The Colbert Report/2009

2009
The Colbert Report
Season Premiere	January 5, 2009
Season Finale	December 16, 2009
Episode Count	161
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2009 is the fifth year of The Colbert Report and began on January 5, 2009.

Episodes

#	#	Title/Guest			Airdate
479	1	John King			January 5, 2009
480	2	Matt Miller			January 6, 2009
481	3	Benicio Del Toro			January 7, 2009
482	4	Lawrence Lessig			January 8, 2009
483	5	Anthony Romero			January 12, 2009
484	6	Niall Ferguson			January 13, 2009
485	7	Alan Khazei			January 14, 2009
486	8	David Gregory			January 15, 2009
487	9	Frank Rich			January 19, 2009
488	10	Jabari Asim			January 20, 2009
489	11	Elizabeth Alexander			January 21, 2009
490	12	Jon Meacham			January 22, 2009
491	13	Chris Mooney & Ed Young			January 26, 2009
492	14	Philippe Petit			January 27, 2009
493	15	Sir Paul McCartney			January 28, 2009
494	16	John Podesta			January 29, 2009
495	17	Dan Zaccagnino			February 2, 2009
496	18	Henry Louis Gates Jr.			February 3, 2009
497	19	Steve Martin			February 4, 2009
498	20	James Surowiecki, Jonah Lehrer			February 5, 2009
499	21	TV on the Radio			February 9, 2009
500	22	Robert Ballard			February 10, 2009
501	23	Steven Pinker			February 11, 2009
502	24	Adam Gopnik			February 12, 2009
503	25	Helen Fisher			February 23, 2009
504	26	Cliff Sloan			February 24, 2009
505	27	John Fetterman			February 25, 2009
506	28	Kris Kristofferson			February 26, 2009
507	29	David Byrne			March 2, 2009
508	30	Mark Bittman			March 3, 2009
509	31	Carl Wilson			March 4, 2009
510	32	Steven Johnson			March 5, 2009
511	33	Lisa Hannigan			March 9, 2009
512	34	William Gerstenmaier, Jay Keasling			March 10, 2009
513	35	Howard Fineman			March 11, 2009
514	36	Simon Johnson, Peter Singer			March 12, 2009
515	37	Jonathan Chait, Neil Gaiman			March 16, 2009
516	38	David Grann			March 17, 2009
517	39	Juan Cole			March 18, 2009
518	40	John McCardell			March 19, 2009
519	41	Derrick Pitts			March 30, 2009
520	42	David Plotz			March 31, 2009
521	43	Dambisa Moyo			April 1, 2009
522	44	Biz Stone			April 2, 2009
523	45	Tom Brokaw, Rich Lowry			April 6, 2009
524	46	Queen Noor			April 7, 2009
525	47	Phil Bronstein			April 8, 2009
526	48	Bart Ehrman			April 9, 2009
527	49	Sunita L. Williams, Susie Orbach			April 14, 2009
528	50	Jim Lehrer			April 15, 2009
529	51	Kanishk Tharoor, Doug Kmiec			April 16, 2009
530	52	Ken Quinn, Sheriff Joe Arpaio			April 20, 2009
531	53	Mike Kryzewski			April 21, 2009
532	54	Ira Glass			April 22, 2009
533	55	Elizabeth Bintliff			April 23, 2009
534	56	The Decemberists			April 27, 2009
535	57	Richard Engel, Daniel Gross			April 28, 2009
536	58	David Kessler			April 29, 2009
537	59	Ethan Nadelman			April 30, 2009
538	60	J.J. Abrams			May 4, 2009
539	61	Cliff Sloan, Paul Rieckhoff			May 5, 2009
540	62	Laurie Garrett			May 6, 2009
541	63	Mitchell Joachim			May 7, 2009
542	64	Tamara Draut			May 11, 2009
543	65	Ron Howard			May 12, 2009
544	66	Michael Pollan			May 13, 2009
545	67	Yusuf Islam			May 14, 2009
546	68	Meghan McCain			May 18, 2009
547	69	Walter Kirn			May 19, 2009
548	70	Seth Shostak			May 20, 2009
549	71	Green Day			May 21, 2009
550	72	Byron Dorgan			June 1, 2009
551	73	Katty Kay			June 2, 2009
552	74	Eric Schlosser			June 3, 2009
553	75	Dag Soderberg			June 4, 2009
Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando
554	76	Ray Odierno			June 8, 2009
555	77	Robin Balcom, Tareq Salha			June 9, 2009
556	78	Charles H. Jacoby Jr.			June 10, 2009
