Colbert Eludes CBS Censorship with His ‘Frogs Having Sex’ Pic

COLBERT: "They blurred it! Apparently I went all the way home for nothing. What's the point of going home if you can't look at frog genitals? And look at the size of the area they blurred! Good lord! Our censors are being very generous to Kermit here. Now, I'm not attacking CBS' standards and practices department. They are just good people doing their jobs, is what it says on the prompter for me to read here. But I am genuinely confused by this. This is not even an actual photo. It's an illustration from a scientific journal! Next you'll tell me I can't even reference the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' because the title looks like "penis." Jimmy, please! Thank you! We can't take any chances with CBS! Children could be watching! Children! Now, believe it or not, the discussion of whether we could show this to you reached all the way up to the head CBS lawyer, who said, in this actual email-- that I have printed out right here-- and I quote: "Animals don't (bleep) on CBS." When did CBS decide that's a rule? Must've been a particularly graphic episode of "Lassie." Honestly. Honestly, since this is only a line drawing, frogs have no external genitalia, and you can't even see anybody when it's not blurred. I think the only reason the network blurred this is because I said 'It's a picture of frogs having sex.' I guess we'll never know. In other science news, researchers recently released a fascinating depiction of never before seen behavior in amphibians: Frog tandem skydiving. They didn't blur it! We did it! "The Late Show" is your destination to see frog skydiving! Only CBS!"