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The Colbert Report
Season 4 · Episode 149
Malcom Gladwell
0.0November 17, 2008
Tonight Stephen welcomes the author of Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell. Also, Stephen talks with the host of Meet the Press, Tom Brokaw about the important cabinet positions to be filled by Barack Obama.
Episodes
- Episode 1Andrew Sullivan, Richard Freeman
- Episode 2Chris Beam, Gary Rosen
- Episode 3Gov. Mike Huckabee, Matt Taibbi
- Episode 4Norman Ornstein, Muhammad Yunus
- Episode 5Neil Shubin
- Episode 6Peter Hopkins, Jared Cohen
- Episode 7Deborah Tannen
- Episode 8Lou Dobbs, David Levy
- Episode 9Allan Sloan, Eric Weiner
- Episode 10Malcolm Gladwell, Andrew Young
- Episode 11Stephen Colbert's Sport Report
- Episode 12Debra Dickerson, Charles Nesson
- Episode 13Marjane Satrapi, Rick Warren
- Episode 14Joe Quesada, Alex Ross
- Episode 15Carl Hiaasen, Frans de Waal
- Episode 16Tim Harford, Andrew Napolitano
- Episode 17Tony Campolo, Jacob Weisberg
- Episode 18Angelo Falcon, Bob Dole
- Episode 19Richard Brookhiser, Tad Devine
- Episode 20Mark Moffett
- Episode 21Aubrey de Grey, Philip Zimbardo
- Episode 22Gov. Eliot Spitzer, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Lisa Randall
- Episode 23David Gracer, Richard Thompson Ford
- Episode 24John Feinstein, Leonard Nimoy
- Episode 25Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Episode 26Tony Snow
- Episode 27Richard Brookhiser, Ingrid Newkirk
- Episode 28Lorin Maazel, Shashi Tharoor
- Episode 29William Donohue, Howard Dean, Jennifer 8. Lee
- Episode 30Robert Reich, Gregory Rodriguez
- Episode 31John Legend
- Episode 32George McGovern
- Episode 33Geraldo Rivera
- Episode 34Howard Kurtz
- Episode 35Hussein Ibish, Sudhir Venkatesh
- Episode 36Samantha Power
- Episode 37Carole King
- Episode 38Dee Dee Myers
- Episode 39Dean Kamen
- Episode 40Eric Alterman, Michael Reynolds
- Episode 41Van Jones
- Episode 42R.E.M.
- Episode 43Clay Shirky
- Episode 44Trevor Paglen, Jesse Ventura
- Episode 45Madeline Albright
- Episode 46Jeff Gore
- Episode 47Robin Wright
- Episode 48John Legend, Mayor Michael Nutter, Chris Matthews
- Episode 49Michelle Obama, The Roots
- Episode 50Philadelphia Eagles Cheerleaders, Gov. Ed Rendell
- Episode 51Hillary Clinton, Patrick Murphy, John Edwards, Barack Obama
- Episode 52Fr. James Martin, Sen. Bernie Sanders
- Episode 53Susan Jacoby
- Episode 54Mitch Albom
- Episode 55Maria Shriver
- Episode 56Feist
- Episode 57Anne Lamott
- Episode 58Donna Brazile, Noah Feldman
- Episode 59James Kunstler
- Episode 60Carl Hiaasen
- Episode 61Nathan Gunn
- Episode 62Hasan Elahi, George Johnson
- Episode 63Arianna Huffington
- Episode 64Dr. Mehmet Oz
- Episode 65Jennifer Hooper McCarty
- Episode 66Laura Dern, Grover Norquist
- Episode 67Andrei Cherny
- Episode 68Tony Perkins, Brian Greene
- Episode 69Sen. Claire McCaskill
- Episode 70Tad Devine, David Sirota
- Episode 71Jon Paskowitz
- Episode 72George Will
- Episode 73Rep. Bob Barr, Salman Rushdie
- Episode 74Pat Buchanan
- Episode 75Phil Weiss
- Episode 76Alan Rabinowitz
- Episode 77David Hajdu
- Episode 78Winona LaDuke, Dixon Despommier
- Episode 79Kenneth Miller
- Episode 80Neal Katyal, Jonathan Zittrain
- Episode 81Uma Mysorekar, Junot Díaz / Lexicon Artist
- Episode 82Bishop N.T. Wright
- Episode 83Barbara Ehrenreich
- Episode 84Jason Bond, Will Smith
- Episode 85Paul Goldberger, Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Episode 86Rep. Robert Wexler
- Episode 87Lama Surya Das, Daniel C. Esty
- Episode 88Julia E. Sweig, Jason Riley
- Episode 89Rush
- Episode 90Elizabeth Edwards
- Episode 91Sen. Jim Webb
- Episode 92Lucas Conley
- Episode 93Nas
- Episode 94Laurie Goodstein, Garrett Reisman
- Episode 95Toby Keith
- Episode 96Eric Roston
- Episode 97Crosby, Stills & Nash
- Episode 98Buzz Aldrin
- Episode 99Lucas Conley, The Apples in Stereo
- Episode 100David Carr
- Episode 101Jason Bond, Kevin Costner
- Episode 102Devin Gordon, Thomas Frank
- Episode 103Jorge Ramos
- Episode 104Joey Cheek, Jane Mayer
- Episode 105Dick Meyer
- Episode 106Bing West
- Episode 107Rep. Bob Barr, Scott McClellan
- Episode 108Gov. Mike Huckabee
- Episode 109Richard Brookhiser
- Episode 110John McWhorter
- Episode 111Laura D'Andrea Tyson
- Episode 112Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Episode 113Adam Brickley, Ron Paul
- Episode 114Gov. David Paterson
- Episode 115Peter J. Gomes
- Episode 116Tyson Slocum, Rick Reilly
- Episode 117Robert Lutz
- Episode 118Maria Bartiromo
- Episode 119Jackson Browne
- Episode 120Joe Nocera, Cornel West
- Episode 121Nick Carr
- Episode 122Paul Begala
- Episode 123James Taylor
- Episode 124Dave Levin
- Episode 125Stephen Greenblatt, Naomi Klein
- Episode 126Jim Cramer
- Episode 127Nate Silver
- Episode 128Joe Scarborough
- Episode 129David Gergen, Oliver Stone
- Episode 130Bethany McLean, Kathleen Parker
- Episode 131Joseph Stiglitz
- Episode 132Shai Agassi
- Episode 133Brent Glass, Robert Greenwald
- Episode 134Fareed Zakaria, Wynton Marsalis
- Episode 135Michael Farris
- Episode 136David Frum
- Episode 137Jonathan Alter
- Episode 138Yo-Yo Ma
- Episode 139Brian Moore, Sherman Alexie
- Episode 140David Simon
- Episode 141Wilco
- Episode 142Charlie Cook, Andrew Sullivan
- Episode 143Indecision 2008: America's Choice
- Episode 144Ambassador Andrew Young
- Episode 145Rachel Maddow
- Episode 146Dan Savage, Kevin Johnson
- Episode 147Bob Woodward
- Episode 148Stephen Moore
- Episode 149Malcom Gladwell
- Episode 150Paul Simon
- Episode 151Michael Lewis
- Episode 152Cory Booker, Thomas L. Friedman
- Episode 153Khaled Hosseini, Roland Fryer
- Episode 154Jeffrey Goldberg
- Episode 155Barbara Walters
- Episode 156Sen. Bob Graham, Nicholas Wade
- Episode 157Geoffrey Canada
- Episode 158Kevin Bacon, Charlie Kaufman
- Episode 159Richard Haass
- Episode 160Michael Phelps