Season 6 Details Casts Episode Lists of Season 6 Title Season 6 Genres News Comedy Air Date 2010-01-04 Episode Runtime 00 Hours 24 Minutes Season Number 6 Episode Count On Season 6 161 Production Companies Busboy Productions, Spartina Productions Stephen Colbert Self - Host Episode 1 2010-01-04 Erick Erickson... Episode 2 2010-01-05 Riley Crane... Episode 3 2010-01-06 Capt. Charles Moore... Episode 4 2010-01-07 James Fowler... Episode 5 2010-01-11 Mon, Jan 11, 2010... Episode 6 2010-01-12 Raj Patel... Episode 7 2010-01-13 Wed, Jan 13, 2010... Episode 8 2010-01-14 Thu, Jan 14, 2010... Episode 9 2010-01-18 Emily Pilloton... Episode 10 2010-01-19 Stephen Bosworth... Episode 11 2010-01-20 Dick Ebersol... Episode 12 2010-01-21 John Farmer... Episode 13 2010-01-25 Kati Marton... Episode 14 2010-01-26 Mika Brzezinski... Episode 15 2010-01-27 Arthur Benjamin... Episode 16 2010-01-28 David Gergen... Episode 17 2010-02-01 Nicole Detling Miller, Je... Episode 18 2010-02-02 Eliot Spitzer... Episode 19 2010-02-03 Peter Cove, John Durant... Episode 20 2010-02-04 Henry Louis Gates... Episode 21 2010-02-08 Jonathan Safran Foer... Episode 22 2010-02-09 George Stephanopoulos... Episode 23 2010-02-10 Claire Danes... Episode 24 2010-02-11 Al Michaels, David Ross... Episode 25 2010-02-22 Shaun White... Episode 26 2010-02-23 Lindsey Vonn, Bob Costas... Episode 27 2010-02-24 Scott Hamilton, Jeret Pet... Episode 28 2010-02-25 Shani Davis, Seth Wescott... Episode 29 2010-03-01 Don Cheadle... Episode 30 2010-03-02 David Brooks... Episode 31 2010-03-03 Scheherazade Rehman, Garr... Episode 32 2010-03-04 Barry Schwartz... Episode 33 2010-03-08 Tom Hanks... Episode 34 2010-03-09 Annie Leonard... Episode 35 2010-03-10 Sean Carroll... Episode 36 2010-03-11 David Aaronovitch... Episode 37 2010-03-15 Robert Baer... Episode 38 2010-03-16 Rebecca Skloot... Episode 39 2010-03-17 Nell Irvin Painter... Episode 40 2010-03-18 Mary Matalin... Episode 41 2010-03-29 Claire McCaskill... Episode 42 2010-03-30 Simon Johnson... Episode 43 2010-03-31 Craig Mullaney... Episode 44 2010-04-01 David Frum, Judith Shulev... Episode 45 2010-04-05 Dean Kamen... Episode 46 2010-04-06 Reverend Al Sharpton... Episode 47 2010-04-07 David Simon... Episode 48 2010-04-08 Neil DeGrasse Tyson... Episode 49 2010-04-12 Jeffrey Toobin, Julian As... Episode 50 2010-04-13 Jon Mooallem... Episode 51 2010-04-14 David Shields... Episode 52 2010-04-15 Aimee Mullins... Episode 53 2010-04-19 Andrew Ross Sorkin, Georg... Episode 54 2010-04-20 Jeffrey Katzenberg... Episode 55 2010-04-21 Craig Robinson... Episode 56 2010-04-22 Gorillaz... Episode 57 2010-04-26 Sharon Jones and the Dap-... Episode 58 2010-04-27 Conn Iggulden... Episode 59 2010-04-28 Gregg Easterbrook... Episode 60 2010-04-29 OK Go... Episode 61 2010-05-03 Elizabeth Warren... Episode 62 2010-05-04 Michael J. Fox, Mark W. M... Episode 63 2010-05-05 David Isay... Episode 64 2010-05-06 Stewart Brand... Episode 65 2010-05-10 Gary Johnson... Episode 66 2010-05-11 Hampton Sides... Episode 67 2010-05-12 Deepak Chopra... Episode 68 2010-05-13 The Hold Steady... Episode 69 2010-06-01 Ayaan Hirsi Ali... Episode 70 2010-06-02 Lisa Miller... Episode 71 2010-06-03 Vampire Weekend... Episode 72 2010-06-07 James Carville, Jonathan ... Episode 73 2010-06-08 Mark Frauenfelder... Episode 74 2010-06-09 Amb. Michael Oren, Sen. S... Episode 75 2010-06-10 Alan Bean... Episode 76 2010-06-14 Stephen Prothero... Episode 77 2010-06-15 Dr. Carl Safina... Episode 78 2010-06-16 Devo... Episode 