Cast
Stephen Colbert
Self - Host • 1447 episodes
Rick Springfield
Self • 1 episodes
Peggy Noonan
Self • 1 episodes
George Wendt
Santa • 1 episodes
Catherine Crier
Self • 1 episodes
Maureen Dowd
Self • 1 episodes
Barry Manilow
• 1 episodes
Douglas Brinkley
• 1 episodes
Al Franken
Self • 2 episodes
Nas
Self • 2 episodes
Bob Costas
Self • 1 episodes
Cokie Roberts
Self • 1 episodes
Annie Duke
Self • 1 episodes
Kevin Bacon
Self • 2 episodes
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Self • 1 episodes
Fareed Zakaria
Self • 1 episodes
Greg Behrendt
Self • 1 episodes
Richard Preston Jr.
Self • 1 episodes
Randy Newman
• 1 episodes
J.J. Abrams
Self • 2 episodes
Barbara Boxer
Self • 2 episodes
Mark Cuban
Self • 2 episodes
Harry Smith
Self • 1 episodes
Amy Goodman
Self • 2 episodes
Christopher Noxon
• 1 episodes
Steve Martin
Self • 2 episodes
Jane Fonda
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Mike Lupica
• 1 episodes
Peter Beinart
Self • 2 episodes
Daniel Ellsberg
Self • 2 episodes
John Kasich
• 1 episodes
Leslie Feist
Self • 1 episodes
Bob Kerrey
Self • 1 episodes
Deepak Chopra
Self • 2 episodes
Michael Moore
Self • 2 episodes
Dermot Mulroney
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Self • 1 episodes
Gideon Yago
• 1 episodes
Neil Young
Self - Musical Guest • 3 episodes
Malcolm Gladwell
Self • 2 episodes
Lisa Loeb
Self • 1 episodes
Cornel West
Self • 2 episodes
Stone Phillips
Self • 2 episodes
David Gergen
Self • 1 episodes
Dave Marash
Self • 1 episodes
Jeff Daniels
Self • 2 episodes
Paul Dinello
Tad • 2 episodes
Jim Lehrer
• 1 episodes
William Kristol
Self • 1 episodes
Tim Robbins
Self • 2 episodes
Ted Danson
• 1 episodes
Emily Yoffe
Self • 1 episodes
Al Gore
Self • 2 episodes
George Stephanopoulos
Self • 3 episodes
Tony Hawk
• 1 episodes
Jim Lovell
Self • 2 episodes
Monica Crowley
Self • 1 episodes
Stephen Sondheim
Self • 2 episodes
Robin Givhan
Self • 1 episodes
Ron Suskind
Self • 1 episodes
Sam Waterston
• 1 episodes
Andrew Sullivan
Self • 4 episodes
Rachel Maddow
• 1 episodes
Eugene Jarecki
• 1 episodes
Charlie Rose
• 1 episodes
Salman Khan
• 1 episodes
Gary Sinise
Self • 1 episodes
Robin Wright
• 1 episodes
Drew Barrymore
• 1 episodes
Diane Keaton
• 1 episodes
Bob Schieffer
• 1 episodes
Garry Kasparov
• 1 episodes
Lynn Swann
• 1 episodes
Richard Dawkins
• 1 episodes
Amy Sedaris
• 1 episodes
Ang Lee
• 1 episodes
John Mellencamp
• 1 episodes
Erik Weiner
• 1 episodes
Carole King
• 1 episodes
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Self • 3 episodes
Harry Shearer
• 1 episodes
R. James Woolsey, Jr.
Self • 1 episodes
Garry Trudeau
• 1 episodes
Donna Shalala
• 1 episodes
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
• 1 episodes
Toby Keith
Self • 3 episodes
Quincy Jones
• 1 episodes
Jon Stewart
Self • 8 episodes
Jimmie Johnson
• 1 episodes
Jon Stewart
Self - Guest • 8 episodes
Martin Short
• 1 episodes
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Self • 3 episodes
Lorraine Bracco
• 1 episodes
Alison Becker
• 1 episodes
Hillary Clinton
Self • 1 episodes
Bill Clinton
• 1 episodes
Ric Ocasek
• 1 episodes
Jim Webb
• 1 episodes
James Taylor
• 1 episodes
Tony Danza
• 1 episodes
Steve Carell
• 1 episodes
Frank Luntz
• 1 episodes
Mark Ruffalo
• 1 episodes
James Cameron
• 1 episodes
Nina Totenberg
Self • 1 episodes
Donald Faison
