Before you watch this clip of a woman getting an answer specTACularly wrong on "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader," I want you to consider that the state has probably judged her competent to do things like control a credit card, drive a car, and vote. Now with that in mind, watch her try — and fail — to puzzle out the correct answer to a question routinely posed to 11-year-olds as a test of their basic skills.

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It was just three weeks ago that "The Daily Show" turned MSNBC's Willie Geist into a meme, pointing out Geist's hilariously disapproving presence during Mark Halperin's quickie apology for calling the president a "dick" on "Morning Joe."

But now, Geist has a worthy opponent in the scowling department: Wendi Deng, the four-decades-younger wife of Rupert Murdoch, most famous this week for blocking Murdoch's would-be pie-facer. Last night, though, Jon Stewart celebrated Wendi for her true talent: her freezing-cold scowl. Stewart pits them together in a "scowl-off," but really, the two should join forces and start a glowering, evil-eye dream-team. Think what they could do if put on the same panel as Arnold Schwarzenegger, for just one example!

Awww! It's extremely rare to catch Stephen Colbert being as, well, his normal self as he is in his new contribution to the "It Gets Better" project. In it, Stephen, who, as a dad, has perfected his "talking to kids" voice, tells the story of how he was picked on as a kid, and how his friend Pat stood up to bullies. He seems so vulnerable and earnest, but it's just in contrast to his "Stephen Colbert" character: