--- title: Stephen Colbert Gives Ben and Jerrys Flavors to Candidates description: Including Caramel Fiorina and Mike Huckabee's Life Begins at Confection canonical: https://time.com/4197969/stephen-colbert-presidential-candidates-ice-cream/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-28T15:46:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:24.477Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Dreams Up Ben & Jerry's Flavors For 2016 Candidates og:description: Including Caramel Fiorina and Mike Huckabee's Life Begins at Confection og:url: https://time.com/4197969/stephen-colbert-presidential-candidates-ice-cream/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Colbert Dreams Up Ben & Jerry's Flavors For 2016 Candidates twitter:description: Including Caramel Fiorina and Mike Huckabee's Life Begins at Confection twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Stephen Colbert Dreams Up Ben & Jerry's Flavors For 2016 Candidates by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jan 28, 2016 3:46 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jan 28, 2016 3:46 PM UTC Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s fame has launched a special [Bernie Sanders-themed ice cream](http://time.com/4192710/bernie-sanders-ice-cream-ben-cohen/), and on Wednesday’s episode of _The Late Show_, [Stephen Colbert](http://time.com/4011585/stephen-colbert-interview-transcripts/) took it upon himself to come up with flavors for some of the other presidential candidates. First, though, Colbert explains that the Bernie Sanders flavor is called Bernie’s Yearning, “which I gotta say, to me, sounds like a softcore porno.” He then spends a very entertaining 25 seconds testing out his [Bernie Sanders impression](http://time.com/4077507/larry-david-snl-bernie-sanders/). The problem, Colbert explains, is that “this delicious treat is a violation of the well-known ice cream equal time law. Legally, Ben has to give equal churn time to all the other candidates by making a flavor for each of them.” He then proceeds to come up with his own flavors. Among them: Caramel Fiorina, Martin O’Mallomar, Mike Huckabee’s Life Begins at Confection and Hillary’s Whatever Flavor You Want This to Be. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4197969/stephen-colbert-presidential-candidates-ice-cream/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4197969/stephen-colbert-presidential-candidates-ice-cream/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert Dreams Up Ben & Jerry's Flavors For 2016 Candidates","datePublished":"2016-01-28T15:46:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:24.477Z","description":"Including Caramel Fiorina and Mike Huckabee's Life Begins at Confection","url":"https://time.com/4197969/stephen-colbert-presidential-candidates-ice-cream/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4197969/stephen-colbert-presidential-candidates-ice-cream/","name":"Stephen Colbert Dreams Up Ben & Jerry's Flavors For 2016 Candidates"}}]}] ```