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Stephen Colbert Wiki Biography

The famous comedian, actor and screenwriter Stephen Colbert was born on 13 May 1964, in Washington DC USA, of Irish, English and German descent. Stephen is perhaps best known for  hosting the late-night satirical TV show “The Colbert Report”, which started running in 2005, in which Stephen positions himself as a political humorist. Colbert even received an Emmy Award for the role in this show, and for the TV special show aired in 2008 “A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All”, Stephen gained a Grammy Award.

So just how rich is Stephen Colbert? Sources estimate that Stephen has a net worth of $45 million, which should not be surprising as this satirist earns more than $6 million per year, in particular from “The Colbert Report”.

Stephen Colbert was the youngest of 11 children: his father and two brothers were killed in an air crash in 1974. His father, James was a doctor and medical school dean at Yale, Saint Louis and finally the Medical University of South Carolina, and his mother, Lorna  was, unsurprisingly a homemaker. Stephen spent his childhood in South Carolina, finally at Northwestern University where Colbert started acting, as well as studying drama.

Stephen Colbert toyed with several career possibilities, including as a musician and as a diver before hearing problems leaving him deaf in his right ear led him to concentrate on acting, which was a by-product in his first job with a ‘phone company, where studying was encouraged. In his early career, Stephen Colbert established his net worth with appearances on “Missing Persons” (1993), “Exit 57” (1995 – 1996), “Spin City” (1996), “The Dana Carvey Show” (1996), “The Daily Show” (1997 – 2005). Stephen Colbert’s net worth was further boosted with revenues from “Saturday Night Live” (1996 – 2011): in total, Colbert appeared in 14 episodes of this show.

Stephen Colbert was also a screenwriter of some the already mentioned shows, which added considerable incomes to Stephen’s  net worth. In addition, for co-writing “The Daily Show”, Colbert received a couple of Emmy Awards.

Stephen`s filmography is very long, mostly on TV with over 40 credits obviously contributing significantly to his net worth. The actor appeared in “Strangers with Candy” (1999 – 2000), “Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law” (2001 – 2007), “Crank Yankers” (2002), “The Wrong Coast” (2004), “The Venture Bros” (2004 – 2006), “Bewitched” (2005), “The Office” (2012), and “Alpha House” (2013).

Stephen Colbert’s net worth has also been boosted from his work as a voice actor. He voiced characters from such famous movies as “American Dad” (2005), “The Simpsons” (2007), “Monsters vs Aliens” (2009), and “Mr. Peabody & Sherman” (2014).

Colbert is also known as a screenwriter and author. He has published a couple of books, including “Wigfield: The Can Do Town That Just May Not” (2004), “I Am America (And So Can You)” (2007), “America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren’t” (2012), and “I Am a Pole (And So Can You!)” (2012). Some of these books were acknowledged as best-sellers.

From his successful career in many areas, including acting and politics, Stephen Colbert is considered to be as one of the most influential people in the US, as announced by TIME Magazine.

As for his personal life, Stephen married Evelyn McGee in 1991, and the couple has three children. Along with Evelyn, Stephen performed in “Strangers with Candy”, wherein Evelyn played his mother. Currently, the Colbert family resides in Montclair, New Jersey.

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Stephen Colbert Quick Info

Stephen Colbert Trademarks

1. Often raises one eyebrow
2. Delivers ridiculous lines of dialogue with complete seriousness and sincerity
3. His glasses
4. Politically-edged humor
5. Parodies of well known political and media figures

