High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This list of episodes of The Colbert Report details information on all 2005 episodes of The Colbert Report, a popular Comedy Central show hosted by Stephen Colbert, and produced by Colbert, Jon Stewart, and Ben Karlin. Colbert plays the role of a populist blowhard journalist character, similar to his role on The Daily Show. In The Colbert Report, the former correspondent becomes the host of his own parody of media pundit programs, such as The O`Reilly Factor and Hannity and Colmes.