Ethan Nadelmann

Season 3 - Episode 1

Stephen opens the show disappointed that Saddam Hussein was suddenly hanged over the show's break. He responds to Lake Superior State Univer...

Jim Cramer

Season 3 - Episode 2

Freem replaces superstantial in the opening sequence. Stephen thanks former Archbishop of Warsaw Stanis³aw Wielgus for being caught in a Cat...

David Kamp

Season 3 - Episode 3

Stephen criticizes Bush for not sending 300 million troops as Stephen advised the day before but he pardons him if this is "the only mistake...

Judy Woodruff

Season 3 - Episode 4

Stephen starts with another episode of his challenge "What Number is Stephen thinking of?" with a clip from 2005. He then celebrates 5 years...

Alex Kuczynski

Season 3 - Episode 5

Wishing viewers a happy Martin Luther King Day, Stephen calls for a nationwide lie-in to refuse engaging in "anything at all", in the style ...

Dinesh D'Souza

Season 3 - Episode 6

In anticipation of Bill O'Reilly arriving in-studio on Thursday, Stephen lashes out at Jimmy the director for a squeaky chair. In a new segm...

Richard Clarke

Season 3 - Episode 7

Still in anticipation of Bill O'Reilly arriving in-studio on Thursday Stephen is more nervous than the day before, bringing out some cherish...

Bill O'Reilly

Season 3 - Episode 8

The big day is here, so Stephen is crazy with anticipation that Bill O'Reilly will be on the show, stating that his only goal with this show...

Tom Schaller

Season 3 - Episode 9

Stephen is disappointed at the loss by the New Orleans Saints to the Chicago "God-less killing Machines" Bears. In another "Who's Riding My ...

Michael S. Steele

Season 3 - Episode 10

Stephen explains that this is the second of two episodes they taped on January 22, so that he can host a State of the Union address party on...

Lou Dobbs

Season 3 - Episode 11

Lou Dobbs, author of War on the Middle Class, faces the truth hammer when he sits down to talk with Stephen.

Mike Wallace

Season 3 - Episode 12

Bill O'Reilly spills the beans on Stephen, and says what he really thought of him on his show. Stephen interviews Coach Bob Mancini of the S...

Barry Lando

Season 3 - Episode 13

Colbert wins bet with mayor of Oshawa after Saginaw Spirit defeated Oshawa Generals. Colbert discusses Microsoft paying someone for Wikipedi...

Donna Shalala

Season 3 - Episode 14

Stephen opens the show by showing a clip from Fox News' Fox and Friends, talking about the invisible beam that makes a person think he is on...

Jed Babbin

Season 3 - Episode 15

Stephen opens the show by discussing the "problem" with Global Warming and in protest replaces Bobby with a 5000 Watt heat lamp. This is fol...

Chuck Schumer

Season 3 - Episode 16

Stephen comments on the 2007 Boston Mooninite Scare that occurred in Boston and laments the fact that he can no longer proceed with his obvi...

Wendy Kopp

Season 3 - Episode 17

Stephen is ecstatic at the slaughtering the Bears underwent in Super Bowl XLI. Also, he introduces a new product "Formula 419" (A combinatio...

Charlie LeDuff

Season 3 - Episode 18

Stephen receives a message from Master Media International that they would be praying on his behalf on February 22. This is followed by the ...

Steven Pinker

Season 3 - Episode 19

Stephen starts by introducing a new segment, "California Values Watch". After addressing San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's recent problems....

Debra Dickerson

Season 3 - Episode 20

Stephen starts by talking about the astronaut incident on the news and especially that everyone talks about Lisa Nowak wearing a diaper, adm...

Michael Oppenheimer

Season 3 - Episode 21

Stephen starts by dancing/singing "My Humps" behind his desk and discusses Grammys. He then talks about criticism of the Iraq War transition...

Sheryl WuDunn

Season 3 - Episode 22

Colbert talks about the Chinese Menace, entitling a Colbert Report special report "Apocalypse Mao: Murdered By The Orient's Success".