Stephen Colbert Quotes

• [as new host on the premiere of ‘The Late Show’, September 8, 2015] With this show I begin the search for the real Stephen Colbert. I just hope I don’t find him on ‘Ashley Madison’.
• Well, this is the planet we live on, so…
• [on preparing to replace David Letterman on ‘The Late Show’ in 2015] There are some huge shoes to fill. And some really big pants.
• I don’t accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.
• [In 2009] I know what you’re thinking: “Isn’t the Iraq War over?” That’s what I thought, too. I hadn’t seen it in the media for a while, and when I don’t see something, I assume it’s vanished forever, like in that terrifying game peekaboo. We stopped seeing much coverage of the Iraq War back in September when the economy tanked, and I just figured the insurgents were wiped out because they were heavily invested in Lehman Brothers. Turns out there are still 135,000 troops in Iraq, which I don’t understand because we’ve already won the war. And we’ve won it so many times. We should win something for the number of times we’ve won it. We eliminated the weapons of mass destruction by having them not exist. We took out Saddam Hussein-or a really convincing and committed Saddam Hussein double. We helped write the Iraqi Constitution and clearly gave Iraqis the right to bear a lot of arms. And by August of next year we’ll withdraw every single one of our troops, leaving behind only memories and 50,000 troops. But despite our continued victories, Americans have many lingering questions about Iraq. For example: where is Iraq? My guess is somewhere near Paraguay.
• My character isn’t ironically detached, he’s ironically a-ttached; things are important to him.
• My character is a patriot, and he believes that the Olympics are war. It’s a way to prove who’s got the best country. Only nobody gets hurt.
• As executive producer of this show, I get to ask my character to do whatever I want.
• The trouble with the jokes is that once they’re written, I know how they’re supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I’m more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work.
• [In his junior year in high school]: I was probably still Colbert to a lot of people. But in my mind I was coal-BARE.”
• My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.
• Citizens United said that transparency would be the disinfectant, but (c)(4)’s are warm, wet, moist incubators. There is no disinfectant.
• [Remembering the 2000 presidential election recount] We all had such blue balls from the jokes we wanted to do when Al Gore eventually conceded. And the night it happened, here we were doing them. I turned to Jon Stewart and said, “This is the most fun job on TV right now”.
• I was never interested in political comedy: “Ted Kennedy ‘s hitting the bottle again!'” Jon Stewart taught me how to do it so it would be smart. He encouraged everyone to have a point of view. There had to be a thought behind every joke.
• When Jon Stewart got The Daily Show (1996), [Colbert’s wife Evelyn McGee] said, “Wait a second–he wasn’t the funny one in our group. He was the quiet one in the corner with a beer”.
• [stating that the best moment in the 2004 campaign for Democratic presidential nominee was Howard Dean’s post-Iowa speech] Because clearly everybody was captivated by it. I think that’s an argument why he should be President, because he can capture everyone’s attention. Listen, George W. Bush was a cheerleader. I’m sure he screamed like that when he was at Yale, and I don’t see why that disqualifies someone from being President. But George Bush did it in a human pyramid.
• [on writing] I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn’t like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.
• [on his creativity] I wrote things for the school’s newspaper, and – like all teenagers – I dabbled in poetry.
• [about the Washington press corps] But, listen, let’s review the rules. Here’s how it works. The President makes decisions, he’s the decider. The Press Secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Put them through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know, fiction.
• The fact that they looked it up in a book just shows that they don’t get the idea of truthiness at all. You don’t look up truthiness in a book, you look it up in your gut.
• [on his mock “crusade” against the Associated Press regarding his claim that coined the word “truthiness”] It’s a sin of omission, is what it is. You’re not giving people the whole story about truthiness. It’s like Shakespeare still being alive and not asking him what “Hamlet” is about.
• [The Union Leader (Manchester NH, January 25, 2004, when asked why people should watch The Daily Show (1996)] You shouldn’t listen to us at all if you’re looking for information. We don’t take ourselves seriously on any level; we’re just comedians . . . I’m a huge news junkie. I love what the news does. And we’re a shadow, a reflection, of what’s happening in the real news.
• [Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City, UT), January 23, 2004] Since there’s not more news than there used to be, but there’s way more time, and more channels doing it all the time, so that analysis has become much more than news . . . They really have to fill and they go, “(Expletive), we’ll just have analysis for the next three hours,” because there’s no more new on the story. And then . . . the first person with a semi-cogent thought, they go, “(Expletive), I’ll say that, too.” And then that analysis becomes accepted dogma because analysis is the bulk of what you’re getting. You’re not really getting any more news.
• [To Howard Kurtz on CNN’s Reliable Sources (1992) January 25, 2004] We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do. Because we get it off the AP feed and, then, we don’t have to write anything for the next five minutes. We can just roll the tape.
• [on what he would like to ask former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean] The media tries to portray you as an angry candidate. Doesn’t that piss you off?

