The Colbert Report is an American satirical late night television program. It stars political humorist Stephen Colbert, a former correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that comments on politics and the media in a similar way. The show focuses on a fictional anchorman character named Stephen Colbert, played by his real-life namesake. The character, described by Colbert as a "well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot", is a caricature of televised political pundits.
Showing Season 2 of 12
2006
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2006-01-09
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Keith Olbermann!
2006-01-10
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the host of The Al Franken Show, Al Franken!
2006-01-11
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes ABC News' John Stossel!
2006-01-12
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes Professor of Biology at Brown University, Ken Miller!
2006-01-16
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the host of "This Week", George Stephanopoulos!
2006-01-17
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes author and blogger, Andrew Sullivan!
2006-01-18
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of "Teacher Man: A Memoir", Frank McCourt!
2006-01-19
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes National Public Radio's legal affairs correspondent, Nina Totenberg!
2006-01-23
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes former FEMA director, Michael Brown!
2006-01-24
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes "Washington Post" fashion editor, Robin Givhan!
2006-01-25
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of "Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back" Norah Vincent!
2006-01-26
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes CNN commentator and the co-author of "Take It Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future", Paul Begala!
2006-01-30
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes Rev. Jesse Jackson!
2006-01-31
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of "Manliness", Harvey Mansfield!
2006-02-01
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of "What the Dog Did: Tales from a Formerly Reluctant Dog Owner", Emily Yoffe!
2006-02-02
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!
2006-02-06
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes California Senator Barbara Boxer!
2006-02-07
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes former CIA Director James Woolsey!
2006-02-08
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of "The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can be Resolved", Alan Dershowitz!
2006-02-09
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of "The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq", George Packer!
2006-02-21
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of Natural Radiance: Awakening to Your Great Perfection, Lama Surya Das!
2006-02-22
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina And the Color of Disaster, Michael Eric Dyson!
2006-02-23
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the editor of The Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol!
2006-02-27
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of Adventures in Missing the Point: How the Culture-Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel, Tony Campolo!
2006-02-28
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the director of debate at King's College, Brett O'Donnell!
2006-03-01
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes author and internet blogger, Arianna Huffington!
2006-03-02
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Jeffrey Sachs!
2006-03-06
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of The Shere Hite Reader, Shere Hite!
2006-03-07
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!
2006-03-08
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America, James Webb!
2006-03-09
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes actress, Lorraine Bracco!
2006-03-13
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of Thank You for Smoking : A Novel, Christopher Buckley!
2006-03-14
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Keith Olbermann!
2006-03-15
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the host of The Al Franken Show, Al Franken!
2006-03-16
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of A Guy's Guide to Being a Man's Man, Frank Vincent!
2006-03-20
Tonight Stephen welcomes Dateline NBC anchor Stone Philips.
2006-03-21
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes 60 Minutes correspondent, Steve Kroft!
2006-03-22
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes Advisor to the U.S. Presidential Envoy in Iraq, Dan Senor!
2006-03-23
Tonight Stephen welcomes Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad Is Good For You.
2006-03-27
Tonight Stephen welcomes environmental politician, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
2006-03-28
Tonight Stephen welcomes mammologist and paleontologist Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers.
2006-03-29
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy, Bruce Bartlett!
2006-03-30
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!
2006-04-03
Tonight Stephen welcomes ocweekly.com's Ask a Mexican columnist Gustavo Arellano.
2006-04-04
Tonight Stephen welcomes Bart Ehrman, author of Misquoting Jesus.
2006-04-05
Tonight Stephen welcomes Angela "Bay" Buchanan, President of The American Cause.
2006-04-06
Tonight Stephen welcomes the author of The Great Deluge, Douglas Brinkley.
2006-04-17
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of No god But God, Reza Aslan!
2006-04-18
Tonight Stephen welcomes the host of Hardball, Chris Matthews.
2006-04-19
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of To Hell With All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife, Caitlin Flanagan!
2006-04-20
Tonight Stephen welcomes journalist Christpher Noxon, author of Rejuvenile.
2006-04-24
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of Painting the Map Red: The Fight to Create a Permanent Republican Majority, Hugh Hewitt!
2006-04-25
Tonight Stephen welcomes skateboarding legend Tony Hawk.
2006-04-26
Tonight Stephen welcomes editor in chief for U.S. News World Report, Mort Zuckerman.
2006-04-27
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the editor of The Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol!
2006-05-01
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation, Jon Meacham!
