Watch: Hillary Clinton Surprises Stephen Colbert

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton genuinely surprised Stephen Colbert by showing up last night on his show as he trashed her book.

Hillary Clinton pulled a fast one on “Colbert Report” host Stephen Colbert last night. After the faux-conservative talk show pundit introduced reimagined children’s books “improved” by the addition of guns in them (“Where The Wild Things Were,” for instance,) he moved to a review of Clinton’s memoir, Hard Choices.

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After going down her resume (“sounds like she can’t hold down a job,”)  and as he comically trashed her book, Clinton appeared from the wings in what appeared to be a genuine surprise for Colbert. Clearly, producers had arranged the visit but it seemed he was not in on the joke.

Here’s the exchange, via MSNBC:

“This book is 656 pages of shameless name-dropping,” Colbert says, before listing off a handful of instances where Clinton mentions world leaders and singer Bono in the book. “I just don’t buy any of this. There is no way on Earth one woman can be in so many places at once!”

Then, the former secretary of state walks on set and the pair face off in a battle of the name-droppers.

“I know Raffi. He’s such a cutup. Especially when we go camping with Oprah,” Colbert says.

“O?”

“Oh, does that surprise you?” Colbert asks.

“No. ‘O’ is just what all her real friends call Oprah,” Clinton answers

“I know Paul McCartney.”

“I negotiated with Hamid Karzai.”

“I shared an office with Steve Carrell.”

“I will have you know, Madame, I once did an entire show with President Bill Clinton,” Colbert says.

“I hate to break this to you Stephen, but I’ve met him, too.”

At Colbert’s prompting, Clinton then digs into the “eternal question” of how she’d negotiate between battling a horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses.

“First, I’d try to find common ground between ducks and horses – for instance, they both grew up on Old McDonald’s Farm. Then, I’d establish a timetable to achieve meaningful horse-duck dialogue.  Stephen, I’m convinced that with patience and a strong commitment from our allies, the pigs and the geese, we’d have peace, peace here, peace there, here a peace there a peace everywhere a peace, peace,” Hillary says, giving her best diplomatic version of “Old McDonald’s Farm.”

Watch — forward to the 4:20 mark for the beginning of the segment:

 

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