The Colbert Report
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First Air DateOct 17, 2005
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ProductionBusboy Productions, Spartina Productions
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Rotten tomato68%
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Original titleThe Colbert Report
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ReleaseOct 17, 2005
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Overview
The 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 in several instances, including by the Tom DeLay Legal Defense Trust and by Robert Wexler following his interview on the program. The Report received considerable media coverage following its debut on October 17, 2005, for Colbert's coining of the term "truthiness", which dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster named its 2006 Word of the Year.
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Casts
Specials ( 2008-11-23)

A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!
White House Correspondents Dinner
Tek Jansen DVD
Colbert/Cain Rally 2012
2011 Year in Review
Stephen on Meet The Press

Special Edition - A Look Back at Education

Special Edition - A Look Back at Super PACs
Special Edition - A Look Back at News Media
Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

Season 1 ( 2005-10-17)
Stone Phillips / Truthiness
Lesley Stahl / Bacchanalia
Fareed Zakaria / Disappointed
Jim Cramer
Lou Dobbs
Greg Behrendt
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Jeff Daniels
Monica Crowley
Ken Burns
Bruce Feiler
Bradley Whitford / Shhhh!...
Eliot Spitzer
Catherine Crier / T.O.
Mary Roach / Willy Loman
Cokie Roberts / Armistice
Bob Kerrey / Testosterone
Rev. Al Sharpton
Matt Taibbi / Information
Tim Robbins / McConaughey
Brian Greene
Richard Preston
Katrina vanden Heuvel / Gay Gay Gay Gay Gay
Richard Clarke / Spectacle
Maureen Dowd
Anderson Cooper
Craig Crawford
Peggy Noonan
Harry Smith / Belly Achin'
Bob Costas / Lombardi
Dermot Mulroney / Travolta
Mark Cuban

Season 2 ( 2006-01-09)

Nancy Grace

Carl Bernstein

John Stossel

Ken Miller

George Stephanopoulos

Andrew Sullivan

Frank McCourt

Nina Totenberg

David Gregory

Robin Givhan

Norah Vincent

Paul Begala

Annie Duke

Dave Marash

Emily Yoffe

Christine Todd Whitman

Sen. Barbara Boxer

James Woolsey

Alan Dershowitz

George Packer
Lama Surya Das
Michael Eric Dyson
David Brooks
Tony Campolo
Brett O'Donnell
Arianna Huffington
Jeffrey Sachs
Bob Schieffer
Norman Ornstein
James Webb
Lorraine Bracco
Christopher Buckley
Keith Olbermann
Al Franken
Frank Vincent
Connie Chung
Steve Kroft
Dan Senor
John Kasich
Sen. Gary Hart
Michael Brown
Bruce Bartlett
Robert Greenwald
Michael Smerconish
Rev. Jesse Jackson
Harvey Mansfield
Markos Moulitsas
Reza Aslan
Anthony Romero
Caitlin Flanagan
Ralph Nader
Hugh Hewitt
Sam Harris
Sebastian Junger
Bill Kristol
Jon Meacham
Gov. Mike Huckabee
Paul Rieckhoff
Rick Reilly
Shere Hite
Frank Rich
Bill Bastone
Madeleine Albright
Kevin Phillips
Tyson Slocum
Jonathan Alter
Ted Daeschler
Stone Phillips
Christiane Amanpour
Steven Squyres
Steven Johnson
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Tim Flannery
David Sirota
Michael Pollan
Gustavo Arellano
Bart Ehrman
Bay Buchanan
Douglas Brinkley
Marc Bowden
Chris Matthews
Robert Baer
Christopher Noxon
Amy Sedaris
Tony Hawk
Mort Zuckerman
Ron Suskind
Lee Silver
Dhani Jones
Joe Scarborough
Tom Brokaw
Howell Raines
William Donohue
Neal Katyal
Joe Quesada
Ned Lamont
Peter Beinart
Linda Hirshman
Paul Hackett III
Bill Rhoden
Alexandra Robbins
Eli Pariser
Ramesh Ponnuru
David Gergen
Morgan Spurlock
Neil Young
Geoffrey Nunberg
Paul Krugman
Gideon Yago

