TV Roles

Exit 57
Exit 57 was a half-hour sketch comedy show on Comedy Central that ran for two seasons, from 1995 to 1996. It starred Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, and Paul Dinello. It met critical acclaim, but did not earn much popularity.

 

Strangers With Candy
Strangers With Candy was Comedy Central's first ever live-action narrative series. It was a parody of the "after school specials" that were on TV when Colbert and his fellow actors were in high school. It followed Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris), as she got out of prison as an old woman and returned to high school. Each episode involved Jerri learning an important life lesson, though the lessons were almost always extremely immoral. Colbert played Jerri's history teacher, Chuck Noblet. Strangers With Candy was on the air for three seasons from 1999 to 2000.

 

The Daily Show
Colbert's first role that earned him legitimate fame was on The Daily Show, a satirical news program on Comedy Central that first aired in 1996, and is still running. Colbert was one of the correspondents on the show. He developed a character for the show, who would often be clearly ignorant of the topic he was discussing, and often used incorrect logic to try to support his point of view. Colbert was the longest serving correspondent on the show, and was also a writer, earning the show multiple awards. He worked on The Daily Show from 1997 to 2005.

 

The Colbert Report
Colbert is now the host of his own Daily Show spin-off series, The Colbert Report. The show differs from The Daily Show in that Colbert is the only cast member of his show. It is largely satiring conservative pundit talk shows, as Colbert's character is an extremely uninformed, opinionated, egotistical Republican. The Report has earned one Emmy for writing in 2008, and has been nominated for many more. The show aired in 2005 after Colbert left The Daily Show, and currently runs immediately after John Stewart's program on Comedy Central.
   
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