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The Colbert Report
Season 9 · Episode 131
Atul Gawande
7.0July 30, 2013
Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande discusses his New Yorker article "Slow Ideas."
Episodes
- Episode 1Ben Folds Five
- Episode 2Jorge Ramos
- Episode 3Kenny Rogers
- Episode 4Dr George Church
- Episode 5Mark Kelly
- Episode 6Morrissey
- Episode 7Naomi Wolf
- Episode 8Chrystia Freeland
- Episode 9Evan Thomas
- Episode 10Cory Booker
- Episode 11Tyler Perry
- Episode 12The Killers
- Episode 13Donald Sadoway
- Episode 14John Grisham
- Episode 15Anthony Everitt
- Episode 16Mitch Daniels
- Episode 17Lilly Ledbetter
- Episode 18David Byrne & St. Vincent
- Episode 19Nate Silver
- Episode 20Election 2012: A Nation Votes, Ohio Decides; The Re-Presidenting of America: Who Will Replace Obama? '12
- Episode 21Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Episode 22Rachel Maddow
- Episode 23Ken Burns
- Episode 24Newt Gingrich
- Episode 25Tony Kushner
- Episode 26Chris Stringer
- Episode 27Jake Tapper
- Episode 28Dolly Parton
- Episode 29Frank Oz
- Episode 30Sean Carroll
- Episode 31Ian McKellen
- Episode 32Martin Freeman
- Episode 33Andy Serkis
- Episode 34Peter Jackson
- Episode 35Diana Krall
- Episode 36Malcolm Gladwell
- Episode 37Mandy Patinkin
- Episode 38Simone Campbell
- Episode 39Jimmy Wales
- Episode 40Chris Kluwe
- Episode 41Neil Shubin
- Episode 42Ben Gibbard
- Episode 43Piers Morgan
- Episode 44Jared Diamond
- Episode 45Tom Brokaw
- Episode 46Akhil Reed Amar
- Episode 47Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Episode 48Kathryn Bigelow
- Episode 49Sally Field
- Episode 50Tavi Gevinson
- Episode 51Michael Shellenberger
- Episode 52George Saunders
- Episode 53Bill Gates
- Episode 54Matthew Guerrieri
- Episode 55Sonia Sotomayor
- Episode 56Julie Andrews
- Episode 57Lawrence Wright
- Episode 58Benh Zeitlin
- Episode 59Garry Wills
- Episode 60Roger Hodge
- Episode 61Dave Grohl
- Episode 62Gavin Newsom
- Episode 63Emily Bazelon
- Episode 64David Goldhill
- Episode 65Lil Buck
- Episode 66Simon Garfield
- Episode 67Dr. Michio Kaku
- Episode 68Paola Antonelli
- Episode 69Jon Favreau
- Episode 70Kirk Bloodsworth
- Episode 71James Franco
- Episode 72Brendan O'Connell
- Episode 73John Sexton
- Episode 74Junot Diaz
- Episode 75Eric Topol
- Episode 76Carl Edgar Blake II
- Episode 77Robert Lustig
- Episode 78Sigourney Weaver
- Episode 79Jim McGreevey
- Episode 80A.C. Grayling
- Episode 81Francis Collins
- Episode 82Bill Clinton
- Episode 83Charlie LeDuff
- Episode 84Shane Smith
- Episode 85Cass Sunstein
- Episode 86Caroline Kennedy
- Episode 87Alan Cumming
- Episode 88Richard Engel
- Episode 89Michael Pollan
- Episode 90Eric Schmidt
- Episode 91Danica Patrick
- Episode 92Gene Robinson
- Episode 93Iggy & the Stooges
- Episode 94Evan Spiegel & Bobby Murphy
- Episode 95Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
- Episode 96Ben Kingsley
- Episode 97Robert Caro
- Episode 98Douglas Rushkoff
- Episode 99Richard Besser
- Episode 100Baz Luhrmann
- Episode 101Jessica Buchanan & Erik Landemalm
- Episode 102Dan Brown
- Episode 103Cyndi Lauper
- Episode 104Daniel Lieberman
- Episode 105David Sassoon
- Episode 106Noah Feldman
- Episode 107The National
- Episode 108Christopher Chivers
- Episode 109John Dingell
- Episode 110Alex Gibney
- Episode 111Jonathan Alter
- Episode 112Stephen King, John Mellencamp, & T Bone Burnett
- Episode 113Dan Savage
- Episode 114Daniel Bergner
- Episode 115Paul McCartney
- Episode 116The Postal Service
- Episode 117Joss Whedon
- Episode 118Andrew Solomon
- Episode 119Peniel Joseph
- Episode 120Bill Moyers
- Episode 121Chuck Schumer
- Episode 122Jeremy Scahill
- Episode 123David Karp
- Episode 124Jerry Seinfeld
- Episode 125Jeff Bridges
- Episode 126Kjerstin Gruys
- Episode 127Kenneth Goldsmith
- Episode 128Anant Agarwal
- Episode 129Olympia Snowe
- Episode 130The Lumineers
- Episode 131Atul Gawande
- Episode 132Emily Matchar
- Episode 133Bryan Cranston
- Episode 134Hugh Laurie
- Episode 135Robin Thicke
- Episode 136Ashton Kutcher
- Episode 137Colum McCann
- Episode 138Sheldon Whitehouse
- Episode 139John Lewis
- Episode 140Kevin Spacey
- Episode 141Richard Brodhead
- Episode 142Timothy Cardinal Dolan
- Episode 143Gary England
- Episode 144John Prine
- Episode 145Billie Jean King
- Episode 146Shane Salerno
- Episode 147Sheryl Crow
- Episode 148Philip Mudd
- Episode 149Andrew Bacevich
- Episode 150Arne Duncan
- Episode 151Nicholson Baker
- Episode 152Jack Johnson
- Episode 153Metallica
- Episode 154Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Episode 155Chris Fischer