Self • 1 episodes
Frank McCourt
Self • 1 episodes
Mike Wallace
• 1 episodes
Ira Glass
• 1 episodes
Julie Taymor
• 1 episodes
Lupe Fiasco
• 1 episodes
Geoffrey Rush
• 1 episodes
Daniel Craig
• 1 episodes
Dinesh D'Souza
• 1 episodes
Sherman Alexie
• 1 episodes
Kathryn Bigelow
• 1 episodes
Sugar Ray Leonard
• 1 episodes
Kevin Mitnick
• 1 episodes
William Shatner
• 1 episodes
Audra McDonald
• 1 episodes
Caroline Kennedy
• 1 episodes
David McCullough
• 1 episodes
Austan Goolsbee
• 1 episodes
Eric McCormack
Self • 1 episodes
Ethan Nadelmann
• 1 episodes
Wesley Clark
• 1 episodes
Elijah Wood
• 1 episodes
James Franco
• 1 episodes
Björk
Self - Musical Guest • 1 episodes
John Lithgow
• 1 episodes
Ron Howard
• 1 episodes
Tom Vilsack
Self • 1 episodes
Julie Andrews
Self - Grimm Colberty Tales • 1 episodes
John Heilemann
• 1 episodes
Charles Murray
• 1 episodes
Bonnie Raitt
• 1 episodes
Yo-Yo Ma
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Alan Alda
• 1 episodes
Mike Tyson
• 1 episodes
Piers Gibbon
• 1 episodes
Buzz Aldrin
• 1 episodes
Olivia Wilde
• 1 episodes
Peter Frampton
Self • 1 episodes
Howard Dean
Self • 1 episodes
Neil Gaiman
• 1 episodes
Larry King
• 1 episodes
Patti Smith
• 1 episodes
Christiane Amanpour
Self • 3 episodes
Anthony Bourdain
• 1 episodes
Anderson Cooper
Self • 2 episodes
Anderson Cooper
Self (archive footage) • 2 episodes
Jeff Bridges
• 1 episodes
Michelle Obama
Self • 1 episodes
David Frum
• 1 episodes
Martin Sheen
• 1 episodes
Aaron Sorkin
• 1 episodes
Jimmy Fallon
• 1 episodes
Morgan Spurlock
• 1 episodes
David Letterman
• 1 episodes
Jack White
Self • 4 episodes
Tavis Smiley
Self • 1 episodes
Al Sharpton
Self • 2 episodes
Al Sharpton
Self (archive footage) • 2 episodes
Frank Deford
• 1 episodes
Bill O'Reilly
• 1 episodes
George Saunders
Self • 1 episodes
Jesse Ventura
• 1 episodes
Maria Shriver
• 1 episodes
Kris Kristofferson
• 1 episodes
Carl Wilson
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Elvis Costello
Self • 2 episodes
Nancy Pelosi
• 1 episodes
Anne Rice
• 1 episodes
Regina Spektor
• 1 episodes
Debra Dickerson
• 1 episodes
Meryl Streep
• 1 episodes
John Legend
Self • 2 episodes
Werner Herzog
• 1 episodes
Brian Cox
• 1 episodes
Jeri Kehn Thompson
• 1 episodes
John Grisham
• 1 episodes
Tony Snow
• 1 episodes
Grover Norquist
Self • 1 episodes
Nora Ephron
• 1 episodes
Surya Das
• 1 episodes
Muhammad Yunus
• 1 episodes
Ron Reagan
Self • 1 episodes
Richard Branson
• 1 episodes
Deborah Tannen
• 1 episodes
Peter Singer
• 1 episodes
Chris Matthews
Self • 6 episodes
Seth Meyers
• 1 episodes
Chris Matthews
Self - Guest • 6 episodes
Reza Aslan
Self • 3 episodes
Claire Danes
• 1 episodes
Diane Sawyer
• 1 episodes
Samuel L. Jackson
• 1 episodes
Willem Dafoe
• 1 episodes
Neil Patrick Harris
• 1 episodes
Niall Ferguson
• 1 episodes
Lou Dobbs
Self • 4 episodes
Jeffrey Sachs
• 1 episodes
Lou Dobbs
Self (archive footage) • 4 episodes
Thomas L. Friedman
Self • 1 episodes
Michael Phelps
• 1 episodes
Scott McClellan
Self • 2 episodes
Scott McClellan
Self (archive footage) • 2 episodes
Geraldo Rivera
• 1 episodes
Charlize Theron
Self • 2 episodes
Charlize Theron
Self (archive footage) • 2 episodes
Brian Eno
• 1 episodes
Lisa Jackson
• 1 episodes
Arianna Huffington
Self • 4 episodes
Barbara Walters
• 1 episodes
Arianna Huffington