Lance Armstrong

Season 3 - Episode 23

Stephen makes correction, that the Chinese have four times more population than the US, not three. Colbert admonishes people teaching senior...

Shashi Tharoor

Season 3 - Episode 24

Colbert talks about how Mastermedia International will pray for him on February 22nd. Asks J. J. Abrams how his prayer day went, with photo ...

Zev Chafets

Season 3 - Episode 25

Stephen compares Britain leaving Iraq to Britain leaving the U.S. and India - saying it will cause a flourish of Democracy.

Craig Venter

Season 3 - Episode 26

Stephen comments on a recent report about Al Gore's energy usage. Outdoor Life Magazine fires a columnist for calling for an assault rifle b...

Nina Jablonski

Season 3 - Episode 27

Colbert comments on how David Geffen has switched his support from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama. Then he mentions how Tom Vilsack chicken...

Larry King

Season 3 - Episode 28

Mr. Colbert thanks those who prayed for him last Thursday, with his prayer hat and foam fingers. Also he comments on the coverage of the Ann...

Ben & Jerry

Season 3 - Episode 29

Stephen comments on how many politicians have visited Walter Reed Hospital since the scandal. Ben and Jerry appeared to promote their new ic...

Mark Frauenfelder

Season 3 - Episode 30

Stephen brags about winning the Mega Millions drawing, which hadn't happened yet. In this segment he also mocks Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone. ...

Michael Specter

Season 3 - Episode 31

Colbert makes a rare correction about winning Mega Millions drawing, and calls his boss Sumner Redstone to grovel. The Word was about removi...

Ted Koppel

Season 3 - Episode 32

Stephen wonders why the media is still discussing the Libby trial. Then he talks about the death of Captain America, and adds more in The Wo...

Nicholas Kristof

Season 3 - Episode 33

Stephen upbraids Bill Gates for giving charitably to other nations while bemoaning America's faltering competitiveness. He retracts his disp...

Michael Eric Dyson

Season 3 - Episode 34

Stephen closes the show by announcing The Word ("Goodnight"), after which the credits roll.

Ed Viesturs

Season 3 - Episode 35

Colbert introduces a new segment, "When Ancestors Attack." Then he mentions how Colorado has made John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High" their ...

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Season 3 - Episode 36

Stephen celebrates the last St. Patrick's Day ever! Then he moves on to how Latin America has so many rabid admirers of President Bush, with...

Jerome Groopman

Season 3 - Episode 37

Stephen talks about the latest attack in DC, on him, by Rahm Emanuel.[2] The Word refers to South Carolina proposing to allow prisoners to d...

Willie Nelson

Season 3 - Episode 38

While unveiling threat # .5 as an addendum to yesterday's threatdown, Stephen finds himself in agreement with a German environmentalist over...

Benjamin Barber

Season 3 - Episode 39

In the 45th installment of Better Know A District, the guest was Maurice Hinchey from New York's 22nd congressional district.

Katie Couric

Season 3 - Episode 40

Debate over DC-residents voting bill with Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. Criticism over Chicago Sun-Times face reading expert Rose Ros...

Gwen Ifill

Season 3 - Episode 41

Stephen expressed his anger that a severed mummy hand was recently sold at auction, but not to him; the hand was the earliest example of we'...

Madeleine Albright

Season 3 - Episode 42

Stephen chided Sean Penn for his blunt criticism of the Bush administration. Stephen discusses Iran, specifically a clash over religion, wit...

Jabari Asim

Season 3 - Episode 43

Stephen displayed his disappointment at the elimination of Paulina Porizkova from Dancing with the Stars, especially given that her husband ...

Clive James

Season 3 - Episode 44

First, Stephen questioned the necessity of the Equal Rights Amendment, since everyone should be on the honor system. Later, Stephen cited th...

Colin Beavan

Season 3 - Episode 45

Colbert celebrates the 4th anniversary of the liberation of Baghdad, while he eats his "Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream" ice cream. He con...

Jeannette Walls

Season 3 - Episode 46

Stephen scolded the 15 British sailors whom after recently returning from captivity in Iran were seeking to publish accounts of their experi...

