EPISODE NUMBER: 10120 (June 18, 2014)
GUESTS: Katty Kay & Claire Shipman
STAFF CAMEO: Opus Moreschi (“McGnaw the Gluten-Free Beaver”)
SEGMENTS: Intro – 06/18/2014 | Arrest of Benghazi Terror Mastermind | Hillary Clinton vs. the RNC Squirrel | Thad Cochran on Doing Indecent Things with Animals | Katty Kay & Claire Shipman | Sign Off – Good night
SUIT REPORT: Gray Pinstriped Suit | Pale Blue Shirt | Navy Patterned Tie
VIDEOS: Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Her bus says “Ready for Hillary,” but it seems Hillary Clinton is truly the one who’s ready to take on her (squirrely) haters.
With the show now really approaching the wind down phase (those numbers at the top of the show are going down, down, down), I am starting to feel a sense of sadness that Stephen will not be “Stephen” for us when covering the 2016 election, especially when it seems Hillary has the momentum to be the next DNC nominee. I thought she would hang it up after 2008, but it seems we are poised for another historic candidate making HER way onto the national stage. There is no way, Late Show or no, Stephen will not address it in some substantive way – and he’ll get to interview her too! We wil have to stay tuned on that front.
The interview was also great. Katty Kay is a fantastic anchor on BBC America. I definitely think women can identify with struggling with confidence issues in the workplace – you want to be authoritative but not over-do it, either. In the realm of the home, we all know who is in charge! But attitudes have to shift, and oddly enough, I think women have to be willing to view themselves differently. I think the guys like having smart, competent women around them. This dovetails nicely with Hillary’s budding presidential ambitions. Having a woman in the White House would be a huge confidence booster to women everywhere looking to take that next step at work and elsewhere.
What did you think of the ep, Hubsters? Sound off in the comments.
Stephen is a total sweetheart at the top of the show. “I love me,” he mouthed to the camera.
Arrest of Benghazi Terror Mastermind
“President Bush did not wait 642 days to catch bin Laden. If he couldn’t catch him right away, he wasn’t going to catch him at all. That’s called having some pride.”
Hillary Clinton vs. the RNC Squirrel
“The puns are for kids! You are asking me to ask questions to an adult woman who could ascend to the highest office in the land! I think puns are a little bit beneath my dignity as a journalist. And they should be beneath your dignity, too!”
McGnaw: Well, I’m not just a one-trick beaver. I’m trying to branch out.
Stephen: Like a tree branch?
McGnaw: All right, f**k you, man, f**k you.
“Damn! That’s a scary ‘tale,’ Beaver!”
Thad Cochran on Doing Indecent Things with Animals
- I’m from South Carolina, which isn’t that far from Mississippi, just a few hundred miles as the sheep flees. And all my life, I have dealt with hateful stereotypes about southerners. But now Senator Cochran has stepped up and shown the world a positive image of Southerners. We are intelligent, caring people who also f**k animals.
Interview – Katty Kay & Claire Shipman
Take the confidence test. Stephen is too afraid to: “I think I am afraid…that if I take the test I’ll find out I am an extremely confident woman.”
Stephen: For anyone out there who has daughters, what can they do to give their daughters the greatest confidence?
Claire: We have found a couple of things. Number one, do let them fail. Let them risk, don’t let them focus all the time on getting a perfect score on every test, turning in all of their homework on time, I know it sounds counterintuitive. But when they say “who cares?” let them learn from that, let them go with that. Sports, sports is incredibly important for girls.
Stephen: Really?
Claire: Really, really, really. And not just for being healthy.
Katty: Because it teaches to win, but also to lose. That failing business again. You lose a game, and you realize you have to carry on playing, you can’t let your team down. You’ve got to get back out on the pitch, and I think that’s very important.
Stephen: How important is it to be a b*llsh*t artist? Because men are supreme b*llsh*t artists. In today’s New York Times, there was a study by the Pew Research Center, that says male politicians more often lie in stump speeches, but the audience tends to believe them more, because of the confidence with which they tell the statistics on the stump speech, and here’s an example: I just made that study up!