Self - Guest - The Huffington Post • 4 episodes
Cat Stevens
• 1 episodes
Harry Belafonte
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Martha Stewart
• 1 episodes
David Copperfield
Self (archive footage) • 2 episodes
David Copperfield
Self • 2 episodes
Laird Hamilton
• 1 episodes
Tom Brokaw
• 1 episodes
Steve Coll
• 1 episodes
David Brooks
Self • 2 episodes
David Gregory
Self • 1 episodes
Bradley Whitford
Self • 1 episodes
Gloria Steinem
Self • 2 episodes
Sarah Vowell
Self • 1 episodes
Maz Jobrani
Self • 1 episodes
Helen Thomas
Self • 1 episodes
Keith Olbermann
Self • 2 episodes
Conan O'Brien
• 1 episodes
Talib Kweli
• 1 episodes
John Edwards
Self • 1 episodes
Paul Simon
• 1 episodes
Ken Burns
Self • 4 episodes
Steven Van Zandt
Self • 1 episodes
Ralph Nader
Self • 1 episodes
Jeff Goldblum
Self - Guest • 5 episodes
Jeff Goldblum
Self • 5 episodes
Lena Dunham
• 1 episodes
Tim Meadows
Self • 3 episodes
Emmylou Harris
• 1 episodes
Rick Nielsen
Self • 1 episodes
Gary Hart
Self • 1 episodes
John Oliver
Self • 1 episodes
Andrew Young
Self • 1 episodes
Michael Stipe
Self • 2 episodes
Ariel Levy
Self • 1 episodes
Henry Kissinger
Self • 2 episodes
Ed Helms
Self • 1 episodes
Carl Bernstein
Self • 1 episodes
Michael Smerconish
Self • 1 episodes
Mike Huckabee
Self • 4 episodes
Mike Mills
Self • 1 episodes
Peter Buck
Self • 1 episodes
Morley Safer
Self • 1 episodes
Sarah Palin
Self • 1 episodes
Jamie Oliver
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Jeffrey Tambor
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Mike Mullen
Self • 1 episodes
Lynn Sherr
Self • 1 episodes
James M. McPherson
Self • 1 episodes
Leon Wieseltier
Self • 1 episodes
Carol Burnett
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Robert Plant
Self - Musical Guest • 1 episodes
Walter Isaacson
Self • 1 episodes
Justin Simien
Self • 1 episodes
William Deresiewicz
Self • 1 episodes
Meredith Vieira
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Jill Lepore
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Eva Longoria
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Alexandra Pelosi
Self • 1 episodes
John McCain
Self • 2 episodes
John McCain
Self - Guest • 2 episodes
Alan Dershowitz
Self • 1 episodes
Paul Begala
Self • 1 episodes
Eliot Spitzer
Self • 2 episodes
John Lewis
• 1 episodes
Kevin Spacey
Self • 2 episodes
Richard Brodhead
• 1 episodes
Michael Jackson
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Martin Bashir
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Christian Valdemar Henri John
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Mary Elizabeth Donaldson
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Jack Kingston
Self • 1 episodes
Katie Holmes
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
David Cross
Self • 4 episodes
Gina Kolata
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
David Cross
Russ Lieber (voice) (uncredited) • 4 episodes
Juliet Huddy
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Mike Jerrick
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Saddam Hussein
Self (archive footage) • 2 episodes
Jim Cramer
Self • 1 episodes
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Self (archive footage from Meet the Press 10/24/2005) • 1 episodes
Trace Gallagher
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Kathleen P.
