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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Season 11 · Episode 37
Jonathan Karl, Pete Townshend
2.341mNovember 12, 2025
Pete Townshend sits in with the band and provides musical accompaniment. A.I. Love Country. Cyborgasm. Jonathan Karl discusses his new book, ‘Retribution’. Pete Townshend discusses ‘Quadrophenia, A Rock Ballet’.
Episodes
- Episode 1John Oliver, Joe Dombrowski
- Episode 2Jamie Lee Curtis, Carmelo Anthony
- Episode 3Drew Barrymore, Katherine Maher
- Episode 4Cillian Murphy, Lady Gaga, Will Ferrell
- Episode 5Sonia Sotomayor, Eugene Levy
- Episode 6Jennifer Aniston, Cooper Hoffman
- Episode 7Usher, Mac DeMarco
- Episode 8Brandi Carlile, Samin Nosrat
- Episode 9Ron Howard, Gary Oldman
- Episode 10Jake Tapper, St. Vincent
- Episode 11Scarlett Johansson, Sen. Mark Kelly
- Episode 12Gov. Gavin Newsom, Priscilla Presley
- Episode 13Sen. Chris Murphy, Lainey Wilson
- Episode 14Jeremy Strong, Carrie Preston
- Episode 15Conan O'Brien
- Episode 16Jimmy Kimmel, Sam Smith
- Episode 17Julia Roberts, Sam Smith
- Episode 18Lady Gaga
- Episode 19Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, J.I.D
- Episode 20Bette Midler, Tim Meadows
- Episode 21Anderson Cooper, Mason Thames
- Episode 22Nick Offerman, José Andrés, Nathaniel Rateliff
- Episode 23Jeremy Renner, Karine Jean-Pierre, Laura Benanti
- Episode 24Michael J. Fox, Jeff Tweedy
- Episode 25Emma Stone, Alex Wagner
- Episode 26Ben Stiller, Tig Notaro
- Episode 27Emma Thompson, Judd Apatow, Thundercat featuring Remi Wolf
- Episode 28Colin Farrell, Cameron Crowe
- Episode 29Sarah Paulson, Sen. Ruben Gallego
- Episode 30Anthony Hopkins
- Episode 31Tom Hanks, Mavis Staples
- Episode 32Michelle Obama, Robert Plant
- Episode 33Tiffany Haddish, Gary Cole
- Episode 34Sydney Sweeney, Patti Smith, Guillermo del Toro
- Episode 35Demi Moore, Ken Burns
- Episode 36Claire Danes, Rep. James Clyburn
- Episode 37Jonathan Karl, Pete Townshend
- Episode 38Julia Roberts, John Fogerty
- Episode 39Ted Danson, Alison Roman
- Episode 40Benedict Cumberbatch, Patton Oswalt, Jesse Welles
- Episode 41Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Billy Strings
- Episode 42Lady Gaga, Mikie Sherrill, Kristin Chenoweth, Stephen Schwartz, Daniel Craig
- Episode 43Rachel Maddow, Drive-By Truckers, Jason Isbell
- Episode 44Michael Shannon, Jessie Buckley, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
- Episode 45Jen Psaki, "Weird Al" Yankovic
- Episode 46Sigourney Weaver, Mandy Patinkin
- Episode 47Laura Dern, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Evie McGee Colbert
- Episode 48Taylor Swift
- Episode 49Kate Winslet; Ben Cohen; Jerry Greenfield
- Episode 50Paul Rudd, Lesley Manville
- Episode 51Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, the Mountain Goats, Laura Benanti
- Episode 52Kumail Nanjiani, St. Vincent
- Episode 53Hugh Jackman, Nick Offerman
- Episode 54Ethan Hawke, Julia Ioffe
- Episode 55Jodie Foster, Tracy Letts
- Episode 56Chris Hayes, Natalie Portman, Robyn
- Episode 57Tom Hiddleston, Terry Gross
- Episode 58Jimmy Kimmel, Abigail Spanberger
