Stephen Colbert said...

"Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world -- a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax-and-spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh, and EVERYBODY'S HIGH! "

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Mrs Colbert the 2nd from England, England (September 4, 2009)
Stephen is just wonderful. I adore him SO much. When I was going through the darkest period of my life this year, the only bright spark that kept me going, made me laugh and turned me on was Stephen. I owe him my life. Seriously! I want to thank him in person and I hope to do that on November 1st!!!

Eric Kallgren from Boulder, Colorado USA (June 3, 2009)
Stephen Colbert is an arch conservative! Many people believe Colbert is a man of the right, Rebecca Ascher-Walsh of the Los Angeles Times reported on June 1, 2009:

"To use a word coined by Stephen Colbert, the writer and actor, there's a certain "truthiness" about Stephen Colbert, the character and host of Comedy Central's " The Colbert Report." Indeed, Colbert the character, a right-wing blowhard on a one-man mission to reeducate the ignorant, is convincing enough that a recent Ohio State University study found that a majority of conservatives polled believed Colbert the man was one of them.

The irony couldn't please him more. "I'm thrilled by it!" he says, sitting in his New York office, a pack rat's homage to the show crammed with pictures and props and a "Lord of the Rings" pinball machine. "From the very beginning, I wanted to jump back and forth over the line of meaning what I say, and the truth of the matter is I'm not on anyone's side, I'm on my side," he says. "The important thing is that the audience laughs."

Jenna Smith from Marin County, C.A. (October 28, 2007)
I love Stephen. He is Irresistible when I see him on T.V. I bought his book and reading it is like hearing Stephen's voice say the words like he would on his show. And from the few times I've seen of the real Stephen Colbert, I love much more than the character he pertrays on his show, not that he isn't Hilarious and very entertaining. I hope very much that I will get the chance to meet him in person someday soon.

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The Truthiness about Stephen Colbert!

Stephen Colbert is an American comedian, actor, writer, and co-creator of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central.

Colbert has gained national fame for his parody of Bill O'Reilly and right-wing pundits and Fox News anchors generally, with their slavish promotion of the policies of the administration of President George W. Bush. Colbert collaborated with Jon Stewart and Ben Karlin of The Daily Show in creating The Colbert Report, a spin-off of The Daily Show, which premiered on television in October 2005. Within the first month on the air, the show became one of Comedy Central's highest rated shows. Colbert has received three Emmy nominations and was the featured entertainer at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. In 2006, Time Magazine named Colbert "one of the 100 most influential people" and The New Yorker named him one of the most influential media personas.

The youngest of eleven children, Stephen Tyrone Colbert comes from an Irish Catholic family. He was born in Washington, D.C.and raised on James Island in South Carolina. He attended school at the Episcopal Porter-Gaud School but, by his own admission, was not academically motivated.

Surgery on a perforated eardrum, as a child, left Colbert deaf in his right ear.

His father, James Colbert, was vice president for academic affairs at the Medical University of South Carolina. His mother Lorna Colbert was a home-maker. James Colbert preferred to pronounce Colbert with a silent t. Colbert lost his father and two brothers, Peter and Paul, in an airline crash on September 11, 1974.

Colbert studied philosophy at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. After two years, he transferred to Northwestern University's School of Communication. At Northwestern he joined the improvisational troupe ImprovOlympic.

Colbert's first professional performance was with Second City, an improvisational comedy troupe in Chicago. In his troupe were Paul Dinello and Amy Sedaris, with whom Colbert collaborated with to produce the sketch comedy series, Exit 57 (1995); the TV series, Strangers With Candy (1999) and a satirical novel, Wigfield: The Can Do Town That Just May Not (2003).

Following the Cancellation of Exit 57, Colbert worked, for a short time, as a writer and cast member of The Dana Carvey Show. The show was cancelled within its first year after one reviewer described it as "kamikaze satire" in "borderline-questionable" taste. Colbert has been a free-lance writer for Saturday Night Live and was the voice of Ace in the animated sketch The Ambiguously Gay Duo, opposite Dana Carvey.

Colbert joined the The Daily Show in its second season with host Craig Kilborn as one of four Washington correspondents. Kilborn referred to Colbert as "the new guy". With the advent of Jon Stewart as host, the show took on a more political edge and Colbert's character gained more screen time and a name for himself. Colbert describes his character as "a fool who has spent a lot of his life playing not the fool."

While working on The Daily Show in 1998, Colbert took the role of Chuck Noblit; a closet gay history teacher, in the comedy series Strangers with Candy that parodies the after-school specials. The show was cancelled in 2000.

At the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, Colbert addressed President Bush and White House correspondents while in character. He stated, "I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. And, that send a strong message, that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound -- with the most powerfully staged photo ops in the world." His performance did not stray from The Colbert Report and was not enthusiastically received by the dinner party.

The American Dialect Society named Colbert's buzz word truthiness as word of the year for 2005.

In 2006, Colbert was nominated for three Emmys for The Colbert Report but lost to Barry Manilow. However, Colbert won an Emmy for his writing on the The Daily Show.

Stephen Colbert was named "2nd Sexiest TV News Anchor" by Maxim Online in 2006. Also in 2006, People Magazine named him one of the "Sexiest Men Alive" and GQ named him one of the "Men of the Year".

Unlike his TV persona, Colbert describes himself as a Democrat, a practicing Roman Catholic and Sunday school teacher. He is a fan of science fiction author, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the fantasy role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons.

Colbert is married to Evelyn McGee-Colbert. They live in Montclair, New Jersey and have three children: Madeline, Peter and John. Evelyn appeared on an episode, as well as the movie, of Strangers with Candy as the mother of Colbert's character. All three of his children have made appearances on The Daily Show.