June 18, 2014 — Katty Kay & Claire Shipman
EPISODE NUMBER: 10120 (June 18, 2014)
GUESTS: Katty Kay & Claire Shipman
STAFF CAMEO: Opus Moreschi (“McGnaw the Gluten-Free Beaver”)
SEGMENTS: Intro – 06/18/2014 | Arrest of Benghazi Terror Mastermind | Hillary Clinton vs. the RNC Squirrel | Thad Cochran on Doing Indecent Things with Animals | Katty Kay & Claire Shipman | Sign Off – Good night
SUIT REPORT: Gray Pinstriped Suit | Pale Blue Shirt | Navy Patterned Tie
VIDEOS: Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Her bus says “Ready for Hillary,” but it seems Hillary Clinton is truly the one who’s ready to take on her (squirrely) haters.
With the show now really approaching the wind down phase (those numbers at the top of the show are going down, down, down), I am starting to feel a sense of sadness that Stephen will not be “Stephen” for us when covering the 2016 election, especially when it seems Hillary has the momentum to be the next DNC nominee. I thought she would hang it up after 2008, but it seems we are poised for another historic candidate making HER way onto the national stage. There is no way, Late Show or no, Stephen will not address it in some substantive way – and he’ll get to interview her too! We wil have to stay tuned on that front.
The interview was also great. Katty Kay is a fantastic anchor on BBC America. I definitely think women can identify with struggling with confidence issues in the workplace – you want to be authoritative but not over-do it, either. In the realm of the home, we all know who is in charge! But attitudes have to shift, and oddly enough, I think women have to be willing to view themselves differently. I think the guys like having smart, competent women around them. This dovetails nicely with Hillary’s budding presidential ambitions. Having a woman in the White House would be a huge confidence booster to women everywhere looking to take that next step at work and elsewhere.
What did you think of the ep, Hubsters? Sound off in the comments.
Stephen is a total sweetheart at the top of the show. “I love me,” he mouthed to the camera.
Arrest of Benghazi Terror Mastermind
“President Bush did not wait 642 days to catch bin Laden. If he couldn’t catch him right away, he wasn’t going to catch him at all. That’s called having some pride.”
Hillary Clinton vs. the RNC Squirrel
“The puns are for kids! You are asking me to ask questions to an adult woman who could ascend to the highest office in the land! I think puns are a little bit beneath my dignity as a journalist. And they should be beneath your dignity, too!”
McGnaw: Well, I’m not just a one-trick beaver. I’m trying to branch out.
Stephen: Like a tree branch?
McGnaw: All right, f**k you, man, f**k you.
“Damn! That’s a scary ‘tale,’ Beaver!”
Thad Cochran on Doing Indecent Things with Animals
Interview – Katty Kay & Claire Shipman
Take the confidence test. Stephen is too afraid to: “I think I am afraid…that if I take the test I’ll find out I am an extremely confident woman.”
Stephen: For anyone out there who has daughters, what can they do to give their daughters the greatest confidence?
Claire: We have found a couple of things. Number one, do let them fail. Let them risk, don’t let them focus all the time on getting a perfect score on every test, turning in all of their homework on time, I know it sounds counterintuitive. But when they say “who cares?” let them learn from that, let them go with that. Sports, sports is incredibly important for girls.
Stephen: Really?
Claire: Really, really, really. And not just for being healthy.
Katty: Because it teaches to win, but also to lose. That failing business again. You lose a game, and you realize you have to carry on playing, you can’t let your team down. You’ve got to get back out on the pitch, and I think that’s very important.
Stephen: How important is it to be a b*llsh*t artist? Because men are supreme b*llsh*t artists. In today’s New York Times, there was a study by the Pew Research Center, that says male politicians more often lie in stump speeches, but the audience tends to believe them more, because of the confidence with which they tell the statistics on the stump speech, and here’s an example: I just made that study up!