The Colbert Report 2005
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What is The Colbert Report?
The Colbert Report is an American satirical late night television program that stars Stephen Colbert, a former correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The show is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show and comments on politics and the media in a similar way.
- Type
- TV series
- Year
- 2005
- Status
- Ended
- Episodes
- 1,447
- Runtime
- 24 minutes
- First aired
- Oct 17, 2005
- Last aired
- Dec 18, 2014
- Original language
- EN
- Origin
- US
- Networks
- Comedy Central
- Genres
- News, Comedy
- Updated
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The Colbert Report is an American satirical late night television program that stars Stephen Colbert, a former correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The show is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show and comments on politics and the media in a similar way. The program focuses on a fictional anchorman character named Stephen Colbert, played by his real-life namesake, who is described as a well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot and is a caricature of televised political pundits. The Colbert Report aired on Comedy Central from October 17, 2005, to December 18, 2014, for 1,447 episodes. The show was hosted by Stephen Colbert and was created by Stephen Colbert, Ben Karlin, and Jon Stewart. It provided humorous commentary on the big issues going on in the United States. The program was a significant part of American late-night television for nearly a decade.
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Episode guide
Season 1 · 32 episodes
Open the complete Season 1 guide →- E1 Stone Phillips / Truthiness Oct 17, 2005
- E2 Lesley Stahl / Bacchanalia Oct 18, 2005
- E3 Fareed Zakaria / Disappointed Oct 19, 2005
- E4 Jim Cramer Oct 20, 2005
- E5 Lou Dobbs Oct 24, 2005
- E6 Greg Behrendt Oct 25, 2005
- E7 Neil DeGrasse Tyson Oct 26, 2005
- E8 Jeff Daniels Oct 27, 2005
- E9 Monica Crowley Oct 31, 2005
- E10 Ken Burns Nov 1, 2005
- E11 Bruce Feiler Nov 2, 2005
- E12 Bradley Whitford / Shhhh!... Nov 3, 2005
- E13 Eliot Spitzer Nov 7, 2005
- E14 Catherine Crier / T.O. Nov 8, 2005
- E15 Mary Roach / Willy Loman Nov 9, 2005
- E16 Cokie Roberts / Armistice Nov 10, 2005
- E17 Bob Kerrey / Testosterone Nov 14, 2005
- E18 Rev. Al Sharpton Nov 15, 2005
- E19 Matt Taibbi / Information Nov 16, 2005
- E20 Tim Robbins / McConaughey Nov 17, 2005
- E21 Brian Greene Nov 28, 2005
- E22 Richard Preston Nov 29, 2005
- E23 Katrina vanden Heuvel / Gay Gay Gay Gay Gay Nov 30, 2005
- E24 Richard Clarke / Spectacle Dec 1, 2005
- E25 Maureen Dowd Dec 5, 2005
- E26 Anderson Cooper Dec 6, 2005
- E27 Craig Crawford Dec 7, 2005
- E28 Peggy Noonan Dec 8, 2005
- E29 Harry Smith / Belly Achin' Dec 12, 2005
- E30 Bob Costas / Lombardi Dec 13, 2005
- E31 Dermot Mulroney / Travolta Dec 14, 2005
- E32 Mark Cuban Dec 15, 2005
Season 2 · 161 episodes
- E1 Nancy Grace Jan 9, 2006
- E2 Carl Bernstein Jan 10, 2006
- E3 John Stossel Jan 11, 2006
- E4 Ken Miller Jan 12, 2006
- E5 George Stephanopoulos Jan 16, 2006
- E6 Andrew Sullivan Jan 17, 2006
- E7 Frank McCourt Jan 18, 2006
- E8 Nina Totenberg Jan 19, 2006
- E9 David Gregory Jan 23, 2006
