The BEST episodes of The Colbert Report season 3
Every episode of The Colbert Report season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Colbert Report season 3!
Tune in to The Colbert Report, as Stephen Colbert gives his own take on the issues of the day, and more importantly, to tell you why everyone else's take is just plain wrong. The series is a variety/news show revolving around Colbert's TV persona, a parody of opinionated cable news personalities like Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Joe Scarborough.
#1 - Tom Hayden
Season 3 - Episode 85 - Aired 6/25/2007
#2 - Jim Cramer
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/9/2007
Freem replaces superstantial in the opening sequence. Stephen thanks former Archbishop of Warsaw Stanis³aw Wielgus for being caught in a Catholic Church scandal of a non-sexual nature; scorns Democrats for taking a day off Congress for the college football National Championship game, with quick suggestion of taking a day off for a Ontario Junior League Hockey game; begins new segment "We the MEdiator" to pick sides in celebrity feuds, featuring Rosie O'Donnell vs. Donald Trump, Angelina Jolie vs. Madonna, and Amitabh Bachchan vs. Shahrukh Khan; and ends the show in tribute to James Brown by declaring himself the new "hardest working man in show business".
#3 - Richard Branson
Season 3 - Episode 110 - Aired 8/22/2007
In "Colbert Platinum", he talks about the shutting down of a helipad in Saint-Tropez and the growing demand for champagne. He then interviews Richard Branson about Virgin America and "Air Colbert". However, as the interview goes on, Branson and Stephen throw water over each other.
#4 - Stephen Colbert
Season 3 - Episode 128 - Aired 10/9/2007
#5 - David France
Season 3 - Episode 86 - Aired 6/26/2007
#6 - Bill O'Reilly
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/18/2007
The big day is here, so Stephen is crazy with anticipation that Bill O'Reilly will be on the show, stating that his only goal with this show was to see this day, which makes him reveal a "Mission Accomplished" banner and open the last door on his "Bill O'Reilly advent calendar" (in which he finds Geraldo's mustache). He then turns back to US politics talking about Bush's plans to rise the troop levels in Iraq. He then talks about fights between celebrities on his segment "We the MEdiator", rethinking his last week's judgements.
#7 - Richard Berman
Season 3 - Episode 135 - Aired 10/29/2007
#8 - Paulina Porizkova
Season 3 - Episode 51 - Aired 4/18/2007
On Who's NOT honoring me now, Stephen complained that he was not being awarded a Pulitzer Prize in journalism. In "The Word," Stephen suggested the corporate sponsorship of the War on Terror since the "War on Terror is more than a name." Video showed promoting bovine growth hormones in dairy cows.
#9 - Craig Newmark
Season 3 - Episode 134 - Aired 10/18/2007
#10 - Garry Kasparov
Season 3 - Episode 133 - Aired 10/17/2007
#11 - Bob Drogin
Season 3 - Episode 132 - Aired 10/16/2007
#12 - Paul Glastris
Season 3 - Episode 131 - Aired 10/15/2007
#13 - Chris Jordan
Season 3 - Episode 130 - Aired 10/11/2007
#14 - Charlie Savage
Season 3 - Episode 123 - Aired 10/1/2007
#15 - David Schwartz
Season 3 - Episode 122 - Aired 9/27/2007
Tonight Stephen welcomes the chief film curator of the Museum of Moving Image, David Schwartz.
#16 - Tony Bennett
Season 3 - Episode 121 - Aired 9/26/2007
Tonight, Stephen reports on NBC and iTunes, questions the validity of a third political party, and interviews Tony Bennett.
#17 - Thomas Friedman
Season 3 - Episode 119 - Aired 9/24/2007
Tonight Stephen welcomes New York Times columnist and author of The World is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Firedman
#18 - Jeffrey Toobin
Season 3 - Episode 118 - Aired 9/20/2007
Tonight Stephen welcomes legal writer and author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, Jeffrey Toobin.
#19 - Susan Sarandon
Season 3 - Episode 116 - Aired 9/18/2007
Tonight Stephen welcomes actress and activist and the co-star of In the Valley of Elah, Susan Sarandon.
#20 - Joel Klein
Season 3 - Episode 114 - Aired 9/12/2007
Tonight Stephen welcomes the chancellor of New York City Schools, Joel Klein.
#21 - Garrison Keillor
Season 3 - Episode 113 - Aired 9/11/2007
Tonight Stephen welcomes humorist and author of Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon, Garrison Keillor.
#22 - Michael Shermer
Season 3 - Episode 109 - Aired 8/21/2007
Stephen starts with the "Smokin' Pole: The Fight for Arctic Riches" segment, where he attacks Canada's claim to the Northwest Passage through the Arctic, claiming it belongs to the United States. In "The Word," Stephen attacks WikiScanner claiming it prevents corporations from editing their own entries, and describes Wikipedia as, "Second Life for corporations".
#23 - David Walker
Season 3 - Episode 55 - Aired 4/25/2007
Colbert decides that a new name is necessary for the long war, and comes up with Freemerican Victernity Made in China. He then backs the idea of having illegal immigrants fight in the armed services in exchange for citizenship. He points out his position on the cover of GQ, then complains about the Four Horsemen of the A-pop-calypse: movies, television, music, and books.
#24 - Daniel B. Smith
Season 3 - Episode 80 - Aired 6/14/2007