--- description: Hillary Clinton and Stephen Colbert went head-to-head in the name game when former Secretary of State paid an visit to the Colbert Report title: Hillary Clinton Drops in on Colbert Report to Shamelessly Plugs Memoir image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1aaee463f2ae07e5/69869e86810bbb0c58c92e71/liv_hillary_colbert_0608.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [2016 Election](/tag/2016-election/) ## 2016 Election Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Hillary Clinton Drops In on _The Colbert Report_ to Plug Memoir by [Nash Jenkins](/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 6, 2014 10:07 AM CUT  Hillary Clinton drops in on the Colbert Report. Hillary Clinton drops in on the Colbert Report.Colbert Report/Comedy Central by [Nash Jenkins](/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 6, 2014 10:07 AM CUT 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. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3085467/hillary-clinton-drops-in-on-the-colbert-report-to-plug-memoir/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3085467/hillary-clinton-drops-in-on-the-colbert-report-to-plug-memoir/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Drops In on The Colbert Report to Plug Memoir","datePublished":"2014-08-06T10:07:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:31:30.978Z","description":"Lots of name-dropping, but still no talk of 2016","url":"https://time.com/3085467/hillary-clinton-drops-in-on-the-colbert-report-to-plug-memoir/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","2016 elections"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1aaee463f2ae07e5/69869e86810bbb0c58c92e71/liv_hillary_colbert_0608.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1aaee463f2ae07e5/69869e86810bbb0c58c92e71/liv_hillary_colbert_0608.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"liv_hillary_colbert_0608","caption":"Hillary Clinton drops in on the Colbert Report.","creditText":"Colbert Report/Comedy Central","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3085467/hillary-clinton-drops-in-on-the-colbert-report-to-plug-memoir/","name":"Hillary Clinton Drops In on The Colbert Report to Plug Memoir"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Hillary Clinton on the Colbert Report","description":"Hillary Clinton on the Colbert Report","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ZluegFJa/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-08-06T13:32:16.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ZluegFJa.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3085467/hillary-clinton-drops-in-on-the-colbert-report-to-plug-memoir/","duration":"PT34S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3085467/hillary-clinton-drops-in-on-the-colbert-report-to-plug-memoir/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```