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Stephen introduced the latest eponymic animal, Stephanie Colburtle, one of the leatherback sea turtles being tracked from Costa Rica to the Galapagos Islands. In "The Word", Stephen revisited Monday's story about the 15 British sailors; in response to a British colonel making the distinction between the soldiers' experiences and reality TV, Stephen devised the notion that perhaps Americans should "make the war a reality show" to achieve success in Iraq and to prepare for a future "spin-off in Iraq."
Writing:
Stars:
- Stephen Colbert
- Ben Karlin
- Jon Stewart
Stars:
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![Jim Cramer](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![David Kamp](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Judy Woodruff](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Alex Kuczynski](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Dinesh D'Souza](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Richard Clarke](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Bill O'Reilly](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/pgIGJthLEe3PfPc74LbEJyM63J3.jpg)
![Tom Schaller](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Michael S. Steele](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Lou Dobbs](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Mike Wallace](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Barry Lando](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Donna Shalala](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Jed Babbin](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Chuck Schumer](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Wendy Kopp](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Charlie LeDuff](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Steven Pinker](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Debra Dickerson](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Michael Oppenheimer](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Sheryl WuDunn](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Lance Armstrong](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Shashi Tharoor](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Zev Chafets](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Craig Venter](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Nina Jablonski](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Larry King](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Ben & Jerry](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Mark Frauenfelder](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Michael Specter](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Ted Koppel](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Nicholas Kristof](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Michael Eric Dyson](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Ed Viesturs](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Ayaan Hirsi Ali](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Jerome Groopman](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Willie Nelson](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Benjamin Barber](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Katie Couric](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Gwen Ifill](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Madeleine Albright](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Jabari Asim](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Clive James](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Colin Beavan](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Jeannette Walls](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Vali Nasr](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Dr. Richard Land](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![John Kerry](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Elaine Pagels](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Paulina Porizkova](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Sean Penn](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Russell Simmons](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Dr. Andrew Weil](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![David Walker](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Madeleine Bordallo](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Malcolm Gladwell](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Gina Kolata](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Conn Iggulden](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Richard Preston](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Nassi Nicholas Taleb](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Salman Rushdie, Jane Fonda](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Jann Wenner](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![William Langewiesche](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Walter Isaacson](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Howard Dean](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Randy Kearse, Rep. Tom Delay](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Jared Diamond](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![John Amaechi](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Bay Buchanan, Bob Deans](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Jimmy Wales](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Leon Botstein](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Jessica Valenti](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Carl Bernstein](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Cullen Murphy](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Dr. Michael D. Gershon](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Josh Wolf](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Rep. Ron Paul](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Daniel B. Smith](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Toby Keith](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Anne-Marie Slaughter](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Will Schwalbe](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Vincent Bugliosi](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Tom Hayden](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![David France](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Tom Blanton, Daniel Gilbert](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Doug Bailey](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Richard Florida, Ben Nelson](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Mark Moffett](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![John Mellencamp](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Frank Sulloway](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Simon Schama](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Anthony D. Romero](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Charles Kaiser](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Robert Shrum](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Evan Osnos](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Kathleen Kennedy Townsend](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Michael Beschloss](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Michael J. Behe](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Ian Bogost](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Jim Cramer, Tina Brown](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Judd Apatow](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Michael Jacobson](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Jerry Miller, Spencer Wells](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Michael Wallis](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Mike Huckabee](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Nathan Sawaya](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Michael Shermer](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Richard Branson](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Thomas E. Ricks](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Bjorn Lomborg](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/aw5cW28TcQWUzYm8G0kuFASZq2m.jpg)
![Garrison Keillor](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/zhK0rlxHT2qaDum4reK43nHFche.jpg)
![Joel Klein](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/vL7OMSFWsKKxhpk4ezOPWycrTta.jpg)
![Ed Begley Jr](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/p59nVrZGHvYrFWDt1wsx3FBsz50.jpg)
![Susan Sarandon](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/9rGsyukyM1cOhpef63M4jpWVhIk.jpg)
![Naomi Wolf](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/n5UZoLbR4VCi6OPJfup9cxI8ZCq.jpg)
![Jeffrey Toobin](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/5iK0V7pBzGhOSjrXLvCBH1Owb8E.jpg)
![Thomas Friedman](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/bJJeFM1W9P31StBn7IsaleUhumS.jpg)
![John Grisham](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Tony Bennett](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![David Schwartz](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Charlie Savage](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![John Mearsheimer](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Jim Lovell](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![John Kao](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![George Saunders](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Stephen Colbert](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Gen. Wesley Clark](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Chris Jordan](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Paul Glastris](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Bob Drogin](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Garry Kasparov](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Craig Newmark](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Richard Berman](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Craig Venter](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Col. Lawrence Wilkerson](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)
![Walter Kirn](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tJTFyHmM3sHFoF2Ik5PncUwBmlO.jpg)