The Colbert Report Season 5
The Season five of the show is currently running since 5th January, 2009.
The guests appearing on this season include, John King ( CNN anchor), Matt Miller (,Fortune columnist and author of The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go of the Old Ways of Thinking to Unleash a New Prosperity), Benicio del Toro (actor and star of Che), Lawrence Lessig (Wired columnist and author of Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy), Anthony Romero (the executive director ACLU), Niall Ferguson (the author of The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World), Alan Khazei (founder and CEO of Be the Change, Inc) , Shepard Fairey (artist) , Frank Rich (New York Times columnist) , Jabari Asim (Washington Post columnist and author of The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why), Elizabeth Alexander (poet) and Jon Meacham (Newsweek editor and author of American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House).
The Word of the day element featured words like Statute of Liberty (7th Jan episode), Sweet Smell of Success (12th Jan episode), and Sacrifice (19th Jan episode).
The introductory phrases this season are “It’s the year of the ox. Good. I was getting sick of eating rat. This is The Colbert Report.” (7th Jan episode), (singing) “The hills are alive with the sound of WOLVES! RUN, MARIA! RUN! This is The Colbert Report.” (8th Jan episode), “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame you on again. I am shameless. This is The Colbert Report.” (12th Jan episode), “A house divided against itself cannot stand, but it’s worth squat in this market anyway. This is The Colbert Report.” (13th Jan episode), “Hey, I don’t pay my taxes; why can’t I be Treasury Secretary? This is The Colbert Report.” (14th January episode), “It’s my way or the tollway. No free rides. This is The Colbert Report.” (15th Jan episode), “Just 12 more hours until all those Bush countdown clocks explode. YOU FOOLS! This is The Colbert Report.” (19th Jan episode), “I, Stephen Colbert, promise…faithfully to…I mean, faithfully prom…f–k it, Colbert Report.” (21st Jan episode), “Congratulations to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on its 13 Oscar nominations. See? Americans do support torture. This is The Colbert Report.” (22nd Jan episode).
The first two episodes of the season did not feature any introductory phrase or word of the day and straight away proceeded for the opening sequence.
List of Colbert Report Season 5 Episodes :-
- John King - (Download) - Watch Video
- Matt Miller - (Download) - Watch Video
- Benicio Del Toro - (Download) - Watch Video
- Lawrence Lessig - (Download) - Watch Video
- Anthony Romero - (Download) - Watch Video
- Niall Ferguson - (Download) - Watch Video
- Alan Khazei - (Download) - Watch Video
- Shepard Fairey - (Download) - Watch Video
- Frank Rich - (Download) - Watch Video
- Jabari Asim - (Download) - Watch Video
- Elizabeth Alexander - (Download) - Watch Video
- Jon Meacham - (Download) - Watch Video
- Ed Young - (Download) - Watch Video
- Philippe Petit - (Download) - Watch Video
- Denis Dutton - (Download) - Watch Video
- John Podesta - (Download) - Watch Video
- Dan Zaccagnino - (Download) - Watch Video
- Henry Louis Gates Jr. - (Download) - Watch Video
- Steve Martin - (Download) - Watch Video
- Jonah Lehrer - (Download) - Watch Video
- TV on the Radio - (Download) - Watch Video
- Robert Ballard - (Download) - Watch Video
- Steven Pinker - (Download) - Watch Video
- Adam Gopnik - (Download) - Watch Video
- Helen Fisher - (Download) - Watch Video
- Cliff Sloan - (Download) - Watch Video
- John Fetterman - (Download) - Watch Video
- Kris Kristofferson - (Download) - Watch Video
- David Byrne - (Download) - Watch Video
- Mark Bittman - (Download) - Watch Video
- Carl Wilson - (Download) - Watch Video
- Steven Johnson - (Download) - Watch Video
- Lisa Hannigan - (Download) - Watch Video
- Dr. Jay Keasling - (Download) - Watch Video
- Howard Fineman - (Download) - Watch Video
- Peter Singer - (Download) - Watch Video
- Neil Gaiman - (Download) - Watch Video
- David Grann - (Download) - Watch Video
- Juan Cole - (Download) - Watch Video
- John McCardell - (Download) - Watch Video
- Derrick Pitts - (Download) - Watch Video
- David Plotz - (Download) - Watch Video
- Dambisa Moyo - (Download) - Watch Video
- Biz Stone - (Download) - Watch Video
- Rich Lowry - (Download) - Watch Video
- Queen Noor - (Download) - Watch Video
- Phil Bronstein - (Download) - Watch Video
- Bart Ehrman - (Download) - Watch Video
- Susie Orbach - (Download) - Watch Video
- Jim Lehrer - (Download) - Watch Video