Self - Voice (caller from Austin, Texas) • 1 episodes
Cheryl G.
Self - Voice (caller from St. Paul, Minnesota) • 1 episodes
Ana L.
Self - Voice (caller from Memphis, Tennessee) • 1 episodes
Aaron B.
Self - Voice (caller from Buffalo, New York) • 1 episodes
Steve Doocy
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Brian Kilmeade
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Ainsley Earhardt
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Self • 2 episodes
Patrick Fitzgerald
Self (archive footage from a press conference 10/28/2005) • 1 episodes
Ken Mehlman
Self (archive footage from Meet the Press 10/30/2005) • 1 episodes
Andy Cohen
Self • 2 episodes
Andy Cohen
Self - Guest • 2 episodes
Camilla Shand
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Tom Cruise
Maverick (archive footage) • 2 episodes
Eric Drysdale
Bobby (uncredited) • 3 episodes
Tom Cruise
Self (archive footage) • 2 episodes
Harry Reid
Self (archive footage) • 2 episodes
Bruce Feiler
Self • 1 episodes
Kelly Wallace
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Tom Hanks
Self - Guest • 2 episodes
Tom Hanks
Self • 2 episodes
Robyn Curnow
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Don Teague
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Drew Rosenhaus
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Terrell Owens
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Mary Roach
Self • 1 episodes
John Mica
Self • 1 episodes
Juan Gabriel
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Mark Udall
Self • 1 episodes
Matt Taibbi
Self • 1 episodes
Deborah M.
Self - Caller from Austin, Texas • 1 episodes
Colton W.
Self - Caller from Poulsboro, Washington • 1 episodes
Bill R.
Self - Caller from Canada • 1 episodes
Leyla K.
Self - Caller from Waukesha, Wisconsin • 1 episodes
Brian Greene
Self • 1 episodes
Barney Frank
Self • 3 episodes
Barney Frank
Self (archive footage) • 3 episodes
Jerry Mitchell
Self • 1 episodes
Tom Skerritt
Viper (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Randy Cunningham
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Lesley Stahl
Self • 1 episodes
Larry Craig
Self (uncredited) • 1 episodes
Charlie Crist
Self • 1 episodes
Jerry Nadler
Self • 1 episodes
Jackie Speier
Self • 1 episodes
Chris Dodd
Self • 2 episodes
Chris Dodd
Self (archive footage) • 2 episodes
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Self • 1 episodes
John Dingell
Self • 1 episodes
Judy Woodruff
Self • 1 episodes
Phil Klay
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Kendrick Lamar
Self - Musical Guest • 1 episodes
Seth Rogen
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Sarah Koenig
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
James Corden
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Barack Obama
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Paul Farmer
Self • 1 episodes
Christopher Nolan
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe
Self • 1 episodes
Bill Berry
Self • 1 episodes
Rob Ford
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Byron Dorgan
Self • 2 episodes
Jeffrey Toobin
Self • 1 episodes
Billie Joe Armstrong
Self • 1 episodes
Tré Cool
Self • 1 episodes
Mike Dirnt
Self • 1 episodes
Bill Bradley
Self • 1 episodes
Scott McCaughey
Self • 1 episodes
Bill Rieflin
Self • 1 episodes
Matthew Weiner
Self • 1 episodes
Tony Bennett
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Lady Gaga
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Toni Morrison
