laughter is a wonderful place to go for forgetting your troubles and woes. sitcoms are an escape. the more dire the circumstances, the more you need sitcoms to forget about your troubles. we re going to the good place in a freaking gold balloon! shotgun! that s what we had. that s what helped me escape being poor. [ applause ] everything single one of you is a good person. when i m feeling kind of hopeless and sad, i get to laugh and lose myself and remember life s not that bad. you re in the good place! the beautiful thing about the sitcom, is that it has provided so much joy in times of uncertainty. there s a lot of pressure in the 1960s this notion of new products and everything being new, this kind of brave new world. everything s about the future and modernizing. yes, it s all bright and shiny and you get cars that look like spaceships, but then it s a scary thing. what does the future hold? air force general curtis lemay suggested we bomb north v
Captioning sponsored by Comedy Central captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org eagle caw stephen tonight, the midterm elections are on november 4th. Or if youre a democrat, november 7th laughter then, america reaches a milestone. Though it had to use one of those reachergrabbers. laughter and my guest, Walter Isaacson, has a new book about the history of your computer it had to be your history because i always clear mine. laughter netscape navigator launched 20 years ago today, and it has just now finished loading. laughter this is the colbert report. cheers and applause captioning sponsored by Comedy Central eagle caw cheers and applause audience chanting stephen cheers and applause stephen welcome to the report. Good to have you with us. As you were, nation thank you so much cheers and applause thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen thank you thats lovely thank you so much for the greeting your adulation is as warm and fragrant as a spiced apple cider i use that di
eagle caw cheers and applause audience chanting stephen cheers and applause stephen welcome to the report. Good to have you with us. As you were, nation thank you so much cheers and applause thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen thank you thats lovely thank you so much for the greeting your adulation is as warm and fragrant as a spiced apple cider i use that did met for because its autumn here in new york and while the season brings colorful foliage and candy apples, its also time to take on those unpleasant fall chores cleaning the gutters. Weatherproofing the windows, and pretending you like decorative gourds. laughter oh, how beautiful, a butternut tumor laughter of course, the most tedious autumn chore of all is covering the midterm elections. Its like watching people dry. And this midterm the democrats are drawing a clear difference between them and their arch nemesis barack obama. cuz, according to politico, hardly any candidates in the most competitive states want president ba
Captioning sponsored by Comedy Central eagle caw cheers and applause audience chanting stephen cheers and applause stephen welcome to the report. Good to have you with us. As you were, nation thank you so much cheers and applause thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen thank you thats lovely thank you so much for the greeting your adulation is as warm and fragrant as a spiced apple cider i use that did met for because its autumn here in new york and while the season brings colorful foliage and candy apples, its also time to take on those unpleasant fall chores cleaning the gutters. Weatherproofing the windows, and pretending you like decorative gourds. laughter oh, how beautiful, a butternut tumor laughter of course, the most tedious autumn chore of all is covering the midterm elections. Its like watching people dry. And this midterm the democrats are drawing a clear difference between them and their arch nemesis barack obama. cuz, according to politico, hardly any candidates in the mo
As you were, nation thank you so much cheers and applause thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen thank you thats lovely thank you so much for the greeting your adulation is as warm and fragrant as a spiced apple cider i use that did met for because its autumn here in new york and while the season brings colorful foliage and candy apples, its also time to take on those unpleasant fall chores cleaning the gutters. Weatherproofing the windows, and pretending you like decorative gourds. laughter oh, how beautiful, a butternut tumor laughter of course, the most tedious autumn chore of all is covering the midterm elections. Its like watching people dry. And this midterm the democrats are drawing a clear difference between them and their arch nemesis barack obama. cuz, according to politico, hardly any candidates in the most competitive states want president barack obama anywhere near them. So the popular obama has been hitting the trail instead, like this weekend in iowa. I am beyond thrill