Stephen Colbert's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Whose Line Is It Anyway? Stephen Col… The Colbert Report Stephen Col… Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law Phil Ken Se… Myron Reducto The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Stephen Col… Strangers with Candy Charles 'Ch… Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed Stephen Col… Exit 57 Various (6)

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BIOGRAPHY:

Stephen Colbert (born May 13, 1964), and grew up in Charleston, South Carolina.

He studied acting at Northwestern and performed with the Second City comedy troupe in Chicago before teaming up with fellow cast members 'Amy Sedaris' and 'Paul Dinello' to create the sketch comedy Exit 57 (1995) for Comedy Central. During its two-season run in the mid-1990s, it garnered five CableACE nominations for best writing, performing, and comedy series. After the demise of Exit 57 (1995) from 1997 (until his departure in October 2005), Stephen was a correspondent on The Daily Show (1996), then hosted by 'Craig Kilborn'. Initially billed as "The New Guy," Colbert became the show's longest-running correspondent before getting his own show, The Colbert Report (2005), which has done well in its slot following The Daily Show (1996).

At the time he left The Daily Show (1996), Colbert had been its longest-running and most diverse correspondent. In addition to his role as Senior Political Correspondent, he was one of the hosts of "Even Stepheven", a point-counterpoint assault featuring co-correspondent 'Steve Carell', and the host of This Week in God, a recurring segment in which he reported on all things theological with the assistance of the "God Machine".

Colbert helped The Daily Show (1996) win numerous Emmy and Peabody Awards and contributed to "America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction" (Warner Books) which immediately topped the New York Times bestseller list and stayed there for 15 consecutive weeks.

His personality, intelligence, and leftist political satire could only have led him to The Colbert Report (2005), a half-hour nightly platform for him to give his tongue-in-cheek take on the issues of the day, and more importantly, to tell you why he thinks everyone else's take is just plain wrong.

His other notable credits include serving as both writer and cast member on The Dana Carvey Show (1996), writing for Saturday Night Live (1975), and providing the voice of Ace in Robert Smigel's Ambiguously Gay Duo, which originated on The Dana Carvey Show (1996) and was a semiregular feature in Smigel's TV Funhouse segment on SNL. He was also featured on "Mr. Goodwrench" commercials (2003-2005).

Colbert lives in northern New Jersey with his wife and three children.


TRIVIA:

• Teaches Sunday School every weekend at his church and teaches his own specific story of salvation and has the children learn spiritual songs.
• In January 2008, Colbert began a campaign on his show to have a portrait of his character hung in the "Treasures of American History" exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. (pieces shown in that exhibit included a top hat worn by Abraham Lincoln, an original light bulb made by Thomas Edison, a Greensboro, North Carolina, lunch counter that was the scene of a seminal civil rights sit-in, Lewis and Clark's compass, and Kermit the Frog). When the National Museum of American History refused the portrait, Colbert next offered it to the National Portrait Gallery (also a Smithsonian museum), which accepted it on a temporary basis and hung it between the bathrooms adjacent to the Hall of Presidents. After the portrait's term at the National Portrait Gallery was up, the National Museum of American History did agree to hang the portrait - next to a Dumbo car from the original Dumbo the Flying Elephant ride at Disneyland.
• Most of the shows he has been a part of are on Comedy Central. These shows are _"Exit 57" (1995)_ (qv), _"The Daily Show" (1996)_ (qv), _"Strangers with Candy" (1999)_ (qv), and _"The Colbert Report" (2005)_ (qv).
• Voiced several characters on Comedy Central's _"Crank Yankers" (2002)_ (qv).
• Occasionally replaced 'Jon Stewart' (qv) as anchor of _"The Daily Show" (1996)_ (qv) while Jon was occupied with other things.
• Was included in the Peabody Award given to _Indecision 2000: Election Night - Choose and Lose (2000) (TV)_ (qv) and _Indecision 2002: Election Night (2002) (TV)_ (qv) for "offering biting political satire, these scintillating segments had something droll and amusing to say about almost everything and everyone associated with American politics and the presidential election.".
• "Truthiness," a word he coined, was declared the Word of the Year 2005 by the American Dialect Society.
• Has stated that not all of his family members say "Colbert" the way he does. Some pronounce the "T" at the end.