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Bernie Sanders
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Jennifer Lawrence
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Terence Tao
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Diane von Fürstenberg
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Kirsten Gillibrand
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Chuck Todd
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Vince Gilligan
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Daniel Radcliffe
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Paul Giamatti
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Orlando Bloom
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Julius Erving
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Patrick Stewart
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Jay Carney
Self - Guest • 1 episodes
Crew
Camera
Ron Washburn
Camera Operator • 2 episodes
Dante Pagano
Camera Operator
Tore Livia
Camera Operator
John Harrison
Camera Operator
John Meiklejohn
Camera Operator
Lighting
Stan Crocker
Lighting Design • 6 episodes
Cory Schaub
Electrician
Michael Scricca
Lighting Director
Costa Leonardos
Gaffer
Cory Schaub
Gaffer
Dirk Delacour
Electrician
Production
Stephen Colbert
Executive Producer • 1407 episodes
Jon Stewart
Executive Producer • 1407 episodes
Meredith Bennett
Line Producer • 12 episodes
Meredith Bennett
Executive Producer • 1375 episodes
Glenn Eichler
Consulting Producer • 10 episodes
Allison Silverman
Supervising Producer • 32 episodes
Allison Silverman
Executive Producer • 1375 episodes
Jeremy Tchaban
Post Production Coordinator
Tanya Michnevich
Producer
Tom Purcell
Executive Producer
Kate Sunbury-Shupp
Production Coordinator
Jeff Cooperman
Producer
Ben Karlin
Executive Producer
Rebecca Rosenberg
Researcher
Meg DeFrancesco
Production Assistant
Rich Dahm
Producer
Liz Russomanno
Production Assistant
Nick Vasile
Production Assistant
Gabe Gronli
Production Assistant
Brock Mahan
Researcher
Adam Wager
Production Assistant
Emily Lazar
Producer
Julia Lipkins
Researcher
Philip Knittel
Production Assistant
Joshua Bell
Accountant
Richard Korson
Executive In Charge Of Production
Kim Gamble
Associate Producer
Lou Wallach
Executive In Charge Of Production
Barry Julien
Producer
Matt Lappin
Producer
Rich Dahm
Supervising Producer
Matt Lappin
Associate Producer
John Bedolis
Coordinating Producer
Bryan Dinello
Production Assistant
Tanya Michnevich
Production Manager
Paul Dinello
Producer
Mark Therrien
Associate Producer
Tom Purcell
Consulting Producer
Emily Lazar
Co-Executive Producer
Tanya Michnevich
Supervising Producer
Barry Julien
Co-Executive Producer
Meredith Bennett
Co-Executive Producer
Tom Purcell
Executive Producer
Paul Dinello
Supervising Producer
Matt Lappin
Supervising Producer
Visual Effects
Ryan Suits
Visual Effects • 32 episodes
Writing
Stephen Colbert
Writer • 5 episodes
Glenn Eichler
Writer • 2 episodes
Dan Guterman
Writer • 4 episodes
Laura Krafft
Writer • 12 episodes
Allison Silverman
Writer • 14 episodes
Peter Grosz
Writer • 2 episodes
Paul Dinello
Writer
Tom Purcell
Writer
Scott Sherman
Writer
Nate Charny
Writer
Michael Brumm
Writer
Bobby Mort
Writer
Rich Dahm
Writer
Bryan Adams
Writer
Frank Lesser
Writer
Meredith Scardino
Writer
Eric Drysdale
Writer
Opus Moreschi
Writer
Alex Cooley
Writers' Assistant
Jay Katsir
Writer
Barry Julien
Writer
Max Werner
Writer
Peter Gwinn
Writer
Rob Dubbin
Writer