Stephen Colbert Important Facts

• In the 1980s he attended Chicago’s Northwestern University’s theater & speech class with friend David Schwimmer.
• Release of the book, “Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not” by Stephen and Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello. [2003]
• Release of his book, “I Am America (And So Can You!)”. [October 2007]
• His older sister, Elizabeth Colbert Busch (aka Lulu), is the 2014 South Carolina Democratic congressional candidate. Her Republican opponent will be Gov. Mark Sanford [April 2013].
• Worked alongside Louis C.K., Charlie Kaufman and Robert Smigel on the writing staff of The Dana Carvey Show (1996).
• In January 2008, Colbert began a campaign on his show to have a portrait of his character hung in the “Treasures of American History” exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC (pieces shown in that exhibit included a top hat worn by’ Abraham Lincoln’, an original light bulb made by Thomas A. Edison, a Greensboro, North Carolina, lunch counter that was the scene of a seminal civil rights sit-in, Lewis and Clark’s compass, and Kermit the Frog). When the National Museum of American History refused the portrait, Colbert next offered it to the National Portrait Gallery (also a Smithsonian museum), which accepted it on a temporary basis and hung it between the bathrooms adjacent to the Hall of Presidents. After the portrait’s term at the National Portrait Gallery was up, the National Museum of American History did agree to hang the portrait – next to a Dumbo car from the original Dumbo the Flying Elephant ride at Disneyland.
• Stephen often sings and dances in television performances. He has said in interviews that he studied voice and ballet in college.
• His siblings from oldest to youngest are: Jimmy, Eddie, Mary, Billy, Margo, Tommy, Jay, Lulu, Paul, and Peter. Stephen is the youngest of the eleven.
• Stephen’s father was of seven eighths Irish ancestry, with his other roots being English and German. Stephen’s mother was of entirely Irish descent.
• Good friends with fellow former The Daily Show (1996) correspondent Steve Carell
• Received an honorary doctorate in fine arts by Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, in 2006.
• As a result of an operation he had when he was young, he can fold his right ear inside out and can pop it out when he squints his eye.
• As a result of the plane crash that killed his father and two of his brothers, the Federal Aviation Administration established the “sterile cockpit” rule, which prohibits flight crews from engaging in any conversation or activities apart from their flying duties while the aircraft is below 10,000 feet.
• Teaches Sunday School every weekend at his church and teaches his own specific story of salvation and has the children learn spiritual songs.
• Is currently in the process of putting together news pieces about every district in the United States.
• Has three children: Madeline, Peter, and John.
• Has stated that not all of his family members say “Colbert” the way he does. Some pronounce the “T” at the end.
• His show, The Colbert Report (2005), averages 1.2 million viewers.
• “Truthiness,” a word he coined, was declared the Word of the Year 2005 by the American Dialect Society.
• Lent his voice to some attack ads that were used for the The 78th Annual Academy Awards (2006), hosted by Jon Stewart.
• Voiced several characters on Comedy Central’s Crank Yankers (2002).
• Began a career in comedy by joining the Second City improv group in Chicago.
• Occasionally replaced Jon Stewart as anchor of The Daily Show (1996) while Jon was occupied with other things.
• Wrote the book Wigfield with Strangers with Candy (1999) costars Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello.
• He was briefly a correspondent on Good Morning America (1975).
• His father and two of his brothers died in a plane crash when he was ten years old. On September 11, 1974, they were on an Eastern Airlines DC-9 that crashed in dense fog during its approach to Charlotte, N.C. Of the 82 people on board, 72 were killed. In its report, the NTSB concluded that “the probable cause of the accident was the flight crew’s lack of altitude awareness at critical points during the approach due to poor cockpit discipline in that the crew did not follow prescribed procedures.”.
• All of his three children have appeared on The Daily Show (1996).
• Was included in the Peabody Award given to [error] and The Daily Show: Indecision 2002: Election Night (2002) for “offering biting political satire, these scintillating segments had something droll and amusing to say about almost everything and everyone associated with American politics and the presidential election.”.
• Most of the shows he has been a part of are on Comedy Central. These shows are Exit 57 (1995), The Daily Show (1996), Strangers with Candy (1999), and The Colbert Report (2005).
• Is a huge Lord of the Rings fan and has an encyclopedic knowledge of the series. Specifically recited the entire biography of LOTR character Aragorn from memory when Viggo Mortensen appeared on The Daily Show (1996). Mortensen kindly sent Colbert a platter full of LOTR characters carved out of chocolate.
• The youngest of eleven children.
• Is deaf in his right ear.
• Provided the voice of Ace for Saturday Night Live (1975)’s “The Ambiguously Gay Duo” segments. The voice of Gary is provided by fellow The Daily Show (1996) correspondent Steve Carell.
• An alumnus of the Second City and Annoyance Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. Graduated from Northwestern University in 1986.

Stephen Colbert Filmography

Stephen Colbert Awards