- E10 Robin Givhan Jan 24, 2006
- E11 Norah Vincent Jan 25, 2006
- E12 Paul Begala Jan 26, 2006
- E13 Annie Duke Jan 30, 2006
- E14 Dave Marash Jan 31, 2006
- E15 Emily Yoffe Feb 1, 2006
- E16 Christine Todd Whitman Feb 2, 2006
- E17 Sen. Barbara Boxer Feb 6, 2006
- E18 James Woolsey Feb 7, 2006
- E19 Alan Dershowitz Feb 8, 2006
- E20 George Packer Feb 9, 2006
- E21 Lama Surya Das Feb 21, 2006
- E22 Michael Eric Dyson Feb 22, 2006
- E23 David Brooks Feb 23, 2006
- E24 Tony Campolo Feb 27, 2006
- E25 Brett O'Donnell Feb 28, 2006
- E26 Arianna Huffington Mar 1, 2006
- E27 Jeffrey Sachs Mar 2, 2006
- E28 Bob Schieffer Mar 6, 2006
- E29 Norman Ornstein Mar 7, 2006
- E30 James Webb Mar 8, 2006
- E31 Lorraine Bracco Mar 9, 2006
- E32 Christopher Buckley Mar 13, 2006
- E33 Keith Olbermann Mar 14, 2006
- E34 Al Franken Mar 15, 2006
- E35 Frank Vincent Mar 16, 2006
- E36 Connie Chung Mar 20, 2006
- E37 Steve Kroft Mar 21, 2006
- E38 Dan Senor Mar 22, 2006
- E39 John Kasich Mar 23, 2006
- E40 Sen. Gary Hart Mar 27, 2006
- E41 Michael Brown Mar 28, 2006
- E42 Bruce Bartlett Mar 29, 2006
- E43 Robert Greenwald Mar 30, 2006
- E44 Michael Smerconish Apr 3, 2006
- E45 Rev. Jesse Jackson Apr 4, 2006
- E46 Harvey Mansfield Apr 5, 2006
- E47 Markos Moulitsas Apr 6, 2006
- E48 Reza Aslan Apr 17, 2006
- E49 Anthony Romero Apr 18, 2006
- E50 Caitlin Flanagan Apr 19, 2006
- E51 Ralph Nader Apr 20, 2006
- E52 Hugh Hewitt Apr 24, 2006
- E53 Sam Harris Apr 25, 2006
- E54 Sebastian Junger Apr 26, 2006
- E55 Bill Kristol Apr 27, 2006
- E56 Jon Meacham May 1, 2006
- E57 Gov. Mike Huckabee May 2, 2006
- E58 Paul Rieckhoff May 3, 2006
- E59 Rick Reilly May 4, 2006
- E60 Shere Hite May 8, 2006
- E61 Frank Rich May 9, 2006
- E62 Bill Bastone May 10, 2006
- E63 Madeleine Albright May 11, 2006
- E64 Ned Lamont May 15, 2006
- E65 Tyson Slocum May 16, 2006
- E66 Jonathan Alter May 17, 2006
- E67 Ted Daeschler May 18, 2006
- E68 Stone Phillips Jun 5, 2006
- E69 Christiane Amanpour Jun 6, 2006
- E70 Steven Squyres Jun 7, 2006
- E71 Steven Johnson Jun 8, 2006
- E72 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Jun 12, 2006
- E73 Tim Flannery Jun 13, 2006
- E74 David Sirota Jun 14, 2006
- E75 Michael Pollan Jun 15, 2006
- E76 Gustavo Arellano Jun 19, 2006
- E77 Bart Ehrman Jun 20, 2006
- E78 Bay Buchanan Jun 21, 2006
- E79 Douglas Brinkley Jun 22, 2006
- E80 Marc Bowden Jun 26, 2006
- E81 Chris Matthews Jun 27, 2006
- E82 Robert Baer Jun 28, 2006
- E83 Christopher Noxon Jun 29, 2006
- E84 Amy Sedaris Jul 10, 2006
- E85 Tony Hawk Jul 11, 2006
- E86 Mort Zuckerman Jul 12, 2006
- E87 Ron Suskind Jul 13, 2006
- E88 Lee Silver Jul 17, 2006
- E89 Dhani Jones Jul 18, 2006
- E90 Joe Scarborough Jul 19, 2006
- E91 Tom Brokaw Jul 20, 2006
- E92 Howell Raines Jul 24, 2006
- E93 William Donohue Jul 25, 2006
- E94 Neal Katyal Jul 26, 2006
- E95 Joe Quesada Jul 27, 2006
- E96 Ned Lamont Jul 31, 2006
- E97 Peter Beinart Aug 1, 2006
- E98 Linda Hirshman Aug 2, 2006
- E99 Paul Hackett III Aug 3, 2006
- E100 Bill Rhoden Aug 8, 2006
- E101 Alexandra Robbins Aug 9, 2006
- E102 Eli Pariser Aug 10, 2006
- E103 Ramesh Ponnuru Aug 14, 2006
- E104 David Gergen Aug 15, 2006
- E105 Morgan Spurlock Aug 16, 2006
- E106 Neil Young Aug 17, 2006
- E107 Geoffrey Nunberg Aug 21, 2006
