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one of their shows wasn't talking about benghazi. (laughter) then more eastern european conflict. last night my russian dressing got on my chicken kiev. (laughter) then my guest david remnick has a new collection of new yorker pieces from the 1940s. you know, the ones your grandparents always meant to read but didn't. 17% of americans say they would have sex with a robot. the other 83% are liars. (laughter) this is "the colbert report." (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central >> stephen: welcome to the report. >> stephen, stephen,

stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! (cheers and applause) thank you, folks. welcome to the report. good to have you with us, everybody. folks, that-- this crowd tonight is as crisp as a new stalk of celery. and this is why i will never phone it into the last drop. (cheers and applause) nation, before i say anything else tonight i would like to say t-mobile. (laughter) t-mobile proud sponsor of that thing i just said. you see, i agreed years ago that every now and then i would do these integrated sponsorships on the report to help pay the production

bills and that's what that was. so let's-- (laughter) let's get-- let's get to our number one story which tonight is a number two story. >> doctors believe they've come up with a way to help with constipation. it involves a vibrating pill. doctors in israel are testing a new pill that shakes up your intestinal area and gets things rolling again. >> stephen: yes, a pill that vibe rates your constipation a way. sorry prunes, you just lost your job to a robot. the new pill is called vibrant, a combination of the word vibe rate and nnnt. (laughter) which the sound you make when it's working. the pill pulse ates three times a minute an mimics peristalsis the biological process that mimics waves of

waste through the bowels, i know you are saying where i do sign up for waves of waste. that's my only problem with this pill. you can't get it it's still in clinical trials. do you folks out there need relief now. which is why i recommend you put your cell phone on vibe rate and shove it where the sun don't shine. and-- (applause) while you're at it, why not make it a top of the line smart phone from t-mobile. (laughter) because when you have the fastest nationwide 4glte network you can call your colon from anywhere in the country with great reception no matter how far you jammed it up there. and t-mobile is the uncarrier, the phone company that offers contract freedom. that means no annual service contracts, no limits on data and upgrades whenever you want the hottest new smart phone throbbing your

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remember, t-mobile, put it in your butt. (applause) nation-- (cheers and applause) nation, i always want to know what you think. right after i tell you what that is. this is tip of the hat, wag of the finger. (cheers and applause) first up, folks, i'm sick and tired of christian braker-- bakers and photographers being forced to participate if gay weddings that they do not condone. i mean you think that even gay people would be against a man marrying another man. it is kind of matchy-matchy. thankfully one heroic business is standing up. kentucky's herald embroidery which took advantage of a new state law protecting religious freedom by posting a set of storefront stickers. three well-- free welcoming christians, guns and beards. and two banning foul

language an homosexuals. so if you are gay, you can't go there. but your beard can. which is why-- (laughter) i'm giving a reluctant wag of the finger to herald embroidery for taking a good idea too far. because following a complaint from a lesbian couple who was refused service the shop replaced those stickers with a signed readinging while we will serve all customers who treat our place of business with respect, we reserve the right to refuse to produce promotional product that promote ideas that are not in keeping with our consciences this includes but is not limited to content promoting homosexuality, freemasonry, the use of foul language and imagery which promotes immodesty. now wait a second. i understand showing the gays the door. but now you're going to discriminate against me because i'm a freemason? (laughter) which i am not. because it's a secret

society and if i were in it i would have to lie and say that i am not. which i am not. and just think of the poor freemasons. done they already face enough judgement? i mean living a double life, sneaking around, never being able to show their family who they really are. and all the lies. saying i'm just working late, honey, when really i'm meeting a bunch of men to do god knows what in a windowless hall. i can't bleefts's come to this. the freemasons once controlled the levers of global power and now which can't get an embroidered apron, again, is what i would say. and no, we will not settle for silk scream what is i a [bleep] shriner? next up-- (laughter) (cheers and applause) next up on the tip wags the latest buzz from the world of insects. warning, folks, what you are

