everybody, my guest tonight is a gives scientific answers to hypothetical questions, please welcome randall monroe. (cheers and applause) hey, mr. monroe, thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you. >> good to see you. >> all right. >> now for those of you who may not know mr. monroe here, you are a award-winning creator of x-k-c-d. okay. that is a-- all the hip kids know it's a six-figure comic strip read by millions of people every week. let's settle the first thing. why is it called k-k-c, done. >> i kept picking different names based on what i was interested in things to set up an internet account. i got tired of being skywalker 4 and eventually wanted to pick something that had no meaning at all so i wouldn't get tired of it. >> stephen: but now it means you. now xkcd means you. >> yeah, i sort of ruined that. (laughter) >> stephen: okay. the style of your strip is one of the same time very basic but also very unique. let's show them example of yourself portrait. (laughter) all right. what, why? >> is this the best you can draw or do you just not want to waste time on it? >> drawing is rea

and my guest randall monroe created the internet comic x-k-c-d which is for love, math, cosmology, statisticsvior. so basically it's garfield. (laughter) former house majority leader eric cantor has taken a new job at a wall street investment bank. now he can finally have some influence in congress. >> this is the colbert report. (cheers and applause)

and my guest randall monroe created the internet comic x-k-c-d which is for love, math, cosmology, statisticss garfield. (laughter) former house majority leader eric cantor has taken a new job at a wall street investment bank. now he can finally have some influence in congress. >> this is the colbert report. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: right there, welcome to the report, everybody, good to have you with us. >> stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! >> thank you ladies and gentlemen. thank you for being here. folks, i cannot tell you how much i appreciate you being here. (cheers and applause) >> folks, thank you so much. for that energy and thank you so much for being here on this quite possibly the last episode of the colbert report. listen, i planned, i planned-- you're a little late. i planned on going till mid-december but america might not last that long. (laughter) because the whole damn world is swirling down the toilet boil, which is also full of planes. (laughter) how both of those are possible, i don't know. i