Today I Was One of Those Jellybeans

Tonight's show started out all sunshine and parades, went downhill, which is actually a good sign, and then was dominated by animals.

Unemployment has been getting better in that there's less of it. Things are looking better than they have for four years. So you would think people would be happy. But over at FOX News, they can take sweetened lemonade and turn it into sour lemons. Or as Stephen said, take a big sunshine dump on our rain parade.

America's Newsroom w/Bill Hemmer & Martha MacCallum is the show. They were all upbeat, even had some good news. Unemployment claims drop to lowest levels since April 2008 was the caption at the bottom of the screen. Weekly Jobless Claims fell to 357,000. And Martha MacCallum said it is the lowest in four years. But why does she look like she is going to cry? Send in Stuart Varney to explain that yes it's good and yes the trend is good, but oh no, oh no, the last four weeks of these last four years the numbers haven't gone down. Is the sky falling? No, it's probably like someone trying to lose weight. The weight goes down and then you hit a plateau for a while and then it goes down again. This seems like easy stuff, I mean, it's not like it's rocket science.

Stephen introduced a new segment on the show tonight: Colbert's Very Wanted. This paragraph is not for the faint at heart. You have been warned. You may be familiar with the Manatee. If you live in Florida, you almost certainly know about them. Well, what could be more natural and decorative than to have a manatee statue to hold your mailbox? And if you have a manatee statue, the natural tendency would of course be to decorate it and dress it up for holidays and special events. It just makes sense. Here comes the bad part: Someone has been vandalizing these manatee mailbox statues. They have been blown up, which is dangerous for sure. Also, the costumes, such as Santa outfit, have been stolen, only to be returned with a note from "The Grinch." Hopefully with Stephen exposing this type of behavior, this person or persons will stop this behavior. It is not good, which therefore means it is bad. Stop it.

I got up early this morning and so I am really tired. I think I fell asleep a bit during the next part of the show. It seems like it was something about Stephen being a Jellybean and Lincoln driving a motorcycle. Well, it wasn't about manatees or wolves, so probably not that important.

Stephen's guest was Anne Rice. She has written a boatload of books including her latest, "The Wolf Gift". She writes about Vampires, Sleeping Beauty, Witches, Mummies, you know, the people next door or down the street. She also has views on religion and she and Stephen talked about religion. (You can read more about Anne Rice here.) Stephen graciously offered his thoughts on what her future might be.