- E108 Paul Krugman Aug 22, 2006
- E109 Gideon Yago Aug 23, 2006
- E110 Janna Levin Aug 24, 2006
- E111 Martin Short Sep 11, 2006
- E112 Toby Keith Sep 12, 2006
- E113 Ken Jennings Sep 13, 2006
- E114 Bill Simmons Sep 14, 2006
- E115 Will Power Sep 18, 2006
- E116 Frank Rich Sep 19, 2006
- E117 James Carville Sep 20, 2006
- E118 Daniel Ellsberg Sep 21, 2006
- E119 Arianna Huffington Sep 25, 2006
- E120 Ted Danson Sep 26, 2006
- E121 Lowell Bergman Sep 27, 2006
- E122 Steve Wozniak Sep 28, 2006
- E123 Michael Lewis Oct 2, 2006
- E124 Andy Stern Oct 3, 2006
- E125 Senator Byron Dorgan Oct 4, 2006
- E126 Amy Goodman Oct 5, 2006
- E127 Randy Newman Oct 9, 2006
- E128 Ariel Levy Oct 10, 2006
- E129 George Lucas Oct 11, 2006
- E130 Gov. Brian Schweitzer Oct 12, 2006
- E131 Barry Scheck Oct 16, 2006
- E132 Richard Dawkins Oct 17, 2006
- E133 David Kuo Oct 18, 2006
- E134 Dr. Peter Agre Oct 19, 2006
- E135 Barry Manilow Oct 30, 2006
- E136 Tim Robbins Oct 31, 2006
- E137 Penn Jillette Nov 1, 2006
- E138 Ronald Reagan Jr. Nov 2, 2006
- E139 Mark Halperin Nov 6, 2006
- E140 Indecision 2006 Election Coverage Nov 7, 2006
- E141 Jeff Greenfield Nov 8, 2006
- E142 Dean Kamen Nov 9, 2006
- E143 Dan Rather Nov 13, 2006
- E144 Jeff Swartz Nov 14, 2006
- E145 Al Franken/Dr. Michael Novacek Nov 15, 2006
- E146 Richard Linklater Nov 16, 2006
- E147 Jim Lehrer Nov 27, 2006
- E148 Harry Shearer Nov 28, 2006
- E149 Nora Ephron Nov 29, 2006
- E150 Mike Lupica Nov 30, 2006
- E151 Will Wright Dec 4, 2006
- E152 Steven D. Levitt Dec 5, 2006
- E153 John Sexton Dec 6, 2006
- E154 Dr. Francis S. Collins Dec 7, 2006
- E155 Dr. Peter Singer Dec 11, 2006
- E156 Dan Savage Dec 12, 2006
- E157 Doris Kearns Goodwin Dec 13, 2006
- E158 Daniel Pinchbeck Dec 14, 2006
- E159 Jack Welch Dec 18, 2006
- E160 Deepak Chopra Dec 19, 2006
- E161 Chris Funk, Robert Schneider Dec 20, 2006
Season 3 · 138 episodes
- E1 Ethan Nadelmann Jan 8, 2007
- E2 Jim Cramer Jan 9, 2007
- E3 David Kamp Jan 10, 2007
- E4 Judy Woodruff Jan 11, 2007
- E5 Alex Kuczynski Jan 15, 2007
- E6 Dinesh D'Souza Jan 16, 2007
- E7 Richard Clarke Jan 17, 2007
- E8 Bill O'Reilly Jan 18, 2007
- E9 Tom Schaller Jan 22, 2007
- E10 Michael S. Steele Jan 23, 2007
- E11 Lou Dobbs Jan 24, 2007
- E12 Mike Wallace Jan 25, 2007
- E13 Barry Lando Jan 29, 2007
- E14 Donna Shalala Jan 30, 2007
- E15 Jed Babbin Jan 31, 2007
- E16 Chuck Schumer Feb 1, 2007
- E17 Wendy Kopp Feb 5, 2007
- E18 Charlie LeDuff Feb 6, 2007
- E19 Steven Pinker Feb 7, 2007
- E20 Debra Dickerson Feb 8, 2007
- E21 Michael Oppenheimer Feb 12, 2007
- E22 Sheryl WuDunn Feb 13, 2007
- E23 Lance Armstrong Feb 14, 2007
- E24 Shashi Tharoor Feb 15, 2007
- E25 Zev Chafets Feb 26, 2007
- E26 Craig Venter Feb 27, 2007
- E27 Nina Jablonski Feb 28, 2007
- E28 Larry King Mar 1, 2007
- E29 Ben & Jerry Mar 5, 2007
- E30 Mark Frauenfelder Mar 6, 2007
- E31 Michael Specter Mar 7, 2007
- E32 Ted Koppel Mar 8, 2007
- E33 Nicholas Kristof Mar 12, 2007
- E34 Michael Eric Dyson Mar 13, 2007
- E35 Ed Viesturs Mar 14, 2007
- E36 Ayaan Hirsi Ali Mar 15, 2007
- E37 Jerome Groopman Mar 19, 2007
- E38 Willie Nelson Mar 20, 2007
- E39 Benjamin Barber Mar 21, 2007
- E40 Katie Couric Mar 22, 2007
- E41 Gwen Ifill Mar 26, 2007
- E42 Madeleine Albright Mar 27, 2007