Janna Levin
Martin Short
Toby Keith
Ken Jennings
Bill Simmons
Will Power
Frank Rich
James Carville
Daniel Ellsberg
Arianna Huffington
Ted Danson
Lowell Bergman
Steve Wozniak
Michael Lewis
Andy Stern
Senator Byron Dorgan
Amy Goodman
Randy Newman
Ariel Levy
George Lucas
Gov. Brian Schweitzer
Barry Scheck
Richard Dawkins
David Kuo
Dr. Peter Agre
Barry Manilow
Tim Robbins
Penn Jillette
Ronald Reagan Jr.
Mark Halperin
Indecision 2006 Election Coverage
Jeff Greenfield
Dean Kamen
Dan Rather
Jeff Swartz
Al Franken/Dr. Michael Novacek
Richard Linklater
Jim Lehrer
Harry Shearer
Nora Ephron
Mike Lupica
Will Wright
Steven D. Levitt
John Sexton
Dr. Francis S. Collins
Dr. Peter Singer
Dan Savage
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Daniel Pinchbeck
Jack Welch
Deepak Chopra
Chris Funk, Robert Schneider

Season 3 ( 2007-01-08)
Ethan Nadelmann
Jim Cramer
David Kamp
Judy Woodruff
Alex Kuczynski
Dinesh D'Souza
Richard Clarke

Bill O'Reilly
Tom Schaller
Michael S. Steele
Lou Dobbs
Mike Wallace
Barry Lando
Donna Shalala
Jed Babbin
Chuck Schumer
Wendy Kopp
Charlie LeDuff
Steven Pinker
Debra Dickerson
Michael Oppenheimer
Sheryl WuDunn
Lance Armstrong
Shashi Tharoor
Zev Chafets
Craig Venter
Nina Jablonski
Larry King
Ben & Jerry
Mark Frauenfelder
Michael Specter
Ted Koppel
Nicholas Kristof
Michael Eric Dyson
Ed Viesturs
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Jerome Groopman
Willie Nelson
Benjamin Barber
Katie Couric
Gwen Ifill
Madeleine Albright
Jabari Asim
Clive James
Colin Beavan
Jeannette Walls
Vali Nasr
Dr. Richard Land
John Kerry
Elaine Pagels
Paulina Porizkova
Sean Penn
Russell Simmons
Dr. Andrew Weil
David Walker
Madeleine Bordallo
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Malcolm Gladwell
Gina Kolata
Conn Iggulden
Richard Preston
Nassi Nicholas Taleb
Salman Rushdie, Jane Fonda
Jann Wenner
William Langewiesche
Walter Isaacson
Howard Dean
Randy Kearse, Rep. Tom Delay
Jared Diamond
John Amaechi
Bay Buchanan, Bob Deans
Jimmy Wales
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Leon Botstein
Jessica Valenti
Carl Bernstein
Cullen Murphy
Dr. Michael D. Gershon
Josh Wolf
Rep. Ron Paul
Daniel B. Smith
Toby Keith
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Will Schwalbe
Vincent Bugliosi
Tom Hayden
David France
Tom Blanton, Daniel Gilbert
Doug Bailey
Richard Florida, Ben Nelson
Mark Moffett
John Mellencamp
Frank Sulloway
Simon Schama
Anthony D. Romero
Charles Kaiser
Robert Shrum
Evan Osnos
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Michael Beschloss
Michael J. Behe
Ian Bogost
Jim Cramer, Tina Brown
Judd Apatow
Michael Jacobson
Jerry Miller, Spencer Wells
Michael Wallis
Mike Huckabee
Nathan Sawaya
Michael Shermer
Richard Branson
Thomas E. Ricks

Bjorn Lomborg

Garrison Keillor

Joel Klein

Ed Begley Jr

Susan Sarandon

Naomi Wolf

Jeffrey Toobin

Thomas Friedman
John Grisham
Tony Bennett
David Schwartz
Charlie Savage
John Mearsheimer
Jim Lovell
John Kao
George Saunders
Stephen Colbert
Gen. Wesley Clark
Chris Jordan
Paul Glastris
Bob Drogin
Garry Kasparov
Craig Newmark
Richard Berman
Craig Venter
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
Walter Kirn

Season 4 ( 2008-01-07)
Andrew Sullivan, Richard Freeman
Chris Beam, Gary Rosen
Gov. Mike Huckabee, Matt Taibbi
Norman Ornstein, Muhammad Yunus
Neil Shubin
Peter Hopkins, Jared Cohen
Deborah Tannen
Lou Dobbs, David Levy
Allan Sloan, Eric Weiner
Malcolm Gladwell, Andrew Young
Stephen Colbert's Sport Report
Debra Dickerson, Charles Nesson
Marjane Satrapi, Rick Warren
Joe Quesada, Alex Ross
Carl Hiaasen, Frans de Waal
Tim Harford, Andrew Napolitano

