Season 9 Details Casts Episode Lists of Season 9 Title Season 9 Genres News Comedy Air Date 2012-10-01 Episode Runtime 00 Hours 24 Minutes Season Number 9 Episode Count On Season 9 155 Production Companies Busboy Productions, Spartina Productions Stephen Colbert Self - Host Episode 1 2012-10-01 Ben Folds Five... Episode 2 2012-10-02 Jorge Ramos... Episode 3 2012-10-03 Kenny Rogers... Episode 4 2012-10-04 Dr George Church... Episode 5 2012-10-08 Mark Kelly... Episode 6 2012-10-09 Morrissey... Episode 7 2012-10-10 Naomi Wolf... Episode 8 2012-10-11 Chrystia Freeland... Episode 9 2012-10-15 Evan Thomas... Episode 10 2012-10-16 Cory Booker... Episode 11 2012-10-17 Tyler Perry... Episode 12 2012-10-18 The Killers... Episode 13 2012-10-22 Donald Sadoway... Episode 14 2012-10-23 John Grisham... Episode 15 2012-10-24 Anthony Everitt... Episode 16 2012-10-25 Mitch Daniels... Episode 17 2012-10-31 Lilly Ledbetter... Episode 18 2012-11-01 David Byrne & St. Vincent... Episode 19 2012-11-05 Nate Silver... Episode 20 2012-11-06 Election 2012: A Nation V... Episode 21 2012-11-07 Doris Kearns Goodwin... Episode 22 2012-11-08 Rachel Maddow... Episode 23 2012-11-12 Ken Burns... Episode 24 2012-11-13 Newt Gingrich... Episode 25 2012-11-14 Tony Kushner... Episode 26 2012-11-15 Chris Stringer... Episode 27 2012-11-26 Jake Tapper... Episode 28 2012-11-27 Dolly Parton... Episode 29 2012-11-28 Frank Oz... Episode 30 2012-11-29 Sean Carroll... Episode 31 2012-12-03 Ian McKellen... Episode 32 2012-12-04 Martin Freeman... Episode 33 2012-12-05 Andy Serkis... Episode 34 2012-12-06 Peter Jackson... Episode 35 2012-12-10 Diana Krall... Episode 36 2012-12-11 Malcolm Gladwell... Episode 37 2012-12-12 Mandy Patinkin... Episode 38 2012-12-13 Simone Campbell... Episode 39 2013-01-07 Jimmy Wales... Episode 40 2013-01-08 Chris Kluwe... Episode 41 2013-01-09 Neil Shubin... Episode 42 2013-01-10 Ben Gibbard... Episode 43 2013-01-14 Piers Morgan... Episode 44 2013-01-15 Jared Diamond... Episode 45 2013-01-16 Tom Brokaw... Episode 46 2013-01-17 Akhil Reed Amar... Episode 47 2013-01-21 Ta-Nehisi Coates... Episode 48 2013-01-22 Kathryn Bigelow... Episode 49 2013-01-23 Sally Field... Episode 50 2013-01-24 Tavi Gevinson... Episode 51 2013-01-28 Michael Shellenberger... Episode 52 2013-01-29 George Saunders... Episode 53 2013-01-30 Bill Gates... Episode 54 2013-01-31 Matthew Guerrieri... Episode 55 2013-02-04 Sonia Sotomayor... Episode 56 2013-02-05 Julie Andrews... Episode 57 2013-02-06 Lawrence Wright... Episode 58 2013-02-07 Benh Zeitlin... Episode 59 2013-02-11 Garry Wills... Episode 60 2013-02-12 Roger Hodge... Episode 61 2013-02-13 Dave Grohl... Episode 62 2013-02-14 Gavin Newsom... Episode 63 2013-02-19 Emily Bazelon... Episode 64 2013-02-20 David Goldhill... Episode 65 2013-02-21 Lil Buck... Episode 66 2013-02-25 Simon Garfield... Episode 67 2013-02-26 Dr. Michio Kaku... Episode 68 2013-02-27 Paola Antonelli... Episode 69 2013-02-28 Jon Favreau... Episode 70 2013-03-04 Kirk Bloodsworth... Episode 71 2013-03-05 James Franco... Episode 72 2013-03-06 Brendan O'Connell... Episode 73 2013-03-07 John Sexton... Episode 74 2013-03-25 Junot Diaz... Episode 75 2013-03-26 Eric Topol... Episode 76 2013-03-27 Carl Edgar Blake