Daniel Gross, Dumb Money on The Colbert Report
Daniel Gross was on The Colbert Report tonight talking about his new book Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation. Daniel’s main point is that people react to a bad economy by saving, but they should do just the opposite. This is the paradox of thrift. Wikipedia says: The paradox [...]
Richard Beeman, Plain, Honest Men on The Daily Show
Richard Beeman was on The Daily Show discussing his new book Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution. Basically Richard and Jon’s discussion centered around the fact that the men who built our Constitution came together even though they disagreed. They all were able to agree that they had to [...]
Jamie Kennedy on Chelsea Lately
Ira Glass on The Colbert Report
Philip Alcabes and his book Dread on The Daily Show
Tracey Ullman on Chelsea Lately
Mike Krzyzewski on The Colbert Report
Mike Krzyzewski was on The Colbert Report promoting his new book The Gold Standard: Building a World-Class Team. Steven compared teamwork to socialism. Mike said he was not a dictatorial coach. He said he coaches by telling the players the truth and getting out of the way. Mike was an assistant coach for [...]
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on The Daily Show
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was on The Daily Show promoting her new book, This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa’s First Woman President. What’s sad is her discussion with Jon goes pretty much like you would imagine. Before Ellen was president, the leaders were corrupt men who [...]
Sheriff Joe Arpaio on the Colbert Report
Tonight Sheriff Joe Arpaio was on the Colbert Report promoting his book, Joe’s Law: America’s Toughest Sheriff Takes on Illegal Immigration, Drugs and Everything Else That Threatens America. What’s up with the long titles tonight? Apparently Steven had picketers in front of his studio because Joe was the guest tonight. They say [...]