Traditionally the ‘dog days’ come in August, but this week’s dearth of guests makes me think they came early. The repeat fairy takes firm hold next week, so I’ll take what I can get right now. The only notable repeat this week is on Friday, when Jim Parsons from The Big Bang Theory visits with David Letterman. He plays a scientists on television.
Tonight author Andrew Solomon will visit with Stephen Colbert to discuss his book on differences between parents and their children. Given that Colbert’s mother recently passed, this could be a particularly interesting interview. On Wednesday the director of Gasland, a documentary film about hydraulic fracturing (often called fracking) will sit down with John Oliver on The Daily Show (Mr. Stewart is off in the Middle East directing a movie).
This week in content I missed in advance, I offer the June 5th edition of The Colbert Report. Stephen dug into the recent revelations that herbicide-resistant wheat engineering by Monsanto somehow got into the ‘wild’ years after the company destroyed it. He explains the situation before interviewing Laurie Garrett of the Council on Foreign Relations. She discussed the international implications of the apparent tainting of the American wheat crop.
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