II... Episode 77 2013-03-28 Robert Lustig... Episode 78 2013-04-01 Sigourney Weaver... Episode 79 2013-04-02 Jim McGreevey... Episode 80 2013-04-03 A.C. Grayling... Episode 81 2013-04-04 Francis Collins... Episode 82 2013-04-08 Bill Clinton... Episode 83 2013-04-09 Charlie LeDuff... Episode 84 2013-04-10 Shane Smith... Episode 85 2013-04-11 Cass Sunstein... Episode 86 2013-04-16 Caroline Kennedy... Episode 87 2013-04-17 Alan Cumming... Episode 88 2013-04-18 Richard Engel... Episode 89 2013-04-22 Michael Pollan... Episode 90 2013-04-23 Eric Schmidt... Episode 91 2013-04-24 Danica Patrick... Episode 92 2013-04-25 Gene Robinson... Episode 93 2013-04-29 Iggy & the Stooges... Episode 94 2013-04-30 Evan Spiegel & Bobby Murp... Episode 95 2013-05-01 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis... Episode 96 2013-05-02 Ben Kingsley... Episode 97 2013-05-06 Robert Caro... Episode 98 2013-05-07 Douglas Rushkoff... Episode 99 2013-05-08 Richard Besser... Episode 100 2013-05-09 Baz Luhrmann... Episode 101 2013-05-13 Jessica Buchanan & Erik L... Episode 102 2013-05-14 Dan Brown... Episode 103 2013-05-15 Cyndi Lauper... Episode 104 2013-05-16 Daniel Lieberman... Episode 105 2013-05-20 David Sassoon... Episode 106 2013-05-21 Noah Feldman... Episode 107 2013-05-22 The National... Episode 108 2013-05-23 Christopher Chivers... Episode 109 2013-06-03 John Dingell... Episode 110 2013-06-04 Alex Gibney... Episode 111 2013-06-05 Jonathan Alter... Episode 112 2013-06-06 Stephen King, John Mellen... Episode 113 2013-06-10 Dan Savage... Episode 114 2013-06-11 Daniel Bergner... Episode 115 2013-06-12 Paul McCartney... Episode 116 2013-06-19 The Postal Service... Episode 117 2013-06-20 Joss Whedon... Episode 118 2013-06-24 Andrew Solomon... Episode 119 2013-06-25 Peniel Joseph... Episode 120 2013-06-26 Bill Moyers... Episode 121 2013-06-27 Chuck Schumer... Episode 122 2013-07-15 Jeremy Scahill... Episode 123 2013-07-16 David Karp... Episode 124 2013-07-17 Jerry Seinfeld... Episode 125 2013-07-18 Jeff Bridges... Episode 126 2013-07-22 Kjerstin Gruys... Episode 127 2013-07-23 Kenneth Goldsmith... Episode 128 2013-07-24 Anant Agarwal... Episode 129 2013-07-25 Olympia Snowe... Episode 130 2013-07-29 The Lumineers... Episode 131 2013-07-30 Atul Gawande... Episode 132 2013-07-31 Emily Matchar... Episode 133 2013-08-01 Bryan Cranston... Episode 134 2013-08-05 Hugh Laurie... Episode 135 2013-08-06 Robin Thicke... Episode 136 2013-08-07 Ashton Kutcher... Episode 137 2013-08-08 Colum McCann... Episode 138 2013-08-12 Sheldon Whitehouse... Episode 139 2013-08-13 John Lewis... Episode 140 2013-08-14 Kevin Spacey... Episode 141 2013-08-15 Richard Brodhead... Episode 142 2013-09-03 Timothy Cardinal Dolan... Episode 143 2013-09-04 Gary England... Episode 144 2013-09-05 John Prine... Episode 145 2013-09-09 Billie Jean King... Episode 146 2013-09-10 Shane Salerno... Episode 147 2013-09-11 Sheryl Crow... Episode 148 2013-09-12 Philip Mudd... Episode 149 2013-09-16 Andrew Bacevich... Episode 150 2013-09-17 Arne Duncan... Episode 151 2013-09-18 Nicholson Baker... Episode 152 2013-09-19 Jack Johnson... Episode 153 2013-09-24 Metallica... Episode 154 2013-09-25 Joseph Gordon-Levitt... Episode 155 2013-09-26 Chris Fischer...