The BEST episodes of The Colbert Report season 5
Every episode of The Colbert Report season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Colbert Report season 5!
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 - General Raymond Odierno
Season 5 - Episode 76 - Aired 6/8/2009
General Ray Odierno steps up to the plate to be Stephen’s first guest in Iraq.
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#2 - Specialist Tareq Salha, Sgt. Robin Balcom
Season 5 - Episode 77 - Aired 6/9/2009
Stephen welcomes Sergeant Robin Balcom and Specialist Tareq Salha to his international desk of wisdom and truthiness.
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#3 - Command Sgt. Major Frank Grippe
Season 5 - Episode 79 - Aired 6/11/2009
George W. Bush praises the troops, and Frank A. Grippe orders his officers to sing the Army song.
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#4 - Lieutenant General Charles Jacoby
Season 5 - Episode 78 - Aired 6/10/2009
Tom Hanks and Stephen prepare a care package, and Charles H. Jacoby Jr. picks his favorite soldier.
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#5 - Benicio Del Toro
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/7/2009
Benicio Del Toro talks about meeting Castro to prepare for "Che."
#6 - Movits
Season 5 - Episode 100 - Aired 7/27/2009
A report on tasers may shock you, and Swedish band Movits! helps Stephen put his Ikea futon together
#7 - John King
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/2009
Stephen congratulates John King and the rest of the media on getting Obama elected.
#8 - Paul Muldoon
Season 5 - Episode 83 - Aired 6/18/2009
Someone finally agrees to accept Gitmo detainees, and Stephen nails poet Paul Muldoon.
#9 - Ron Howard
Season 5 - Episode 65 - Aired 5/12/2009
Tonight Stephen welcomes the producer & director of Angels & Demons, Ron Howard. Also, Stephen talks with the head of Latin American Division of the Council on Foreign Relations, Julia Sweig about Cuba.
#10 - J. J. Abrams
Season 5 - Episode 60 - Aired 5/4/2009
The Prescott Group needs a bailout, and J.J. Abrams reveals clues to Stephen's Persian Gulf mystery.
#11 - Carl Wilson
Season 5 - Episode 31 - Aired 3/4/2009
Carl Wilson tries to understand the popularity of Celine Dion in "Let's Talk About Love" and will NASA name part of the space station after Stephen if he changes his name to Stephen Urine Filtration System?
#12 - Helen Fisher
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 2/23/2009
Tonight Stephen welcomes the chief scientific advisor for chemistry.com, anthropology professor and author of Why Him? Why Her?: Finding Real Love By Understanding Your Personality Type, Helen Fisher.
#13 - Matt Miller
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/6/2009
Matt Miller says the government must make sure we have basic securities like health care and pensions.
#14 - Cornel West
Season 5 - Episode 135 - Aired 10/26/2009
Stephen criticizes Washington State, endorses your job application and disagrees with everything Cornel West stands for.
#15 - Alicia Keys
Season 5 - Episode 160 - Aired 12/15/2009
John Slattery sells gold, Stephen relays the story of Treesus, and Alicia Keys performs her hit song.
#16 - Pastor Ed Young
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/26/2009
Obama changes Bush's policy on science, and Ed Young thinks married people should have more sex.
#17 - Meghan McCain
Season 5 - Episode 68 - Aired 5/18/2009
Meghan McCain loves the Republican Party and wants to save it from the people trying to make it more extreme.
#18 - Brian Cox
Season 5 - Episode 137 - Aired 10/28/2009
Stephen finds out what broke the largest particle accelerator and preps for his interview with Brian Cox by watching "Baby Einstein" tapes.
#19 - Frank Bruni
Season 5 - Episode 119 - Aired 9/17/2009
Stephen resurrects the U.S. military technique of staring at a goats and Frank Bruni talks about mastering his addiction to compulsive eating as a food critic for the New York Times.
#20 - Bill McKibben
Season 5 - Episode 112 - Aired 8/17/2009
Reporters get so desperate they'll even work for a newspaper, and Bill McKibben lowers carbon dioxide levels by not exhaling when he talks.
#21 - Matthew Crawford
Season 5 - Episode 86 - Aired 6/24/2009
The Jonas Brothers don't abstain from making awesome rock, and Matthew Crawford believes in working with his hands.
#22 - Joshua Micah Marshall
Season 5 - Episode 82 - Aired 6/17/2009
Sonia Sotomayor belongs to an exclusive women's-only club, and Joshua Micah Marshall won't be doing the pointing and talking.
#23 - Austan Goolsbee
Season 5 - Episode 80 - Aired 6/15/2009
Stephen gives advice to the next leader of North Korea, and asks Austan Goolsbee if his arm gets tired from throwing money at problems.
#24 - Phil Bronstein
Season 5 - Episode 47 - Aired 4/8/2009
Tonight Stephen welcomes the editor at large for the San Francisco Chronicle, Phil Bronstein.
#25 - Kris Kristofferson
Season 5 - Episode 28 - Aired 2/26/2009
Stephen wants to know how Kris Kristofferson can be a country musician and a liberal at the same time.