November 2012
The complete listing of ‘The Colbert Report’ episodes aired during the month of November, 2012.
Episode 9018: Thursday, November 1, 2012 - David Byrne & St. Vincent
Intro - 11/1/12 | Hurricane Sandy Traffic Ordeal | Tip/Wag - Constant Documentation & Billy Graham | David Byrne & St. Vincent (Album - “Love This Giant”) | David Byrne & St. Vincent - “Who” | Sign Off - American Red Cross - Hurricane Sand
Episode 9019: Monday, November 5, 2012 - Nate Silver
Colbert Super PAC - Severe Candidate Warning | Shame-Based Campaigning | Shame-Based Campaigning - Sasha Issenberg (Columnist and Author - “The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns”) | “Razor Tight” Presidential Election | Nate Silver (Blogger - “The New York Times” and Author - “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t”) | Sign Off - Go Vote!
Episode 9020: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - Andrew Sullivan
The Colbert Report Election 2012 – Who Will Replace Obama? ‘012 | The Colbert Report Election 2012 – Too Close to Call | Andrew Sullivan (Editor) | Senate Races & State Referenda | Sign Off – Election Reflections
Episode 9021: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 - Doris Kearns Goodwin
Staff Cameo(s): Max Werner
Intro - 11/7/12 | Four More Years of Hopey Change | Nontraditional Non-White America | Polling Irregularities & Vote-by-Phone Scam | Wind Power’s Health Hazards | Doris Kearns Goodwin (Presidential Historian) | Sign Off — Solace in a Bottle
Episode 9022: Thursday, November 8, 2012 - Rachel Maddow
Intro - 11/8/12 | Nor’easter & Mitt Romney | Difference Makers – Stephen Dick Jr. | The Plight of Platonic Relationships | Rachel Maddow (Host - “The Rachel Maddow Show” and Author - “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”) | Sign Off – Goodnight
Episode 9023: Monday, November 12, 2012 - Ken Burns
Special Guest(s): Jon Stewart | Trevor Potter | Ham Rove | Riley Dinello
David Petraeus’s “All In” Affair | Colbert Super PAC SHH! – Karl Rove & Jon Stewart | Colbert Super PAC SHH! – Secret Second 501c4 – Trevor Potter | Blitzkrieg on Grinchitude – Santa’s Pipe | Ken Burns (Documentarian - “The Dust Bowl”) | Sign Off – Goodbye Colbert Super PAC
Episode 9024: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - Newt Gingrich
Intro - 11/13/12 | 2072: Race to the White Orb | Tip/Wag – Pranab Mukherjee, Brazilian Scientists, Sonia Sotomayor | Newt Gingrich Pt. 1 (Speaker of the House) | Newt Gingrich Pt. 2 | Sign Off — Goodnight
Episode 9025: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 - Tony Kushner | Christopher Steiner
Intro - 11/14/12 | Who’s Attacking Me Now? – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | High-Frequency Trading | High-Frequency Trading – Christopher Steiner (Author - “Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World”) | Tony Kushner Pt. 1 (Screenwriter - “Lincoln”) | Tony Kushner Pt. 2 | Sign Off - Goodnight
Episode 9026: Thursday, November 15, 2012 - Chris Stringer
Intro - 11/15/12 | Millennial Generation Soup Campaign | General’s Hospital | Cheating Death – Flu-Fighting Meth | Chris Stringer (Paleoanthropologist and Author - “Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth”) | Sign Off – The Colbert Report’s Seventh Anniversary
Episode 9027: Monday, November 26, 2012 - Jake Tapper
Featured: Elvis Costello (via phone)
Intro - 11/26/12 | Stephen’s Thanksgiving & Holy Black Friday | Judge, Jury, & Executioner – Copyright Law | Blitzkrieg on Grinchitude – Pope Benedict XVI | Jake Tapper (Senior White House Correspondent and Author - “The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor”) | Sign Off - Goodnight
Episode 9028: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - Dolly Parton | Reihan Salam
Canada’s Grinch | The Fiscal Cliff Compromise | The Fiscal Cliff Compromise – Reihan Salam (Writer - “National Review” and Author - “Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream”) | Dolly Parton (Musician and Author - “Dream More: Celebrating the Dreamer in You”) | Stephen Colbert and Dolly Parton - “Love Is Like A Butterfly” | Sign Off – Country Chords
Episode 9029: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - Frank Oz
Intro - 11/28/12 | Record Powerball Jackpot | The Word – Sisters Are Doing It to Themselves | Filibuster Reform | Frank Oz (Director, Actor and Puppeteer)| Sign Off – Stephen’s Muppet
Episode 9030: Thursday, November 29, 2012 - Sean Carroll
Intro - 11/29/12 | Moon-Shattering News | Tip/Wag-Gay Rights Pioneers and Gun Dorms | Top 10 of 2012 & Operation Killing “Killing Kennedy” | Sean Carroll (Cosmologist and Author - “The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World” ) | Sign Off - Acceptance Speech