The Colbert Report

January 9, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Keith Olbermann!

January 10, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the host of The Al Franken Show, Al Franken!

January 11, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes ABC News' John Stossel!

January 12, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes Professor of Biology at Brown University, Ken Miller!

January 16, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the host of "This Week", George Stephanopoulos!

January 17, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes author and blogger, Andrew Sullivan!

January 18, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of "Teacher Man: A Memoir", Frank McCourt!

January 19, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes National Public Radio's legal affairs correspondent, Nina Totenberg!

January 23, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes former FEMA director, Michael Brown!

January 24, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes "Washington Post" fashion editor, Robin Givhan!

January 25, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of "Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back" Norah Vincent!

January 26, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes CNN commentator and the co-author of "Take It Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future", Paul Begala!

January 30, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes Rev. Jesse Jackson!

January 31, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of "Manliness", Harvey Mansfield!

February 1, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of "What the Dog Did: Tales from a Formerly Reluctant Dog Owner", Emily Yoffe!

February 2, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of "It's My Party, Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America", Christine Todd Whitman!

February 6, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes California Senator Barbara Boxer!

February 7, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes former CIA Director James Woolsey!

February 8, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of "The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can be Resolved", Alan Dershowitz!

February 9, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of "The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq", George Packer!

February 21, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of Natural Radiance: Awakening to Your Great Perfection, Lama Surya Das!

February 22, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina And the Color of Disaster, Michael Eric Dyson!

February 23, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the editor of The Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol!

February 27, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of Adventures in Missing the Point: How the Culture-Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel, Tony Campolo!

February 28, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the director of debate at King's College, Brett O'Donnell!

March 1, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes author and internet blogger, Arianna Huffington!

March 2, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Jeffrey Sachs!

March 6, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of The Shere Hite Reader, Shere Hite!

March 7, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track, Norman Ornstein!

March 8, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America, James Webb!

March 9, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes actress, Lorraine Bracco!

March 13, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of Thank You for Smoking : A Novel, Christopher Buckley!

March 14, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Keith Olbermann!

March 15, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the host of The Al Franken Show, Al Franken!

March 16, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of A Guy's Guide to Being a Man's Man, Frank Vincent!

March 20, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Dateline NBC anchor Stone Philips.

March 21, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes 60 Minutes correspondent, Steve Kroft!

March 22, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes Advisor to the U.S. Presidential Envoy in Iraq, Dan Senor!

March 23, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad Is Good For You.

March 27, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes environmental politician, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

March 28, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes mammologist and paleontologist Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers.

March 29, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy, Bruce Bartlett!

March 30, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the producer of Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, and most recently, The Big Buy: How Tom Delay Stole Congress, Robert Greenwald!

April 3, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes ocweekly.com's Ask a Mexican columnist Gustavo Arellano.

April 4, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Bart Ehrman, author of Misquoting Jesus.

April 5, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Angela "Bay" Buchanan, President of The American Cause.

April 6, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes the author of The Great Deluge, Douglas Brinkley.

April 17, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of No god But God, Reza Aslan!

April 18, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes the host of Hardball, Chris Matthews.

April 19, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of To Hell With All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife, Caitlin Flanagan!

April 20, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes journalist Christpher Noxon, author of Rejuvenile.

April 24, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of Painting the Map Red: The Fight to Create a Permanent Republican Majority, Hugh Hewitt!

April 25, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes skateboarding legend Tony Hawk.

April 26, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes editor in chief for U.S. News World Report, Mort Zuckerman.

April 27, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the editor of The Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol!

May 1, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation, Jon Meacham!

May 2, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork: A 12-Stop Program to End Bad Habits and Begin a Healthy Lifestyle and the Governor of Arkansas, Gov. Mike Huckabee!

May 3, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier's Fight for America from Baghdad to Washington, Paul Rieckhoff!

May 4, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of Shanks For Nothing, Rick Reilly!

