Stephen Colbert

Officially, The Hardest Working Man in Show Business and The Greatest Living American

This article is about Stephen Colbert the hero. For the character he plays in interviews, see Stephen Colbert (character)


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The Honorable Dr. Stephen Tyrone "C-Train" Colbert, D.F.A., Greatest Living American, is a news reporter and anchor known for his romantic style, supergravitastic poise, Lincolnish intellect, extreme uber-hotness, and witty delivery. Best known for bringing truthiness to America's heroes through his eponymous The Colbert Report and its lead-in program The Daily Show,   Dr. Colbert has fought the battle of hearts, minds and guts over here, so he doesn't have to fight it over there. His hard-hitting approach to infotainment leaves no stone unturned, no guest un-nailed. From the panoramic heights of The Eagle's Nest, Our Glorious Stephen takes on the secular progressives, the liberal media elite, the fat cats in Washington D.C., the people who don't watch his show, and other enemies of freedom.

In addition to his role as America's most trusted source of news, Dr. Colbert is a well-known wordsmith, whose inventions include the award-winning terms wikiality and truthiness. His contributions to the American language are far too great to enumerate here, but the dictionary simply overflows with Colbert-coined words and phrases. Stephen's accomplishments in other fields are as just as great, and just as overflowing. This article barely begins to floweth over the cup of Dr. Colbert's amazing accomplishments in so many kinds of heroic action. How does he do it all, America must often wonder. The answer seems clear: Giant Brass Balls.

Stephen Colbert is not the only true American Citizen who cares for America - just the Greatest Living American you can watch on TV. That is, if you're heroic enough to watch.

Personal life
Colbert was born (1 B.C.) in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Charleston, South Carolina on James Island, where he grew up as the youngest of 11 children in a Catholic family. As a kid, his middle name was "Danger" and he loved fire and sharp things. On September 11, 1974, when Colbert was ten years old, his father, James Colbert, the vice president for academic affairs at the Medical University of South Carolina, and his older brothers, Peter and Paul, were killed in the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 while it was attempting to land in Charlotte, North Carolina. They were reportedly en route to Connecticut to enroll the two boys in the Canterbury College. He is also 12% black but states that he sees no color in people. Shortly thereafter, Colbert's mother Lorna Colbert relocated the family downtown to the more urban environment of East Bay Street. By his own account, he found the transition difficult, and did not easily make new friends in his new neighborhood. Instead, he developed a love of science fiction and fantasy novels, and became an avid fan of the fantasy role-playing games, especially Dungeons & Dragons, a pastime to which he would later partially attribute his interest in acting and improvisation.

Colbert would do drugs, but said that the only thing keeping him from doing drugs is that they're illegal. So thats why he's against them.

Colbert attended Charleston's awful Episcopalian Porter-Gaud School. He attended Hampden-Sydney College before transferring to Northwestern University, where he took extensive journalism courses. While there, he became involved in the school television news program "A Moment for Truth". After college he went to work at local news affiliate KTRU, as a field reporter.

He is married to Evelyn McGee-Colbert, and has three children: Madeline, Peter, and John; all of whom appeared on The Daily Show during his tenure. However, even after his marriage, he continued his previous connections with NAMBLA and the North American Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Bald Eagles despite the wishes of his wife and family. He also has a bastard child due to an accident involving Stephen Colbert's Formula 401. This child is none other than Eric Cartman of the reality T.V. show South Park. Although not particularly political before joining The Daily Show, Colbert is a self-described Defender of Truth, and finds that supporting our president is the most effective way of protecting it.

Will only apologize if there is something in it for him, like an eagle guitar.

Pets
Dr. Colbert's favorite traveling companion is his pet goldfish, Anthrax.

Dr. Colbert also has a dog named "Gipper" who has become very obedient since The Good Doctor changed his expectations for him.

Also see Fantasia Minor and Starbeam

Jedi
Stephen Colbert is also, secretly, a Jedi master of heroic tales. His prowess with the light-saber is quite remarkable as evidenced by this footage.

He is also a practicing Roman Catholic, and a Sunday school teacher. Bill O'Reilly jokingly called for a boycott of The Colbert Report during an interview on The Daily Show, because he assumed that the name Colbert was French; which is believed to be a friendly inside joke, considering their obvious close relationship. Actually, O'Reilly and Colbert are frequently seen together sharing dinner and discussing hard-hitting issues like armageddon, U.S.A's world dominance, and watching the Democrats shoot themselves in the foot.

Finances
His investments are so well diversified, he didn't even care when Allen Greenspan retired as Federal Reserve chairman. Even his money makes money.

Stephen Colbert has supernatural, omnipotent powers. He "called" five winners of the Oscars 2006, and predicted that Manilow would win the Emmy and not him. Stephen Colbert can see the future. He also used his omnipotent powers to predict and/or convince the African elephants to increase their population by threefold (this is actually true, you non-believers). If you can see the future, you are God. Therefore, Dr. Colbert is God. If he is not, he is the messiah, Maud-dib if you will.

Religious Curses Against Stephen

 * Catholic Excommunication Threat
 * Jewish Death Curse
 * Hindu Eight-Armed Shiva Squeeze
 * Lutheran Thesis Of Death tacked to his door
 * Scientological Death Ray Of Xenu
 * Muslim Fatwa

Musical Prowess
It is generally acknowledged that Stephen Colbert is one of the most influential pundit musicians of all time. He can play guitar very well, having served as the lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist for noted New Wave sensation Stephen and the Colberts, and his singing voice can charm angels down from Heaven with its sweet purity. He is also the greatest known bassoonist in the world and has regular bassoon-offs with Tad, the building manager for "The Colbert Report". Dr. Colbert is also a better pianist than Condoleezza Rice.