- E43 Jabari Asim Mar 28, 2007
- E44 Clive James Mar 29, 2007
- E45 Colin Beavan Apr 9, 2007
- E46 Jeannette Walls Apr 10, 2007
- E47 Vali Nasr Apr 11, 2007
- E48 Dr. Richard Land Apr 12, 2007
- E49 John Kerry Apr 16, 2007
- E50 Elaine Pagels Apr 17, 2007
- E51 Paulina Porizkova Apr 18, 2007
- E52 Sean Penn Apr 19, 2007
- E53 Russell Simmons Apr 23, 2007
- E54 Dr. Andrew Weil Apr 24, 2007
- E55 David Walker Apr 25, 2007
- E56 Madeleine Bordallo Apr 26, 2007
- E57 Neil deGrasse Tyson / Bill Bradley Apr 30, 2007
- E58 Malcolm Gladwell May 1, 2007
- E59 Gina Kolata May 2, 2007
- E60 Conn Iggulden May 3, 2007
- E61 Richard Preston May 7, 2007
- E62 Nassi Nicholas Taleb May 8, 2007
- E63 Salman Rushdie, Jane Fonda May 9, 2007
- E64 Jann Wenner May 10, 2007
- E65 William Langewiesche May 14, 2007
- E66 Walter Isaacson May 15, 2007
- E67 Howard Dean May 16, 2007
- E68 Randy Kearse, Rep. Tom Delay May 17, 2007
- E69 Jared Diamond May 21, 2007
- E70 John Amaechi May 22, 2007
- E71 Bay Buchanan, Bob Deans May 23, 2007
- E72 Jimmy Wales May 24, 2007
- E73 Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Leon Botstein Jun 4, 2007
- E74 Jessica Valenti Jun 5, 2007
- E75 Carl Bernstein Jun 6, 2007
- E76 Cullen Murphy Jun 7, 2007
- E77 Dr. Michael D. Gershon Jun 11, 2007
- E78 Josh Wolf Jun 12, 2007
- E79 Rep. Ron Paul Jun 13, 2007
- E80 Daniel B. Smith Jun 14, 2007
- E81 Toby Keith Jun 18, 2007
- E82 Anne-Marie Slaughter Jun 19, 2007
- E83 Will Schwalbe Jun 20, 2007
- E84 Vincent Bugliosi Jun 21, 2007
- E85 Tom Hayden Jun 25, 2007
- E86 David France Jun 26, 2007
- E87 Tom Blanton, Daniel Gilbert Jun 27, 2007
- E88 Doug Bailey Jun 28, 2007
- E89 Richard Florida, Ben Nelson Jul 16, 2007
- E90 Mark Moffett Jul 17, 2007
- E91 John Mellencamp Jul 18, 2007
- E92 Frank Sulloway Jul 19, 2007
- E93 Simon Schama Jul 23, 2007
- E94 Anthony D. Romero Jul 24, 2007
- E95 Charles Kaiser Jul 25, 2007
- E96 Robert Shrum Jul 26, 2007
- E97 Evan Osnos Jul 30, 2007
- E98 Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Jul 31, 2007
- E99 Michael Beschloss Aug 1, 2007
- E100 Michael J. Behe Aug 2, 2007
- E101 Ian Bogost Aug 7, 2007
- E102 Jim Cramer, Tina Brown Aug 8, 2007
- E103 Judd Apatow Aug 9, 2007
- E104 Michael Jacobson Aug 13, 2007
- E105 Jerry Miller, Spencer Wells Aug 14, 2007
- E106 Michael Wallis Aug 15, 2007
- E107 Mike Huckabee Aug 16, 2007
- E108 Nathan Sawaya Aug 20, 2007
- E109 Michael Shermer Aug 21, 2007
- E110 Richard Branson Aug 22, 2007
- E111 Thomas E. Ricks Aug 23, 2007
- E112 Bjorn Lomborg Sep 10, 2007
- E113 Garrison Keillor Sep 11, 2007
- E114 Joel Klein Sep 12, 2007
- E115 Ed Begley Jr Sep 13, 2007
- E116 Susan Sarandon Sep 18, 2007
- E117 Naomi Wolf Sep 19, 2007
- E118 Jeffrey Toobin Sep 20, 2007
- E119 Thomas Friedman Sep 24, 2007
- E120 John Grisham Sep 25, 2007
- E121 Tony Bennett Sep 26, 2007
- E122 David Schwartz Sep 27, 2007
- E123 Charlie Savage Oct 1, 2007
- E124 John Mearsheimer Oct 2, 2007
- E125 Jim Lovell Oct 3, 2007
- E126 John Kao Oct 4, 2007
- E127 George Saunders Oct 8, 2007
- E128 Stephen Colbert Oct 9, 2007
- E129 Gen. Wesley Clark Oct 10, 2007
- E130 Chris Jordan Oct 11, 2007
- E131 Paul Glastris Oct 15, 2007
- E132 Bob Drogin Oct 16, 2007
- E133 Garry Kasparov Oct 17, 2007
- E134 Craig Newmark Oct 18, 2007
