Tonight Stephen welcomes the Republican candidate for the New York Senate, Harold Ford Jr. Also, Stephen talks with sports psychologist Nicole Detling Miller and inline speed skate Jessica Smith.

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Season 6 Episode 17 of The Colbert Report resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

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• s06e01 - Erick Erickson
• s06e02 - Riley Crane
• s06e03 - Capt. Charles Moore
• s06e04 - James Fowler
• s06e05 - Morgan Freeman
• s06e06 - Raj Patel
• s06e07 - John Farmer
• s06e08 - Kathleen Sebelius
• s06e09 - Dr. Margaret Palmer, Emily Pilloton
• s06e10 - Amb. Stephen Bosworth
• s06e11 - Dick Ebersol
• s06e12 - John Farmer
• s06e13 - Kati Marton
• s06e14 - Paul Begala, Mika Brzezinski
• s06e15 - Arthur Benjamin
• s06e16 - David Gergen
• s06e17 - Nicole Detling Miller, Jessica Smith, Harold Ford Jr.
• s06e18 - Eliot Spitzer
• s06e19 - Peter Cove, John Durant
• s06e20 - Henry Louis Gates
• s06e21 - Jonathan Safran Foer
• s06e22 - George Stephanopoulos
• s06e23 - Claire Danes
• s06e24 - Al Michaels, David Ross
• s06e25 - Shaun White
• s06e26 - Shaun White
• s06e27 - Scott Hamilton, Jeret Peterson, Ryan St. Onge
• s06e28 - Shani Davis, Seth Wescott
• s06e29 - Don Cheadle
• s06e30 - David Brooks
• s06e31 - Garry Wills
• s06e32 - Barry Schwartz
• s06e33 - Tom Hanks
• s06e34 - Annie Leonard
• s06e35 - Sean Carroll
• s06e36 - David Aaronovitch
• s06e37 - Robert Baer
• s06e38 - Rebecca Skloot
• s06e39 - Nell Irvin Painter
• s06e40 - Mary Matalin
• s06e41 - Sen. Claire McCaskill
• s06e42 - Simon Johnson
• s06e43 - Craig Mullaney
• s06e44 - Judith Shulevitz
• s06e45 - Dean Kamen
• s06e46 - Joe Bastardi, Brenda Ekwurzel, Rev. Al Sharpton
• s06e47 - David Simon
• s06e48 - Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• s06e49 - Lisa Miller
• s06e50 - Jon Mooallem
• s06e51 - David Shields
• s06e52 - Aimee Mullins
• s06e53 - George Will
• s06e54 - Jeffrey Katzenberg
• s06e55 - Craig Robinson
• s06e56 - Gorillaz
• s06e57 - Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
• s06e58 - Conn Iggulden
• s06e59 - Gregg Easterbrook
• s06e60 - OK Go
• s06e61 - Elizabeth Warren
• s06e62 - Mark W. Moffett
• s06e63 - David Isay
• s06e64 - Stewart Brand
• s06e65 - Gov. Gary Johnson
• s06e66 - Hampton Sides
• s06e67 - Deepak Chopra
• s06e68 - The Hold Steady
• s06e69 - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• s06e70 - Lisa Miller
• s06e71 - Vampire Weekend
• s06e72 - James Carville, Jonathan Alter
• s06e73 - Mark Frauenfelder
• s06e74 - Sen. Sam Nunn
• s06e75 - Alan Bean
• s06e76 - Stephen Prothero
• s06e77 - Dr. Carl Safina
• s06e78 - Devo
• s06e79 - David Mamet
• s06e80 - Wes Moore
• s06e81 - Gloria Steinem
• s06e82 - Tim Westergren
• s06e83 - Michael Specter
• s06e84 - John Waters
• s06e85 - Mayor Julian Castro
• s06e86 - Nicholas Carr
• s06e87 - Manny Howard
• s06e88 - Dr. Michio Kaku
• s06e89 - Garret Keizer
• s06e90 - Steve Carell
• s06e91 - Arturo Rodriguez
• s06e92 - Hephzibah Anderson
• s06e93 - Kevin Kline
• s06e94 - Elon Musk
• s06e95 - Andy Cohen
• s06e96 - Jimmy Cliff
• s06e97 - Laura Ingraham
• s06e98 - Michael Posner
• s06e99 - Savion Glover
• s06e100 - Dylan Ratigan
• s06e101 - David Finkel
• s06e102 - Chuck Close
• s06e103 - Richard Clarke, John Fetterman
• s06e104 - Barry Levine
• s06e105 - Thomas French
• s06e106 - Jon Krakauer
• s06e107 - Leslie Kean
• s06e108 - Jeffrey Goldberg
• s06e109 - Heidi Cullen
• s06e110 - Richard Engel
• s06e111 - Anthony Romero
• s06e112 - Vice President Joe Biden, Gen. Raymond Odierno
• s06e113 - Sen. Jim Webb, Joshua Bleill, John Legend
• s06e114 - Lisa Birnbach
• s06e115 - Sean Wilentz
• s06e116 - Saul Griffith
• s06e117 - Christiane Amanpour
• s06e118 - Pavement
• s06e119 - Eric Schmidt
• s06e120 - Guillermo Del Toro
• s06e121 - Oscar Goodman
• s06e122 - Ken Burns
• s06e123 - Ross Douthat
• s06e124 - Steve Rattner
• s06e125 - Aaron Sorkin
• s06e126 - Eugene Robinson
• s06e127 - Leon Botstein
• s06e128 - Mavis Staples & Jeff Tweedy
• s06e129 - Davis Guggenheim
• s06e130 - Robert Reich
• s06e131 - Brendan Steinhauser
• s06e132 - Austan Goolsbee
• s06e133 - Bill Bryson
• s06e134 - Nicholas Negroponte
• s06e135 - Gary Wills
• s06e136 - Rep. Tom Perriello, Apolo Anton Ohno
• s06e137 - Maira Kalman
• s06e138 - Jonathan Alter
• s06e139 - Chrystia Freeland, David Frum
• s06e140 - Doris Kearns Goodwin
• s06e141 - Elvis Costello
• s06e142 - Reza Aslan
• s06e143 - Cee-Lo Green
• s06e144 - Martha Stewart
• s06e145 - Quincy Jones
• s06e146 - David Stern
• s06e147 - John Legend
• s06e148 - Ian Frazier
• s06e149 - Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, Dick Wolf
• s06e150 - Dan Savage
• s06e151 - Tom Vilsack
• s06e152 - Michelle Rhee
• s06e153 - David Stockman
• s06e154 - Garry Trudeau
• s06e155 - Julie Nixon Eisenhower & David Eisenhower
• s06e156 - Steve Martin
• s06e157 - Julie Taymor
• s06e158 - Patti Smith
• s06e159 - Stephen Sondheim
• s06e160 - Laird Hamilton
• s06e161 - Amy Sedaris, Paul Simon

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.