Season 5 Details Casts Episode Lists of Season 5 Title Season 5 Genres News Comedy Air Date 2009-01-05 Episode Runtime 00 Hours 24 Minutes Season Number 5 Episode Count On Season 5 161 Production Companies Busboy Productions, Spartina Productions Stephen Colbert Self - Host Episode 1 2009-01-05 John King... Episode 2 2009-01-06 Matt Miller... Episode 3 2009-01-07 Benicio Del Toro... Episode 4 2009-01-08 Lawrence Lessig... Episode 5 2009-01-12 Anthony Romero... Episode 6 2009-01-13 Niall Ferguson... Episode 7 2009-01-14 Alan Khazei... Episode 8 2009-01-15 David Gregory, Shepard Fa... Episode 9 2009-01-19 Frank Rich... Episode 10 2009-01-20 Jabari Asim... Episode 11 2009-01-21 Elizabeth Alexander... Episode 12 2009-01-22 Jon Meacham... Episode 13 2009-01-26 Chris Mooney, Ed Young... Episode 14 2009-01-27 Philippe Petit... Episode 15 2009-01-28 Paul McCartney, Denis Dut... Episode 16 2009-01-29 John Podesta... Episode 17 2009-02-02 Dan Zaccagnino... Episode 18 2009-02-03 Henry Louis Gates Jr.... Episode 19 2009-02-04 Steve Martin... Episode 20 2009-02-05 James Surowiecki, Jonah L... Episode 21 2009-02-09 TV on the Radio... Episode 22 2009-02-10 Robert Ballard... Episode 23 2009-02-11 Eleanor Holmes Norton, St... Episode 24 2009-02-12 David Ross, Ed Colbert, A... Episode 25 2009-02-23 Father James Martin, Hele... Episode 26 2009-02-24 Cliff Sloan... Episode 27 2009-02-25 John Fetterman... Episode 28 2009-02-26 Kris Kristofferson... Episode 29 2009-03-02 David Byrne... Episode 30 2009-03-03 Mark Bittman... Episode 31 2009-03-04 Carl Wilson... Episode 32 2009-03-05 Steven Johnson... Episode 33 2009-03-09 Lisa Hannigan... Episode 34 2009-03-10 William Gerstenmaier, Dr.... Episode 35 2009-03-11 Howard Fineman... Episode 36 2009-03-12 Simon Johnson, Peter Sing... Episode 37 2009-03-16 Jonathan Chait, Neil Gaim... Episode 38 2009-03-17 David Grann... Episode 39 2009-03-18 Juan Cole... Episode 40 2009-03-19 John McCardell... Episode 41 2009-03-30 Derrick Pitts... Episode 42 2009-03-31 David Plotz... Episode 43 2009-04-01 Dambisa Moyo... Episode 44 2009-04-02 Biz Stone... Episode 45 2009-04-06 Tom Brokaw, Rich Lowry... Episode 46 2009-04-07 Queen Noor... Episode 47 2009-04-08 Phil Bronstein... Episode 48 2009-04-09 Bart Ehrman... Episode 49 2009-04-14 Sunita L. Williams, Susie... Episode 50 2009-04-15 Jim Lehrer... Episode 51 2009-04-16 Kanishk Tharoor, Doug Kmi... Episode 52 2009-04-20 Ken Quinn, Sheriff Joe Ar... Episode 53 2009-04-21 Coach Mike Kryzewski... Episode 54 2009-04-22 Ira Glass... Episode 55 2009-04-23 Elizabeth Bintliff... Episode 56 2009-04-27 The Decemberists... Episode 57 2009-04-28 David Gross... Episode 58 2009-04-29 David Kessler... Episode 59 2009-04-30 Jonathan Alter, Ethan Nad... Episode 60 2009-05-04 J.J. Abrams... Episode 61 2009-05-05 Cliff Sloan, Paul Rieckho... Episode 62 2009-05-06 Laurie Garrett... Episode 63 2009-05-07 Mitchell Joachim... Episode 64 2009-05-11 Jeff Daniels... Episode 65 2009-05-12 Ron Howard... Episode 66 2009-05-13 Michael Pollan... Episode 67 2009-05-14 Yusuf Islam... Episode 68 2009-05-18 Meghan McCain... Episode 69 2009-05-19 Walter Kirn... Episode 70 2009-05-20 Seth Shostak... Episode 71 2009-05-21 Green Day... Episode 72 2009-06-01 Jeffrey Toobin, Sen. Byro... Episode 73 2009-06-02 Katty Kay... Episode 74 2009-06-03 Eric Schlosser... Episode 75 2009-06-04 Dag Soderberg, David Byrn... Episode 76 2009-06-08 General Raymond Odierno... Episode 77 2009-06-09 Specialist Tareq Salha, S... Episode 78 2009-06-10 Lieutenant General