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And that's it for Colbert for 2012! See you in 2013!
Week of December 10, 2012- 12.13.12 - Simone Campbell, lawyer and the executive director of NETWORK - NETWORK (social justice lobbying organization)
- 12.12.12 - Mandy Patinkin, actor - Homeland (TV Show)
- 12.11.12 - Malcolm Gladwell, author - The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs (book)
- 12.10.12 - Diana Krall, jazz pianist and singer - Glad Rag Doll (album)
- 12.06.12 - Peter Jackson, director - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (movie)
- 12.05.12 - Andy Serkis, Gollum
- 12.04.12 - Martin Freeman, Bilbo Baggins
- 12.03.12 - Ian McKellen, Gandalf
- 11.29.12 - Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist - The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World (book)
- 11.28.12 - Frank Oz, director & puppeteer - Little Shop of Horrors (Director's Cut) (movie)
- 11.27.12 - Dolly Parton, entertainer - Dream More (book) and the Imagination Library AND Reihan Salam, author of The Grand New Party (book)
- 11.26.12 - Jake Tapper, journalist - The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor (book) plus Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives (book) by Pope Benedict XVI
Week of November 19, 2012
Stephen and the Colbert Nation are on Thanksgiving break this week.
- 11.15.12 - Chris Stringer, paleoanthropologist - Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth (book)
- 11.14.12 - Tony Kushner, playwright and screenwriter - Lincoln (movie)
- 11.13.12 - Newt Gingrich, politician - Victory at Yorktown: A Novel (book) plus Christopher Steiner, author of Automate This (book)
- 11.12.12 - Ken Burns, documentary film maker - The Dust Bowl (documentary) and The Central Park Five (documentary)
- 11.08.12 - Rachel Maddow, host of the Rachel Maddow Show & author - Drift (book)
- 11.07.12 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, Historian - Team of Rivals (book)
- 11.06.12 - Andrew Sullivan, journalist - no book
- 11.05.12 - Nate Silver - The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don't (book) AND Sasha Issenberg, journalist and author - The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns (book)
- 11.01.12 - David Byrne & St. Vincent, musicians - Love this Giant (album)
- 10.31.12 - Lily Ledbetter, activist - Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond (book)
- 10.30.12 - no show b/c of Hurricane Sandy
- 10.29.12 - no show b/c of Hurricane Sandy
- 10.25.12 - Mitch Daniels, Governor of Indiana and author - Keeping the Republic: Saving America by Trusting Americans (book)
- 10.24.12 - Anthony Everitt, author - The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire (book)
- 10.23.12 - John Grisham, author - The Racketeer (book)
- 10.22.12 - Donald Sadoway, Professor & Inventor - Liquid Metal Batteries (cool new battery)
- 10.18.12 - The Killers, musicians - Battle Born (album)
- 10.17.12 - Tyler Perry, entertainer - Alex Cross (film)
- 10.16.12 - Cory Booker, Mayor, Newark NJ - no book
- 10.15.12 - Evan Thomas, journalist and author - Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World (book)
- 10.11.12 - Chrystia Freeland, author & editor - Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (book)
- 10.10.12 - Naomi Wolf, author & political consultant - Vagina: A New Biography (book)
- 10.09.12 - Morrissey, musician
- 10.08.12 - Mark Kelly, astronaut - Mousetronaut: Based on a (Partially) True Story (book)
- 10.04.12 - Dr. George Church - Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves (book)
- 10.03.12 - Kenny Rogers, musician - Luck, or Something Like It: A Memoir (book)
- 10.02.12 - Jorge Ramos, Univision Network Anchor
- 10.01.12 - Ben Folds Five - The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind (album)
- 09.27.12 - Vince Gilligan, writer & director - Breaking Bad (TV Show)
- 09.26.12 - Jim Holt - Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story (book)
- 09.25.12 - Claressa Shields, boxer & US Olympic Gold Medalist - no book
- 09.24.12 - no show
- 09.20.12 - Errol Morris, documentary director - A Wilderness of Error
- 09.19.12 - Itzhak Perlman, violinist - no book
- 09.18.12 - Jeffrey Toobin, lawyer & legal analyst - The Oath: The Obama White House vs. the Supreme Court (book)
- 09.17.12 - Drew Gilpin Faust, historian & president of Harvard University - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (book) and American Experience: Death & The Civil War (PBS special)
Week of September 10, 2012
Stephen and the Colbert Nation are on break this week.
