Tonight Stephen welcomes journalist and author of The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring, Richard Preston.

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Season 3 Episode 61 of The Colbert Report resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

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• s03e01 - Ethan Nadelman
• s03e02 - Jim Cramer
• s03e03 - David Camp
• s03e04 - Judy Woodruff
• s03e05 - Alex Kuczynski
• s03e06 - Dinesh D'Souza
• s03e07 - Richard Clarke
• s03e08 - Bill O'Reilly
• s03e09 - Thomas Schaller
• s03e10 - Michael Steele
• s03e11 - Lou Dobbs
• s03e12 - Mike Wallace
• s03e13 - Barry Lando
• s03e14 - Donna Shalala
• s03e15 - Jed Babbin
• s03e16 - Sen. Charles Schumer
• s03e17 - Wendy Kopp
• s03e18 - Charlie LeDuff
• s03e19 - Steven Pinker
• s03e20 - Chris Hedges
• s03e21 - Michael Oppenheimer
• s03e22 - Sheryl WuDunn
• s03e23 - Lance Armstrong
• s03e24 - Shashi Tharoor
• s03e25 - Zev Chafets
• s03e26 - Dr. Craig Venter
• s03e27 - Nina Jablonski
• s03e28 - Larry King
• s03e29 - Mara Vanderslice
• s03e30 - Mark Frauenfelder
• s03e31 - Michael Specter
• s03e32 - Ted Koppel
• s03e33 - Nicholas D. Kristof
• s03e34 - Michael Eric Dyson
• s03e35 - Ed Viesturs
• s03e36 - Ayann Hirsi Ali
• s03e37 - Jerome Groopman
• s03e38 - Willie Nelson
• s03e39 - Benjamin Barber
• s03e40 - Katie Couric
• s03e41 - John Perry Barlow
• s03e42 - Madeline Albright, James Fallows
• s03e43 - Jabari Asim
• s03e44 - Clive James
• s03e45 - Katrina vanden Heuvel
• s03e46 - Jeanette Walls
• s03e47 - Vali Nasr
• s03e48 - Dr. Richard Land
• s03e49 - Senator John Kerry
• s03e50 - Elaine Pagels
• s03e51 - Paulina Porizkova
• s03e52 - Sean Penn
• s03e53 - Russell Simmons
• s03e54 - Dr. Andrew Weil
• s03e55 - David Walker
• s03e56 - Tom Wolfe
• s03e57 - Bill Bradley
• s03e58 - Malcolm Gladwell
• s03e59 - Gina Kolata
• s03e60 - Conn Iggulden
• s03e61 - Richard Preston
• s03e62 - Nassim Taleb
• s03e63 - Jane Fonda
• s03e64 - Jann Wenner
• s03e65 - William Langewiesche
• s03e66 - Walter Isaacson
• s03e67 - Howard Dean
• s03e68 - Tom DeLay
• s03e69 - Jared Diamond
• s03e70 - John Amaechi
• s03e71 - Bob Deans
• s03e72 - Jimmy Wales
• s03e73 - Leon Botstein
• s03e74 - Jessica Valenti
• s03e75 - Carl Bernstein
• s03e76 - Cullen Murphy
• s03e77 - Dr. Michael. D. Gershon
• s03e78 - Josh Wolf
• s03e79 - Ron Paul
• s03e80 - Daniel B. Smith
• s03e81 - Toby Keith
• s03e82 - Anne-Marie Slaughter
• s03e83 - Will Schwalbe
• s03e84 - Vincent Bugliosi
• s03e85 - Tom Hayden
• s03e86 - David France
• s03e87 - Daniel Gilbert
• s03e88 - Doug Bailey
• s03e89 - Ben Nelson
• s03e90 - Mark Moffett
• s03e91 - John Mellencamp
• s03e92 - Frank Sulloway
• s03e93 - Simon Schama
• s03e94 - Anthony Romero
• s03e95 - Charles Kaiser
• s03e96 - Robert Schrum
• s03e97 - Evan Osnos
• s03e98 - Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
• s03e99 - Michael R. Bechloss
• s03e100 - Michael J. Behe
• s03e101 - Ian Bogost
• s03e102 - Tina Brown
• s03e103 - Judd Apatow
• s03e104 - Michael Jacobson
• s03e105 - Spencer Wells
• s03e106 - Michael Wallis
• s03e107 - Andrew Keen
• s03e108 - Nathan Sawaya
• s03e109 - Michael Shermer
• s03e110 - Richard Branson
• s03e111 - Wrist Watch Ends
• s03e112 - Bjorn Lomborg
• s03e113 - Garrison Keillor
• s03e114 - Joel Klein
• s03e115 - Ed Begley Jr
• s03e116 - Susan Sarandon
• s03e117 - Naomi Wolf
• s03e118 - Jeffrey Toobin
• s03e119 - Thomas Friedman
• s03e120 - John Grisham
• s03e121 - Tony Bennett
• s03e122 - David Schwartz
• s03e123 - Charlie Savage
• s03e124 - John Mearsheimer
• s03e125 - Jim Lovell
• s03e126 - John Kao
• s03e127 - George Saunders
• s03e128 - General Wesley Clark
• s03e130 - Chris Jordan
• s03e131 - Paul Glastris
• s03e132 - Bob Drogin
• s03e133 - Garry Kasparov
• s03e134 - Craig Newmark
• s03e135 - Richard Berman
• s03e136 - Craig Venter
• s03e137 - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
• s03e138 - Walter Kirn

The Colbert Report Show Summary

The Colbert Report (the t is silent in both "Colbert" and "Report") is an American satirical late night television program that airs Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central. It stars political humorist Stephen Colbert, a former correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

The Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that comments on politics and the media in a similar way. It satirizes conservative personality-driven political pundit programs, particularly Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor. The show focuses on a fictional anchorman character named Stephen Colbert, played by his real-life namesake. The character, described by Colbert as a "well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot", is a caricature of televised political pundits.