Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes back Keith Olbermann, the host of Countdown.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes Al Franken, the host of *The Al Franken Show*.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes ABC News' John Stossel to the show.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes Ken Miller, Professor of Biology at Brown University.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert will be joined in the studio by George Stephanopoulos, host of "This Week."

Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes author and blogger Andrew Sullivan to the show.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes Frank McCourt, the acclaimed author of "Teacher Man: A Memoir."

Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes back Nina Totenberg, National Public Radio's esteemed legal affairs correspondent.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with Michael Brown, the former director of FEMA.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes Robin Givhan, the fashion editor of the "Washington Post."

Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes Norah Vincent, author of "Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back."

Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes Paul Begala, CNN commentator and co-author of "Take It Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future."

Tonight, Stephen Colbert will be joined by Reverend Jesse Jackson.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with Harvey Mansfield, the author of "Manliness."

Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes Emily Yoffe, author of "What the Dog Did: Tales from a Formerly Reluctant Dog Owner."

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with Christine Todd Whitman, author of "It's My Party, Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America."

Tonight, Stephen Colbert will be joined by California Senator Barbara Boxer.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with former CIA Director James Woolsey.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes Alan Dershowitz, author of "The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can Be Resolved."

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with George Packer, author of the acclaimed book "The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq."

Tonight, Stephen Colbert will be joined by Lama Surya Das, author of *Natural Radiance: Awakening to Your Great Perfection*.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with Michael Eric Dyson, author of *Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster*.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with Bill Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes Tony Campolo, author of *Adventures in Missing the Point: How the Culture-Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel*.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with Brett O'Donnell, the director of debate at King's College.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes Arianna Huffington, author and prominent voice of the internet.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert will be joined by Jeffrey Sachs, author of *The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time*.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with Shere Hite, the author of *The Shere Hite Reader*.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with Norman Ornstein, the author of *The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track*.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with James Webb, author of *Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America*.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert will be joined by actress Lorraine Bracco.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with Christopher Buckley, the acclaimed author of *Thank You for Smoking: A Novel*.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes back Keith Olbermann, the host of Countdown.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes Al Franken, the host of *The Al Franken Show*.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes Frank Vincent, the author of *A Guy's Guide to Being a Man's Man*.

This evening, Stephen hosts Stone Phillips, the anchor of Dateline NBC.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert will be joined by 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with Dan Senor, Advisor to the U.S. Presidential Envoy in Iraq.

This evening, Stephen welcomes Steven Johnson, the author of *Everything Bad Is Good For You*.

This evening, Stephen hosts environmental advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Tim Flannery, the renowned mammologist and paleontologist behind the acclaimed book, *The Weather Makers*.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with Bruce Bartlett, the author of *Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy*.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with Robert Greenwald, the producer behind *Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price*, *Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism*, and most recently, *The Big Buy: How Tom DeLay Stole Congress*.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Gustavo Arellano, the acclaimed columnist for ocweekly.com's "Ask a Mexican" column.

This evening, Stephen hosts Bart Ehrman, the acclaimed author of *Misquoting Jesus*.

This evening, Stephen welcomes Angela "Bay" Buchanan, President of The American Cause.

This evening, Stephen welcomes Douglas Brinkley, the acclaimed author of *The Great Deluge*.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with Reza Aslan, the acclaimed author of *No god but God*.

This evening, Stephen welcomes Chris Matthews, the host of *Hardball*.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with Caitlin Flanagan, author of *To Hell With All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife*.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes journalist Christopher Noxon, author of *Rejuvenile*.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with Hugh Hewitt, the author of *Painting the Map Red: The Fight to Create a Permanent Republican Majority*.

This evening, Stephen will be joined by skateboarding icon Tony Hawk.

This evening, Stephen hosts Mort Zuckerman, editor in chief of U.S. News & World Report.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with Bill Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with Jon Meacham, author of *American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation*.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes to the show the author of *Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork: A 12-Stop Program to End Bad Habits and Begin a Healthy Lifestyle*, alongside Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes Paul Rieckhoff, author of *Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier's Fight for America from Baghdad to Washington*.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes sportswriter Rick Reilly, author of *Shanks For Nothing*.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with Shere Hite, the author of *The Shere Hite Reader*.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert welcomes Frank Rich, editor of the New York Times.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with Bill Bastone, the editor of The Smoking Gun.com.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert will be joined by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Tonight, Ned Lamont, a Democratic candidate vying for a seat in the Connecticut Senate.

