Seen on the Report...

I had nothing better to do, so I compiled a list of writers featured on "The Report."

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Jonathan Alter
Reza Aslan
Robert Baer
Bruce Bartlett
Paul Begala
Peter Beinart
Carl Bernstein
Mark Bowden
David Brooks
James Carville
Deepak Chopra
Francis Collins
Anderson Cooper
Bob Costas
Craig Crawford
Catherine Crier
Ted Daeschler
Richard Dawkins
Maureen Dowd
Annie Duke
Michael Eric Dyson
Bart Ehrman
Nora Ephron
Bruce Feiler
Al Franken
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Brian Greene
Sam Harris
Linda Hirshman
Shere Hite
Arianna Huffington
Jesse Jackson
Sebastian Junger
Paul Krugman
David Kuo
Janna Levin
Harvey Mansfield
Frank McCourt
Kenneth R. Miller
Ralph Nader
Peggy Noonan
Geoffrey Nunberg
Keith Olbermann
George Packer
Kevin Phillips
Daniel Pinchbeck
Michael Pollan
Ramesh Ponnuru
Richard Preston
Joe Quesada
Howell Raines
Dan Rather
Rick Reilly
Frank Rich
Mary Roach
Cokie Roberts
Jeffrey Sachs
Barry Scheck
Harry Shearer
Peter Singer
David Sirota
Morgan Spurlock
Andrew Sullivan
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Frank Vincent
Norah Vincent
Andrew Weil
Jack Welch

Am also pretty sure I've seen Steven Levitt of Freakonomics fame

Wow. If you've got some time, would you like to do that, or a partial listing, for The Daily Show as well? I've started another group for that also. Search for "The Daily Show"

So who's read any of the books of authors promoted by The Colbert Report? What did you think?

Wasn't Sudhir Venkatesh of Gang Leader for a Day on as well, or was that on The Daily Show?

>4 GoofyOcean110:

Yes, I have read books by several of these authors and a few more are in my TBR stack.

Last week I met Maggie1944 at one of our favorite bookstores to compare notes on Why is God Laughing? (which we both liked) by Deepak Chopra over dinner and then stayed to listen to Cokie Roberts (I've read 3 books by her) speak so there are two checked off in one night.

I have to admit I read Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender by Ralph Nader and found it to be so dry and boring that I couldn't bring myself to read anything else by him...I've read calculus books that were better page turners!

So, has anyone else actually enjoyed reading anything by Ralph Nader? What book and why?

That's just a partial list, but a good start. Complete lists of both Daily Show and Colbert Report guests can be found on wikipedia, although they don't list differentiate authors form other guests, so you need to do some weeding through.

I've read quite a few books I've seen promoted on the show, most recently The Strongest Tribe by Bing West, which I highly recommend. I have Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell in my TBR pile, and I know he's been on the show, more than once I think.

I just picked up Goodwin's Team of Rivals from the library, I'm hoping to start one that this week.
I have to finish my final exams first, school is sucking away all my reading time. And yet I never miss Colbert or the Daily Show. :)