May 8, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of The Shere Hite Reader, Shere Hite!

May 9, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes editor of the New York Times, Frank Rich!

May 10, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes editor of The Smoking Gun.com, Bill Bastone!

May 11, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright!

May 15, 2006

Tonght, Democratic hopeful for Senate in Connecticut, Ned Lamont.

May 16, 2006

Tonight former editor for the New Republic and author of The Good Fight: Why Liberals--And Only Liberals--Can Win the War On Terror and Make America Great Again, Peter Beinart.

May 17, 2006

Tonight former attorney and professor of philisophy Linda R. Hirshman, author of Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women in the World.

May 18, 2006

TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the Assistant Curator and Chair, Vertebrate Zoology at the Center for Systematic Biology & Evolution, Ted Daeschler!

June 5, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Dateline NBC anchor Stone Philips.

June 6, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour.

June 7, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Cornell University scientist and author of Roving Mars Steven Squyres.

June 8, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor of the National Review and author of The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts and the Disregard for Human Life.

June 12, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes political commentator of PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and author of Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton, David Gergen.

June 13, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes mammologist and paleontologist Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers.

June 14, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes legendary musician Neil Young.

June 15, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Geoffrey Nunberg, professor of linguistics and columnist for the New York Times and author of Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalsim into a Tax Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body Piercing, Hollywood Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show.

June 19, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes ocweekly.com's Ask a Mexican columnist Gustavo Arellano.

June 20, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Bart Ehrman, author of Misquoting Jesus.

June 21, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Angela "Bay" Buchanan, President of The American Cause.

June 22, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes comedian Martin Short.

June 26, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Marc Bowden, author of Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam.

June 27, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes the host of Hardball, Chris Matthews.

June 28, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes form CIA agents and author of Blow the House Down, Robert Baer.

June 29, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes actor, performer, rapper, playwright and educator Will Power.

July 10, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Amy Sedaris, star of Strangers with Candy.

July 11, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes skateboarding legend Tony Hawk.

July 12, 2006

Tonight former defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg.

July 13, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes back Arianna Huffington, blogger and author of On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life

July 17, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes actor Ted Danson.

July 18, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and the Reva and David Logan Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, Lowell Bergman.

July 19, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes the host of Scarborough Country, Joe Scarborough.

July 20, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw.

July 24, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes journalist and author of The One That Got Away: A Memoir, Howell Raines

July 25, 2006

Tonight Stephen Welcomes the president of the Catholic League, William Donohue.

July 26, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Democracy Now! host and co-author of Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back, Amy Goodman.

July 27, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes musician Randy Newman.

July 31, 2006

Tonght, Democratic hopeful for Senate in Connecticut, Ned Lamont.

August 1, 2006

Tonight former editor for the New Republic and author of The Good Fight: Why Liberals--And Only Liberals--Can Win the War On Terror and Make America Great Again, Peter Beinart.

August 2, 2006

Tonight former attorney and professor of philisophy Linda R. Hirshman, author of Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women in the World.

August 3, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes lawyer and co-founder of the Innocence Project, Barry Scheck.

August 8, 2006

Tonight, New York Times columnist and author of Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Black Athlete, Bill Rhoden.

August 9, 2006

Tonight cultural anthropologist Alexandra Robbins, author of The Overachievers: The Secret Life of Driven Kids.

August 10, 2006

Tonight campaign director for MoveOn.org, Eli Pariser.

August 14, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor of the National Review and author of The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts and the Disregard for Human Life.

August 15, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes political commentator of PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and author of Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton, David Gergen.

August 16, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes documentary filmmaker and host of 30 Days, Morgan Spurlock.

August 17, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes legendary musician Neil Young.

August 21, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Geoffrey Nunberg, professor of linguistics and columnist for the New York Times and author of Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalsim into a Tax Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body Piercing, Hollywood Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show.

August 22, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes economist and colmnist Paul Krugman, author of The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century.