about to see is extremely graphic so if there are any larva earnings in the room with you now would be a good time for them to leave and pupate because scientists in brazil have discovered a cave-dwelling bug with the world's first female penis. an dear god, she is hung like a force fly. jimmy, please, jimmy, it's a family show. thank you. now in this newly discovered species, the female uses her elaborate penis-like organ to pen straight the male's vagina like opening and collect his sperm. female penis, male vaginas, thanks, gay marriage. (applause) well, this shocking news is why i'm giving a wag of my finger at bug scientists for discovering this, used to be i could give a quick glance at an insect's thorax and know right away if i was

sexually attracted to it. but now in this report on these intersex insects or in-sects, and the discovery of the female penis, i, ney, all men are forced to ask ourselves, what gender is my penis-- penis. i have always identified as hafing a male penis. but it turns out i could be swinging lady junk. (laughter) and if so, is my penis a lesbian because she definitely has an eye for the ladies. now next up, next up on tippy tippy wagerman, folks, if you follow the news you know that benn gazee has been blown up again because of a scandalous new memo linking the obama administration directly to things said by members of the obama administration. and fox news's the fiferx the eric bolling has an ironclad explanation for why they did whatever it is

we're accusing them of having done after the benghazi attack. >> one more piece to this don't forget this was prior, prior to osama bin laden being taken down. and the thought was and the discussion was, ask president obama going into the re-election soft on terror or not. >> a lot of people are saying it was after. >> much after. >> was it after. >> yeah, yeah, yeah,. >> my bad, i take it back. >> a great point if it were true. >> yes. that's undeniable. yes. a great point and a fantastic new motto, fox news, fair an balanced, a great point if it were true. (cheers and applause) still-- i've got to give a wag of my finger to dana perino. why did you correct him? bolling was pulling a passionate heart-felt

conspiracy theory straight out of his ass. you don't interrupt a man in mid yank, that's rude. (laughter) just say great point. because bolling was right, up to a point. obama not having caught bin laden at the time of the benghazi tacks would have made him look soft on terror if time hadn'ted in that order. -- happened in that order. so dana, come on, give your colleagues a break. they've been talking about benghazi nonstop for 20 months. you can't expect them to remember the exact day that it happened. i mean when was it anyway? >> oh, september 11th. well, how on earth are you supposed to never forget that? [ female announcer ] late night? crazy morning?

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donetsk, sloviansk and-- i'm going to say cheap. and over the past weekend things went ukraine in the membrane. >> ukraine launched its strongest attack so far on pro russian militias. >> the ukrainian government is launching a large scale anti-terror operation to recapture the eastern city of sloviansk-- sloviansk, this as the violence in ukraine escalates. >> stephen: and folks, if we lose eastern ukraine to russia, the next thing you know there goes spring break in zaporizhia, oblasqt and all of this is due to unone unhinged dictator obama. thanks it to weakness putin is running wild. >> he keeping putin don't worry we aren't going to do anything militarily. >> he is read by the rest of the world as weak. >> it is really a weak-- really, i am not

saying that with any partisan stuff, i mean, but you know, come on. the president-- seems unwilling too take steps that really would impress the russians. >> stephen: yeah, you got to impress the russians. and how hard could that be. their idea of entertainment is putting things inside other things. that's their seinfeld. but our could manner in weak just doesn't have what it takes to tear putin-- stare putin down. meanwhile putin has so much sack-ski he told the ukrainians to withdraw all military units from the southeastern regions of their own country. that is bold. that is like telling your neighbor to withdraw to the couch because you want to an ex the southeastern regons of his wife. now i don't know why the president isn't just listening to these people. >> what i would do if i was the administration, i would help armed the ukrainian people so they can defend themselves. >> the ukrainians will fight

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>> welcome back, everybody, my guest tonight say renowned journalist who has a new collection of new yorker pieces from the 1940s. previously only available in the waiting room of a 90-year-old dentist. please welcome david remnick. (cheers and applause) thanks so much for coming on. i have to get rid of these new yorkers, they stack up after a while. thanks for coming on, we have met before, i have never had you down for an interview. nice to finally have you here. >> great to be here. >> stephen: editor of "the new yorker" since 1998 also a pulitzer prize winning author of lenins tomb, have win over a hundred articles for your own magazine, you must know somebody. and you're the author-- not the author, you're here with a new book called the 40s. the story of a decade.