Tony Campolo, Jacob Weisberg
Angelo Falcon, Bob Dole

Richard Brookhiser, Tad Devine

Mark Moffett
Aubrey de Grey, Philip Zimbardo
Gov. Eliot Spitzer, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Lisa Randall

David Gracer, Richard Thompson Ford
John Feinstein, Leonard Nimoy
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Tony Snow
Richard Brookhiser, Ingrid Newkirk
Lorin Maazel, Shashi Tharoor
William Donohue, Howard Dean, Jennifer 8. Lee
Robert Reich, Gregory Rodriguez
John Legend
George McGovern
Geraldo Rivera
Howard Kurtz
Hussein Ibish, Sudhir Venkatesh
Samantha Power

Carole King
Dee Dee Myers
Dean Kamen
Eric Alterman, Michael Reynolds
Van Jones
R.E.M.
Clay Shirky
Trevor Paglen, Jesse Ventura
Madeline Albright
Jeff Gore
Robin Wright
John Legend, Mayor Michael Nutter, Chris Matthews
Michelle Obama, The Roots
Philadelphia Eagles Cheerleaders, Gov. Ed Rendell
Hillary Clinton, Patrick Murphy, John Edwards, Barack Obama
Fr. James Martin, Sen. Bernie Sanders
Susan Jacoby
Mitch Albom
Maria Shriver
Feist
Anne Lamott
Donna Brazile, Noah Feldman
James Kunstler
Carl Hiaasen
Nathan Gunn
Hasan Elahi, George Johnson
Arianna Huffington
Dr. Mehmet Oz
Jennifer Hooper McCarty
Laura Dern, Grover Norquist
Andrei Cherny
Tony Perkins, Brian Greene
Sen. Claire McCaskill
Tad Devine, David Sirota
Jon Paskowitz
George Will
Rep. Bob Barr, Salman Rushdie
Pat Buchanan
Phil Weiss
Alan Rabinowitz
David Hajdu
Winona LaDuke, Dixon Despommier
Kenneth Miller
Neal Katyal, Jonathan Zittrain
Uma Mysorekar, Junot Díaz / Lexicon Artist
Bishop N.T. Wright
Barbara Ehrenreich
Jason Bond, Will Smith
Paul Goldberger, Neil deGrasse Tyson
Rep. Robert Wexler
Lama Surya Das, Daniel C. Esty
Julia E. Sweig, Jason Riley

Rush
Elizabeth Edwards
Sen. Jim Webb
Lucas Conley

Nas
Laurie Goodstein, Garrett Reisman
Toby Keith
Eric Roston
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Buzz Aldrin
Lucas Conley, The Apples in Stereo
David Carr
Jason Bond, Kevin Costner
Devin Gordon, Thomas Frank
Jorge Ramos
Joey Cheek, Jane Mayer
Dick Meyer
Bing West
Rep. Bob Barr, Scott McClellan
Gov. Mike Huckabee
Richard Brookhiser
John McWhorter
Laura D'Andrea Tyson

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Adam Brickley, Ron Paul

Gov. David Paterson
Peter J. Gomes
Tyson Slocum, Rick Reilly
Robert Lutz
Maria Bartiromo
Jackson Browne
Joe Nocera, Cornel West
Nick Carr

Paul Begala

James Taylor

Dave Levin

Stephen Greenblatt, Naomi Klein
Jim Cramer
Nate Silver
Joe Scarborough
David Gergen, Oliver Stone
Bethany McLean, Kathleen Parker
Joseph Stiglitz
Shai Agassi
Brent Glass, Robert Greenwald

Fareed Zakaria, Wynton Marsalis
Michael Farris
David Frum
Jonathan Alter
Yo-Yo Ma
Brian Moore, Sherman Alexie
David Simon
Wilco
Charlie Cook, Andrew Sullivan
Indecision 2008: America's Choice
Ambassador Andrew Young
Rachel Maddow
Dan Savage, Kevin Johnson
Bob Woodward

Stephen Moore

Malcom Gladwell

Paul Simon

Michael Lewis

Cory Booker, Thomas L. Friedman

Khaled Hosseini, Roland Fryer

Jeffrey Goldberg

Barbara Walters

Sen. Bob Graham, Nicholas Wade

Geoffrey Canada

Kevin Bacon, Charlie Kaufman

Richard Haass

Michael Phelps

Season 5 ( 2009-01-05)