Week of September 3, 2012
Note - the show ran on Tuesday - Friday nights this week.
- 09.07.12 - Ed Rendell, Former Governor of Pennsylvania - A Nation of Wusses: How America's Leaders Lost the Guts to Make Us Great (book)
- 09.06.12 - Bill Richardson, Former Governor of New Mexico - no book
- 09.05.12 - Michael Grunwald, author - The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era (book)
- 09.04.12 - Reihan Salam, policy analyst - no book
Note - the show ran on Tuesday - Friday nights this week.
- 08.31.12 - James Carville, political consultant & pundit - It's the Middle Class, Stupid (book)
- 08.30.12 - Jon Huntsman - no book
- 08.29.12 - Jennifer Burns - Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (book)
- 08.28.12 - Andrew Sullivan - no book
Week of August 20, 2012
Stephen and the Colbert Nation are on break until August 28, 2012.
- 08.16.12 - The Flaming Lips - The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends (album)
- 08.15.12 - Santigold - Master of My Make-Believe (album)
- 08.14.12 - Grizzly Bear - Shields (album)
- 08.13.12 - fun. - Some Nights (album)
Week of August 6, 2012
- 08.09.12 - Woody Harrelson, actor & director - Bullet for Adolf (play)
- 08.08.12 - Liza Mundy, author - The Richer Sex: How the new majority of female breadwinners is transforming, sex, love, and family (book)
- 08.07.12 - Mark Shriver, politician - A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver (book)
- 08.06.12 - Pete Seeger, folk singer -
Week of July 30, 2012
- 08.02.12 - Chris Hayes, political commentator - Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy (book)
- 08.01.12 - John Grunsfeld, physicist & NASA Astronaut - The Curiosity Mars Rover Mission (NASA Mission)
- 07.31.12 - Jeff Koons, artist - Studio in a School (art school for kids)
- 07.30.12 - Joan Rivers, comedienne - I Hate Everyone … Starting with Me (book)
Week of July 23, 2012
- 07.26.12 - Peter Westmacott, British Ambassador to the US - no book
- 07.25.12 - Dan Gross, President of the Brady Campaign and Center to Prevent Gun Violence - We Are Better Than This (petition)
- 07.24.12 - James Fallows, journalist - China Airborne (book)
- 07.23.12 - Vikram Gandhi, filmmaker - Kumaré (movie)
Week of July 16, 2012
- 07.19.12 - Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - no book
- 07.18.12 - Annise D. Parker, Mayor of Houston - no book
- 07.17.12 - Nas, rapper & actor - Life is Good (album)
- 07.16.12 - Anne-Marie Slaughter, academic & foreign policy analyst - Why Women Still Can’t Have It All, Atlantic Magazine
Weeks of July 2 and July 9, 2012
Stephen and the Colbert Nation are on break until July 16, 2012.
