Stephen Colbert

Born

in Washington, District of Columbia, The United States

May 13, 1964

Website

http://www.colbertnation.com/

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Genre

Humor, Politics, Literature & Fiction

Influences

Don Novello, Bill Cosby, George Carlin, Dean Martin, Jon Stewart

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Stephen Tyrone Colbert is an American comedian, satirist, actor, and writer known for his ironic style, particularly in his portrayal of uninformed opinion leaders and deadpan comedic delivery.
Colbert originally studied to be an actor, but became interested in improvisational theater when he met famed Second City director Del Close while attending Northwestern University. He first performed professionally as an understudy for Steve Carell at Second City Chicago; among his troupe mates were comedians Paul Dinello and Amy Sedaris, with whom he developed the critically-acclaimed sketch comedy series Exit 57.
Colbert also wrote and performed on the short-lived Dana Carvey Show before collaborating with Sedaris and Dinello again on the cult telev ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 194,907 ratings · 7,121 reviews · 28 distinct works • Similar authors

	I Am America by Stephen Colbert (Contributor/Editor), Richard Dahm (Contributor/Editor), Paul Dinello (Contributor/Editor) 3.89 avg rating — 80,640 ratings — published 2007 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't 3.87 avg rating — 12,200 ratings — published 2012 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I am a Pole by Stephen Colbert, Aaron Cohen, Paul Hildebrand (Illustrator) 3.87 avg rating — 4,800 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stephen Colbert's Midnight Confessions by Stephen Colbert, The Staff of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Sean Kelly (Illustrator) 3.53 avg rating — 2,030 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen: Invasion of the Optiklons by John Layman, Tom Peyer, Stephen Colbert 3.33 avg rating — 311 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell (Narrator), Conan O'Brien (Narrator), Seth Green (Narrator) 3.88 avg rating — 27,629 ratings — published 2002 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Famous People Who Returned Our Calls: Celebrity Highlights from the Oddly Informative News Quiz by Peter Sagal, Paula Poundstone, Paul Provenza 4.06 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Improvise.: Scene from the Inside Out by Mick Napier, Stephen Colbert (Foreword) 4.30 avg rating — 909 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not by Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello 3.58 avg rating — 3,620 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum 3.99 avg rating — 92,831 ratings — published 2004 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Stephen Colbert

“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.”
― Stephen Colbert

tags: christ, christian, christian-behavior, poor, religion, selfish

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“Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say “yes'.”
― Stephen Colbert

tags: cynicism, optimism, wisdom, youth

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“If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.”
― Stephen Colbert

tags: humor, isolationism, political-philosophy, politics

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