Tonight, Peter Beinart, former editor of *The New Republic* and author of *The Good Fight: Why Liberals—and liberals alone—can win the war on terror and make America great again. *

Tonight, Linda R. Hirshman, a former attorney and professor of philosophy, author of *Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women in the World*, will be speaking.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert sits down with Ted Daeschler, the Assistant Curator and Chair of Vertebrate Zoology at the Center for Systematic Biology & Evolution.

This evening, Stephen hosts Stone Phillips, the anchor of Dateline NBC.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Christiane Amanpour, CNN's chief international correspondent.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Steven Squyres, a scientist at Cornell University and the author of *Roving Mars*.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor of the National Review and author of *The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts and the Disregard for Human Life*.

This evening, Stephen welcomes David Gergen, political commentator for PBS's *NewsHour* with Jim Lehrer and author of *Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership: Nixon to Clinton*.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Tim Flannery, the acclaimed mammologist and paleontologist and author of *The Weather Makers*.

This evening, Stephen will be joined by the legendary musician Neil Young.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Geoffrey Nunberg, a professor of linguistics and a columnist for the New York Times. He is also the author of *Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Vo…

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Gustavo Arellano, the acclaimed columnist for ocweekly.com's "Ask a Mexican" column.

This evening, Stephen hosts Bart Ehrman, the acclaimed author of *Misquoting Jesus*.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Angela "Bay" Buchanan, President of The American Cause.

This evening, Stephen is hosting comedian Martin Short.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Marc Bowden, author of *Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam*.

This evening, Stephen welcomes Chris Matthews, the host of *Hardball*.

This evening, Stephen welcomes Robert Baer, author of *Blow the House Down* and former CIA agent.

This evening, Stephen welcomes Will Power, an artist whose talents span the realms of acting, performance, rap, playwriting, and education.

This evening, Stephen welcomes Amy Sedaris, renowned for her work in *Strangers with Candy*.

This evening, Stephen is hosting skateboarding icon Tony Hawk.

Tonight, former defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg.

This evening, Stephen welcomes Arianna Huffington, the blogger and author of *On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life*.

This evening, Stephen welcomes actor Ted Danson.

This evening, Stephen welcomes Lowell Bergman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and the Reva and David Logan Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley.

This evening, Stephen welcomes Joe Scarborough, the host of *Morning Joe*.

This evening, Stephen welcomes back Tom Brokaw, the distinguished former anchor of NBC Nightly News.

This evening, Stephen welcomes Howell Raines, journalist and author of the memoir, *The One That Got Away*.

This evening, Stephen welcomes William Donohue, president of the Catholic League.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Amy Goodman, the host of Democracy Now! and co-author of *Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back*.

This evening, Stephen will be joined by musician Randy Newman.

Tonight, Ned Lamont, a Democratic candidate vying for a seat in the Connecticut Senate.

Tonight, Peter Beinart, former editor of *The New Republic* and author of *The Good Fight: Why Liberals—and liberals alone—can win the war on terror and make America great again. *

Tonight, Linda R. Hirshman, a former attorney and professor of philosophy, author of *Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women in the World*, will be speaking.

This evening, Stephen welcomes Barry Scheck, attorney and co-founder of the Innocence Project.

Tonight, we welcome Bill Rhoden, New York Times columnist and author of *Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete*.

Tonight, cultural anthropologist Alexandra Robbins, author of *The Overachievers: The Secret Life of Driven Kids*.

Tonight, campaign director Eli Pariser of MoveOn.org.

Stephen welcomes Ramesh Ponnuru tonight, a senior editor at the National Review and author of *The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts and the Disregard for Human Life*.

This evening, Stephen welcomes David Gergen, political commentator for PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and author of *Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership: Nixon to Clinton*.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes documentary filmmaker and host of *30 Days*, Morgan Spurlock.

This evening, Stephen is hosting the iconic musician Neil Young.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Geoffrey Nunberg, a professor of linguistics and a columnist for the New York Times. He is also the author of *Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Vo…

Tonight, Stephen welcomes economist and columnist Paul Krugman, author of *The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century*.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Gideon Yago, writer and correspondent for MTV News.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes mathematician Janna Levin, the author of *A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines*.

Stephen will be hosting comedian Martin Short this evening.

