Season 2

2006-01-09

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2006-01-10

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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

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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

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2006-06-12

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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.