Stephen Colbert
Author of I Am America (And So Can You!)
About the Author
Stephen Colbert was born in Washington, D.C. on May 13, 1964 and grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. He is a published author, comedian, and television host who is well-known for his spin-off series of The Daily Show, The Colbert Report. In 1986, Colbert graduated with a theatre degree from show more Northwestern University. After graduation, he joined the Second City comedy improv troupe in Chicago. While there, he met Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello with whom he developed the award-winning sketch comedy series Exit 57. In 1997, Colbert joined Comedy Central's The Daily Show where he was a correspondent and writer for eight years. He, along with the other writers of the Daily Show, received three Emmy Awards in 2004, 2005, and 2006. In 2005, he left The Daily Show and began hosting his own television show, The Colbert Report. He was nominated for three Emmys for The Colbert Report in 2006, and in 2008, he won the award as a writer for The Colbert Report. He is also the recipient of three Peabody Awards. Colbert is published author whose 2007 book, I Am America (And So Can You!) made number one on The New York Times Best Seller list. His 2012 title America Again: Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't: Now in 3-D High-Def Depthiness! also made the New York Times Best Seller List. show less
Image credit: Photo by Neil Grabowsky / Montclair Film, taken December 2017. Retrieved from Wikipedia.
Series
Works by Stephen Colbert
Whose Boat Is This Boat?: Comments That Don't Help in the Aftermath of a Hurricane (2018) 290 copies
Strangers With Candy 23 copies
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 4 copies
Associated Works
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction (2004) — Additional material — 7,310 copies
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contributor — 115 copies
The Peanuts Book: A Visual History of the Iconic Comic Strip (2020) — Foreword, some editions — 29 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Colbert, Stephen Tyrone
- Other names
- Colbert, Stephen T.
- Birthdate
- 1964-05-13
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Places of residence
- Washington, D.C., USA (birth)
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Montclair, New Jersey, USA - Education
- Hampden-Sydney College
Northwestern University (B.A., Theater, 1987) - Occupations
- comedian
actor
satirist - Awards and honors
- Emmy (Outstanding Writing for a Variety Music or Comedy Program ∙ "The Daily Show" ∙ 2004 ∙ 2005 ∙ 2006)
Peabody Award ( [2000] ∙ [2004])
Honorary Doctorate (Fine Arts, 2006)
Time 100 (2006)
Person of the Year, U.S. Comedy Arts Festival (2007)
Speaker of the Year, Cross-Examination Debate Association [CEDA] (2007)
Members
Reviews
Whose Boat Is This Boat?: Comments That Don't Help… by The Staff of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Mental head slap.
I'd feel bad about counting this as a book but it's on GR so...
Funny and irreverent and made me laugh when I needed it. Well done.
Funny and irreverent and made me laugh when I needed it. Well done.
You can tell right off the bat if someone is a fan of the Colbert Report just by mentioning the title. Anyone who does not watch the show will have a confused look on their face and say something along the lines of "I don't get it".
This is a book that will make you laugh, sometimes until you cry.
This is a book that will make you laugh, sometimes until you cry.
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Awards
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Statistics
- Works
- 23
- Also by
- 11
- Members
- 8,306
- Popularity
- #2,908
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 220
- ISBNs
- 50
- Favorited
- 11
- Touchstones
- 162
