The complete listing of ‘The Colbert Report’ episodes aired during the month of January, 2013.
Episode 9039: Monday, January 7, 2013 — Jimmy Wales
Staff Cameo(s): Max Werner | Meredith Scardino Intro – 1/7/13 | Stephen’s Holiday Break | Fiscal Cliff Deal and Disincentives | The Platinum Debt Ceiling Solution | Blood in the Water: Bill O’Reilly’s Racial Insensitivity | Jimmy Wales (Co-Founder of Wikipedia) | Sign Off – Goodnight
Episode 9040: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 — Chris Kluwe
Staff Cameo(s): Jay Katsir (as Jay the Intern) Intro – 1/8/13 | Postage Price Hike | Cheating Death – Rage & Blood Transfusions | Bin Laden Film Controversy | Chris Kluwe (American Football Punter – Minnesota Vikings) | Sign Off – VACSA-TERN
Episode 9041: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 — Neil Shubin
Staff Cameo(s): Peter Grosz (as McGnaw the Gluten-Free Beaver) Intro – 1/9/13 | Idaho’s Walled & Armed Community | Gun Control Backlash | Thought for Food – Wheat Addictions | Neil Shubin (Biological Scientist – “The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People” ) | Sign Off – McGnaw the Gluten-Free Beaver
Episode 9042: Thursday, January 10th, 2013 – Benjamin Gibbard | Aimee Mann
Exclusive(s): Benjamin Gibbard & Aimee Mann – “Bigger Than Love” | Benjamin Gibbard – “I’m Building a Fire” Roadside Sofa Boning | Obama’s Failed Second Term | Tip/Wag – HAPIfork & Kevin Garnett | Benjamin Gibbard (Solo Album – “Former Lives”)
Episode 9043: Monday, January 14, 2013 — Piers Morgan
Stephen Colbert’s Double Barrel Blam-O-Rama – Silver Bullets & Video Games| Stephen Colbert’s Double Barrel Blam-O-Rama – Piers Morgan &James Yeager | Stephen Colbert’s Double Barrel Blam-O-Rama – Guns as Civil Rights Victims | Vitaminwater Advertising Lawsuit | Piers Morgan (Host – “Piers Morgan Live”) | Sign Off – Pocketbook Constitution
Episode 9044: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 – Jared Diamond
Intro – 1/15/13 | Lance Armstrongs Interview with Oprah | Monkey on the Lam – Macaque Attack – 1,381 Days of Simian Terror in Tampa | CataCoffin CataCombo Sound System | Jared Diamond (Author – “The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?”) | Sign Off – Goodnight
Episode 9045: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 — Tom Brokaw | Matt Taibbi
Intro – 1/16/13 | Healthy Fake Smiles | HSBC Laundering Charges | HSBC Laundering Charges – Matt Taibbi (Journalist and Author – “Secrets and Lies of the Bailout”) | Pat Robertson’s Romance Advice | Tom Browkaw (NBC News Special Correspondent) | Sign Off – Goodnight
Episode 9046: Thursday, January 17, 2013 — Akhil Reed Amar
Corporate Scamwhich | Obama’s Gun Grab | The Word – United We Standoff | Porn Names & Porn Lawsuits | Akhil Reed Amar (Legal Scholar and Author – “America’s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By”) | Sign Off – Goodnight
Episode 9047: Monday, January 21, 2013 — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Intro – 1/21/13 | Obama’s Second Inauguration | Stephen’s Re-Inauguration | ThreatDown – Flu, Kate Middleton, Vomiting Robots, Superintelligent Gonorrhea, Bears | Ta-Nehisi Coates (Senior Editor – “The Atlantic”) | Sign Off – Hotel Bibles
Episode 9048: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 — Kathryn Bigelow
Special Guest(s): Dustin Hoffman
Exclusive(s): Kathryn Bigelow Extended Interview Obama’s Inauguration & Class Warfare | The Word-Win, Lose or Redraw | Dustin Hoffman’s Bad News | Kathryn Bigelow (Director – “Zero Dark Thirty”) | Sign Off – “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Quartet”
Episode 9049: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 — Sally Field
