Season 8 Details Casts Episode Lists of Season 8 Title Season 8 Genres News Comedy Air Date 2011-10-03 Episode Runtime 00 Hours 24 Minutes Season Number 8 Episode Count On Season 8 155 Production Companies Busboy Productions, Spartina Productions Stephen Colbert Self - Host Episode 1 2011-10-03 Jerome Groopman... Episode 2 2011-10-04 John Lithgow... Episode 3 2011-10-05 Black Star... Episode 4 2011-10-06 Jason Amerine... Episode 5 2011-10-17 Harry Belafonte... Episode 6 2011-10-18 Steven Pinker... Episode 7 2011-10-19 Ali Soufan... Episode 8 2011-10-20 Coldplay... Episode 9 2011-10-24 Jon Huntsman... Episode 10 2011-10-25 Susan Saladoff... Episode 11 2011-10-26 Taylor Branch... Episode 12 2011-10-27 Toby Keith... Episode 13 2011-10-31 Neil MacGregor... Episode 14 2011-11-01 Yo-Yo Ma... Episode 15 2011-11-02 Michael Pollan... Episode 16 2011-11-03 Nathan Wolfe... Episode 17 2011-11-07 Niall Ferguson... Episode 18 2011-11-08 Seth Meyers... Episode 19 2011-11-09 Father James Martin... Episode 20 2011-11-10 Brian Eno... Episode 21 2011-11-14 Thomas Thwaites... Episode 22 2011-11-15 Elijah Wood... Episode 23 2011-11-16 Chris Matthews... Episode 24 2011-11-17 Susan Orlean... Episode 25 2011-11-28 Siddhartha Mukherjee... Episode 26 2011-11-29 Tinariwen... Episode 27 2011-11-30 Stephen Sondheim... Episode 28 2011-12-01 Richard Branson... Episode 29 2011-12-05 Jimmie Johnson... Episode 30 2011-12-06 The Black Keys... Episode 31 2011-12-07 David Hallberg... Episode 32 2011-12-08 Jack Abramoff... Episode 33 2011-12-12 Samuel L. Jackson... Episode 34 2011-12-13 Mark Whitaker... Episode 35 2011-12-14 Raymond Odierno... Episode 36 2011-12-15 Daniel Craig... Episode 37 2012-01-03 Sen. Bernie Sanders... Episode 38 2012-01-04 John Heilemann... Episode 39 2012-01-05 Steve Case... Episode 40 2012-01-09 Melissa Harris-Perry... Episode 41 2012-01-10 Bill Moyers... Episode 42 2012-01-11 George Stephanopoulos... Episode 43 2012-01-12 Mike Allen... Episode 44 2012-01-16 Scott Douglas... Episode 45 2012-01-17 Jennifer Granholm... Episode 46 2012-01-18 David Frum... Episode 47 2012-01-19 Carrie Rebora Barratt... Episode 48 2012-01-23 Bruce Bueno De Mesquita... Episode 49 2012-01-24 Andrew Sullivan... Episode 50 2012-01-25 Terry Gross... Episode 51 2012-01-26 Drew Barrymore... Episode 52 2012-01-30 Laurence H. Tribe... Episode 53 2012-01-31 Björk... Episode 54 2012-02-01 Ameena Matthews... Episode 55 2012-02-02 Christiane Amanpour... Episode 56 2012-02-13 Bill McKibben... Episode 57 2012-02-14 William J. Broad... Episode 58 2012-02-20 Ann Patchett... Episode 59 2012-02-21 Robert Kagan... Episode 60 2012-02-22 Nancy Pelosi... Episode 61 2012-02-23 Placido Domingo... Episode 62 2012-02-27 Peggielene Bartels... Episode 63 2012-02-28 Ross Eisenbrey... Episode 64 2012-02-29 William Shatner... Episode 65 2012-03-01 Claire Danes... Episode 66 2012-03-05 Audra McDonald... Episode 67 2012-03-06 Jonathan Safran Foer... Episode 68 2012-03-07 Willem Dafoe... Episode 69 2012-03-08 Don Fleming, Elvis Costel... Episode 70 2012-03-12 Katherine Boo... Episode 71 2012-03-13 Andrew Bird... Episode 72 2012-03-14 Mark McKinnon... Episode 73 2012-03-15 Dexter Filkins... Episode 74 2012-03-26 