Vali Nasr

Season 3 - Episode 47

Stephen introduced the latest eponymic animal, Stephanie Colburtle, one of the leatherback sea turtles being tracked from Costa Rica to the ...

Dr. Richard Land

Season 3 - Episode 48

Stephen criticized Democratic senator Harry Reid for using "politicizing the war in Iraq" by citing a translation of a recent speech by Pope...

John Kerry

Season 3 - Episode 49

Stephen begins by issuing a correction for having called Boyd K. Packer the "Mormon Pope" or "Mope," when he is more of a Mormon Cardinal, o...

Elaine Pagels

Season 3 - Episode 50

Stephen announced that he will be having a metaphor-off with Sean Penn on Thursday's show. Update on Stephanie Colburtle the turtle who was ...

Paulina Porizkova

Season 3 - Episode 51

On Who's NOT honoring me now, Stephen complained that he was not being awarded a Pulitzer Prize in journalism. In "The Word," Stephen sugges...

Sean Penn

Season 3 - Episode 52

Stephen balks at a scientific study saying that chimpanzees are more evolved than humans in DNA. On "The Word," he talks about John Edwards'...

Russell Simmons

Season 3 - Episode 53

Dr. Andrew Weil

Season 3 - Episode 54

The first act opens with a remembrance of Boris Yeltsin. Stephen continues with a combative interview with Eleanor Holmes Norton regarding a...

David Walker

Season 3 - Episode 55

Colbert decides that a new name is necessary for the long war, and comes up with Freemerican Victernity Made in China. He then backs the ide...

Madeleine Bordallo

Season 3 - Episode 56

Stephen is unhappy at the fact that Stephanie Colburtle The Turtle did not win The Great Turtle Race, after being bested by another turtle n...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Season 3 - Episode 57

"It's the last day of April. One more month 'till Speedo season! Do your squats. This is The Colbert Report.