John King

Matt Miller

Benicio Del Toro

Lawrence Lessig

Anthony Romero

Niall Ferguson

Alan Khazei

David Gregory, Shepard Fairey

Frank Rich

Jabari Asim

Elizabeth Alexander

Jon Meacham

Chris Mooney, Ed Young

Philippe Petit

Paul McCartney, Denis Dutton

John Podesta

Dan Zaccagnino

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Steve Martin

James Surowiecki, Jonah Lehrer

TV on the Radio

Robert Ballard

Eleanor Holmes Norton, Steven Pinker

David Ross, Ed Colbert, Adam Gopnik

Father James Martin, Helen Fisher

Cliff Sloan

John Fetterman

Kris Kristofferson

David Byrne

Mark Bittman

Carl Wilson

Steven Johnson

Lisa Hannigan

William Gerstenmaier, Dr. Jay Keasling

Howard Fineman

Simon Johnson, Peter Singer

Jonathan Chait, Neil Gaiman

David Grann

Juan Cole

John McCardell

Derrick Pitts

David Plotz

Dambisa Moyo

Biz Stone

Tom Brokaw, Rich Lowry

Queen Noor

Phil Bronstein
Bart Ehrman
Sunita L. Williams, Susie Orbach
Jim Lehrer
Kanishk Tharoor, Doug Kmiec
Ken Quinn, Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Coach Mike Kryzewski
Ira Glass
Elizabeth Bintliff
The Decemberists
David Gross
David Kessler
Jonathan Alter, Ethan Nadelman
J.J. Abrams
Cliff Sloan, Paul Rieckhoff
Laurie Garrett
Mitchell Joachim
Jeff Daniels
Ron Howard
Michael Pollan
Yusuf Islam
Meghan McCain
Walter Kirn
Seth Shostak
Green Day
Jeffrey Toobin, Sen. Byron Dorgan
Katty Kay
Eric Schlosser
Dag Soderberg, David Byrne

General Raymond Odierno

Specialist Tareq Salha, Sgt. Robin Balcom

Lieutenant General Charles Jacoby

Stephen broadcasts from Iraq, Command Sgt. Major Frank Grippe
Austan Goolsbee
Karim Sadjadpour, Jim Rogers
Joshua Micah Marshall
Paul Muldoon
Simon Schama
Howard Dean, David Kilcullen
Matthew Crawford
Jim Fouratt
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Alexi Lalas, Kevin Mattson
Nicholas Kristof
Ed Viesturs
Paul Rieckhoff, Paul Krugman
Leymah Gbowee
Douglas Rushkoff

Edmund Andrews

Geoffrey Canada, Bob Park

Dr. Aaron Carroll

Matthew Waxman, Chris Anderson
Zev Chafets

Movits!

Arianna Huffington

Kevin Baker

Kathryn Bigelow

General Anthony Zinni

Kurt Andersen

Kris Kobach

Meryl Streep

Sen. Barbara Boxer

Jonathan Cohn

Mark Johnson

Mark Devlin

Bill McKibben

Robert Wright

Ang Lee

Chris Matthews

Cory Booker

Christiane Amanpour

Tony Danza

Frank Bruni

Tue, Sep 22, 2009

AJ Jacobs

Ken Burns

Sheryl WuDunn

Matt Latimer / Out Of The Closet

Wed, Sep 30, 2009

Francis Collins

Arne Duncan

The Mountain Goats

Alison Gopnik

Thu, Oct 8, 2009

Shashi Tharoor, Dr. Sanjay Gupta

David Javerbaum, Sylvia Earle

Amy Farrell, The RZA

Jerry Mitchell

Cornel West

Tue, Oct 27, 2009

Brian Cox

Bill Simmons

Nicholas Thompson

Andrew Sullivan

Harold Evans

Thu, Nov 5, 2009

Mon, Nov 9, 2009

Maria Shriver

Christopher Caldwell

Woody Harrelson

Mon, Nov 16, 2009

Malcolm Gladwell

Norah Jones

Thu, Nov 19, 2009

Dan Esty, Cevin Soling

Tue, Dec 1, 2009

Wed, Dec 2, 2009

Thu, Dec 3, 2009

Mon, Dec 7, 2009

Senator Bernie Sanders, Andy Schlafly

Wed, Dec 9, 2009

Thu, Dec 10, 2009

Snoop Dogg

Alicia Keys

Tom Brokaw

Season 6 ( 2010-01-04)

Erick Erickson

Riley Crane

Capt. Charles Moore

James Fowler

Mon, Jan 11, 2010

Raj Patel

Wed, Jan 13, 2010

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

Emily Pilloton

Stephen Bosworth

Dick Ebersol

John Farmer

Kati Marton

Mika Brzezinski

Arthur Benjamin

David Gergen

Nicole Detling Miller, Jessica Smith, Harold Ford Jr.