- Episode 59Amanda Seyfried, Yo-Yo Ma
- Episode 60Paul Giamatti, Ryan Coogler
- Episode 61Stellan Skarsgård, Scott Galloway, Warren Haynes
- Episode 62Sen. Bernie Sanders, Lucinda Williams
- Episode 63Jane Fonda, Jessica Williams
- Episode 64Chance the Rapper, Maria Stephan
- Episode 65Gov. Josh Shapiro, The War and Treaty
- Episode 66Sam Rockwell, George Saunders
- Episode 67Bad Bunny, Katherine LaNasa
- Episode 68Alexander Skarsgård, Jacob Soboroff
- Episode 69John Oliver
- Episode 70Mark Ruffalo, Father James Martin
- Episode 71Ian McKellen, I'm With Her, Laura Benanti
- Episode 72James Taylor, Evie McGee Colbert
- Episode 73Jennifer Garner
- Episode 74Kaitlan Collins, Walter Isaacson
- Episode 75Sen. Jon Ossoff, Kyle MacLachlan, Thundercat
- Episode 76Melissa McCarthy, Michael Pollan
- Episode 77Ray Romano, Emma Thompson, Cory Wong
- Episode 78John Dickerson, Mitski
- Episode 79Teyana Taylor, Bradley Whitford
- Episode 80Kurt & Wyatt Russell, CMAT
- Episode 81Daniel Radcliffe, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Brandee Younger
- Episode 82Jake Gyllenhaal, Maria Bamford
- Episode 83Steve Carell, Hozier, Lake Street Dive
- Episode 84Jimmy Fallon, Harvey Guillén
- Episode 85John Lithgow, Paul Rieckhoff
- Episode 86Michelle Pfeiffer, Dave Matthews
- Episode 87Clarissa Ward, Pete Holmes
- Episode 88Wanda Sykes, Robert Smigel, Dan & Peggy Reeder
- Episode 89Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Robert Lopez, Andrew Rannells, Josh Gad, the Broadway cast of "The Book Of Mormon"
- Episode 90Elijah Wood, David Alan Grier, Lea Michele, the Broadway cast and orchestra of "Chess"
- Episode 91Edward Norton, José Andrés
- Episode 92John Mulaney, David Byrne
- Episode 93Nathan Lane, Arsenio Hall
- Episode 94Meryl Streep, Maggie Rogers
- Episode 95Paul Simon, Ramy Youssef
- Episode 96Keanu Reeves, Jack White
- Episode 97Oprah Winfrey, Brandi Carlile
- Episode 98Bryan Cranston, Robert Plant
- Episode 99Maya Rudolph, Nick Offerman, Jeff Tweedy, Hayley Williams
- Episode 100Billy Crystal, Ina Garten
- Episode 101Anne Hathaway, Josh Johnson
- Episode 102Anderson Cooper, Patton Oswalt
- Episode 103Don Cheadle, Jake Tapper
- Episode 104Neil deGrasse Tyson, RAYE, John Kerry
- Episode 105Pete Buttigieg, Andy Serkis
- Episode 106Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Michael Stipe
- Episode 107Christopher Nolan, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters
- Episode 108Barack Obama
- Episode 109Sally Field, Chris Stapleton, Evie McGee Colbert
- Episode 110John Krasinski, Jenny Slate, Liam Neeson, John Oliver, Isa Briones, Taylor Dearden, the Avett Brothers
- Episode 111Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Annaleigh Ashford, Christopher Jackson, Bernadette Peters, Ben Platt, Patrick Wilson
- Episode 112Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Pedro Pascal
- Episode 113Barack Obama, Tom Hanks
- Episode 114David Letterman, the Strokes
- Episode 115The Worst of "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" (Not A Clip Show!)
- Episode 116Jon Stewart, Steven Spielberg, David Byrne
- Episode 117Bruce Springsteen
- Episode 118Hello Goodbye