October 26, 2015 – Sienna Miller, Melissa Benoist, Chance the Rapper

Welcome back to a whole new week of shows, Hubsters! Hillary Clinton gets grilled by the Benghazi Committee, but comes out looking good. Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee have dropped out of the running for a Presidential bid. Stephens says farewell to these two tributes in another hilarious installment of “The Hungry For Power Games.” Stephen chats with Sienna Miller and makes her a delicious treat. Melissa Benoist discusses the feminist message of her new series, Supergirl. Chance The Rapper talks to Stephen and performs his new song, “Angels.” Enjoy your Episode Guide!

Monologue

Stephen spent his week vacation doing what he truly loves: eating anything. He made a warm gingerbread cake smothered with a caramelized apple compote with a side of cinnamon whipped cream. I don’t know about you guys, but Stephen is making me hungry!

Food like that is why they call this season Fall, instead of stand.

Stephen’s pants are a bit snug now. He is glad he did all of that eating over the break, because he just heard some shocking news. Apparently, researchers somewhere – let’s say Harvard – studied 75 brands of hot dogs and found that 2% of them contained human DNA.

I guess my bologna really does have a first name!

Hillary And The Wonderful, Remarkable, No Bad, Very Good Week

My week off may have been great, but I did not come close – no one came close – to how great Hillary Clinton’s week was.

One of the highlights of Ms. Clinton’s week was her second appearance in front of the Benghazi Committee, which is chaired by South Carolina Congressman and acrylic-American, Trey Gowdy.
Last Thursday, Sheriff Gowdy and the Benghazi Bunch grilled Hillary from 10am until 9 at night. That is eleven hours!
They achieved tantric sub-committee. The only person who has ever testified longer is Sting.

Hillary could not be rattled after the grueling testimony. When it was over, she was all smiles. Congressman Gowdy, on the other hand, appeared tired and sweaty.

One of them looks like they’re hosting a cocktail party, the other looks like he’s had his bark stripped off by carpenter ants.

All of the headlines reported that the Republicans handed Hillary a gift. Right after the hearing, Ms. Clinton had the best fundraising hour of her presidential campaign.

The Hungry For Power Games: Chafee-ng Fire

Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee have both dropped out of the Democratic Presidential race. You know what that means! Another installment of “The Hungry For Power Games.”

So, farewell Tribute Webb. I’d say we hardly knew ye, but “hardly” is too generous a term, since you were polling in Iowa and New Hampshire at 0%. Ha ha! Goose egg!
Just proving the old saying, “If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, it would still get more votes than Jim Webb.” Ha ha ha! Yeah!

Jim Webb wasn’t the only former Republican to drop out of the race. It is time to say good-bye to Lincoln Chafee.

Lincoln Chafee: “Now, as you may know, I’ve been campaigning on a platform of prosperity though peace.”

Actually, we did not know that you were campaigning at all.
Such a shame. This Lincoln has all the charisma of the logs he was named for.
According to the game makers at Five Thirty Eight, Governor Chafee’s poll numbers were a roller coaster ride of excitement, rocketing anywhere from 0% up to the dizzying heights of just over 0.6%.

Meaning – at peak Chafee – out of 100 people, he had the support of one guy from the waist up.

Lincoln Chafee: “Here’s a bold embrace of internationalism. Let’s join the rest of the world and go metric.”

Yes! Ha ha! A stirring campaign slogan: Go metric! Unfortunately, American voters didn’t give 2.5 milli-sh*ts.

Suddenly, the wonderful Stanley Tucci makes a surprise appearance. Stanley was walking down Broadway when his Tucci sense started tingling, as it does whenever someone impersonates his character from The Hunger Games, Caesar Flickerman.

Tucci: I understand that you’re having fun here, but Caesar, for me, is a nuanced role. He’s a larger-than-life TV host who’s hungry for the adulation of the crowd and whose effervescence masks his true vulnerability.
Colbert: I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Interview – Sienna Miller

Colbert: You, actually, are somebody that got your phone hacked in The News of the World scandal and you walked away for awhile. You walked away from the limelight for awhile and you’ve come back with these great movies. Some people say, “If you’re famous, you’ve signed up for that kind of paparazzi life style.” Do you think that’s the case?
Miller: No, I don’t think you should have your phone hacked if you’re an actress. Some people are really able to deal with it, but I lived in London – I do live in London – where at a certain point, that kind of attention was just really aggressive, like nowhere else. And I think the more you resist it – which I did – the worse it got and it became impossible. So, I sued everyone and won.

Sienna and Stephen discussed her new film, Burnt, in which she plays a sous chef. Since Stephen is a food aficionado, he whipped up one of his signature dishes for Sienna. It’s on old family recipe that Stephen and his siblings used to make together – mayonnaise, mustard, and paprika on a cracker. Yum! Fans of Stephen may remember that he made this scrumptious appetizer for Martha Stewart on The Colbert Report in 2010.

Interview – Melissa Benoist

Colbert: I love it [Supergirl]. I kind of tear up when I watch it.
Benoist: Do you?!
Colbert: Honest to God. I’m kind of very excited that this young woman – Supergirl – A lot has been made of the fact that it’s “Supergirl” and not “Superwoman.” But there’s a nice sort of feminist response to that in the series. Do you like the idea that it’s got sort of a feminist message to it?
Benoist: Of course I do. I think it’s great and I think what’s feminist about it is that it’s for everyone. She has all the same powers he does.

Interview and Performance – Chance The Rapper

Stephen shows a clip from a video of Chance The Rapper on Hot 97, in which Chance had this to say about Stephen: “I’m about to drop new music. That’s actually an exclusive I’ll give you. Me and Stephen Colbert have been working on a song together. […] He’s amazing. I can’t get that deep into it, but he’s amazing.”

Chance: I’m sorry, Stephen.
Colbert: Chance, what part of “on the DL” do you not understand? We agreed that we weren’t gonna talk about it.
Chance: You’re just so amazing, like I said several times.
Colbert: When you first mentioned doing something together I was completely surprised – blown away – I couldn’t imagine it was real, but I’m super excited that we’re doing it and I’m looking forward to continue to work on it.

Chance The Rapper performs the world premiere of his new song, “Angels,” available for free on iTunes.

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