The Colbert Report

Kathryn Bigelow

Season 5 • 07/30/2009

Kathryn Bigelow portrays the dangerous job of bomb disposal in her war movie, "The Hurt Locker."

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The Colbert ReportS5
Sport Report - Tour de France & Robotic Baseball

A person who isn't Lance Armstrong wins the Tour de France, and Japanese robots make baseball interesting.
07/29/2009
00:21

The Colbert ReportS5
Sign Off - Watch Without Blinking

If you watch this episode again without blinking, you get three percent more programming.
07/29/2009
03:04

The Colbert ReportS5
Frank the Roommate

After Viacom's profits fall by 32%, Stephen cuts his costs by taking on a roommate.
07/29/2009
05:17

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Kevin Baker

Kevin Baker believes President Obama sees what needs to be done but is too reluctant to break with Congress.
07/29/2009
06:51

The Colbert ReportS5
The Word - He Who Smelt It, Dealt It

Racism is nothing more than an unpleasant nuisance that is best to ignore, like a fart.
07/29/2009
02:49

The Colbert ReportS5
White House Beer Summit

Barack Obama, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and James Crowley insist on three different brands of foreign beer for their White House meeting.
07/30/2009
00:14

The Colbert ReportS5
Intro - 7/30/09

Stephen can't start the show because his roommate, Frank, is sitting at his desk.
07/30/2009
03:55

The Colbert ReportS5
Tip/Wag - Man-Words & Movits!

Educators ban man-words from textbooks, and Stephen discovers America's newest pop sensation, Movits!
07/30/2009
02:06

The Colbert ReportS5
Sign Off - Taco Bell Spokesdog

Taco Bell's beloved spokesdog, Gidget, is on a farm upstate, playing with other dogs that are dead.
07/30/2009
05:55

The Colbert ReportS5
MeTunes - Hit of the Summer

Stephen can't get behind current hits from The Black Eyed Peas, Jeremih and Sean Kingston, so he creates his own song of the summer.
07/30/2009
04:37

The Colbert ReportS5
Kathryn Bigelow

Kathryn Bigelow's war movie, "The Hurt Locker," is getting great reviews, despite not having explosions and ear-splitting sound effects.
07/30/2009
05:07

The Colbert ReportS5
Tony Zinni

General Tony Zinni cites David Petraeus, Barack Obama and Richard Branson as examples of great leaders.
08/03/2009
00:03

The Colbert ReportS5
Sign Off - Goodnight

That's it for the show, everybody.
08/03/2009
05:14

The Colbert ReportS5
Bears & Balls - How to Pay for Health Care

Democrats want to pay for health care reform by taxing sodas and killing old people.
08/03/2009
04:46

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Nailed 'Em - War on Birth Control

The Fairfax County School Board nails a teen junkie for taking birth control in the cafeteria.
08/03/2009
02:56

The Colbert ReportS5
Dominic Philip's Book Habit

Stephen cures Dominic Philip's reading habit by sending him an entire box of books and forcing him to read every last one of them.
08/03/2009
00:31

The Colbert ReportS5
Intro - 8/3/09

President Obama finds a way to pay for health care, and General Anthony Zinni will wax Stephen's chest.
08/03/2009
04:57

The Colbert ReportS5
The Word - Hippie Replacement

Soon America's grassroots people-power movements will be rid of the one thing that's holding them back: people.
08/04/2009
06:24

The Colbert ReportS5
Kurt Andersen

According to Kurt Andersen, the economic and health crises give Americans a brief chance to get things where they want them.
08/04/2009
00:10

The Colbert ReportS5
Sign Off - Love Makes the World Go Round

Love makes the world go round, so stop hogging all the credit, physics.
08/04/2009
04:57

The Colbert ReportS5
Colbert Bump Cocktail - David Wondrich

David Wondrich serves Stephen drinks from the Great Depression and the Civil War, and invents a Colbert Bump cocktail.
08/04/2009
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