AKA Stephen Tyrone Colbert

Born: 13-May-1964 [1]
Birthplace: Washington, DC

Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Comic, Journalist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Colbert Report

Stephen Colbert started his career in comedy with the Second City improv troupe in Chicago. There he met actress/comedian Amy Sedaris (sister of author and NPR favorite David Sedaris) and comic Paul Dinello. Together, they developed the short-lived (but critically acclaimed) HBO sketch comedy series Exit 57, which won five Cable ACE awards in 1995 for best writing, performing, and comedy series.

In 1996, he was hired to write and perform sketches for The Dana Carvey Show (aka the "Mug Root Beer" Dana Carvey Show, aka the "Taco Bell" Dana Carvey Show). This was also a short-lived endeavor, but Colbert stood out as a Phil Hartman-like everyman capable of exuding both exuberance and despair in a single take. From there, he worked with Robert Smigel as the voice of Ace for Saturday Night Live's animated shorts Ace & Gary: The Ambiguously Gay Duo. Colbert has also contributed his vocal talents as Reducto and Phil Ken Sebben on Adult Swim's Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law and several characters on Crank Yankers.

Colbert, Sedaris and Dinello struck a collaboration again in 1999, and developed Strangers With Candy for Comedy Central. Colbert has one dramatic role to his credit: on an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent he portrayed an antiquarian document forger who lives with his crazy mother. The storyline for this episode appears to be "ripped" nearly frame by frame from an episode of CourtTV's Masterminds.

Since 1997, Stephen Colbert has been best known as a fake senior correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He worked alongside Steve Carell, who does the voice for Gary, the other half of the aforementioned Ambiguously Gay Duo. Colbert left the Daily Show in 2005 to create the spinoff The Colbert Report, satirizing the self-obsessed, hardboiled news commentators on Fox News and CNN. On 29 April 2006, Colbert was invited to speak at the annual White House Press Corps awards dinner, using the event to skewer both the assembled journalists and the attending politicians, among them sitting President George W. Bush.

    University: Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, VA
    University: BA Theater, Northwestern University (1987)

    Endorsement of Frito-Lay Doritos (2007)
    Endorsement of General Motors
    Second City
    Irish Ancestry
    Risk Factors: Deafness

    TELEVISION
    The Colbert Report Host (2005-)
    The Daily Show Correspondent (1997-2005)
    Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (voices, 2000-)
    Strangers with Candy Chuck Noblet (1999-2000)
    Saturday Night Live Writer (1996-97)
    The Dana Carvey Show Various (1996)
    Exit 57 Various (1995)

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Strangers with Candy (17-Jun-2006)
    Bewitched (24-Jun-2005)
    The Great New Wonderful (22-Apr-2005)
    Nobody Knows Anything! (2003)
    Snow Days (1999)

Official Website:
http://www.colbertnation.com/

Author of books:
I Am America (And So Can You!) (2007)

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