557	79	Barham Saleh, Frank Grippe			June 11, 2009
558	80	Austan Goolsbee			June 15, 2009
559	81	Jim Rogers			June 16, 2009
560	82	Joshua Micah Marshall			June 17, 2009
561	83	Paul Muldoon			June 18, 2009
562	84	Simon Schama			June 22, 2009
563	85	Howard Dean, David Kilcullen			June 23, 2009
564	86	Matthew Crawford			June 24, 2009
565	87	Jim Fouratt			June 25, 2009
566	88	Neil DeGrasse Tyson			June 29, 2009
567	89	Kevin Mattson			June 30, 2009
568	90	Lee Siegel			July 1, 2009
569	91	Ed Viesturs			July 2, 2009
570	92	Paul Rieckhoff, Paul Krugman			July 13, 2009
571	93	Leymah Gbowee			July 14, 2009
572	94	Douglas Rushkoff			July 15, 2009
573	95	Edmund Andrews			July 16, 2009
574	96	Bob Park			July 20, 2009
575	97	Aaron Carroll			July 21, 2009
576	98	Chris Anderson			July 22, 2009
577	99	Zev Chafets			July 23, 2009
578	100	Movits!			July 27, 2009
579	101	Leymah Gbowee			July 28, 2009
580	102	Douglas Rushkoff			July 29, 2009
581	103	Edmund Andrews			July 30, 2009
582	104	Bob Park			August 3, 2009
583	105	Aaron Carroll			August 4, 2009
584	106	Chris Anderson			August 5, 2009
585	107	Zev Chafets			August 6, 2009
586	108	Barbara Boxer			August 10, 2009
587	109	Jonathan Cohn			August 11, 2009
588	110	Mark Johnson			August 12, 2009
589	111	Mark Devlin			August 13, 2009
590	112	Bill McKibben			August 17, 2009
591	113	Christopher Caldwell			August 18, 2009
592	114	Ang Lee			August 19, 2009
593	115	Robert Wright			August 20, 2009
594	116	Bill McKibben			September 14, 2009
595	117	Christopher Caldwell			September 15, 2009
596	118	Ang Lee			September 16, 2009
597	119	Robert Wright			September 17, 2009
598	120	Shai Agassi			September 22, 2009
599	121	A.J. Jacobs			September 23, 2009
600	122	Ken Burns			September 24, 2009
601	123	Sheryl WuDunn			September 28, 2009
602	124	Matt Latimer			September 29, 2009
603	125	Richard Dawkins			September 30, 2009
604	126	Francis Collins			October 1, 2009
605	127	Arne Duncan			October 5, 2009
606	128	Lara Logan, The Mountain Goats			October 6, 2009
607	129	Alison Gopnik			October 7, 2009
608	130	Colin Beavan			October 8, 2009
609	131	Shashi Tharoor, Sanjay Gupta			October 12, 2009
610	132	David Javerbaum, Sylvia Earle			October 13, 2009
611	133	Amy Farrell, RZA			October 14, 2009
612	134	Jerry Mitchell			October 15, 2009
613	135	Cornel West			October 26, 2009
614	136	Gail Collins			October 27, 2009
615	137	Brian Cox			October 28, 2009
616	138	Bill Simmons			October 29, 2009
617	139	Nicholas Thompson			November 2, 2009
618	140	Andrew Sullivan			November 3, 2009
619	141	Harold Evans			November 4, 2009
620	142	William Bratton			November 5, 2009
621	143	Thomas Campbell			November 9, 2009
622	144	Maria Shriver			November 10, 2009
623	145	Christopher Caldwell			November 11, 2009
624	146	Woody Harrelson			November 12, 2009
625	147	Paul Goldberger			November 16, 2009
626	148	Malcolm Gladwell			November 17, 2009
627	149	Norah Jones			November 18, 2009
628	150	Elvis Costello			November 19, 2009
629	151	Dan Esty, Cevin Soling			November 30, 2009
630	152	Guy Consolmagno, Sherman Alexie			December 1, 2009
631	153	Craig Watkins			December 2, 2009
632	154	Janet Napolitano			December 3, 2009
633	155	Bill T. Jones			December 7, 2009
634	156	Bernie Sanders, Andy Schlafly			December 8, 2009
635	157	Matt Taibbi			December 9, 2009
636	158	Lara Logan			December 10, 2009
637	159	Snoop Dogg			December 14, 2009
638	160	Alicia Keys			December 15, 2009
639	161	Tom Brokaw			December 16, 2009