Eliot Spitzer

Peter Cove, John Durant

Henry Louis Gates

Jonathan Safran Foer

George Stephanopoulos

Claire Danes

Al Michaels, David Ross

Shaun White

Lindsey Vonn, Bob Costas

Scott Hamilton, Jeret Peterson, Ryan St. Onge

Shani Davis, Seth Wescott

Don Cheadle

David Brooks

Scheherazade Rehman, Garry Wills

Barry Schwartz

Tom Hanks

Annie Leonard

Sean Carroll

David Aaronovitch

Robert Baer

Rebecca Skloot

Nell Irvin Painter

Mary Matalin

Claire McCaskill

Simon Johnson

Craig Mullaney

David Frum, Judith Shulevitz

Dean Kamen

Reverend Al Sharpton

David Simon

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Jeffrey Toobin, Julian Assange

Jon Mooallem

David Shields

Aimee Mullins

Andrew Ross Sorkin, George Will

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Craig Robinson

Gorillaz

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

Conn Iggulden

Gregg Easterbrook

OK Go

Elizabeth Warren

Michael J. Fox, Mark W. Moffett

David Isay

Stewart Brand

Gary Johnson

Hampton Sides

Deepak Chopra

The Hold Steady

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Lisa Miller

Vampire Weekend

James Carville, Jonathan Alter

Mark Frauenfelder

Amb. Michael Oren, Sen. Sam Nunn

Alan Bean

Stephen Prothero

Dr. Carl Safina

Devo

David Mamet

Wes Moore

Gloria Steinem

Tim Westergren

Michael Specter

Michael Hastings, John Waters

Mayor Julian Castro

Nicholas Carr

Manny Howard

Paul Krugman, Dr. Michio Kaku

Garret Keizer

Steve Carell

Arturo Rodriguez

Hephzibah Anderson

Thomas S. Blanton, Kevin Kline

Elon Musk

Andy Cohen

Jimmy Cliff

Laura Ingraham

Michael Posner

Savion Glover

Dylan Ratigan

David Finkel

Chuck Close

Richard Clarke, John Fetterman

Barry Levine

Thomas French

Jon Krakauer

Leslie Kean

Jeffrey Goldberg

Andrew Hacker, Heidi Cullen

Richard Engel

Anthony Romero

Vice President Joe Biden, Gen. Raymond Odierno

Sen. Jim Webb, Joshua Bleill, Lt. Col. Brent Cummings, John Legend

Lisa Birnbach

Sean Wilentz

Saul Griffith

Lawrence O'Donnell

Pavement

Eric Schmidt

Guillermo Del Toro

Oscar Goodman

Ken Burns

Paul Begala, Ross Douthat

Steve Rattner

Aaron Sorkin

Eugene Robinson

Leon Botstein

Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy

Davis Guggenheim

Robert Reich

Brendan Steinhauser

Austan Goolsbee

Bill Bryson

Nicholas Negroponte

Garry Wills

Rep. Tom Perriello, Apolo Anton Ohno

Maira Kalman

Jonathan Alter

Katrina vanden Heuvel, David Frum

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Elvis Costello

Reza Aslan

Cee-Lo Green

Martha Stewart

Quincy Jones

David Stern

John Legend

Ian Frazier

Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta

Dan Savage

Tom Vilsack

Michelle Rhee

David Stockman

Garry Trudeau

Julie Nixon Eisenhower & David Eisenhower

Steve Martin

Julie Taymor

Patti Smith

David Boies, Stephen Sondheim

Omar Wasow, Laird Hamilton

Amy Sedaris, Paul Simon

Season 7 ( 2011-01-03)

Gov. Ed Rendell

Geoffrey Canada

Atul Gawande

Dr. Ronald DePinho

Fen Montaigne

Chris Hughes

Bernard-Henri Levy

Kevin Spacey

Sherry Turkle

Cornel West

Ron Reagan Jr.

