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The Colbert Report : Season 4
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Air date: 07 Jan '08 - 160 episodesThe Colbert Report is an American satirical late night television program that airs Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central. 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. It satirizes conservative personality-driven political pundit programs, particularly Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor. 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. The Colbert Report has been nominated for seven Primetime Emmy Awards each in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012, two Television Critics Association Awards Awards, and two Satellite Awards. In 2013, it won two Emmys. It has been presented as non-satirical journalism...
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List of Episodes (160)
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1. Andrew Sullivan, Richard Freeman
07 Jan '08
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2. Chris Beam, Gary Rosen
08 Jan '08
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3. Gov. Mike Huckabee, Matt Taibbi
09 Jan '08
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4. Norman Ornstein, Muhammad Yunus
10 Jan '08
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5. Neil Shubin
14 Jan '08
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6. Peter Hopkins, Jared Cohen
15 Jan '08
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7. Deborah Tannen
16 Jan '08
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8. Lou Dobbs, David Levy
17 Jan '08
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9. Allan Sloan, Eric Weiner
21 Jan '08
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10. Malcolm Gladwell, Andrew Young
22 Jan '08
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11. Stephen Colbert's Sport Report
23 Jan '08
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12. Debra Dickerson, Charles Nesson
24 Jan '08
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13. Marjane Satrapi, Rick Warren
28 Jan '08
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14. Joe Quesada, Alex Ross
29 Jan '08
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15. Carl Hiaasen, Frans de Waal
30 Jan '08
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16. Tim Harford, Andrew Napolitano
31 Jan '08
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17. Tony Campolo, Jacob Weisberg
04 Feb '08Tonight Stephen welcomes Slate editor in chief Jacob Weisberg, author of The Bush Tragedy. Also, Stephen talks with Tony Campolo, author of Red Letter Christians, about the Chrisitian right's influence on politics.
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18. Angelo Falcon, Bob Dole
05 Feb '08
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19. Richard Brookhiser, Tad Devine
06 Feb '08Tonight Stephen welcomes Democratic strategist Tad Devine. Also Stephen talks with the senior editor of The National Review Richard Brookhiser about whether the Republicans will vote for John McCain.
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20. Mark Moffett
07 Feb '08Tonight Stephen welcomes naturalist Mark Moffett, author of Face to Face with Frogs. Also, Presidental candiate and former Arkansas Governaor Mike Huckabee stops by to discuss, and play air hockey with Stephen, about which state he hopes to win next.
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21. Aubrey de Grey, Philip Zimbardo
11 Feb '08Stephen begins with congratulating Barack Obama winning a Grammy award for "Best Spoken Word Album" for The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream. He then talks about Mitt Romney dropping out of the race for President. He then interviews Aubrey de Gray about defeating aging and trying to make John McCain young. Stephen then talks about his portait to Marc Pachter (over the telephone). Pachter tells him that the portait has increased the number of visitors to the museum and
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The Colbert Report (2005)
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22. Gov. Eliot Spitzer, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Lisa Randall
12 Feb '08Stephen begins with a discussion on Mike Huckabee's running mate. Stephen claims that via obligation, he should be the running mate. He also displays his dislike of John McCain, due to other right-wing political pundits, such as Rush Limbaugh, disliking McCain. He then talks to superdelegate Eliot Spitzer about superdelegates. He then talks to Eleanor Holmes Norton, another superdelegate, about her support of Barack Obama. Finally, Stephen interviews Lisa Randall about other dimensions.
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23. David Gracer, Richard Thompson Ford
13 Feb '08Stephen begins by talking about how he survived the writers strike. He brings his writers (including, strangely enough, Tiki Barber, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Kevin Bacon) onto the set and welcomes them back personally. He then interviews David Gracer about eating insects. Stephen then introduces a new segment, "Stephen Colbert's Fallback Position," where he investigates different jobs he may take if he loses his job as a pundit. He investigates becoming a astrophysicist with Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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24. John Feinstein, Leonard Nimoy
14 Feb '08Stephen begins with "Who's Riding my Coattails now?", putting German comedian Oliver Pocher on notice for stealing his pose that he used on the front cover of GQ magazine. He then talks about the Roger Clemens hearing, defending Brian McNamee collecting used medical waste by claiming that he does it also. He then interviews John Feinstein about the use of steroids in sport. In "People Destroying America", Stephen talks about Susan Pagan, who refused to give his daughter a free Happy Meal for
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25. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
26 Feb '08Stephen starts by talking about a photo of Barack Obama in Muslim dress, claiming he is a terrorist. He says that the photo does not devide people, but unites people by making them think that Obama is a terrorist. In "The Wørd", Stephen agrees with Bill O'Reilly that a New York Times article about Vicki Iseman, but mainly because he claims the article was written poorly. In a special "Movies That Are Destroying America" entitled "Oscars That Are Destroying America", he attacks the fact that too
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