and these are-- some of the best articles. >> it was a time when "the new yorker" grew up with the country, the magazine was a kind of comic light magazine of the jazz age and suddenly with the arrival of the war, the magazine really grew up. it was kind the birth of a literary journalism both at war and at home afterwards as the nation became this kind of singular power during the start of the american century. >> stephen: what was the most obvious change to the magazine? were all these dog psychiatrists overseas fighting hitler. >> yeah, they were on eye desert island, in the same cartoon. i think it was an amazing thing, the idea that you would sen a journalist to japan, a journalist and maybe everybody here has read this in high school. >> stephen: in 46ee. >> that's right. and that was considered in some ways an incredibly bold thing to do. but even subversive to

report on the fallen enemy in basically sympathetic terms and see what the effect of anatomic bomb had been on this island. >> stephen: so "the new yorker" sent somebody to her oak-- her open ma to report from the point of view from the people that got bombed. >> exactly. >> stephen: that wasn't seen as treasonist. >> this article which took up the entire issue of "the new yorker", no cartoons, just from beginning to enwas such a sensation that it was read over the radio, armed the world and translated into many, many languages and it became, you know, a staple of high-school students everywhere. >> stephen: i never read the article. give me a preview, did the japanese like it? >> they did not not so much. >> stephen: the united states did it so it had to be the right thing to do. >> that has a certain logic. >> stephen: why was there anyone left to work on "the new yorker"? why wasn't every single person in the 1940s off

fighting. >> good point. for the first time "the new yorker" really had many more women on its staff because there were so many staff writers and editors who had gone off in uniform to europe and to asia. >> as "the new yorker" changed from a comedy magazine in the 1920s and 1930s into what it became which was sort of a-- really journalism in the 1940s, were there people that y'all rejected that later you said boy, we were dumb. >> yeah, i mean no magazine can get everybody. so a poet like elizabeth bishop flour shalled in "the new yorker". and we missed the boat on somebody like wallace-- and it is inevitable that a magazine is going to do this. and it's going to set the tone of the magazine, not only who you are writing about, and sometimes who you are wrong about. >> stephen: now you, as i said you won a pulitzer prize for your book lenin's tomb. you know something about the russian and the russian mand. >> yeah. things are going great. >> stephen: okay.

i-- i'm worried about the ukraine. all right. why am i worried? >> an how much longer am i going to have to worry about it, because right now i'm just waiting through an omelet of consonants with every word it was bad enough to memorize the abu, bin laden or whatever. at least that is language has some [bleep] vowells in it. >> in is a consonant. >> stephen: con san-- con san ant heavy diet tlofer. let's bind them you've bit, they should get a cell phone. that is the center of the controversy, it a disaster. there might be a civil war in ukraine if we don't watch ou the. there might be a-- . >> stephen: is it really a civil war or a war between russian and ukraine. >> a civil war in my view that is being provoked by russia. it is blame to go all around. everybody has mishandled this but at the centre of this, the real culprit of

why we are in this terribly dangerous spot is vladimir putin. vladimir putin. >> stephen: he is a strong leader. you have to respect that. >> yes, he flexes his muscle. >> stephen: yes, he does. >> he does show his muscle. >> stephen: he takes his shirt off. he has been taking his shirt off for a long time. when will we know things are getting really dangerous, when he takes his pants off? >> you know, for many reasons i'm praying he keeps his pants on. i think that would be better for the world. >> stephen: do the russian people like this? >> unfortunately, yes, his approval rating is in the 80s. >> stephen: do you think he did this for approval ratings? >> yes. >> stephen: because he could have just gone on between two ferns and-- that way. >> yes, yeah. that would have worked. >> stephen: david, thank you so much for joining me. (cheers and applause) david remnick, "the new yorker". the 40s. we'll be right back. amy: namaste, how may i enrich your day?

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