- E135 Richard Berman Oct 29, 2007
- E136 Craig Venter Oct 30, 2007
- E137 Col. Lawrence Wilkerson Oct 31, 2007
- E138 Walter Kirn Nov 1, 2007
Season 4 · 160 episodes
- E1 Andrew Sullivan, Richard Freeman Jan 7, 2008
- E2 Chris Beam, Gary Rosen Jan 8, 2008
- E3 Gov. Mike Huckabee, Matt Taibbi Jan 9, 2008
- E4 Norman Ornstein, Muhammad Yunus Jan 10, 2008
- E5 Neil Shubin Jan 14, 2008
- E6 Peter Hopkins, Jared Cohen Jan 15, 2008
- E7 Deborah Tannen Jan 16, 2008
- E8 Lou Dobbs, David Levy Jan 17, 2008
- E9 Allan Sloan, Eric Weiner Jan 21, 2008
- E10 Malcolm Gladwell, Andrew Young Jan 22, 2008
- E11 Stephen Colbert's Sport Report Jan 23, 2008
- E12 Debra Dickerson, Charles Nesson Jan 24, 2008
- E13 Marjane Satrapi, Rick Warren Jan 28, 2008
- E14 Joe Quesada, Alex Ross Jan 29, 2008
- E15 Carl Hiaasen, Frans de Waal Jan 30, 2008
- E16 Tim Harford, Andrew Napolitano Jan 31, 2008
- E17 Tony Campolo, Jacob Weisberg Feb 4, 2008
- E18 Angelo Falcon, Bob Dole Feb 5, 2008
- E19 Richard Brookhiser, Tad Devine Feb 6, 2008
- E20 Mark Moffett Feb 7, 2008
- E21 Aubrey de Grey, Philip Zimbardo Feb 11, 2008
- E22 Gov. Eliot Spitzer, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Lisa Randall Feb 12, 2008
- E23 David Gracer, Richard Thompson Ford Feb 13, 2008
- E24 John Feinstein, Leonard Nimoy Feb 14, 2008
- E25 Henry Louis Gates Jr. Feb 26, 2008
- E26 Tony Snow Feb 27, 2008
- E27 Richard Brookhiser, Ingrid Newkirk Feb 28, 2008
- E28 Lorin Maazel, Shashi Tharoor Mar 3, 2008
- E29 William Donohue, Howard Dean, Jennifer 8. Lee Mar 4, 2008
- E30 Robert Reich, Gregory Rodriguez Mar 5, 2008
- E31 John Legend Mar 6, 2008
- E32 George McGovern Mar 10, 2008
- E33 Geraldo Rivera Mar 11, 2008
- E34 Howard Kurtz Mar 12, 2008
- E35 Hussein Ibish, Sudhir Venkatesh Mar 13, 2008
- E36 Samantha Power Mar 17, 2008
- E37 Carole King Mar 18, 2008
- E38 Dee Dee Myers Mar 19, 2008
- E39 Dean Kamen Mar 20, 2008
- E40 Eric Alterman, Michael Reynolds Mar 31, 2008
- E41 Van Jones Apr 1, 2008
- E42 R.E.M. Apr 2, 2008
- E43 Clay Shirky Apr 3, 2008
- E44 Trevor Paglen, Jesse Ventura Apr 7, 2008
- E45 Madeline Albright Apr 8, 2008
- E46 Jeff Gore Apr 9, 2008
- E47 Robin Wright Apr 10, 2008
- E48 John Legend, Mayor Michael Nutter, Chris Matthews Apr 14, 2008
- E49 Michelle Obama, The Roots Apr 15, 2008
- E50 Philadelphia Eagles Cheerleaders, Gov. Ed Rendell Apr 16, 2008
- E51 Hillary Clinton, Patrick Murphy, John Edwards, Barack Obama Apr 17, 2008
- E52 Fr. James Martin, Sen. Bernie Sanders Apr 21, 2008
- E53 Susan Jacoby Apr 22, 2008
- E54 Mitch Albom Apr 23, 2008
- E55 Maria Shriver Apr 24, 2008
- E56 Feist Apr 28, 2008
- E57 Anne Lamott Apr 29, 2008
- E58 Donna Brazile, Noah Feldman Apr 30, 2008
- E59 James Kunstler May 1, 2008
- E60 Carl Hiaasen May 5, 2008
- E61 Nathan Gunn May 6, 2008
- E62 Hasan Elahi, George Johnson May 7, 2008
- E63 Arianna Huffington May 8, 2008
- E64 Dr. Mehmet Oz May 12, 2008
- E65 Jennifer Hooper McCarty May 13, 2008
- E66 Laura Dern, Grover Norquist May 14, 2008
- E67 Andrei Cherny May 15, 2008
- E68 Tony Perkins, Brian Greene May 27, 2008
- E69 Sen. Claire McCaskill May 28, 2008
- E70 Tad Devine, David Sirota May 29, 2008
- E71 Jon Paskowitz Jun 2, 2008
- E72 George Will Jun 3, 2008
- E73 Rep. Bob Barr, Salman Rushdie Jun 4, 2008
- E74 Pat Buchanan Jun 5, 2008
