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List of The Colbert Report episodes (2012)

season of television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ6599555 ↗
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This is a list of episodes for The Colbert Report in 2012.

2012

January

February

Taping of February 15 and 16 were cancelled due to illness of Colbert's Mother.

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

Taping of October 29 and 30 were cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy.

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“List of The Colbert Report episodes (2012)” enters the record as season of television series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what List, Colbert and Report can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of The Colbert Report episodes (2012)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.