2006-05-02
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!
2006-05-03
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier's Fight for America from Baghdad to Washington, Paul Rieckhoff!
2006-05-04
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of Shanks For Nothing, Rick Reilly!
2006-05-08
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the author of The Shere Hite Reader, Shere Hite!
2006-05-09
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes editor of the New York Times, Frank Rich!
2006-05-10
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes editor of The Smoking Gun.com, Bill Bastone!
2006-05-11
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright!
2006-05-15
Tonght, Democratic hopeful for Senate in Connecticut, Ned Lamont.
2006-05-16
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.
2006-05-17
Tonight former attorney and professor of philisophy Linda R. Hirshman, author of Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women in the World.
2006-05-18
TONIGHT: Stephen Colbert welcomes the Assistant Curator and Chair, Vertebrate Zoology at the Center for Systematic Biology & Evolution, Ted Daeschler!
2006-06-05
Tonight Stephen welcomes Dateline NBC anchor Stone Philips.
2006-06-06
Tonight Stephen welcomes CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour.
2006-06-07
Tonight Stephen welcomes Cornell University scientist and author of Roving Mars Steven Squyres.
2006-06-08
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.
2006-06-12
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.
2006-06-13
Tonight Stephen welcomes mammologist and paleontologist Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers.
2006-06-14
Tonight Stephen welcomes legendary musician Neil Young.
2006-06-15
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.
2006-06-19
Tonight Stephen welcomes ocweekly.com's Ask a Mexican columnist Gustavo Arellano.
2006-06-20
Tonight Stephen welcomes Bart Ehrman, author of Misquoting Jesus.
2006-06-21
Tonight Stephen welcomes Angela "Bay" Buchanan, President of The American Cause.
2006-06-22
Tonight Stephen welcomes comedian Martin Short.
2006-06-26
Tonight Stephen welcomes Marc Bowden, author of Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam.
2006-06-27
Tonight Stephen welcomes the host of Hardball, Chris Matthews.
2006-06-28
Tonight Stephen welcomes form CIA agents and author of Blow the House Down, Robert Baer.
2006-06-29
Tonight Stephen welcomes actor, performer, rapper, playwright and educator Will Power.
2006-07-10
Tonight Stephen welcomes Amy Sedaris, star of Strangers with Candy.
2006-07-11
Tonight Stephen welcomes skateboarding legend Tony Hawk.
2006-07-12
Tonight former defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg.
2006-07-13
Tonight Stephen welcomes back Arianna Huffington, blogger and author of On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life
2006-07-17
Tonight Stephen welcomes actor Ted Danson.
2006-07-18
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.
2006-07-19
Tonight Stephen welcomes the host of Scarborough Country, Joe Scarborough.
2006-07-20
Tonight Stephen welcomes former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw.
2006-07-24
Tonight Stephen welcomes journalist and author of The One That Got Away: A Memoir, Howell Raines
2006-07-25
Tonight Stephen Welcomes the president of the Catholic League, William Donohue.
2006-07-26
Tonight Stephen welcomes Democracy Now! host and co-author of Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back, Amy Goodman.
2006-07-27
Tonight Stephen welcomes musician Randy Newman.
2006-07-31
Tonght, Democratic hopeful for Senate in Connecticut, Ned Lamont.
2006-08-01
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.
2006-08-02
Tonight former attorney and professor of philisophy Linda R. Hirshman, author of Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women in the World.
2006-08-03
Tonight Stephen welcomes lawyer and co-founder of the Innocence Project, Barry Scheck.
2006-08-08
Tonight, New York Times columnist and author of Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Black Athlete, Bill Rhoden.
2006-08-09
Tonight cultural anthropologist Alexandra Robbins, author of The Overachievers: The Secret Life of Driven Kids.
2006-08-10
Tonight campaign director for MoveOn.org, Eli Pariser.
2006-08-14
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.
2006-08-15
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.
2006-08-16
Tonight Stephen welcomes documentary filmmaker and host of 30 Days, Morgan Spurlock.
2006-08-17
Tonight Stephen welcomes legendary musician Neil Young.
2006-08-21
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.
2006-08-22
Tonight Stephen welcomes economist and colmnist Paul Krugman, author of The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century.
2006-08-23
Tonight Stephen welcomes writer and correspondent for MTV News, Gideon Yago
2006-08-24
Tonight Stephen welcomes mathematician Janna Levin, author of A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines.
