The Colbert Report - Season 1 / Year 2005

Season 1 / Year 2005

Episodes

Stone Phillips
"Dateline NBC" host Stone Phillips discusses his career as an anchor and compares neckties and Emmy Awards with Stephen.

Lesley Stahl
Award-winning journalist Lesley Stahl discusses Watergate, the Valerie Plame scandal and a new strategy for "60 Minutes."

Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria of "Newsweek" discusses outsourcing, Saddam Hussein's trial and his own centrist views.

Jim Cramer
Financial expert and "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer explains why it's beneficial to invest in foreign markets.

Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs thinks America needs to stop running trade deficits and fix its broken borders.

Greg Behrendt
Metaphorically speaking in terms of "Sex and the City," Greg Behrendt considers himself as a Charlotte by day and Samantha by night.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysics is like jazz: it's the notes they don't play that matter.

Jeff Daniels
Stephen quizzes Jeff Daniels on the town in Michigan where he lives and talks about Easter egg hunting at Sly Stone's house.

Monica Crowley
Monica Crowley bears no relation to Alistair Crowley, the founder of modern Satanism, though Stephen could imagine a resemblance if she shaved her head and held a goat skull.

Ken Burns
Stephen asks Ken Burns why nobody is doing a documentary about his show.

Bruce Feiler
Bruce Feiler has walked the Bible and believes that God was born in Iraq.

Bradley Whitford
Stephen Colbert gushes over "The West Wing," a show that's destroying America.

Eliot Spitzer
Stephen speak with governor-hopeful Eliot Spitzer about campaign costs, his chances of winning and if he agrees that bears are a major threat.

Catherine Crier
To get into the news business, Catherine Crier said, "Boys, I've got a camera in the living room. You wanna come over and make a tape?"

Mary Roach
Stephen and author Mary Roach contact a spirit from the past in the studio.

Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts recalls an old Washington, where people could disagree without being disagreeable.

Sen. Bob Kerrey
Stephen pitches former Senator Bob Kerrey his plan for training the Iraqi army.

Rev. Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton talks about the war in Iraq, racism and the best ways to motivate yourself to lose some weight.

Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi interviewed the former head of the Office of National Drug Policy Control while on acid, wearing a Viking costume.

Tim Robbins
Stephen asks Tim Robbins what it's like to work with Clint Eastwood and why he hates our troops.

Brian Greene
By saying that science has more validity than a feeling, Brian Greene is implying that Stephen Colbert descended from a monkey.

Richard Preston
Stephen wants Richard Preston to scare the pants off of him.

Katrina Vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel is a proud liberal who is considered mainstream on her stances in ending the war in Iraq and on national health care.

Richard Clarke
Former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke discusses his new book of fiction, "The Scorpion's Gate."

Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd proves that when you send a woman to do a man's job, they wind up abolishing men.

Anderson Cooper
Stephen is getting tired of all the comparisons between himself and Anderson Cooper.

Craig Crawford
Stephen and Craig Crawford go way back to their youthful days at the alternative congressional paper, the Congressional Fortnightly.

Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan speaks with Stephen about her new book and President Bush's bad luck.

Harry Smith
Harry Smith of "The Early Show" shares some his favorite interviews and narrowly avoids getting nailed.

Bob Costas
Bob Costas reveals which sports are manly and which ones are just low-scoring European prance parties.

Dermot Mulroney
Dermot Mulroney tells Stephen about his new movie, what it's like to be a chick-flick actor, and whether or not he could take Yo-Yo Ma.

Mark Cuban
Stephen talks to Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban about politics and how he became a billionaire.
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