Spying on Comedy Central
If you caught Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” on Thursday, you saw host Stephen Colbert interviewing Peter Earnest, executive director of D.C.’s International Spy Museum. The Comedy Central crew spent nine hours at the museum, coming away with so much footage that the show has spread its final product over two shows.
On Thursday, Colbert sat down with Earnest, a former spy, and tried to get some tips on proper spy technique and practice. Part 2 is set to air tonight and Yeas & Nays can give you a taste of what you can expect.
Throughout his visit to the museum, Colbert became fascinated with the museum’s “rectal tool kit,” an actual CIA artifact from the 1960s containing cutting implements designed to be hidden in a body cavity and used in case of capture.
After seeing the kit, Colbert — in his mocking, sarcastic way — insists to Earnest that each subsequent artifact must have something to do with rectal concealment.
Somehow, we kinda assumed that Colbert would go that route…