Week of June 25, 2012
- 06.28.12 - Aaron Sorkin, screenwriter - The Newsroom
- 06.27.12 - Melinda Gates, philanthropist - No-Controversy.com
- 06.26.12 - Richard Ford, novelist - Canada (book)
- 06.25.12 - Frank Deford, sportswriter & novelist - Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter (book)
Week of June 18, 2012
- 06.21.12 - Lawrence Krauss, physicist - A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing (book)
- 06.20.12 - Daniel Klaidman, journalist - Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency (book)
- 06.19.12 - Olivia Wilde, actor - People Like Us (movie)
- 06.18.12 - Paul Krugman, economist - End This Depression Now (book)
Week of June 11, 2012
- 06.14.12 - Steve Coll, journalist and writer - Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (book)
- 06.13.12 - Gregg Allman, blues singer & songwriter - My Cross to Bear (book)
- 06.12.12 - Will Allen, urban farmer - The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities (book)
- 06.11.12 - Martin Sheen, actor - The Amazing Spider-Man (movie)
Week of June 4, 2012
- 06.07.12 - Regina Spektor, musician - What We Saw from the Cheap Seats (album)
- 06.06.12 - Neil Patrick Harris, actor and host, Tony Awards - no book
- 06.05.12 - Jill Biden, educator and Second Lady of the US - Don't Forget, God Bless Our Troops (book)
- 06.04.12 - John Lewis, US Congressman - Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change (book)
Week of May 28, 2012
- 05.31.12 - Jack Hitt, author and broadcaster - Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character (book)
- 05.30.12 - Alan Alda, actor and activist - flamechallenge.org
- 05.29.12 - Charlize Theron, actor - Snow White and the Huntsman (movie)
- 05.28.12 - Repeat Episode
Week of May 21, 2012
Stephen and the Colbert Nation are on break this week but return next week with new shows!
Week of May 14, 2012
Stephen and the Colbert Nation are on break this week.
Week of May 7, 2012
- 05.10.12 - Dr. Francis Collins, Physician - The Weight of the Nation (TV Mini-Series)
- 05.09.12 - Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue - no book
- 05.08.12 - Michelle Alexander, professor and civil rights advocate - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (book)
- 05.07.12 - Andy Cohen, TV Personality - Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture (book)
Week of April 30, 2012
- 05.03.12 - Lena Dunham, filmmaker - Girls (TV Series)
- 05.02.12 - Jonathan Haidt, professor of psychology - The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (book)
- 05.01.12 - Carne Ross - The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century (book)
- 04.30.12 - Diane Keaton actor - Then Again (book)
Week of April 23, 2012
- 04.26.12 - Jack White, singer - Blunderbuss (album)
- 04.25.12 - Michael Sandel, political philosopher and professor - What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (book)
- 04.24.12 - Magnus Carlsen, chess grandmaster - no book
- 04.23.12 - Don McLeroy - The Revisionaries (documentary)
Week of April 16, 2012
- 04.19.12 - Tavis Smiley, talk show host & Cornel West, activist - The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto (book)
- 04.18.12 - Arianna Huffington, author and columnist - The Huffington Post (website)
- 04.17.12 - Jonah Lehrer, journalist - Imagine: How Creativity Works (book)
- 04.16.12 - Bonnie Raitt, singer and songwriter - Slipstream (album)
Week of April 9, 2012
- 04.12.12 - James Cameron, filmmaker - Titanic 3D (film)
- 04.11.12 - Michelle Obama, First Lady of the US - Joining Forces
- 04.10.12 - Richard Hersh, higher education consultant - We’re Losing Our Minds: Rethinking American Higher Education (book)
- 04.09.12 - Bob Lutz, former Vice Chair of General Motors - Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business (book)
Week of April 2, 2012
- 04.05.12 - Anne Rice, author - The Wolf Gift
- 04.04.12 - Robert Ballard, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence - Save the Titanic with Bob Ballard
- 04.03.12 - Nikki Haley, governor of South Carolina - Can't Is Not an Option: My American Story (book)
- 04.02.12 - Gary Johnson, former Governor of New Mexico and candidate for Libertarian Party nominee for President in 2012 - no book AND Holy Rollers (documentary)
Week of March 26, 2012
- 03.29.12 - Peter Beinart, political pundit - The Crisis of Zionism
- 03.28.12 - Mark Ruffalo, actor - no book
- 03.27.12 - Charles Murray, political scientist & author - Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
- 03.26.12 - David Page, professor of biology - no book
Week of March 19, 2012
Stephen and the Colbert Nation are on Spring Break this week.