2006-09-11
Tonight Stephen welcomes comedian Martin Short.
2006-09-12
Tonight Stephen welcome country music star Toby Keith.
2006-09-13
Tonight Stephen welcomes record setting Jeopardy champion and author of Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competetive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs, Ken Jennings
2006-09-14
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
2006-09-18
Tonight Stephen welcomes actor, performer, rapper, playwright and educator Will Power.
2006-09-19
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.
2006-09-20
Tonight Stephen welcomes Democratic political consultant James Carville.
2006-09-21
Tonight former defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg.
2006-09-25
Tonight Stephen welcomes back Arianna Huffington, blogger and author of On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life
2006-09-26
Tonight Stephen welcomes actor Ted Danson.
2006-09-27
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.
2006-09-28
Tonight Stephen welcomes co-founder of Apple Computers, Steve Wozniak.
2006-10-02
Tonight Stephen welcomes Michael Lewis, author of The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game.
2006-10-03
Tonight Stephen welcomes union leader and author of A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track, Andy Stern.
2006-10-04
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.
2006-10-05
Tonight Stephen welcomes Democracy Now! host and co-author of Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back, Amy Goodman.
2006-10-09
Tonight Stephen welcomes musician Randy Newman.
2006-10-10
Tonight Stephen welcomes journalist and author of Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, Ariel Levy.
2006-10-11
Tonight Stephen reveals the winner of the Green Screen Challenge. Plus, another Tek Jansen Adventure.
2006-10-12
Tonight Stephen welcomes Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer
2006-10-16
Tonight Stephen welcomes lawyer and co-founder of the Innocence Project, Barry Scheck.
2006-10-17
Tonight Stephen celebrates his 1st anniversary episode with Oxford Professor of Biology and author of The God Delusion Richard Dawkins.
2006-10-18
Tonight Stephen welcomes former special assistant to President Bush and author of Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction, David Kuo.
2006-10-19
Tonight Stephen welcomes Nobel Prize winning chemist Dr. Peter Agre. Plus Stephen talks to Jim Gilchrist, founder of The Minuteman Project.
2006-10-30
Tonight Stephen welcomes musician Barry Manilow.
2006-10-31
Tonight Stephen welcomes actor and politcal activist Tim Robbins.
2006-11-01
Tonight Stephen welcomes magician Penn Jillette.
2006-11-02
Tonight Stephen welcomes political activist Ronald Reagan Jr.
2006-11-06
Tonight Stephen welcoms ABC News correspondent and co-author of The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008, Mark Halperin.
2006-11-07
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.
2006-11-08
Tonight Stephen welcomes CNN anchor Jeff Greenfield.
2006-11-09
Tonight Stephen welcomes the founder of FIRST and President of DEKA Research and Development Corporation, Dean Kamen.
2006-11-13
Tonight Stephen welcomes former CBS News anchor Dan Rather.
2006-11-14
Tonight Stephen welcomes CEO of Timberland, Jeff Swartz.
2006-11-15
Tonight Stephen welcomes Al Franken and paleontologist Dr. Michael Novacek.
2006-11-16
Tonight Stephen welcomes Richard Linklater, director of Fast Food Nation.
2006-11-27
Tonight Stephen welcomes PBS News Hour anchor and author of The Phony Marine: A Novel, Jim Lehrer.
2006-11-28
Tonight Stephen welcomes comedian Harry Shearer.
2006-11-29
Tonight Stephen welcomes screenwriter and author of I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, Nora Ephron.
2006-11-30
Tonight Stephen welcomes ESPN commentator and author of Miracle on 49th Street, Mike Lupica.
2006-12-04
Tonight Stephen welcomes computer game designer Will Wright.
2006-12-05
Tonight Stephen welcomes economist and co-author of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt.
2006-12-06
Tonight Stephen welcomes the president of New York University, John Sexton.
2006-12-07
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.
2006-12-11
Tonight Stephen welcomes Princeton ethicist, animal rights activist and co-author of The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter, Dr. Peter Singer
2006-12-12
Tonight Stephen welcomes nationally syndicated columnist and author of The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family, Dan Savage.
2006-12-13
Tonight Stephen welcomes historian and author of Team of Rivals, The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin.
2006-12-14
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.
2006-12-18
Tonight Stephen welcomes the retired CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch.
2006-12-19
Tonight Stephen welcomes the leader in the field of mind body medicine, Deepak Chopra.
2006-12-20
Stephen Colbert vs the Decemberists.