This evening, Stephen welcomed country music star Toby Keith.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Ken Jennings, the Jeopardy! champion who set a record that endures, and author of *Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs*.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Bill Simmons, the ESPN Sports Guy columnist and author of *Now I Can Die in Peace: How ESPN’s Sports Guy Found Salvation with a Little Help from Nomar, Pedro, Shawshank, and the 2004 Red Sox*.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Will Power, an artist whose talents span the realms of acting, performance, rap, playwriting, and education.

This evening, Stephen welcomes Frank Rich, the New York Times columnist and author of *The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina*.

This evening, Stephen welcomes James Carville, the Democratic political strategist.

Tonight, Daniel Ellsberg, the former defense analyst, spoke.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Arianna Huffington, the blogger and author of *On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life*.

This evening, Stephen will be joined by actor Ted Danson.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Lowell Bergman, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and the Reva and David Logan Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

This evening, Stephen will be hosting Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple Computers.

This evening, Stephen welcomes Michael Lewis, the acclaimed author of *The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game*.

This evening, Stephen welcomes Andy Stern, the labor leader and author of *A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track*.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan, the author of *Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America*.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Amy Goodman, the host of Democracy Now! and co-author of *Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back*.

This evening, Stephen will be joined by musician Randy Newman.

This evening, Stephen welcomes Ariel Levy, journalist and author of *Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture*.

Tonight, Stephen will announce the victor of the Green Screen Challenge. And following that, a new installment of the Tek Jansen Adventure awaits.

This evening, Stephen will host Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Barry Scheck, attorney and co-founder of the Innocence Project.

Tonight, Stephen marks a milestone: his first-anniversary episode features Oxford Professor of Biology and author of *The God Delusion*, Richard Dawkins.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes David Kuo, former special assistant to President George W. Bush and author of *Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction*.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Nobel laureate chemist, Dr. Peter Agre. He will also speak with Jim Gilchrist, founder of The Minuteman Project.

This evening, Stephen extends a welcome to musician Barry Manilow.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes actor and political activist Tim Robbins.

This evening, Stephen welcomes magician Penn Jillette to the show.

This evening, Stephen is hosting Ronald Reagan Jr., the political activist.

This evening, Stephen welcomes Mark Halperin, ABC News correspondent and co-author of *The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008*.

Alongside the evening's broadcast of *The Daily Show*, Stephen spoke with Warren Beatty by telephone, and with Representatives Robert Wexler and Eleanor Holmes Norton via satellite link.

This evening, Stephen welcomes CNN anchor Jeff Greenfield to the program.

This evening, Stephen will host Dean Kamen, founder of FIRST and President of DEKA Research and Development Corporation.

This evening, Stephen welcomes back Dan Rather, the veteran anchor of CBS News.

This evening, Stephen will be joined by Jeff Swartz, the Chief Executive Officer of Timberland.

This evening, Stephen welcomes Al Franken and paleontologist Dr. Michael Novacek to the show.

This evening, Stephen hosts Richard Linklater, the director behind *Fast Food Nation*.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Jim Lehrer, the distinguished anchor of PBS NewsHour and author of the novel *The Phony Marine*.

This evening, Stephen welcomes comedian Harry Shearer.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Nora Ephron, the acclaimed screenwriter and author of *I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman*.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Mike Lupica, the ESPN commentator and author of *Miracle on 49th Street*.

Stephen is hosting computer game designer Will Wright this evening.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Steven D. Levitt, economist and co-author of *Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything*.

This evening, Stephen is hosting John Sexton, the president of New York University.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Francis Collins, the former head of the Human Genome Project and author of *The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief*.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Dr. Peter Singer, a prominent figure in ethical thought from Princeton University. A leading voice in animal rights and co-author of *The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter*, Dr. Singer joins him for conversat…

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Dan Savage, the nationally syndicated columnist and author of *The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family*.

Tonight, Stephen welcomes Doris Kearns Goodwin, historian and author of *Team of Rivals* and *The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln*.

This evening, Stephen is hosting Daniel Pinchbeck, a writer for *The Village Voice* and *Rolling Stone*, as well as the author of *Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism*.

This evening, Stephen will be hosting Jack Welch, the former Chief Executive Officer of General Electric.

This evening, Stephen hosts Deepak Chopra, a leading figure in the realm of mind-body medicine.

The clash between Stephen Colbert and the Decemberists felt less like a contest and more like a curious collision of worlds. One, a master of satirical political commentary; the other, purveyors of intricate, emotionally resonant folk-rock.…