79 2010-06-17 David Mamet... Episode 80 2010-06-21 Wes Moore... Episode 81 2010-06-22 Gloria Steinem... Episode 82 2010-06-23 Tim Westergren... Episode 83 2010-06-24 Michael Specter... Episode 84 2010-06-28 Michael Hastings, John Wa... Episode 85 2010-06-29 Mayor Julian Castro... Episode 86 2010-06-30 Nicholas Carr... Episode 87 2010-07-01 Manny Howard... Episode 88 2010-07-05 Paul Krugman, Dr. Michio ... Episode 89 2010-07-06 Garret Keizer... Episode 90 2010-07-07 Steve Carell... Episode 91 2010-07-08 Arturo Rodriguez... Episode 92 2010-07-26 Hephzibah Anderson... Episode 93 2010-07-27 Thomas S. Blanton, Kevin ... Episode 94 2010-07-28 Elon Musk... Episode 95 2010-07-29 Andy Cohen... Episode 96 2010-08-02 Jimmy Cliff... Episode 97 2010-08-03 Laura Ingraham... Episode 98 2010-08-04 Michael Posner... Episode 99 2010-08-05 Savion Glover... Episode 100 2010-08-10 Dylan Ratigan... Episode 101 2010-08-11 David Finkel... Episode 102 2010-08-12 Chuck Close... Episode 103 2010-08-16 Richard Clarke, John Fett... Episode 104 2010-08-17 Barry Levine... Episode 105 2010-08-18 Thomas French... Episode 106 2010-08-19 Jon Krakauer... Episode 107 2010-08-23 Leslie Kean... Episode 108 2010-08-24 Jeffrey Goldberg... Episode 109 2010-08-25 Andrew Hacker, Heidi Cull... Episode 110 2010-08-26 Richard Engel... Episode 111 2010-09-07 Anthony Romero... Episode 112 2010-09-08 Vice President Joe Biden,... Episode 113 2010-09-09 Sen. Jim Webb, Joshua Ble... Episode 114 2010-09-13 Lisa Birnbach... Episode 115 2010-09-14 Sean Wilentz... Episode 116 2010-09-15 Saul Griffith... Episode 117 2010-09-16 Lawrence O'Donnell... Episode 118 2010-09-20 Pavement... Episode 119 2010-09-21 Eric Schmidt... Episode 120 2010-09-22 Guillermo Del Toro... Episode 121 2010-09-23 Oscar Goodman... Episode 122 2010-09-27 Ken Burns... Episode 123 2010-09-28 Paul Begala, Ross Douthat... Episode 124 2010-09-29 Steve Rattner... Episode 125 2010-09-30 Aaron Sorkin... Episode 126 2010-10-04 Eugene Robinson... Episode 127 2010-10-05 Leon Botstein... Episode 128 2010-10-06 Mavis Staples and Jeff Tw... Episode 129 2010-10-07 Davis Guggenheim... Episode 130 2010-10-11 Robert Reich... Episode 131 2010-10-12 Brendan Steinhauser... Episode 132 2010-10-13 Austan Goolsbee... Episode 133 2010-10-14 Bill Bryson... Episode 134 2010-10-25 Nicholas Negroponte... Episode 135 2010-10-26 Garry Wills... Episode 136 2010-10-27 Rep. Tom Perriello, Apolo... Episode 137 2010-10-28 Maira Kalman... Episode 138 2010-11-01 Jonathan Alter... Episode 139 2010-11-02 Katrina vanden Heuvel, Da... Episode 140 2010-11-03 Doris Kearns Goodwin... Episode 141 2010-11-04 Elvis Costello... Episode 142 2010-11-08 Reza Aslan... Episode 143 2010-11-09 Cee-Lo Green... Episode 144 2010-11-10 Martha Stewart... Episode 145 2010-11-11 Quincy Jones... Episode 146 2010-11-15 David Stern... Episode 147 2010-11-16 John Legend... Episode 148 2010-11-17 Ian Frazier... Episode 149 2010-11-18 Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giun... Episode 150 2010-11-29 Dan Savage... Episode 151 2010-11-30 Tom Vilsack... Episode 152 2010-12-01 Michelle Rhee... Episode 153 2010-12-02 David Stockman... Episode 154 2010-12-06 Garry Trudeau... Episode 155 2010-12-07 Julie Nixon Eisenhower & ... Episode 156 2010-12-08 Steve Martin... Episode 157 2010-12-09 Julie Taymor... Episode 158 2010-12-13 Patti Smith... Episode 159 2010-12-14 David Boies, Stephen Sond... Episode 160 2010-12-15 Omar Wasow, Laird Hamilto... Episode 161 2010-12-16 Amy Sedaris, Paul Simon...