Season 2005

From the desk

How this season is filed

Filed by Max Sterling · Streaming Confidential

Stephen Colbert plays a billowing cable pundit until the mask starts making real news. The Colbert Report coined truthiness, ran Super PAC stunts as performance art, and spun off from Stewart into Emmy-winning character satire that took the bluster more seriously than the bluster did.

TV Flash files Season 2005 of The Colbert Report (2005–2014) on Comedy Central as the first listed season of 10 — 32 listed hours, 2005-10-17–2005-12-15 from “Stone Phillips” (S2005E01) to “Mark Cuban” (S2005E32). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

Desk essentials in this season

1. S2005E01 Stone Phillips

   Stone Phillips is night one of the billowing pundit: Colbert spinning off Stewart, truthiness not yet a dictionary entry, the mask already making news.