Stephen Colbert pined for the exciting days of the Egyptian uprising on his program last night, saying that the turmoil in other Middle Eastern countries just didn’t compare.
“I miss the emotional heights of Egypt,” Colbert said. “It had everything: huge crowds, pyramids, the chance of a mummy attack.”
Yet Colbert said he was not impressed with the protests that have cropped up in other countries throughout the region.
“Bahrain? More Like Bore-ain,” he said. “Yemen? More like ‘Yawn, man.’ And Morocco? I could us a little less rocco.”
Libya is far more interesting, Colbert said, because should the protesters succeed, they would end the 40 year reign of oppressive leader and “Lionel Richie impersonator” Muammar Qaddafi. And, more exciting than that, there’s a chance that a revolution there would include footage of Gaddafi’s 50 lethal female bodyguards in action.
Watch the video below:
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