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# Hillary Clinton Drops In on _The Colbert Report_ to Plug Memoir

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## Video: Hillary Clinton on the Colbert Report

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_Published 2014-08-06. Hillary Clinton on the Colbert Report_


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[Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/)


## Nash Jenkins


Aug 6, 2014 10:07 AM UTC

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Hillary Clinton drops in on the Colbert Report.

Hillary Clinton drops in on the Colbert Report. Colbert Report/Comedy Central

by 

[Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/)


## Nash Jenkins


Aug 6, 2014 10:07 AM UTC

Hillary Clinton and Stephen Colbert went head-to-head in the name game on Tuesday night when the former Secretary of State made an unannounced visit to the _Colbert Report._

“This book is 656 pages of shameless name dropping,” the faux-conservative pundit said of _Hard Choices_, Clinton’s recent memoir of her time at the State Department, just before she walked out onstage.

The two engaged in a lightheartedly schticky debate over which one of them is better connected in the world—Colbert hangs out with Tom Hanks at George Clooney’s place; Clinton once had lunch with Meryl Streep and the president of Ecuador—but the conversation pretty much stopped there.


## Transcript

There is no way on Earth one woman can be in so many places at once. [ APPLAUSE ] [ LAUGH ] Name dropper, that's not what my good friend Tom Hanks calls me. [ LAUGH ] When we're hanging out at George Clooney's place. Oh, I love George. I wish he could have joined us when I had lunch with Meryl Streep and Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa. [ LAUGH ] Oh, Rafi, he is such a cutup. [ LAUGH ] Especially when we go camping with Oprah. [ LAUGH ]

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