Beyonce’s Lip-Gate | Tip/Wag – Montpelier School District, TheAtlasphere.com & Florida Officials | Alpha Dog of the Week – Virginia State Senate Republicans | Sally Field (Actress – “Lincoln”) | Sign Off – Goodnight
Episode 9050: Thursday, January 24, 2013 – Tavi Gevinson | Edward Berenson
France & The Mali Conflict | France & The Mali Conflict – Edward Berenson | Benghazi Attack Hearing | Tavi Gevinson | Tavi Gevinson (Magazine – “Rookie”) | Sign Off – Stephen’s Makeover
Episode 9051: Monday, January 28, 2013 — Michael Shellenberger
Intro – 1/28/13 | Rapiscan Scanners | The Word – The New Abnormal | The Axis of Evil of the Week – North Korea | Michael Shellenberger (Co-Founder of The Breakthrough Institute) | Sign Off – Goodnight
Episode 9052: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 — George Saunders | Cliff Sloan
Intro – 1/29/13 | Iran’s Space Monkey & America’s Ape Moratorium | Gun Control & State Sovereignty | Gun Control & State Sovereignty – Cliff Sloan (Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure at the U.S. State Department) | Guantanamo Bay Office Closure | George Saunders (MacArthur Grant Fellow and Author – “Tenth of December”) | Sign Off – “Tenth of December”
Episode 9053: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 — Bill Gates
Intro – 1/30/13 | Coming Out Benefits & Gay Rights | The Word – It Gets Worse | Non-Racist KKK | Bill Gates (Founder of Microsoft) | Sign Off – Goodnight
Episode 9054: Thursday, January 31, 2013 – Matthew Guerrieri
Sport Report – Ads for Ads & Deer Antler Spray | Sport Report – Gatorade Chemicals & Chicken Wing Shortage | Craziest F#?King Thing I’ve Ever Heard – Crows Using Tools | Matthew Guerrieri (Music Critic and Author – “The First Four Notes: Beethoven’s Fifth and the Human Imagination”) | Sign Off – Welcome Baby Sanchez!
January 2013
The complete listing of ‘The Colbert Report’ episodes aired during the month of January, 2013.
Episode 9039: Monday, January 7, 2013 — Jimmy Wales
Staff Cameo(s): Max Werner | Meredith Scardino Intro – 1/7/13 | Stephen’s Holiday Break | Fiscal Cliff Deal and Disincentives | The Platinum Debt Ceiling Solution | Blood in the Water: Bill O’Reilly’s Racial Insensitivity | Jimmy Wales (Co-Founder of Wikipedia) | Sign Off – Goodnight
Episode 9040: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 — Chris Kluwe
Staff Cameo(s): Jay Katsir (as Jay the Intern) Intro – 1/8/13 | Postage Price Hike | Cheating Death – Rage & Blood Transfusions | Bin Laden Film Controversy | Chris Kluwe (American Football Punter – Minnesota Vikings) | Sign Off – VACSA-TERN
Episode 9041: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 — Neil Shubin
Staff Cameo(s): Peter Grosz (as McGnaw the Gluten-Free Beaver) Intro – 1/9/13 | Idaho’s Walled & Armed Community | Gun Control Backlash | Thought for Food – Wheat Addictions | Neil Shubin (Biological Scientist – “The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People” ) | Sign Off – McGnaw the Gluten-Free Beaver
Episode 9042: Thursday, January 10th, 2013 – Benjamin Gibbard | Aimee Mann
Exclusive(s): Benjamin Gibbard & Aimee Mann – “Bigger Than Love” | Benjamin Gibbard – “I’m Building a Fire” Roadside Sofa Boning | Obama’s Failed Second Term | Tip/Wag – HAPIfork & Kevin Garnett | Benjamin Gibbard (Solo Album – “Former Lives”)
Episode 9043: Monday, January 14, 2013 — Piers Morgan
Stephen Colbert’s Double Barrel Blam-O-Rama – Silver Bullets & Video Games| Stephen Colbert’s Double Barrel Blam-O-Rama – Piers Morgan &James Yeager | Stephen Colbert’s Double Barrel Blam-O-Rama – Guns as Civil Rights Victims | Vitaminwater Advertising Lawsuit | Piers Morgan (Host – “Piers Morgan Live”) | Sign Off – Pocketbook Constitution
