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Episode Number: 7044 (March 31, 2011)

Guests: Piers Gibbon

Segments: Congressional Budget Menorah, Difference Makers – Roy Den Hollander, Madison as Hell

Videos: Thursday, March 31, 2011

I apologize for the lateness of this guide and discussion. As you may have noticed, we’ve been having a few technical difficulties over the last few days. We’re still working out a few bumps, but hopefully we’ll be up and running at 100% really soon!

In lieu of my own commentary today, I’d like to share a part of a ‘Colbert Report’ taping report found by Gratefull on the Dirt & Matchwood Tumblr.

[Stephen] did the “table of contents” first and flubbed on the second part! He broke out into laughter and dropped his head to the desk and the crowd started hooting. :D When he flubs, it’s amazing…he gets kind of adorably bashful and it’s totally endearing.

I was kind of hoping he wouldn...

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Piers Gibbon is the host of the upcoming National Geographic special, 'Eating with Cannibals,' in which he goes to Papua New Guinea to meet a tribe that still practices cannibalism.

He gave 'The Colbert Report' (Weeknights, 11:30Pm Et on Comedy Central) a ... er ... taste of what's going to be in the special when he explained to Stephen Colbert how the tribesmen decide who is dinner.

"If you are troublemaker, basically." Gibbons said. "If you are a magic man. ... It is something they will do to somebody who has caused harm, who has brought sickness upon the village."

 

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Welcome Zoners—

I still have last night’s adventures on my mind, but we cannot ignore our guests, can we? There’s lots on Monday’s visitor, a friend of the show who’s one of my favorites–but this is a fascinating group, made up of a major medical scientist, the head of the Special Olympics, and…an explorer who searches out headshrinkers.

Last week was wonderful, wasn’t it? Music, food, one very handsome and brilliant reporter, and a feisty Nobel Prize winner. And Stephen giving us The Word! Can’t wait for more. Doesn’t he make Mondays happy?

And now, your cast of characters for the week…

Monday, 3/28: Michael Moore

Polemical, satirical, and inimitable: Michael Moore is one of a kind, and you either love him or hate him. (I’m a fan.) Although he began as a journalist for alternative magazines like Mother Jones,...

Barely an hour after I set foot into the Langham Hotel in Pasadena, Piers Gibbon offered me a shrunken head to eat. The heads in question were made of marzipan and cake, and part of promoting Gibbon’s upcoming special “Search for the Amazon Headshrinkers” (coming to Nat Geo), but it still made for a strange hello.

“Let me tell you, I’ve done a lot of weird things in my career,” he said, “but never in my life did I imagine I’d be standing beside a tray full of these.” Quite a statement coming from a guy who rose to fame with a U.K. show called “Jungle Trip,” for which he traveled through far flung locales sampling various hallucinogenic potions.

“It will live forever on BitTorrent sites for various…...