Richard Thompson Ford Summary

Tonight Stephen welcomes law professor Richard Thompson Ford, author of The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse.



Stephen welcomes back his writers. (And Kevin Bacon, Tiki Barber & Mr. Met)



Also, Stephen talks with entomological gastronomist David Gracer about if we should eat bug.



Stephen's Fallback Position

Stephen goes to the Hayden Planetarium and talks with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson about becoming an astrophysicist.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 4 Episode 23 of The Colbert Report resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

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The Colbert Report Show Summary

The Colbert Report (the t is silent in both "Colbert" and "Report") is an American satirical late night television program that airs Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central. It stars political humorist Stephen Colbert, a former correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

The Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that comments on politics and the media in a similar way. It satirizes conservative personality-driven political pundit programs, particularly Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor. The show focuses on a fictional anchorman character named Stephen Colbert, played by his real-life namesake. The character, described by Colbert as a "well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot", is a caricature of televised political pundits.

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