his product, the Spine Spider:
    Colbert: And what a workout! The Spine Spider takes over your motor faculties, and marches you over into a barren field where you build a large crystal pyramid. What is the pyramid for? Why does Gorlock need it? What will happen when it's finished? With Spine Spider...your brain is prevented from thinking those questions. And folks I've been using the Spine Spider for weeks, and lifting mysterious prisms at the behest of an unknown alien overlord has done wonders for my core.
  • September 18, 2014: Stephen tears into an argument about putting "boots on the ground" with a relentless, rapid-fire barrage of footwear puns, complete with the footwear used in each shot. Also goes into Moment of Awesome territory considering that he pulled this whole thing off in one go without a single hiccup in the delivery. (The barrage starts at about 3:30 on the linked clip.)
  • September 24, 2014:
  • September 29, 2014: Stephen and Jamie Oliver bond with comfort foods from their childhoods, blueberry cobbler and sticky toffee pudding, respectively, giving one another absurdly large portions. Also a Heartwarming Moment.
  • October 2, 2014: Bill O'Reilly got upset after Stephen mocked his plan about a mercenary army, and said on his show: "Mr. Colbert and others of his ilk have no bleeping clue how to fight the jihad." tephen's reaction:
    Stephen: That's outrageous! Bill O'Reilly has to do his own bleeping? Come on, Rupert Murdoch, spring for the bleep machine! I got one here, watch! Bill O'Reilly is a [bleep] egomaniac.
  • October 13, 2014: Stephen asks South Dakota governor Dennis Daugard for his opinion about the intense congressional race and who he's endorsing, namely Republican candidate Mike Rounds, though it turns out he's actually an actor playing Daugard.
  • October 27, 2014: After seeing a news report where CNN reporters used chocolate syrup to simulate Ebola exposure areas, Colbert takes the metaphor further and uses ice cream and a variety of dessert toppings. In the end, after looking at the delicious sundae he created, he decides it's his Ebola cheat day and eats the dessert.
  • October 30, 2014: When Stephen is upset about the midterm elections, he suggests that America emulate the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "A Taste of Armageddon" and have elections conducted by machines, until George Takei shows up and delivers a stirring speech equal parts hilarious, awesome, and heartwarming.
    George: Stephen, democracy is a sacred trust. Yes, it's a messy business, but the will of the people must not be abdicated to a machine. Only by engaging more deeply in the issues and voting your conscience can we hope to move beyond the eternal gridlock that threatens to destroy our society. No matter how bleak things may seem, you have the power to change them. Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy, vote.
  • November 4, 2014: Colbert acknowledges his last election coverage, reminisces about old times, and thanks all his fans... and then he's told that he still has a month and a half of shows remaining.
  • November 5, 2014: Stephen's interview with Representative Barbara Lee. They do a two-person wave and end playing with silly string and hula hoops.
  • November 17, 2014: Stephen offers safety tips on how to handle buckets, but his head gets stuck inside the bucket until a bear saves him. Amazed, Stephen asks if the bear will forgive him for years of antagonism, and he does. So they slow-dance and have sex, too.
  • December 3, 2014: Amy Sedaris crashes the show, upset that Stephen had her interview bumped in favor of Christopher Nolan instead.
  • December 4, 2014: When President Obama proposes putting body cameras on police officers so as to discourage police brutality, Stephen shows that being on camera makes him behave better by switching the camera off, during which Stephen ends up stabbing an intern with a sword when he brings him water the wrong way.
  • December 8, 2014: President Obama's guest appearance on the show when it was shot down in Washington D.C. Specifically The Word, or rather, The Decree, where President Obama walks onstage and decides that he could do as good a job as Colbert, and proceeds to read Colbert's lines word for word, including a little Self-Deprecation on the president's part. Apparently, Obama's the kind of guy who likes to talk about himself in the third-person.
  • December 9, 2014: The final segment of "Better Know A District."
  • December 11, 2014: The interview with Smaug from The Hobbit is both awesome and freaking hilarious.
  • December 17, 2014: Stephen holds a yard sale to sell off set items, including Michael Stipe. When Michael protests, Stephen tells him "Hey, that's you in the corner, that's me in the spotlight! It's in the contract!"
  • December 18, 2014: The entire finale.
    • Stephen starts a "Cheating Death" segment, but Grimmy tries to attack him for cheating, so Stephen kills him, becoming immortal in the process.
    • Stephen sings "We'll Meet Again", getting joined by Jon Stewart along with past guests, crewmembers, American soldiers abroad, and astronauts. Along with Colbert's counterpart characters, such as Tek Jansen and Esteban Colberto.
    • In the end, after becoming immortal, Stephen rides off with fellow immortals Santa Claus, Abraham Lincoln (who reveals he's actually a unicorn), and "The one with all the answers"... Alex Trebek.
    Stephen: Oh, Mr. Trebek. Where will we go? What will we do?
    Alex: You got that exactly right. All of life's important answers must be in the form of a question.
    [Stephen gets into Santa's sleigh and sits next to Alex Trebek.]
    Stephen: So I... guess I'll be gone forever.
    Alex: Oh, no no no, Stephen. We'll always be there for the American people, whenever they need us the most.
    Stephen: Right... yeah, but aren't you Canadian?
    Alex: I've had dual citizenship since 1998.
    Stephen: Yeah, that's—that's not the same.

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