Malcolm Gladwell

Season 3 - Episode 58

Gina Kolata

Season 3 - Episode 59

Conn Iggulden

Season 3 - Episode 60

Richard Preston

Season 3 - Episode 61

Nassi Nicholas Taleb

Season 3 - Episode 62

Salman Rushdie, Jane Fonda

Season 3 - Episode 63

Jann Wenner

Season 3 - Episode 64

William Langewiesche

Season 3 - Episode 65

Walter Isaacson

Season 3 - Episode 66

Howard Dean

Season 3 - Episode 67

Randy Kearse, Rep. Tom Delay

Season 3 - Episode 68

Jared Diamond

Season 3 - Episode 69

John Amaechi

Season 3 - Episode 70

Bay Buchanan, Bob Deans

Season 3 - Episode 71

Jimmy Wales

Season 3 - Episode 72

Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Leon Botstein

Season 3 - Episode 73

Jessica Valenti

Season 3 - Episode 74

Carl Bernstein

Season 3 - Episode 75

Cullen Murphy

Season 3 - Episode 76

Dr. Michael D. Gershon

Season 3 - Episode 77

Josh Wolf

Season 3 - Episode 78

Rep. Ron Paul

Season 3 - Episode 79

Daniel B. Smith

Season 3 - Episode 80

Toby Keith

Season 3 - Episode 81

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Season 3 - Episode 82

Will Schwalbe

Season 3 - Episode 83

Vincent Bugliosi

Season 3 - Episode 84

Tom Hayden

Season 3 - Episode 85

David France

Season 3 - Episode 86

Tom Blanton, Daniel Gilbert

Season 3 - Episode 87

Doug Bailey

Season 3 - Episode 88

Richard Florida, Ben Nelson

Season 3 - Episode 89

Mark Moffett

Season 3 - Episode 90

John Mellencamp

Season 3 - Episode 91

Frank Sulloway

Season 3 - Episode 92

Simon Schama

Season 3 - Episode 93

Anthony D. Romero

Season 3 - Episode 94

Charles Kaiser

Season 3 - Episode 95

Robert Shrum

Season 3 - Episode 96

Evan Osnos

Season 3 - Episode 97

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

Season 3 - Episode 98

Michael Beschloss

Season 3 - Episode 99

Michael J. Behe

Season 3 - Episode 100

Ian Bogost

Season 3 - Episode 101

Jim Cramer, Tina Brown

Season 3 - Episode 102

Judd Apatow

Season 3 - Episode 103

Michael Jacobson

Season 3 - Episode 104

Jerry Miller, Spencer Wells

Season 3 - Episode 105

Michael Wallis

Season 3 - Episode 106

From the previous episode, Stephen again mentions the possibility that his ancestors were Jewish. He then discusses perceived inflammatory s...

Mike Huckabee

Season 3 - Episode 107

Stephen begins by asking people not to watch his interview with Richard Branson on August 22, which has been reported in the media as a "tra...

Nathan Sawaya

Season 3 - Episode 108

Stephen continues to attack wrist violence, and says the worst offender in "Wrist snuff" is Steven Seagal. He also announces that his "Wrist...

Michael Shermer

Season 3 - Episode 109

Stephen starts with the \"Smokin\' Pole: The Fight for Arctic Riches\" segment, where he attacks Canada\'s claim to the Northwest Passage th...

Richard Branson

Season 3 - Episode 110

In \"Colbert Platinum\", he talks about the shutting down of a helipad in Saint-Tropez and the growing demand for champagne. He then intervi...

Thomas E. Ricks

Season 3 - Episode 111

Stephen reviews the Iraq War and Dick Cheney\'s role in advocating it. He then interviews Thomas E. Ricks about the war. Stephen then talks ...

Bjorn Lomborg

Season 3 - Episode 112

Tonight Stephen welcomes the former director of the Environmental Assessment Institute and author of Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist...

Garrison Keillor

Season 3 - Episode 113

Tonight Stephen welcomes humorist and author of Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon, Garrison Keillor.

Joel Klein

Season 3 - Episode 114

Tonight Stephen welcomes the chancellor of New York City Schools, Joel Klein.

Ed Begley Jr

Season 3 - Episode 115

Tonight Stephen welcomes actor and environmental activist and co-author of Grassroots Rising, Ed Begley jr. Also Stephen talks with Father J...

Susan Sarandon

Season 3 - Episode 116

Tonight Stephen welcomes actress and activist and the co-star of In the Valley of Elah, Susan Sarandon.

Naomi Wolf

Season 3 - Episode 117

Tonight Stephen welcomes feminist and author of The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot, Naomi Wolf

Jeffrey Toobin

Season 3 - Episode 118

Tonight Stephen welcomes legal writer and author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, Jeffrey Toobin.

Thomas Friedman

Season 3 - Episode 119

Tonight Stephen welcomes New York Times columnist and author of The World is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-Firs...

John Grisham

Season 3 - Episode 120

Tonight Stephen welcomes retired attorney and author of Playing For Pizza, John Grisham.

Tony Bennett

Season 3 - Episode 121

Tonight Stephen welcomes opera singer Nathan Gunn, whose new CD is Just Before Sunrise.

David Schwartz

Season 3 - Episode 122

Tonight Stephen welcomes the chief film curator of the Museum of Moving Image, David Schwartz.

Charlie Savage

Season 3 - Episode 123

John Mearsheimer

Season 3 - Episode 124

Jim Lovell

Season 3 - Episode 125

John Kao

Season 3 - Episode 126

George Saunders

Season 3 - Episode 127

Stephen Colbert

Season 3 - Episode 128

Gen. Wesley Clark

Season 3 - Episode 129

Chris Jordan

Season 3 - Episode 130

Paul Glastris

Season 3 - Episode 131

Bob Drogin

Season 3 - Episode 132

Garry Kasparov

Season 3 - Episode 133

Craig Newmark

Season 3 - Episode 134

Richard Berman

Season 3 - Episode 135

Craig Venter

Season 3 - Episode 136

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson

Season 3 - Episode 137

Walter Kirn

Season 3 - Episode 138