Chris Matthews

Charlie Rose

Amy Chua

Michael Waldman, Christine Yvette Lewis

Dr. Daryl Bem, Brian Greene

Samer Shehata, Dr. Paul Offit

Leslie Dach, Michael Lewis

Sean Kelly

Jane McGonigal

LCD Soundsystem

Christiane Amanpour, David Albright

Eric Foner

Jeffrey Leonard

Eugene Jarecki

Randi Weingarten, Bing West

Stephanie Coontz

Glenn Greenwald, Mike Huckabee

Michael Scheuer

Evan Osnos

Harry Connick Jr.

Mark W. Moffett

Joshua Foer

Dan Sinker

David Brooks

Reza Aslan

Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers

Ayman Mohyeldin

Nathan Myhrvold

Jody Williams

Michael Moore

Dr. Anthony Fauci

Tim Shriver

Piers Gibbon

Andrew Chaikin

James Franco

Sir David Tang

Jeff Greenfield

Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage

Ray Kurzweil

Morgan Spurlock

Caroline Kennedy

Ron Paul

A.C. Grayling

Ice-T

Wade Graham

Francis Fukuyama

Rex Ryan

Amy Farrell

Bill James

Lupe Fiasco

Geoffrey Rush

Eric Greitens

John Bradshaw

Alison Klayman

Amy Kremer

Austan Goolsbee

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

James Stewart

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Salman Khan

Werner Herzog

Sugar Ray Leonard

Bre Pettis

Tom Ridge

Henry Kissinger

Janny Scott

Keith Olbermann

Bon Iver

Florence And The Machine

Talib Kweli

The Black Belles

Grover Norquist

Alexandra Pelosi

Gary Sinise

Timothy Garton Ash

Michael Shermer

Dan Savage

David McCullough

Jose Antonio Vargas

John Prendergast

David Carr

Michael Sandel

David Eagleman

Brian Cox

Brooke Gladstone

Mary (Missy) Cummings

Buddy Roemer

Tony Hsieh

Al Hunt

Robert Wittman

Anthony Bourdain

Nassir Ghaemi

The Cars

Elliot Ackerman

Gloria Steinem

Ambassador Susan Rice

STS-135 astronauts

Jeff Bridges

Kevin Mitnick

Gov. Tim Pawlenty

Robin Wright

Tom Brokaw

Diane Sawyer

Al Gore

Michael Moore

David Copperfield

Jeffrey Kluger

Daniel Yergin

Jeremy Ben-Ami

Radiohead

Melinda Gates

Ken Burns

Mark Cuban

Season 8 ( 2011-10-03)