- E75 Phil Weiss Jun 9, 2008
- E76 Alan Rabinowitz Jun 10, 2008
- E77 David Hajdu Jun 11, 2008
- E78 Winona LaDuke, Dixon Despommier Jun 12, 2008
- E79 Kenneth Miller Jun 16, 2008
- E80 Neal Katyal, Jonathan Zittrain Jun 17, 2008
- E81 Uma Mysorekar, Junot Díaz / Lexicon Artist Jun 18, 2008
- E82 Bishop N.T. Wright Jun 19, 2008
- E83 Barbara Ehrenreich Jun 23, 2008
- E84 Jason Bond, Will Smith Jun 24, 2008
- E85 Paul Goldberger, Neil deGrasse Tyson Jun 25, 2008
- E86 Rep. Robert Wexler Jun 26, 2008
- E87 Lama Surya Das, Daniel C. Esty Jul 14, 2008
- E88 Julia E. Sweig, Jason Riley Jul 15, 2008
- E89 Rush Jul 16, 2008
- E90 Elizabeth Edwards Jul 17, 2008
- E91 Sen. Jim Webb Jul 21, 2008
- E92 Lucas Conley Jul 22, 2008
- E93 Nas Jul 23, 2008
- E94 Laurie Goodstein, Garrett Reisman Jul 24, 2008
- E95 Toby Keith Jul 28, 2008
- E96 Eric Roston Jul 29, 2008
- E97 Crosby, Stills & Nash Jul 30, 2008
- E98 Buzz Aldrin Jul 31, 2008
- E99 Lucas Conley, The Apples in Stereo Aug 4, 2008
- E100 David Carr Aug 5, 2008
- E101 Jason Bond, Kevin Costner Aug 6, 2008
- E102 Devin Gordon, Thomas Frank Aug 7, 2008
- E103 Jorge Ramos Aug 11, 2008
- E104 Joey Cheek, Jane Mayer Aug 12, 2008
- E105 Dick Meyer Aug 13, 2008
- E106 Bing West Aug 14, 2008
- E107 Rep. Bob Barr, Scott McClellan Aug 26, 2008
- E108 Gov. Mike Huckabee Aug 27, 2008
- E109 Richard Brookhiser Aug 28, 2008
- E110 John McWhorter Aug 29, 2008
- E111 Laura D'Andrea Tyson Sep 2, 2008
- E112 Doris Kearns Goodwin Sep 3, 2008
- E113 Adam Brickley, Ron Paul Sep 4, 2008
- E114 Gov. David Paterson Sep 5, 2008
- E115 Peter J. Gomes Sep 15, 2008
- E116 Tyson Slocum, Rick Reilly Sep 16, 2008
- E117 Robert Lutz Sep 17, 2008
- E118 Maria Bartiromo Sep 18, 2008
- E119 Jackson Browne Sep 23, 2008
- E120 Joe Nocera, Cornel West Sep 24, 2008
- E121 Nick Carr Sep 25, 2008
- E122 Paul Begala Sep 29, 2008
- E123 James Taylor Sep 30, 2008
- E124 Dave Levin Oct 1, 2008
- E125 Stephen Greenblatt, Naomi Klein Oct 2, 2008
- E126 Jim Cramer Oct 6, 2008
- E127 Nate Silver Oct 7, 2008
- E128 Joe Scarborough Oct 8, 2008
- E129 David Gergen, Oliver Stone Oct 9, 2008
- E130 Bethany McLean, Kathleen Parker Oct 13, 2008
- E131 Joseph Stiglitz Oct 14, 2008
- E132 Shai Agassi Oct 15, 2008
- E133 Brent Glass, Robert Greenwald Oct 16, 2008
- E134 Fareed Zakaria, Wynton Marsalis Oct 20, 2008
- E135 Michael Farris Oct 21, 2008
- E136 David Frum Oct 22, 2008
- E137 Jonathan Alter Oct 23, 2008
- E138 Yo-Yo Ma Oct 27, 2008
- E139 Brian Moore, Sherman Alexie Oct 28, 2008
- E140 David Simon Oct 29, 2008
- E141 Wilco Oct 30, 2008
- E142 Charlie Cook, Andrew Sullivan Nov 3, 2008
- E143 Indecision 2008: America's Choice Nov 4, 2008
- E144 Ambassador Andrew Young Nov 5, 2008
- E145 Rachel Maddow Nov 6, 2008
- E146 Dan Savage, Kevin Johnson Nov 11, 2008
- E147 Bob Woodward Nov 12, 2008
- E148 Stephen Moore Nov 13, 2008
- E149 Malcom Gladwell Nov 17, 2008
- E150 Paul Simon Nov 18, 2008
- E151 Michael Lewis Nov 19, 2008
- E152 Cory Booker, Thomas L. Friedman Nov 20, 2008
- E153 Khaled Hosseini, Roland Fryer Dec 1, 2008
- E154 Jeffrey Goldberg Dec 2, 2008
- E155 Barbara Walters Dec 3, 2008
- E156 Sen. Bob Graham, Nicholas Wade Dec 4, 2008
- E157 Geoffrey Canada Dec 8, 2008
- E158 Kevin Bacon, Charlie Kaufman Dec 9, 2008
