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'''Stephen Colbert''', formerly a "correspondent" for ''[[The Daily Show|The Daily Show with Jon Stewart]]'', is the host of a half hour show on [[Comedy Central]] called '''''The Colbert Report'''''.  His show directly follows Jon's (and often used to overlap it slightly), rounding out Comedy Central's late night "fake news hour."
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'''Stephen Colbert''', formerly a "correspondent" for ''[[The Daily Show|The Daily Show with Jon Stewart]]'', is the host of a half hour show on [[Comedy Central]] called '''''The Colbert Report'''''.  His show directly follows Jon's (and often used to overlap it slightly), rounding out Comedy Central's late night "fake news hour." In his show, Colbert plays the part of a conservative pundit with a firm belief in the [[American Dream]] and a strong disdain for [[logic]] and [[reality]]. It is a deadpan [[Poe's Law|parody]] of [[Fox News]] shows and [[Bill O'Reilly|Bill "Papa Bear" O'Reilly]] in particular.
 
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''The Colbert Report'' is pretty much a deadpan [[Poe's Law|parody]] of [[Fox News]] shows, most especially that of [[Bill O'Reilly|Bill "Papa Bear" O'Reilly]].
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In the character Colbert's name, the "t" is silent, and the name of his show is pronounced the same way — as in, ''The Colbear Repore''.  This is somehow partly due to his deathly fear of bears — in spite of his very large [[testicles]]. The real Colbert pronounces his name with the T; the distinction in the character's pronunciation is intended to create a distinction between the real and fictional Colberti.
 
In the character Colbert's name, the "t" is silent, and the name of his show is pronounced the same way — as in, ''The Colbear Repore''.  This is somehow partly due to his deathly fear of bears — in spite of his very large [[testicles]]. The real Colbert pronounces his name with the T; the distinction in the character's pronunciation is intended to create a distinction between the real and fictional Colberti.

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Stephen Colbert, formerly a "correspondent" for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, is the host of a half hour show on Comedy Central called The Colbert Report. His show directly follows Jon's (and often used to overlap it slightly), rounding out Comedy Central's late night "fake news hour." In his show, Colbert plays the part of a conservative pundit with a firm belief in the American Dream and a strong disdain for logic and reality. It is a deadpan parody of Fox News shows and Bill "Papa Bear" O'Reilly in particular.

In the character Colbert's name, the "t" is silent, and the name of his show is pronounced the same way — as in, The Colbear Repore. This is somehow partly due to his deathly fear of bears — in spite of his very large testicles. The real Colbert pronounces his name with the T; the distinction in the character's pronunciation is intended to create a distinction between the real and fictional Colberti.

Mr. Colbert has also appeared in the television and film versions of Strangers With Candy, in addition to many voiceover credits (notably in Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law).

Even his balls have balls.

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Charity

The Colbert Report has successfully auctioned several items that have featured prominently in the show, including a portrait of Colbert which sold at auction for over $50,000,[1] the proceeds of which went to Save the Children, and, most recently, the (political celebrity-autographed) cast he wore on his wrist for several weeks. The cast sold for $17,200, and the proceeds were donated to The Yellow Ribbon Fund.

Another item sold by Colbert to benefit charity is the "wrist strong" bracelet.[2]

Colbert is also very active in promoting the educational site DonorsChoose, where individuals donate materials needed for teaching to individual classes, be it basics or AV gear. One of his projects was inspiring his "nation" to donate to classes whose students are children of military personnel currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Colbert and his nation helped to save the US speed skating team after their sponsor, a Dutch bank, went belly up. "Colbert Nation" became an official sponsor and kept them on the ice.[3]

Dedicated to

Mr. Colbert often mobilizes his "Colbert Nation" to name things after him. So far, he has gotten his own Ben & Jerry's flavor, "Americone Dream"; a minor league hockey mascot; an exercise machine on the International Space Station; an airplane; a spider; an eagle; a falcon; and an elephant seal named after him.[4]

In Oshawa, Ontario, March 20th is Stephen Colbert day. The holiday was declared by Mayor Gray in 2007 after he lost a bet with Colbert.[5]

2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner

In one of the finest moments of the Bush Administration, Colbert stood mere feet from the dark lord and tore apart his record and beliefs, as well as referring to his declining approval ratings multiple times, making frequent eye contact with the visibly angered president.