Week of March 12, 2012
- 03.15.12 - Dexter Filkins, journalist - The Forever War plus a mention of Anthony Shadid's House of Stone
- 03.14.12 - Mark McKinnon, political advisor - No Labels
- 03.13.12 - Andrew Bird, musician - Break It Yourself
- 03.12.12 - Katherine Boo, author & journalist - Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Week of March 05, 2012
- 03.08.12 - Don Fleming, Elvis Costello, & Emmylou Harris - Alan Lomax Archive
- 03.07.12 - Willem Dafoe, actor - John Carter
- 03.06.12 - Jonathan Safran Foer - New American Haggadah
- 03.05.12 - Audra McDonald, opera singer - Porgy and Bess
Week of February 27, 2012
- 03.01.12 - Claire Danes, actor - Homeland (TV Series)
- 02.29.12 - William Shatner, actor - Shatner's World (one-man show)
- 02.28.12 - Ross Eisenbrey, lawyer - no book
- 02.27.12 - Peggielene Bartels, first female chief of Otuam - King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village (book)
Week of February 20, 2012
- 02.23.12 - Placido Domingo, opera singer - no book
- 02.22.12 - Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives - no book
- 02.21.12 - Robert Kagan, historian & political commentator - The World America Made (book)
- 02.20.12 - Ann Patchett, author - State of Wonder (book)
Week of February 13, 2012
- 02.16.12 - Repeat show was broadcast b/c show suspended for 2 days
- 02.15.12 - Repeat show was broadcast b/c show suspended for 2 days
- 02.14.12 - William J. Broad, writer & author - The Science of Yoga (book)
- 02.13.12 - Bill McKibben, environmentalist & founder of 350.org - no book
Week of February 6, 2012
Stephen and the Colbert Nation are off the week of February 6. New shows return the week of February 13.
Week of January 30, 2012
- 02.02.12 - Christiane Amanpour, journalist - no book
- 02.01.12 - Ameena Mathews, activist - The Interrupters
- 01.31.12 - Björk, artist - Biophilia
- 01.30.12 - Lawrence Tribe, professor - no book
Week of January 23, 2012
- 01.26.12 - Drew Barrymore, actor & director - Big Miracle
- 01.25.12 - Terry Gross, NPR host & producer - no book | PLUS Maurice Sendak, author - In the Night Kitchen
- 01.24.12 - Andrew Sullivan, blogger & political commentator - no book
- 01.23.12 - Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, game theorist - The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
Week of January 16, 2012
- 01.19.12 - Carrie Rebora Barratt, Associate Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art -
- 01.18.12 - David Frum, journalist - no book
- 01.17.12 - Jennifer Granholm, former governor of Michigan - A Governor's Story: The Fight for Jobs and America's Economic Future PLUS Sexperiment: 7 Days to Lasting Intimacy with Your Spouse (from the "Yahweh or No Way" segment)
- 01.16.12 - Scott Douglas, Executive Director, Greater Birmingham Ministries - no book
Week of January 9, 2012
- 01.12.12 - Michael Allen - chief political reporter, Politico - Politico Playbook 2012: The Right Fights Back
- 01.11.12 - George Stephanopoulos, political correspondent - The Week
- 01.10.12 - Bill Moyers, journalist and public commentator - Moyers and Company
- 01.09.12 - Melissa Harris-Perry, professor and author - Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Week of January 2, 2012
- 01.05.12 - Steve Case, co-Founder, Revolution Growth - No Book
- 01.04.12 - John Heilemann, New York Magazine - No Book
- 01.03.12 - Bernie Sanders, US Senator - No Book
- 01.02.12 - Repeat Episode