- E159 Richard Haass Dec 10, 2008
- E160 Michael Phelps Dec 11, 2008
Season 5 · 161 episodes
- E1 John King Jan 5, 2009
- E2 Matt Miller Jan 6, 2009
- E3 Benicio Del Toro Jan 7, 2009
- E4 Lawrence Lessig Jan 8, 2009
- E5 Anthony Romero Jan 12, 2009
- E6 Niall Ferguson Jan 13, 2009
- E7 Alan Khazei Jan 14, 2009
- E8 David Gregory, Shepard Fairey Jan 15, 2009
- E9 Frank Rich Jan 19, 2009
- E10 Jabari Asim Jan 20, 2009
- E11 Elizabeth Alexander Jan 21, 2009
- E12 Jon Meacham Jan 22, 2009
- E13 Chris Mooney, Ed Young Jan 26, 2009
- E14 Philippe Petit Jan 27, 2009
- E15 Paul McCartney, Denis Dutton Jan 28, 2009
- E16 John Podesta Jan 29, 2009
- E17 Dan Zaccagnino Feb 2, 2009
- E18 Henry Louis Gates Jr. Feb 3, 2009
- E19 Steve Martin Feb 4, 2009
- E20 James Surowiecki, Jonah Lehrer Feb 5, 2009
- E21 TV on the Radio Feb 9, 2009
- E22 Robert Ballard Feb 10, 2009
- E23 Eleanor Holmes Norton, Steven Pinker Feb 11, 2009
- E24 David Ross, Ed Colbert, Adam Gopnik Feb 12, 2009
- E25 Father James Martin, Helen Fisher Feb 23, 2009
- E26 Cliff Sloan Feb 24, 2009
- E27 John Fetterman Feb 25, 2009
- E28 Kris Kristofferson Feb 26, 2009
- E29 David Byrne Mar 2, 2009
- E30 Mark Bittman Mar 3, 2009
- E31 Carl Wilson Mar 4, 2009
- E32 Steven Johnson Mar 5, 2009
- E33 Lisa Hannigan Mar 9, 2009
- E34 William Gerstenmaier, Dr. Jay Keasling Mar 10, 2009
- E35 Howard Fineman Mar 11, 2009
- E36 Simon Johnson, Peter Singer Mar 12, 2009
- E37 Jonathan Chait, Neil Gaiman Mar 16, 2009
- E38 David Grann Mar 17, 2009
- E39 Juan Cole Mar 18, 2009
- E40 John McCardell Mar 19, 2009
- E41 Derrick Pitts Mar 30, 2009
- E42 David Plotz Mar 31, 2009
- E43 Dambisa Moyo Apr 1, 2009
- E44 Biz Stone Apr 2, 2009
- E45 Tom Brokaw, Rich Lowry Apr 6, 2009
- E46 Queen Noor Apr 7, 2009
- E47 Phil Bronstein Apr 8, 2009
- E48 Bart Ehrman Apr 9, 2009
- E49 Sunita L. Williams, Susie Orbach Apr 14, 2009
- E50 Jim Lehrer Apr 15, 2009
- E51 Kanishk Tharoor, Doug Kmiec Apr 16, 2009
- E52 Ken Quinn, Sheriff Joe Arpaio Apr 20, 2009
- E53 Coach Mike Kryzewski Apr 21, 2009
- E54 Ira Glass Apr 22, 2009
- E55 Elizabeth Bintliff Apr 23, 2009
- E56 The Decemberists Apr 27, 2009
- E57 David Gross Apr 28, 2009
- E58 David Kessler Apr 29, 2009
- E59 Jonathan Alter, Ethan Nadelman Apr 30, 2009
- E60 J.J. Abrams May 4, 2009
- E61 Cliff Sloan, Paul Rieckhoff May 5, 2009
- E62 Laurie Garrett May 6, 2009
- E63 Mitchell Joachim May 7, 2009
- E64 Jeff Daniels May 11, 2009
- E65 Ron Howard May 12, 2009
- E66 Michael Pollan May 13, 2009
- E67 Yusuf Islam May 14, 2009
- E68 Meghan McCain May 18, 2009
- E69 Walter Kirn May 19, 2009
- E70 Seth Shostak May 20, 2009
- E71 Green Day May 21, 2009
- E72 Jeffrey Toobin, Sen. Byron Dorgan Jun 1, 2009
- E73 Katty Kay Jun 2, 2009
- E74 Eric Schlosser Jun 3, 2009
- E75 Dag Soderberg, David Byrne Jun 4, 2009
- E76 General Raymond Odierno Jun 8, 2009
- E77 Specialist Tareq Salha, Sgt. Robin Balcom Jun 9, 2009
- E78 Lieutenant General Charles Jacoby Jun 10, 2009
- E79 Stephen broadcasts from Iraq, Command Sgt. Major Frank Grippe Jun 11, 2009
- E80 Austan Goolsbee Jun 15, 2009
- E81 Karim Sadjadpour, Jim Rogers Jun 16, 2009
- E82 Joshua Micah Marshall Jun 17, 2009
- E83 Paul Muldoon Jun 18, 2009
- E84 Simon Schama Jun 22, 2009
- E85 Howard Dean, David Kilcullen Jun 23, 2009