Conservapedia

Upon hearing of Conservapedia's Conservative Bible Project, Colbert exhorted his audience on October 7, 2009 to crash the wiki and write him into the Bible as God.[6] They did so; Conservapedia's server collapsed under the extra load of page views and decidedly infantile (if moderately amusing) wandal attacks.

In a "follow up," Colbert interviewed site owner Andrew Schlafly on his show on December 8, 2009.[7]

Presidential ambitions

Stephen tried to run for president of the United States in 2008. He has indicated that he would run in both the Republican and Democratic primaries in his home state of South Carolina. The project ran aground (intentionally[8]) due to his blatant attempts to con a snack food manufacturer into sponsoring his campaign.

He was then angling for a spot as Mike Huckabee's running mate, but that plan also crapped out, when Huckabee dropped out of the race.

He mentioned a possible run in 2012, with the help of Doritos but nothing was confirmed. Sadly Colbert probably left things too late but technically could have still run in states which allow write in candidates.[9]

He also ran for "President of the United States of South Carolina," and would easily have won the election if such a post really existed.

Super PAC

In 2011 Colbert made a second foray into the American political system, this time in the form of a political action commitee with the express purpose of "Making a better tomorrow, tomorrow."[10]

Super PACs can accept unlimited donations, so long as the identities of its donors are disclosed. To highlight how much one can get away with, Colbert then formed a 401(c)(4) organization called "Colbert SuperPAC SHH". 401(c)(4) organizations can accept donations and do not have to reveal the names of their donors, and at the same time are allowed to make donations of their own to Super PACs. Voilá! Non-traceability.

The Super PAC is renowned world-wide for taking an otherwise garbage candidate, Rick Parry ("with an A, for America!"), and lifting him to an historic victory!!!1! second place (!!...!) in the Ames Straw Poll.[citation NOT needed]

The PAC was disbanded after the election and death of adviser Ham Rove. In a nice consolation prize, he won a Peabody Award for his efforts.[11]

Im in ur portrit galry, hangin bitwin ur bafrooms.

Portraiture

Stephen's "den" (part of The Colbert Report set) is graced with, among other things, a portrait of himself that is periodically updated, by being repainted with himself standing in front of it. One that has a "meta-depth" of two, and has been retired from his den, has been graced with a place of great honor in the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.[12] Previous portraits have also been auctioned off.

Quotes

I teach Sunday School, motherfucker!
—To his guest, Philip Zimbardo, 11 Feb. 2008[13]
If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.[14]
Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family.[14]

Publications

  • I Am America (And So Can You!), 2007
  • I Am a Pole (And So Can You!), 2012
  • America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't, 2012

External links

Charities

Footnotes

  1. Save the Children
  2. $5 of the $7.50 purchase price goes to The Yellow Ribbon Fund: Comedy Central Shop: Stephen Colbert's Wriststrong bracelet
  3. Sports Illustrated: The Year in Sports Media
  4. Things named after Stephen Colbert
  5. Oshawa Pays Its Debt to TV Host Stephen Colbert
  6. [1]
  7. Viewable here
  8. NPR Interview (Transcript): "You know, even in - even four years ago when I was running in 2008 in South Carolina and really sincerely like tried to get on the ballot, if I was doing well, I had a plan of how to drop out, which was that I was going to have a scandal."
  9. CBS News: Stephen Colbert isn't really running for president
  10. ColbertPAC
  11. Stephen Colbert’s Super PAC Satire Lands Him a Peabody, Time
  12. Smithsonian: Portrait of Stephen Colbert
  13. Modern "bleep" techniques permit ready interpretation of what is not heard, much to the FCC and some other prudes' dismay. Interview found here
  14. 14.0 14.1 Stephen Colbert, Quotable Quotes
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