May 2011
The complete listing of ‘The Colbert Report’ episodes aired during the month of May, 2011.
Episode 7057: Monday, May 2, 2011 - Francis Fukuyama | Richard Haass
Intro - 5/2/11 | Long-Awaited “We Got Bin Laden” Party | Carefree Pre-9/11 World | Relations With Pakistan - Richard Haass (President of the Council on Foreign Relations) | Francis Fukuyama (Professor and Author - “The Origins of Political Order”) | Sign Off - Obama’s Timer Runs Out
Episode 7058: Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - Rex Ryan
Intro - 5/3/11 | Osama bin Laden Is Still Dead | Obama Takes Credit for Bin Laden’s Assassination | Journalistic Grintegrity | Rex Ryan (Football Coach and Author - “Play Like You Mean It”) | Sign Off - Special Kiss
Episode 7059: Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - Amy Farrell
Cameo(s): Katie Couric | David Letterman
Staff Cameo(s): Peter Gwinn (as Jimmy the Director)
Intro - 5/4/11 | Terrorists: They’re Just Like Us! | Stephen Searches for Shared Bathroom Key | Movies That Are Destroying America - Saving America Edition | Amy Farrell (Professor and Author - “Weight Shame”) | Sign Off - Goodnight
Episode 7060: Thursday, May 5, 2011 - Bill James
Stephen Confesses to a Distracted Media | ThreatDown - Superman, Madden NFL 12 & “Glee” | Inaugural Republican Presidential Debate & Donald Trump’s Wisdom | Bill James (Author - “Popular Crime”) | Sign Off - Dennis Kucinich Heat Vision
Episode 7061: Monday, May 9, 2011 - Lupe Fiasco
Exclusive: Lupe Fiasco - “I Don’t Wanna Care Right Now”
Intro - 5/9/11 | Hasidic Newspaper Removes Hillary Clinton | Herman Cain Wins the First Republican Presidential Debate | The Word - Autocratic for the People | Lupe Fiasco (Album - Lasers) | Lupe Fiasco - “Words I Never Said” feat. Skylar Grey | Sign Off - Lupe Fiasco’s “Lasers”
Episode 7062: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - Geoffrey Rush
Newt Gingrich & Donald Trump Announce Future Announcements | Yahweh or No Way - Thor & Apocalypse Billboard | Difference Makers - Donald Trump | Geoffrey Rush (Actor - “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”) | Sign Off - A Rare Correction
Episode 7063: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - Eric Greitens | Trevor Potter
Intro - 5/11/11 | Herman Cain Claims the Colbert Bump | Corp Constituency | Corp Constituency - Trevor Potter (Lawyer and Former Commissioner of the Federal Election Commission) | Award to the Wise | Eric Greitens (Navy SEAL and Author - “The Heart And The Fist”) | Sign Off - Press Hat
Episode 7064: Thursday, May 12, 2011 - John Bradshaw | Lawrence Wright
Intro - 5/12/11 | Obama’s Latino Panderfest | Terror, a New One | Terror, a New One - Lawrence Wright (Writer for the New Yorker and Author - “The Looming Tower”) | If at First You Don’t Secede | John Bradshaw (Director of the Anthrozoology Institute and Author - “Dog Sense”) | Sign Off - Stephen’s Super PAC Needs Support
Episode 7065: Monday, May 16, 2011 - Alison Klayman
Mike Huckabee & Donald Trump Drop Out | Fig Newton Gingrich 2012 | Stephen Files Super PAC Request | Alison Klayman (Journalist and Documentarian - “Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry”) | Sign Off - Goodnight
Episode 7066: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - Amy Kremer
Intro - 5/17/11 | World’s Oldest Panda Dies | The Word - Enhanced Rejustification | Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Sex Scandal | Amy Kremer (Director of the Tea Party Express PAC) | Sign Off - Goodnight
Episode 7067: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - Austan Goolsbee
Intro - 5/18/11 | Osama bin Laden’s Replacement | Tip/Wag - Ohio Legislature & Facebook | Breaking Newt | Austan Goolsbee (Chief Economist for President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board) | Sign Off - Long Austan Goolsbee Interview
Episode 7068: Thursday, May 19, 2011 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Special Guest(s): John Lithgow
John Lithgow Performs Gingrich Press Release | Better Know a District - Illinois’ 18th - Aaron Schock Update | Clergy-Matic Ecclesi-Action Center 3:16 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Basketball Player and Writer for “On the Shoulders of Giants”) | Sign Off - History of Life on Earth
Episode 7069: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 – James Stewart | Trevor Potter
Intro - 5/31/11 | Charleston to Bermuda Yacht Race | Sarah Palin’s Bus Tour | FEC Questions – Trevor Potter | Invisible Judgment | James Stewart (Journalist and Author - “Tangled Webs”) | Sign Off - Goodnight