Charle... Episode 79 2009-06-11 Stephen broadcasts from I... Episode 80 2009-06-15 Austan Goolsbee... Episode 81 2009-06-16 Karim Sadjadpour, Jim Rog... Episode 82 2009-06-17 Joshua Micah Marshall... Episode 83 2009-06-18 Paul Muldoon... Episode 84 2009-06-22 Simon Schama... Episode 85 2009-06-23 Howard Dean, David Kilcul... Episode 86 2009-06-24 Matthew Crawford... Episode 87 2009-06-25 Jim Fouratt... Episode 88 2009-06-29 Neil DeGrasse Tyson... Episode 89 2009-06-30 Alexi Lalas, Kevin Mattso... Episode 90 2009-07-01 Nicholas Kristof... Episode 91 2009-07-02 Ed Viesturs... Episode 92 2009-07-13 Paul Rieckhoff, Paul Krug... Episode 93 2009-07-14 Leymah Gbowee... Episode 94 2009-07-15 Douglas Rushkoff... Episode 95 2009-07-16 Edmund Andrews... Episode 96 2009-07-20 Geoffrey Canada, Bob Park... Episode 97 2009-07-21 Dr. Aaron Carroll... Episode 98 2009-07-22 Matthew Waxman, Chris And... Episode 99 2009-07-23 Zev Chafets... Episode 100 2009-07-27 Movits!... Episode 101 2009-07-28 Arianna Huffington... Episode 102 2009-07-29 Kevin Baker... Episode 103 2009-07-30 Kathryn Bigelow... Episode 104 2009-08-03 General Anthony Zinni... Episode 105 2009-08-04 Kurt Andersen... Episode 106 2009-08-05 Kris Kobach... Episode 107 2009-08-06 Meryl Streep... Episode 108 2009-08-10 Sen. Barbara Boxer... Episode 109 2009-08-11 Jonathan Cohn... Episode 110 2009-08-12 Mark Johnson... Episode 111 2009-08-13 Mark Devlin... Episode 112 2009-08-17 Bill McKibben... Episode 113 2009-08-18 Robert Wright... Episode 114 2009-08-19 Ang Lee... Episode 115 2009-08-20 Chris Matthews... Episode 116 2009-09-14 Cory Booker... Episode 117 2009-09-15 Christiane Amanpour... Episode 118 2009-09-16 Tony Danza... Episode 119 2009-09-17 Frank Bruni... Episode 120 2009-09-22 Tue, Sep 22, 2009... Episode 121 2009-09-23 AJ Jacobs... Episode 122 2009-09-24 Ken Burns... Episode 123 2009-09-28 Sheryl WuDunn... Episode 124 2009-09-29 Matt Latimer / Out Of The... Episode 125 2009-09-30 Wed, Sep 30, 2009... Episode 126 2009-10-01 Francis Collins... Episode 127 2009-10-05 Arne Duncan... Episode 128 2009-10-06 The Mountain Goats... Episode 129 2009-10-07 Alison Gopnik... Episode 130 2009-10-08 Thu, Oct 8, 2009... Episode 131 2009-10-12 Shashi Tharoor, Dr. Sanj... Episode 132 2009-10-13 David Javerbaum, Sylvia E... Episode 133 2009-10-14 Amy Farrell, The RZA... Episode 134 2009-10-15 Jerry Mitchell... Episode 135 2009-10-26 Cornel West... Episode 136 2009-10-27 Tue, Oct 27, 2009... Episode 137 2009-10-28 Brian Cox... Episode 138 2009-10-29 Bill Simmons... Episode 139 2009-11-02 Nicholas Thompson... Episode 140 2009-11-03 Andrew Sullivan... Episode 141 2009-11-04 Harold Evans... Episode 142 2009-11-05 Thu, Nov 5, 2009... Episode 143 2009-11-09 Mon, Nov 9, 2009... Episode 144 2009-11-10 Maria Shriver... Episode 145 2009-11-11 Christopher Caldwell... Episode 146 2009-11-12 Woody Harrelson... Episode 147 2009-11-16 Mon, Nov 16, 2009... Episode 148 2009-11-17 Malcolm Gladwell... Episode 149 2009-11-18 Norah Jones... Episode 150 2009-11-19 Thu, Nov 19, 2009... Episode 151 2009-11-30 Dan Esty, Cevin Soling... Episode 152 2009-12-01 Tue, Dec 1, 2009... Episode 153 2009-12-02 Wed, Dec 2, 2009... Episode 154 2009-12-03 Thu, Dec 3, 2009... Episode 155 2009-12-07 Mon, Dec 7, 2009... Episode 156 2009-12-08 Senator Bernie Sanders, A... Episode 157 2009-12-09 Wed, Dec 9, 2009... Episode 158 2009-12-10 Thu, Dec 10, 2009... Episode 159 2009-12-14 Snoop Dogg... Episode 160 2009-12-15 Alicia Keys... Episode 161 2009-12-16 Tom Brokaw...