Jerome Groopman

John Lithgow

Black Star

Jason Amerine

Harry Belafonte

Steven Pinker

Ali Soufan

Coldplay

Jon Huntsman

Susan Saladoff

Taylor Branch

Toby Keith

Neil MacGregor

Yo-Yo Ma

Michael Pollan

Nathan Wolfe

Niall Ferguson

Seth Meyers

Father James Martin

Brian Eno

Thomas Thwaites

Elijah Wood

Chris Matthews

Susan Orlean

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Tinariwen

Stephen Sondheim

Richard Branson

Jimmie Johnson

The Black Keys

David Hallberg

Jack Abramoff

Samuel L. Jackson

Mark Whitaker

Raymond Odierno

Daniel Craig

Sen. Bernie Sanders

John Heilemann

Steve Case

Melissa Harris-Perry

Bill Moyers

George Stephanopoulos

Mike Allen

Scott Douglas

Jennifer Granholm

David Frum

Carrie Rebora Barratt

Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

Andrew Sullivan

Terry Gross

Drew Barrymore

Laurence H. Tribe

Björk

Ameena Matthews

Christiane Amanpour

Bill McKibben

William J. Broad

Ann Patchett

Robert Kagan

Nancy Pelosi

Placido Domingo

Peggielene Bartels

Ross Eisenbrey

William Shatner

Claire Danes

Audra McDonald

Jonathan Safran Foer

Willem Dafoe

Don Fleming, Elvis Costello, & Emmylou Harris

Katherine Boo

Andrew Bird

Mark McKinnon

Dexter Filkins

David Page

Charles Murray

Mark Ruffalo

Peter Beinart

Gary Johnson

Nikki Haley

Robert Ballard

Anne Rice

Bob Lutz

Richard Hersh

Michelle Obama

James Cameron

Bonnie Raitt

Jonah Lehrer

Arianna Huffington

Tavis Smiley & Cornel West

Don McLeroy

Magnus Carlsen

Michael Sandel

Jack White

Diane Keaton

Carne Ross

Jonathan Haidt

Lena Dunham

Andy Cohen

Michelle Alexander

Anna Wintour

Dr. Francis Collins

Charlize Theron

Alan Alda

Jack Hitt

John Lewis

Jill Biden

Neil Patrick Harris

Regina Spektor

Martin Sheen

Will Allen

Greg Allman

Steve Coll

Paul Krugman

Olivia Wilde

Daniel Klaidman

Lawrence Krauss

Frank Deford

Richard Ford

Melinda Gates

Aaron Sorkin

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Nas

Mayor Annise D. Parker

Lisa Jackson

Vikram Gandhi

James Fallows

Dan Gross

Peter Westmacott

Joan Rivers

Jeff Koons

John Grunsfeld

Chris Hayes

Pete Seeger

Mark Shriver

Liza Mundy

Woody Harrelson

fun.

Grizzly Bear

Santigold

The Flaming Lips

Andrew Sullivan

Jennifer Burns

Jon Huntsman

James Carville

Reihan Salam

Michael Grunwald

Bill Richardson

Ed Rendell

Drew Faust

Jeffrey Toobin

Itzhak Perlman

Errol Morris

Claressa Shields

Jim Holt

Vince Gilligan

Season 9 ( 2012-10-01)

Ben Folds Five

Jorge Ramos

Kenny Rogers

Dr George Church

Mark Kelly

Morrissey

Naomi Wolf

Chrystia Freeland

Evan Thomas

Cory Booker

Tyler Perry

The Killers

Donald Sadoway

John Grisham

Anthony Everitt

Mitch Daniels

Lilly Ledbetter

David Byrne & St. Vincent

Nate Silver

Election 2012: A Nation Votes, Ohio Decides; The Re-Presidenting of America: Who Will Replace Obama? '12

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Rachel Maddow

Ken Burns

Newt Gingrich

Tony Kushner

Chris Stringer

Jake Tapper

Dolly Parton

Frank Oz

Sean Carroll

Ian McKellen

Martin Freeman

Andy Serkis

Peter Jackson

Diana Krall

Malcolm Gladwell

Mandy Patinkin

Simone Campbell

Jimmy Wales

Chris Kluwe

Neil Shubin

Ben Gibbard

Piers Morgan

Jared Diamond

Tom Brokaw

Akhil Reed Amar

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Kathryn Bigelow

Sally Field

Tavi Gevinson

Michael Shellenberger

George Saunders

Bill Gates

Matthew Guerrieri

Sonia Sotomayor

Julie Andrews

Lawrence Wright

Benh Zeitlin

Garry Wills

Roger Hodge

Dave Grohl

Gavin Newsom

Emily Bazelon

David Goldhill

Lil Buck

Simon Garfield

Dr. Michio Kaku

Paola Antonelli

Jon Favreau

Kirk Bloodsworth

James Franco

Brendan O'Connell

John Sexton

Junot Diaz

Eric Topol

Carl Edgar Blake II

Robert Lustig

Sigourney Weaver

Jim McGreevey

A.C. Grayling

Francis Collins

Bill Clinton

Charlie LeDuff

Shane Smith

Cass Sunstein

Caroline Kennedy

Alan Cumming

Richard Engel

Michael Pollan

Eric Schmidt

Danica Patrick

Gene Robinson

Iggy & the Stooges

Evan Spiegel & Bobby Murphy

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Ben Kingsley

Robert Caro

Douglas Rushkoff

Richard Besser

Baz Luhrmann

Jessica Buchanan & Erik Landemalm

Dan Brown

Cyndi Lauper

Daniel Lieberman

David Sassoon

Noah Feldman

The National

Christopher Chivers

John Dingell

Alex Gibney

Jonathan Alter

Stephen King, John Mellencamp, & T Bone Burnett

Dan Savage

Daniel Bergner

Paul McCartney

The Postal Service

Joss Whedon

Andrew Solomon

Peniel Joseph

Bill Moyers

Chuck Schumer

Jeremy Scahill

David Karp

Jerry Seinfeld

Jeff Bridges

Kjerstin Gruys

Kenneth Goldsmith

Anant Agarwal

Olympia Snowe

The Lumineers

Atul Gawande
Emily Matchar
Bryan Cranston
Hugh Laurie

Robin Thicke
Ashton Kutcher
Colum McCann
Sheldon Whitehouse

John Lewis

Kevin Spacey
Richard Brodhead
Timothy Cardinal Dolan
Gary England
John Prine
Billie Jean King
Shane Salerno
Sheryl Crow
Philip Mudd
Andrew Bacevich

