what about Tuesday night's show?
where colbert showed off his The Silmarillion savvy!
"I will strike down all that threaten my clan!"We know what Colbert will talk about when he gets back.
Indeed. Although I won't begrudge someone their due name recognition, I do hope that voters are choosing her because she'll make a good congressperson, not because she's Colbert's sister.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"she got the Colbert Bump
good luck to her.
(if she runs for president, and WINS, that would be truly epic)
"I will strike down all that threaten my clan!"I wish I could hear Colbert's take on the Vatican tweeting about Batman
My guess would be The Lottery,
a short story first published in 1948, and which Wikipedia says is common in middle schools and high schools. And has been adapted a few times.
He always looks that way when he's on The Daily Show, too. I think it's just how he looks these days. It's possible getting everything set up for the conference left him more tired than usual, though.

He didn't seem that bad.
It wasn't a Diane Keaton-level meltdown, at any rate.