Biography |
 Stephen Colbert was born near Charleston, South Carolina, and graduated from Northwestern University. He got started in comedy when he joined The Second City improv troupe in Chicago. There, he met Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello. The three actors had similar tastes and senses of humor, so they moved to New York and created their own sketch comedy show, Exit 57. "Exit 57" lasted three seasons on Comedy Central, and recieved five CableACE nominations. After the show's run ended, Colbert, Sedaris, and Dinello created and starred in a new Comedy Central Show, Strangers With Candy. Strangers With Candy was Comedy Central's first ever live-action narrative show, and did not take well with wide audiences. Although it did gather a fan base, it only ran for three seasons. Colbert then got a job as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, where he remained for 7 years. He earned Emmy awards as a writer of the show in 2004, 2005, and 2006. Then, in 2005, he left The Daily Show to host his own show, The Colbert Report. The parody talk show has been on the air since 2005, and is still running. He hosts The Colbert Report as a character he created for The Daily Show. He has the same name, but is an extremely egotistical, conservative Republican who covers for his lack of knowledge by pretending to be knowledgable. He won an Emmy for writing The Colbert Report in 2008, and has been nominated for other Emmy's on multiple occasions.  Stephen Colbert has earned nationwide fame for his roles, and has guest-starred in countless TV shows and movies. He made a short-lived run for the presidency in 2007. He coined the word "truthiness," which was Merriam-Webster's 2006 Word of the Year. He has a Hungarian bridge, a Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor, a minor league hockey team's mascot, a trapdoor spider, and a NASA treadmill named in his honor. |