Arne Duncan
Nicholson Baker
Jack Johnson
Metallica
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Chris Fischer
Season 10 ( 2013-09-30)

Vince Gilligan

Daniel Radcliffe

Chris Matthews

David Finkel

James Spithill

Paul Giamatti

Tom Hanks

Reed Albergotti & Vanessa O'Connell

The Reflektors

A. Scott Berg

Gwen Ifill & Judy Woodruff

Stephen Fry

Orlando Bloom

Billy Collins

Jack Andraka

Zach Sims

David Folkenflik

Julius Erving

Brian Lehrer

Daniel Lieberman

Peter Baker

David Christian

Blind Boys of Alabama

Alexis Ohanian

Steve McQueen

Rick Santorum

M.I.A.

J.J. Abrams

Daniel Goleman

Ed Stone

Bryan Stevenson

Alan Mulally

David Keith

Alex Blumberg

Elizabeth Gilbert

George Packer

Jonah Peretti

Garry Trudeau

Keanu Reeves

Ben Stiller

Ken Roth

John Seigenthaler

Ishmael Beah

Jeff Skoll

David Fanning

Deborah Solomon

Gabriel Sherman

Naquasia LeGrand

Scott Stossel

Michael Chabon & Mariel Hemingway

Charles Duhigg

Patricia Churchland

Nate Silver

Justin Tuck

Cris Carter

Drew Brees

Jennifer Senior

Pussy Riot

Lake Street Dive

Paul Krugman

Patrick Kennedy

Charlie Crist

Godfrey Reggio

Brian Greene

Alexander Payne

Stanley McChrystal

Darlene Love

St. Vincent

Meryl Davis & Charlie White

Jeff Goldblum

Caitlin Flanagan

Jaron Lanier

Beau Willimon

Theaster Gates

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Ronan Farrow

Maria Shriver

Simon Schama

Bryan Cranston

Jimmy Carter

Errol Morris

Darren Aronofsky

Biz Stone

John Malkovich

Dan Harris

Mark Mazzetti

Edward Frenkel

Jane Goodall

Sheryl Sandberg

Sting

Ken Burns

George Will

John Calipari

George Saunders

Michael McFaul

Robert Rodriguez

Audra McDonald

Saul Williams

Edward O. Wilson

Bette Midler

David Remnick

Ellen Page

Glenn Greenwald

The Black Keys

Keri Russell

Tom Friedman

Elizabeth Warren

Matthew Weiner

Patrick Stewart

Ray Mabus

Thomas Piketty

Morgan Freeman

Jonah Hill

Chrissie Hynde

Esther Perel

John Waters

Rob Rhinehart

James Webb

Ta-Nehisi Coates

David Boies & Theodore B. Olson

Katty Kay & Claire Shipman

Jay Carney

John Green

Edie Falco

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Paul Rudd

Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich

Vint Cerf

Bill de Blasio

Steven Wise

Nancy Pelosi

Julia Ioffe

Mary Mazzio & Oscar Vazquez

Elon Musk

Beck

Jon Batiste & Stay Human

James Franco

Campbell Brown

Pat Buchanan & John W. Dean

James Cameron

Michael Fassbender

Brian Chesky

Jeff Bridges & Lois Lowry

Michael Sheen

JR

Mandy Patinkin

Randall Munroe

Doris Kearns Goodwin

John Lithgow

Jason Segel

Henry Kissinger

Lonn Taylor

Mindy Kaling

Unlocking the Truth

Viggo Mortensen

Terry Gilliam

Tweedy

Naomi Klein

Bill Cosby

Walter Mischel
Season 11 ( 2014-09-29)

Jamie Oliver

Jeffrey Tambor

Mike Mullen

Lynn Sherr

James M. McPherson

Leon Wieseltier

Carol Burnett

Robert Plant

Walter Isaacson

Neil Young

Justin Simien

William Deresiewicz

Meredith Vieira

Michael Lewis

Jill Lepore

David Miliband

Chuck Todd

Andrew Sullivan

Kirsten Gillibrand

Steven Johnson

Andy Cohen

Diane von Furstenberg

Terence Tao

Jennifer Lawrence

Bernie Sanders

Eva Longoria

Toni Morrison

Jon Stewart

John McCain

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

Christopher Nolan

Paul Farmer

President Barack Obama

James Corden

Sarah Koenig

Smaug

Seth Rogen

Kendrick Lamar

Phil Klay

Grimmy