Another musical passion that Dr. Colbert has is for the saxophone. His celebrated film, Hiphopketball: A Jazzebration, showed off his incredible saxophone prowess and endeared him to Steely Dan forever.

Colbert can also play the guitar part to Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" on the flute, which demonstrates exceptional skill.

Although he considers himself a pundit musician and singer foremost, Stephen Colbert is also widely regarded as the greatest newsman dancer - EVER! With grudging admiration (and alliteration), Dan Rather once called Stephen "the Baryshnikov of Braggadocio," while Papa Bear O'Reilly frequently refers to Stephen's "lithe, graceful, can I get a piece of that?" dancer's physique.

Stephen "Reign" Colbert is also an up-and-coming Korean R&B sensation. His hit song He's Singin' In Korean shows just how much more talent he has compared to his unAmerican archnemesis, Rain.

Doctorness
Dr. Colbert received a Doctorate of Facty Arts from Steal This Bible College!. With this Doctorate he can perform operations and deliver babies in 4 states and in Guam.


 * Stephen's degree allows him to appear out-of-focus when singing on TV.
 * Aside from Jesus Christ, Stephen is the smartest man alive.

Writerly
Smartest Man Alive Professor Dr. Stephen Colbert, D.F.A., has no need to read books for facts, as he derives all truthiness from his own gut. Nonetheless, Dr. Colbert does occasionally deign to share his unimaginable wisdom in a book-like form, in order to more easily speak to the godless liberals and communist academician types who go for that kind of thing. Dr. Colbert has turned his authorial hand to several magnificent tomes, including
 * Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not (Hyperion, 2003), co-written with Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello
 * America: The Book (Warner Books, 2004), by John Stewart, to which Stephen contributed what are probably the funny parts
 * Parts of the Bible (God, reprint Gutenberg, Time Immemorial). Controversy continues as questions arise about the mysterious relationship between Stephen's writerness and this, the most holiest of bookests.
 * Stephen Colbert's Alpha Squad 7: Lady Nocturne: A Tek Jansen Adventure‎, an as-yet-unpublished but obviously-award-winning science fiction novel, the internets version of the novel, its cartoon spinoff, and the soon-to-be-released ...
 * Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen Adventures Comic Series! (Oni  Press, first issue June 20, 2007)
 * I Am America (And So Can You!) (Warner Books, October 9, 2007)

In addition to the works of journalism above, Stephen has also written several books in the fiction and punditry genres. For more on these, see Stephen's Written Word.

Words Created by Stephen
Stephen knows the wordinistas just make up words or take credit for words other people make up and then add them to a "dictionary". So he's begun to redefine English to be a language real Americans can be proud of:
 * truthiness
 * wikiality
 * wordinista
 * factinista
 * factiness
 * wikilobbying
 * freem
 * nerd patrol
 * Lincolnish
 * megamerican
 * superstantial
 * eneagled
 * grippy
 * dumb-ocracy
 * smarterer

Be sure to report if any of these appear in dictionaries or newspapers. See The Word and dictionary for existing words Stephen has added guts & balls to.

Superpowers

 * Stephen made the gold market go up with his mind.
 * Stephen's shit doesn't stink. Stephen doesn't shit.
 * After the death of Captain America, a concerned colleague of the late superhero delivered his shield to Stephen Colbert, recognizing him as the only person left alive who was worthy of it.
 * Stephen has the power of heat vision. He uses is to light fires in his fireplace.

Motto

 * Infinite modesty, which he plans to have carved on the face of America's Moon, if we ever actually land there.

Dr. Colbert and The Truthiness Monkeys
The Truthiness Monkeys (Obedience, Ignorance and Fear) were 3 monkey brothers working on writing Dan Brown's book, "The DaVinci Code" when, during a feces-throwing break, they realized the un-truthiness of writing a "fictional" book that used "facts" as it's foundation.

For days the brothers flip-flopped between throwing feces at each other and being a part of Dan Brown's lie. Finally, after listening to Rush Limbaugh for 14 hours straight, "Fear" decided enough was enough; the brothers would blow the whistle on Dan Brown and the other factonistas who controlled the "fact sweatshops" throughout the world.

"Ignorance" had no idea what "Fear" was talking about, but "Obedience" was more than happy to do what "Fear" told him to do.

And the brothers were off.

At first it was a clandestine operation; the brothers moved from "fact sweatshop" to "fact sweatshop" secretly adding their own truth to every book they worked on, until every fiction book on The New York Times bestseller list contained something from the three brothers.

It wasn't until Stephen Colbert picked up a book by Al Franken that the brothers' work was discovered. Dr. Colbert used his own patented The DaColbert Code to decifer the hidden message from the brothers in Franken's Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot.

Because the brothers were monkeys and had no idea what they were typing (Ignorance's idea) they didn't know what to call what they were doing (And even if they did, they were monkeys and couldn't speak English).

But Stephen did.

And "truthiness" was born.

Stephen has since adopted monkeys to write his TV show and treats them the way Willy Wonka treats the Oompa Loompas.

Stephen Colbert is not the only true American Citizen who cares for America - just the Greatest Living American you can watch on TV. That is, if you're heroic enough to watch.

Newsman

 * The Colbert Report
 * 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner
 * The Colbert Report recurring elements
 * The Daily Show