- E86 Matthew Crawford Jun 24, 2009
- E87 Jim Fouratt Jun 25, 2009
- E88 Neil DeGrasse Tyson Jun 29, 2009
- E89 Alexi Lalas, Kevin Mattson Jun 30, 2009
- E90 Nicholas Kristof Jul 1, 2009
- E91 Ed Viesturs Jul 2, 2009
- E92 Paul Rieckhoff, Paul Krugman Jul 13, 2009
- E93 Leymah Gbowee Jul 14, 2009
- E94 Douglas Rushkoff Jul 15, 2009
- E95 Edmund Andrews Jul 16, 2009
- E96 Geoffrey Canada, Bob Park Jul 20, 2009
- E97 Dr. Aaron Carroll Jul 21, 2009
- E98 Matthew Waxman, Chris Anderson Jul 22, 2009
- E99 Zev Chafets Jul 23, 2009
- E100 Movits! Jul 27, 2009
- E101 Arianna Huffington Jul 28, 2009
- E102 Kevin Baker Jul 29, 2009
- E103 Kathryn Bigelow Jul 30, 2009
- E104 General Anthony Zinni Aug 3, 2009
- E105 Kurt Andersen Aug 4, 2009
- E106 Kris Kobach Aug 5, 2009
- E107 Meryl Streep Aug 6, 2009
- E108 Sen. Barbara Boxer Aug 10, 2009
- E109 Jonathan Cohn Aug 11, 2009
- E110 Mark Johnson Aug 12, 2009
- E111 Mark Devlin Aug 13, 2009
- E112 Bill McKibben Aug 17, 2009
- E113 Robert Wright Aug 18, 2009
- E114 Ang Lee Aug 19, 2009
- E115 Chris Matthews Aug 20, 2009
- E116 Cory Booker Sep 14, 2009
- E117 Christiane Amanpour Sep 15, 2009
- E118 Tony Danza Sep 16, 2009
- E119 Frank Bruni Sep 17, 2009
- E120 Tue, Sep 22, 2009 Sep 22, 2009
- E121 AJ Jacobs Sep 23, 2009
- E122 Ken Burns Sep 24, 2009
- E123 Sheryl WuDunn Sep 28, 2009
- E124 Matt Latimer / Out Of The Closet Sep 29, 2009
- E125 Wed, Sep 30, 2009 Sep 30, 2009
- E126 Francis Collins Oct 1, 2009
- E127 Arne Duncan Oct 5, 2009
- E128 The Mountain Goats Oct 6, 2009
- E129 Alison Gopnik Oct 7, 2009
- E130 Thu, Oct 8, 2009 Oct 8, 2009
- E131 Shashi Tharoor, Dr. Sanjay Gupta Oct 12, 2009
- E132 David Javerbaum, Sylvia Earle Oct 13, 2009
- E133 Amy Farrell, The RZA Oct 14, 2009
- E134 Jerry Mitchell Oct 15, 2009
- E135 Cornel West Oct 26, 2009
- E136 Tue, Oct 27, 2009 Oct 27, 2009
- E137 Brian Cox Oct 28, 2009
- E138 Bill Simmons Oct 29, 2009
- E139 Nicholas Thompson Nov 2, 2009
- E140 Andrew Sullivan Nov 3, 2009
- E141 Harold Evans Nov 4, 2009
- E142 Thu, Nov 5, 2009 Nov 5, 2009
- E143 Mon, Nov 9, 2009 Nov 9, 2009
- E144 Maria Shriver Nov 10, 2009
- E145 Christopher Caldwell Nov 11, 2009
- E146 Woody Harrelson Nov 12, 2009
- E147 Mon, Nov 16, 2009 Nov 16, 2009
- E148 Malcolm Gladwell Nov 17, 2009
- E149 Norah Jones Nov 18, 2009
- E150 Thu, Nov 19, 2009 Nov 19, 2009
- E151 Dan Esty, Cevin Soling Nov 30, 2009
- E152 Tue, Dec 1, 2009 Dec 1, 2009
- E153 Wed, Dec 2, 2009 Dec 2, 2009
- E154 Thu, Dec 3, 2009 Dec 3, 2009
- E155 Mon, Dec 7, 2009 Dec 7, 2009
- E156 Senator Bernie Sanders, Andy Schlafly Dec 8, 2009
- E157 Wed, Dec 9, 2009 Dec 9, 2009
- E158 Thu, Dec 10, 2009 Dec 10, 2009
- E159 Snoop Dogg Dec 14, 2009
- E160 Alicia Keys Dec 15, 2009
- E161 Tom Brokaw Dec 16, 2009
Frequently asked questions
What is The Colbert Report?
It is an American satirical late-night television program that focuses on politics and the media.
Who stars in the show?
The program stars political humorist Stephen Colbert.
Who created the series?
The series was created by Stephen Colbert, Ben Karlin, and Jon Stewart.
What is the character Stephen Colbert like?
The character is described as a well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot.
On which network did the show air?
The program aired on Comedy Central.