August 23, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes writer and correspondent for MTV News, Gideon Yago

August 24, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes mathematician Janna Levin, author of A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines.

September 11, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes comedian Martin Short.

September 12, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcome country music star Toby Keith.

September 13, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes record setting Jeopardy champion and author of Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competetive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs, Ken Jennings

September 14, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes ESPN's Sports Guy columnist and author of Now I Can Die In Peace: How ESPN's Sports Guy Found Salvation with a Little Help from Nomar, Pedro, Shawshank, and the 2004 Red Sox, Bill Simmons

September 18, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes actor, performer, rapper, playwright and educator Will Power.

September 19, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes New York Times columnist Frank Rich, author of The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina.

September 20, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Democratic political consultant James Carville.

September 21, 2006

Tonight former defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg.

September 25, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes back Arianna Huffington, blogger and author of On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life

September 26, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes actor Ted Danson.

September 27, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and the Reva and David Logan Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, Lowell Bergman.

September 28, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes co-founder of Apple Computers, Steve Wozniak.

October 2, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Michael Lewis, author of The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game.

October 3, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes union leader and author of A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track, Andy Stern.

October 4, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan, author of Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed And Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America.

October 5, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Democracy Now! host and co-author of Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back, Amy Goodman.

October 9, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes musician Randy Newman.

October 10, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes journalist and author of Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, Ariel Levy.

October 11, 2006

Tonight Stephen reveals the winner of the Green Screen Challenge. Plus, another Tek Jansen Adventure.

October 12, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer

October 16, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes lawyer and co-founder of the Innocence Project, Barry Scheck.

October 17, 2006

Tonight Stephen celebrates his 1st anniversary episode with Oxford Professor of Biology and author of The God Delusion Richard Dawkins.

October 18, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes former special assistant to President Bush and author of Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction, David Kuo.

October 19, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Nobel Prize winning chemist Dr. Peter Agre. Plus Stephen talks to Jim Gilchrist, founder of The Minuteman Project.

October 30, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes musician Barry Manilow.

October 31, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes actor and politcal activist Tim Robbins.

November 1, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes magician Penn Jillette.

November 2, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes political activist Ronald Reagan Jr.

November 6, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcoms ABC News correspondent and co-author of The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008, Mark Halperin.

November 7, 2006

Combined with the Daily Show for the night, Stephen talks to Warren Beatty by phone, Rep. Robert Wexler via satellite and Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton via satellite.

November 8, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes CNN anchor Jeff Greenfield.

November 9, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes the founder of FIRST and President of DEKA Research and Development Corporation, Dean Kamen.

November 13, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes former CBS News anchor Dan Rather.

November 14, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes CEO of Timberland, Jeff Swartz.

November 15, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Al Franken and paleontologist Dr. Michael Novacek.

November 16, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Richard Linklater, director of Fast Food Nation.

November 27, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes PBS News Hour anchor and author of The Phony Marine: A Novel, Jim Lehrer.

November 28, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes comedian Harry Shearer.

November 29, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes screenwriter and author of I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, Nora Ephron.

November 30, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes ESPN commentator and author of Miracle on 49th Street, Mike Lupica.

December 4, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes computer game designer Will Wright.

December 5, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes economist and co-author of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt.

December 6, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes the president of New York University, John Sexton.

December 7, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes the fromer head of the Human Genome Project and author of The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, Francis Collins.

December 11, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes Princeton ethicist, animal rights activist and co-author of The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter, Dr. Peter Singer

December 12, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes nationally syndicated columnist and author of The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family, Dan Savage.

December 13, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes historian and author of Team of Rivals, The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin.

December 14, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes a writer for the Village Voice and Rolling Stone and author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism, Daniel Pinchbeck.

December 18, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes the retired CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch.

December 19, 2006

Tonight Stephen welcomes the leader in the field of mind body medicine, Deepak Chopra.

December 20, 2006

Stephen Colbert vs the Decemberists.