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Season 2005 - Episode Guide

Episodes

Stone Phillips

Episode: 2005-10-17 | Airdate: Oct 17, 2005

Stone Phillips

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

Lesley Stahl

Episode: 2005-10-18 | Airdate: Oct 18, 2005

Lesley Stahl

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

Fareed Zakaria

Episode: 2005-10-19 | Airdate: Oct 19, 2005

Fareed Zakaria

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

Jim Cramer

Episode: 2005-10-20 | Airdate: Oct 20, 2005

Jim Cramer

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

Lou Dobbs

Episode: 2005-10-24 | Airdate: Oct 24, 2005

Lou Dobbs

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

Greg Behrendt

Episode: 2005-10-25 | Airdate: Oct 25, 2005

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

Episode: 2005-10-26 | Airdate: Oct 26, 2005

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Jeff Daniels

Episode: 2005-10-27 | Airdate: Oct 27, 2005

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

Episode: 2005-10-31 | Airdate: Oct 31, 2005

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

Episode: 2005-11-01 | Airdate: Nov 1, 2005

Ken Burns

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

Bruce Feiler

Episode: 2005-11-02 | Airdate: Nov 2, 2005

Bruce Feiler

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

Bradley Whitford

Episode: 2005-11-03 | Airdate: Nov 3, 2005

Bradley Whitford

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

Eliot Spitzer

Episode: 2005-11-07 | Airdate: Nov 7, 2005

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

Episode: 2005-11-08 | Airdate: Nov 8, 2005

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

Episode: 2005-11-09 | Airdate: Nov 9, 2005

Mary Roach

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

Cokie Roberts

Episode: 2005-11-10 | Airdate: Nov 10, 2005

Cokie Roberts

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

Sen. Bob Kerrey

Episode: 2005-11-14 | Airdate: Nov 14, 2005

Sen. Bob Kerrey

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

Rev. Al Sharpton

Episode: 2005-11-15 | Airdate: Nov 15, 2005

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

Episode: 2005-11-16 | Airdate: Nov 16, 2005

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

Episode: 2005-11-17 | Airdate: Nov 17, 2005

Tim Robbins

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

Brian Greene

Episode: 2005-11-28 | Airdate: Nov 28, 2005

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

Episode: 2005-11-29 | Airdate: Nov 29, 2005

Richard Preston

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

Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Episode: 2005-11-30 | Airdate: Nov 30, 2005

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

Episode: 2005-12-01 | Airdate: Dec 1, 2005

Richard Clarke

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

Maureen Dowd

Episode: 2005-12-05 | Airdate: Dec 5, 2005

Maureen Dowd

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

Anderson Cooper

Episode: 2005-12-06 | Airdate: Dec 6, 2005

Anderson Cooper

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

Craig Crawford

Episode: 2005-12-07 | Airdate: Dec 7, 2005

Craig Crawford

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

Peggy Noonan

Episode: 2005-12-08 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2005

Peggy Noonan

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

Harry Smith

Episode: 2005-12-12 | Airdate: Dec 12, 2005

Harry Smith

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

Bob Costas

Episode: 2005-12-13 | Airdate: Dec 13, 2005

Bob Costas

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

Dermot Mulroney

Episode: 2005-12-14 | Airdate: Dec 14, 2005

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

Episode: 2005-12-15 | Airdate: Dec 15, 2005

Mark Cuban

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

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