Episode 9044: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 – Jared Diamond
Intro – 1/15/13 | Lance Armstrongs Interview with Oprah | Monkey on the Lam – Macaque Attack – 1,381 Days of Simian Terror in Tampa | CataCoffin CataCombo Sound System | Jared Diamond (Author – “The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?”) | Sign Off – Goodnight
Episode 9045: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 — Tom Brokaw | Matt Taibbi
Intro – 1/16/13 | Healthy Fake Smiles | HSBC Laundering Charges | HSBC Laundering Charges – Matt Taibbi (Journalist and Author – “Secrets and Lies of the Bailout”) | Pat Robertson’s Romance Advice | Tom Browkaw (NBC News Special Correspondent) | Sign Off – Goodnight
Episode 9046: Thursday, January 17, 2013 — Akhil Reed Amar
Corporate Scamwhich | Obama’s Gun Grab | The Word – United We Standoff | Porn Names & Porn Lawsuits | Akhil Reed Amar (Legal Scholar and Author – “America’s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By”) | Sign Off – Goodnight
Episode 9047: Monday, January 21, 2013 — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Intro – 1/21/13 | Obama’s Second Inauguration | Stephen’s Re-Inauguration | ThreatDown – Flu, Kate Middleton, Vomiting Robots, Superintelligent Gonorrhea, Bears | Ta-Nehisi Coates (Senior Editor – “The Atlantic”) | Sign Off – Hotel Bibles
Episode 9048: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 — Kathryn Bigelow
Special Guest(s): Dustin Hoffman
Exclusive(s): Kathryn Bigelow Extended Interview Obama’s Inauguration & Class Warfare | The Word-Win, Lose or Redraw | Dustin Hoffman’s Bad News | Kathryn Bigelow (Director – “Zero Dark Thirty”) | Sign Off – “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Quartet”
Episode 9049: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 — Sally Field
Beyonce’s Lip-Gate | Tip/Wag – Montpelier School District, TheAtlasphere.com & Florida Officials | Alpha Dog of the Week – Virginia State Senate Republicans | Sally Field (Actress – “Lincoln”) | Sign Off – Goodnight
Episode 9050: Thursday, January 24, 2013 – Tavi Gevinson | Edward Berenson
France & The Mali Conflict | France & The Mali Conflict – Edward Berenson | Benghazi Attack Hearing | Tavi Gevinson | Tavi Gevinson (Magazine – “Rookie”) | Sign Off – Stephen’s Makeover
Episode 9051: Monday, January 28, 2013 — Michael Shellenberger
Intro – 1/28/13 | Rapiscan Scanners | The Word – The New Abnormal | The Axis of Evil of the Week – North Korea | Michael Shellenberger (Co-Founder of The Breakthrough Institute) | Sign Off – Goodnight
Episode 9052: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 — George Saunders | Cliff Sloan
Intro – 1/29/13 | Iran’s Space Monkey & America’s Ape Moratorium | Gun Control & State Sovereignty | Gun Control & State Sovereignty – Cliff Sloan (Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure at the U.S. State Department) | Guantanamo Bay Office Closure | George Saunders (MacArthur Grant Fellow and Author – “Tenth of December”) | Sign Off – “Tenth of December”
Episode 9053: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 — Bill Gates
Intro – 1/30/13 | Coming Out Benefits & Gay Rights | The Word – It Gets Worse | Non-Racist KKK | Bill Gates (Founder of Microsoft) | Sign Off – Goodnight
Episode 9054: Thursday, January 31, 2013 – Matthew Guerrieri
Sport Report – Ads for Ads & Deer Antler Spray | Sport Report – Gatorade Chemicals & Chicken Wing Shortage | Craziest F#?King Thing I’ve Ever Heard – Crows Using Tools | Matthew Guerrieri (Music Critic and Author – “The First Four Notes: Beethoven’s Fifth and the Human Imagination”) | Sign Off – Welcome Baby Sanchez!