--- title: Here's What Hillary Clinton Likes to Binge-Watch description: Hillary Clinton was the guest of honor on Tuesday night's episode of 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,' where she talked television canonical: https://time.com/4090271/clinton-colbert-tv-late-show/ author: Nash Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-28T08:37:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T23:47:59.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Here's What Hillary Clinton Likes to Binge-Watch og:description: The presidential candidate was speaking to Stephen Colbert on 'Last Week Tonight' og:url: https://time.com/4090271/clinton-colbert-tv-late-show/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc56e83f68132faaf/69886e7dcd1bba48ba6fdd77/screen-shot-2015-10-28-at-4-34-18-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2400 og:image:height: 1350 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton on Last Week Tonight og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's What Hillary Clinton Likes to Binge-Watch twitter:description: The presidential candidate was speaking to Stephen Colbert on 'Last Week Tonight' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc56e83f68132faaf/69886e7dcd1bba48ba6fdd77/screen-shot-2015-10-28-at-4-34-18-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Hillary Clinton Tell Stephen Colbert What TV She Likes to Binge-Watch > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Updated: Dec 13, 2023 11:47 PM UTCPublished: Oct 28, 2015 8:37 AM UTC  by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Updated: Dec 13, 2023 11:47 PM UTCPublished: Oct 28, 2015 8:37 AM UTC Hillary Clinton was the guest of honor on Tuesday night’s episode of _The Late Show With Stephen Colbert_, the latest television stop in the presidential candidate’s campaign. At one point in the conversation, Colbert asked Clinton about her birthday on Monday, which came on the heels of last week’s protracted Benghazi hearing on Capitol Hill. Clinton said she turned 68 with refreshingly little fanfare: she slept in; she spent time with her daughter and granddaughter; she binge-watched “bad TV” with Bill. Her programming of choice? _House of Cards_, the third season of which they had just finished watching; _Madam Secretary_, which stars Téa Leoni as Secretary of State; _The Good Wife_, which draws its inspiration from the phenomenon of the contemporary American political sex scandal. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4090271/clinton-colbert-tv-late-show/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4090271/clinton-colbert-tv-late-show/"},"headline":"Watch Hillary Clinton Tell Stephen Colbert What TV She Likes to Binge-Watch","datePublished":"2015-10-28T08:37:33.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T23:47:59.000Z","description":"Even in her time off, Clinton likes her politics","url":"https://time.com/4090271/clinton-colbert-tv-late-show/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","politics","house of cards","stephen colbert","2016 presidential election","the good wife","the late show with stephen colbert"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc56e83f68132faaf/69886e7dcd1bba48ba6fdd77/screen-shot-2015-10-28-at-4-34-18-pm.png?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/bltc56e83f68132faaf/69886e7dcd1bba48ba6fdd77/screen-shot-2015-10-28-at-4-34-18-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hillary Clinton on Last Week Tonight","caption":"Hillary Clinton on Last Week Tonight","creditText":"","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/4090271/clinton-colbert-tv-late-show/","name":"Watch Hillary Clinton Tell Stephen Colbert What TV She Likes to Binge-Watch"}}]}] ```