The Colbert Report Season 1 Episode 5 -

Airdate: 2005-Oct-24

Episode summary:

Using yesterday's live Meet The Press footage of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Stephen re-purposes her responses to his questions on Iraq and the Valerie Plame investigation. He then uses re-purposed video footage of Fox News' Trace Gallagher to discuss Hurricane Wilma and Karl Rove. Tonight The Word segment is "Pussy", where Stephen discusses the pulling of Harriet Myers nomination. Stephen interviews Lou Dobbs, host of Lou Dobbs Tonight, they discuss outsourcing and the broken borders. Lastly, in a segment Bring 'em Back Or Leave 'em Dead, Stephen talks about reanimating the dead to help with resolving current issues; Stephen offers up possible candidates for reanimation, firstly the cruel Tomas de Torquemada and secondly Charles Darwin, and lastly Wendy's founder Dave Thomas.

About The Colbert Report series:

An, offshoot of The Daily Show, The Colbert Report (the Ts in Colbert and in Report are silent) is a parody of shows like “The O’Reilly...Show more >