A story about Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert (pronounced “col-BARE”) was born on May 13th, 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” for Comedy Central, which lasted for two seasons. 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,” From 1997 (until his departure in October 2005), Stephen was a correspondent on “The Daily Show”, then hosted by Craig Kilborn. Initially billed as “The New Guy,” Stephen was the longest running correspondent on the show before getting his own show, “The Colbert Report”, which has done well in it’s slot after “the Daily Show”.
At the time he left “The Daily Show”, Stephen has been the 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 Carrel and the host of “This Week in God” in which he reported on all things theological with the assistance of the “God Machine”.
Stephen helped “The Daily Show” to 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, insight and overall rightness could only have led him to “The Colbert Report”, a half-hour nightly platform for him to give his take on the issues of the day, and more importantly, to tell you why 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”, writing for “Saturday Night Live” and providing the voice of “Ace” in Robert Smigel’s “Ambiguously Gay Duo” which originated on “The Dana Carvey Show” and was then semi-regularly featured in Smigel’s “TV Funhouse” segment on SNL. He was also featured on “Mr. Goodwrench” commercials (2003-2005).
Stephen lives in New York with his wife and three children.