David Page... Episode 75 2012-03-27 Charles Murray... Episode 76 2012-03-28 Mark Ruffalo... Episode 77 2012-03-29 Peter Beinart... Episode 78 2012-04-02 Gary Johnson... Episode 79 2012-04-03 Nikki Haley... Episode 80 2012-04-04 Robert Ballard... Episode 81 2012-04-05 Anne Rice... Episode 82 2012-04-09 Bob Lutz... Episode 83 2012-04-10 Richard Hersh... Episode 84 2012-04-11 Michelle Obama... Episode 85 2012-04-12 James Cameron... Episode 86 2012-04-16 Bonnie Raitt... Episode 87 2012-04-17 Jonah Lehrer... Episode 88 2012-04-18 Arianna Huffington... Episode 89 2012-04-19 Tavis Smiley & Cornel Wes... Episode 90 2012-04-23 Don McLeroy... Episode 91 2012-04-24 Magnus Carlsen... Episode 92 2012-04-25 Michael Sandel... Episode 93 2012-04-26 Jack White... Episode 94 2012-04-30 Diane Keaton... Episode 95 2012-05-01 Carne Ross... Episode 96 2012-05-02 Jonathan Haidt... Episode 97 2012-05-03 Lena Dunham... Episode 98 2012-05-07 Andy Cohen... Episode 99 2012-05-08 Michelle Alexander... Episode 100 2012-05-09 Anna Wintour... Episode 101 2012-05-10 Dr. Francis Collins... Episode 102 2012-05-29 Charlize Theron... Episode 103 2012-05-30 Alan Alda... Episode 104 2012-05-31 Jack Hitt... Episode 105 2012-06-04 John Lewis... Episode 106 2012-06-05 Jill Biden... Episode 107 2012-06-06 Neil Patrick Harris... Episode 108 2012-06-07 Regina Spektor... Episode 109 2012-06-11 Martin Sheen... Episode 110 2012-06-12 Will Allen... Episode 111 2012-06-13 Greg Allman... Episode 112 2012-06-14 Steve Coll... Episode 113 2012-06-18 Paul Krugman... Episode 114 2012-06-19 Olivia Wilde... Episode 115 2012-06-20 Daniel Klaidman... Episode 116 2012-06-21 Lawrence Krauss... Episode 117 2012-06-25 Frank Deford... Episode 118 2012-06-26 Richard Ford... Episode 119 2012-06-27 Melinda Gates... Episode 120 2012-06-28 Aaron Sorkin... Episode 121 2012-07-16 Anne-Marie Slaughter... Episode 122 2012-07-17 Nas... Episode 123 2012-07-18 Mayor Annise D. Parker... Episode 124 2012-07-19 Lisa Jackson... Episode 125 2012-07-23 Vikram Gandhi... Episode 126 2012-07-24 James Fallows... Episode 127 2012-07-25 Dan Gross... Episode 128 2012-07-26 Peter Westmacott... Episode 129 2012-07-30 Joan Rivers... Episode 130 2012-07-31 Jeff Koons... Episode 131 2012-08-01 John Grunsfeld... Episode 132 2012-08-02 Chris Hayes... Episode 133 2012-08-06 Pete Seeger... Episode 134 2012-08-07 Mark Shriver... Episode 135 2012-08-08 Liza Mundy... Episode 136 2012-08-09 Woody Harrelson... Episode 137 2012-08-13 fun.... Episode 138 2012-08-14 Grizzly Bear... Episode 139 2012-08-15 Santigold... Episode 140 2012-08-16 The Flaming Lips... Episode 141 2012-08-28 Andrew Sullivan... Episode 142 2012-08-29 Jennifer Burns... Episode 143 2012-08-30 Jon Huntsman... Episode 144 2012-08-31 James Carville... Episode 145 2012-09-04 Reihan Salam... Episode 146 2012-09-05 Michael Grunwald... Episode 147 2012-09-06 Bill Richardson... Episode 148 2012-09-07 Ed Rendell... Episode 149 2012-09-17 Drew Faust... Episode 150 2012-09-18 Jeffrey Toobin... Episode 151 2012-09-19 Itzhak Perlman... Episode 152 2012-09-20 Errol Morris... Episode 153 2012-09-25 Claressa Shields... Episode 154 2012-09-26 Jim Holt... Episode 155 2012-09-27 Vince Gilligan...
