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The Colbert Report
Season 5 · Episode 34
William Gerstenmaier, Dr. Jay Keasling
0.0March 10, 2009
Tonight Stephen welcomes microbiologist and member of the Joint BioEnergy Institute, Dr. Jay Keasling. Also Stephen talks with NASA's associate administrator for space operations Bill Gerstenmaier about the Kepler Probe and other space exploration.
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- Episode 1John King
- Episode 2Matt Miller
- Episode 3Benicio Del Toro
- Episode 4Lawrence Lessig
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- Episode 8David Gregory, Shepard Fairey
- Episode 9Frank Rich
- Episode 10Jabari Asim
- Episode 11Elizabeth Alexander
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- Episode 13Chris Mooney, Ed Young
- Episode 14Philippe Petit
- Episode 15Paul McCartney, Denis Dutton
- Episode 16John Podesta
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- Episode 24David Ross, Ed Colbert, Adam Gopnik
- Episode 25Father James Martin, Helen Fisher
- Episode 26Cliff Sloan
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- Episode 28Kris Kristofferson
- Episode 29David Byrne
- Episode 30Mark Bittman
- Episode 31Carl Wilson
- Episode 32Steven Johnson
- Episode 33Lisa Hannigan
- Episode 34William Gerstenmaier, Dr. Jay Keasling
- Episode 35Howard Fineman
- Episode 36Simon Johnson, Peter Singer
- Episode 37Jonathan Chait, Neil Gaiman
- Episode 38David Grann
- Episode 39Juan Cole
- Episode 40John McCardell
- Episode 41Derrick Pitts
- Episode 42David Plotz
- Episode 43Dambisa Moyo
- Episode 44Biz Stone
- Episode 45Tom Brokaw, Rich Lowry
- Episode 46Queen Noor
- Episode 47Phil Bronstein
- Episode 48Bart Ehrman
- Episode 49Sunita L. Williams, Susie Orbach
- Episode 50Jim Lehrer
- Episode 51Kanishk Tharoor, Doug Kmiec
- Episode 52Ken Quinn, Sheriff Joe Arpaio
- Episode 53Coach Mike Kryzewski
- Episode 54Ira Glass
- Episode 55Elizabeth Bintliff
- Episode 56The Decemberists
- Episode 57David Gross
- Episode 58David Kessler
- Episode 59Jonathan Alter, Ethan Nadelman
- Episode 60J.J. Abrams
- Episode 61Cliff Sloan, Paul Rieckhoff
- Episode 62Laurie Garrett
- Episode 63Mitchell Joachim
- Episode 64Jeff Daniels
- Episode 65Ron Howard
- Episode 66Michael Pollan
- Episode 67Yusuf Islam
- Episode 68Meghan McCain
- Episode 69Walter Kirn
- Episode 70Seth Shostak
- Episode 71Green Day
- Episode 72Jeffrey Toobin, Sen. Byron Dorgan
- Episode 73Katty Kay
- Episode 74Eric Schlosser
- Episode 75Dag Soderberg, David Byrne
- Episode 76General Raymond Odierno
- Episode 77Specialist Tareq Salha, Sgt. Robin Balcom
- Episode 78Lieutenant General Charles Jacoby
- Episode 79Stephen broadcasts from Iraq, Command Sgt. Major Frank Grippe
- Episode 80Austan Goolsbee
- Episode 81Karim Sadjadpour, Jim Rogers
- Episode 82Joshua Micah Marshall
- Episode 83Paul Muldoon
- Episode 84Simon Schama
- Episode 85Howard Dean, David Kilcullen
- Episode 86Matthew Crawford
- Episode 87Jim Fouratt
- Episode 88Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- Episode 89Alexi Lalas, Kevin Mattson
- Episode 90Nicholas Kristof
- Episode 91Ed Viesturs
- Episode 92Paul Rieckhoff, Paul Krugman
- Episode 93Leymah Gbowee
- Episode 94Douglas Rushkoff
- Episode 95Edmund Andrews
- Episode 96Geoffrey Canada, Bob Park
- Episode 97Dr. Aaron Carroll
- Episode 98Matthew Waxman, Chris Anderson
- Episode 99Zev Chafets
- Episode 100Movits!
- Episode 101Arianna Huffington
- Episode 102Kevin Baker
- Episode 103Kathryn Bigelow
- Episode 104General Anthony Zinni
- Episode 105Kurt Andersen
- Episode 106Kris Kobach
- Episode 107Meryl Streep
- Episode 108Sen. Barbara Boxer
- Episode 109Jonathan Cohn
- Episode 110Mark Johnson
- Episode 111Mark Devlin
- Episode 112Bill McKibben
- Episode 113Robert Wright
- Episode 114Ang Lee
- Episode 115Chris Matthews
- Episode 116Cory Booker
- Episode 117Christiane Amanpour
- Episode 118Tony Danza
- Episode 119Frank Bruni
- Episode 120Tue, Sep 22, 2009
- Episode 121AJ Jacobs
- Episode 122Ken Burns
- Episode 123Sheryl WuDunn
- Episode 124Matt Latimer / Out Of The Closet
- Episode 125Wed, Sep 30, 2009
- Episode 126Francis Collins
- Episode 127Arne Duncan
- Episode 128The Mountain Goats
- Episode 129Alison Gopnik
- Episode 130Thu, Oct 8, 2009
- Episode 131Shashi Tharoor, Dr. Sanjay Gupta
- Episode 132David Javerbaum, Sylvia Earle
- Episode 133Amy Farrell, The RZA
- Episode 134Jerry Mitchell
- Episode 135Cornel West
- Episode 136Tue, Oct 27, 2009
- Episode 137Brian Cox
- Episode 138Bill Simmons
- Episode 139Nicholas Thompson
- Episode 140Andrew Sullivan
- Episode 141Harold Evans
- Episode 142Thu, Nov 5, 2009
- Episode 143Mon, Nov 9, 2009
- Episode 144Maria Shriver
- Episode 145Christopher Caldwell
- Episode 146Woody Harrelson
- Episode 147Mon, Nov 16, 2009
- Episode 148Malcolm Gladwell
- Episode 149Norah Jones
- Episode 150Thu, Nov 19, 2009
- Episode 151Dan Esty, Cevin Soling
- Episode 152Tue, Dec 1, 2009
- Episode 153Wed, Dec 2, 2009
- Episode 154Thu, Dec 3, 2009
- Episode 155Mon, Dec 7, 2009
- Episode 156Senator Bernie Sanders, Andy Schlafly
- Episode 157Wed, Dec 9, 2009
- Episode 158Thu, Dec 10, 2009
- Episode 159Snoop Dogg
- Episode 160Alicia Keys
- Episode 161Tom Brokaw