Stephen Colbert CBS Bio, Age, Wiki, Family, Wife, Height and Net Worth

Stephen Colbert Profile

Stephen Colbert is a comedian, writer, producer, actor, and television host from the United States. From 2005 to 2014, he hosted the satirical Comedy Central show The Colbert Report, and since September 2015, he has hosted the CBS talk show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Colbert rose to prominence as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s news-parody series The Daily Show. In 2005, he left The Daily Show to become the host of The Colbert Report. The Colbert Report was a spoof of personality-driven political opinion shows like The O’Reilly Factor, in which he portrayed a caricatured version of conservative political pundits, similar to The Daily Show’s news-parody idea.

Colbert was invited to appear as the main comedian at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in 2006 after the series become one of Comedy Central’s highest-rated shows. Following the conclusion of The Colbert Report, he was hired in 2015 to succeed David Letterman as host of CBS’s Late Show. In September 2017, he presented at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards.

Colbert has received nine Primetime Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Peabody Awards during his career. In 2006 and 2012, Colbert was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People. In 2007, Colbert’s book, I Am America (And So Can You! ), was the best-selling book in the New York Times.

Most Asked Questions About Stephen Colbert

Who is Stephen Colbert?

Stephen Colbert is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, and television host.

How old is Stephen Colbert?

Stephen was born on May 13, 1964, in Washington D.C. He is 58 years of age.

How Tall Is Stephen Colbert?

Stephen stands at an average height of 5ft 9in.

Is Stephen Colbert Married?

Colbert has been married to Evelyn “Evie” McGee-Colbert since 1993. Evelyn McGee is the daughter of Buist Moore Smythe McGee, a notable Charleston civil lawyer.

Where Is Stephen Colbert Now?

Stephen Colbert is a comedian, writer, producer, actor, and television host from the United States.

How Much Does Stephen Colbert Make?

Stephen’s annual salary where he works as a TV host falls somewhere in the range of $70,000 and $90,000 on average.

Stephen Colbert Age

Stephen was born on May 13, 1964, in Washington D.C. but spent his early years in Bethesda, Maryland. He is 58 years old.

Stephen Colbert Height

Stephen stands at an average height of 5ft 9in.

Stephen Colbert Education

Stephen attended the Episcopal Porter-Gaud School in Charleston, where he took part in several school plays and contributed to the school newspaper, but he was not particularly academically driven. Stephen was a member of A Shot in the Dark, a Rolling Stones cover band, throughout his adolescence.

He had aspired to study marine biology when he was younger, but surgery to repair a severely perforated eardrum resulted in inner ear damage. He was unable to pursue a job involving scuba diving due to the extent of the injuries. He was also deaf in his right ear as a result of the trauma.

Stephen was unsure whether or not he would go to college for a long, but in the end, he applied and was accepted to Hampden–Sydney College in Virginia, where a buddy had also enrolled. Stephen studied philosophy in 1982 and continued to perform in plays.

He found the curriculum demands, but he was more focused and able to commit himself to his academics than he had been in high school. Colbert’s passion for acting rose dramatically during this time, despite the lack of a major theater scene at Hampden–Sydney.

After two years, Stephen switched to Northwestern University to pursue performance as a theater major in 1984, buoyed by the revelation that he enjoyed performing even when no one was watching. He graduated from Northwestern University’s School of Communication in 1986.

Stephen Colbert Family

Colbert was born in the United States capital of Washington, D.C. In a Catholic household, he is the youngest of 11 children. He grew up in the Maryland town of Bethesda.

He grew up on the South Carolina island of James Island. James III, Edward, Mary, William, Margo, Thomas, Jay, Elizabeth, Paul, Peter, and Stephen are Colbert’s siblings in order of birth. James William Colbert Jr., Colbert’s father, was an immunologist and medical school dean at Yale University, Saint Louis University, and the Medical University of South Carolina, where he eventually became vice president for academic affairs. Lorna Elizabeth Colbert (née Tuck), Stephen’s mother, was a stay-at-home mom.

Stephen’s father and two brothers were murdered in a plane crash when he was ten years old in 1974, and it was undoubtedly the defining event of his boyhood.

Stephen Colbert Wife

Colbert has been married to Evelyn “Evie” McGee-Colbert since 1993. Evelyn McGee is the daughter of Buist Moore Smythe McGee, a notable Charleston civil lawyer. Candy played Colbert’s mother in an episode of Strangers in which she appeared with him. Evelyn also had an uncredited cameo as a nurse in the pilot episode of the show and a credited cameo in the film (as his wife Clair).

McGee-Colbert first met Jon Stewart in 1990, before meeting her future husband. The two met at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston for the world premiere of Hydrogen Jukebox. Colbert later recalled his initial meeting with Evie as a “love at first sight” affair; however, they soon found they had both grown up in Charleston and shared many similar connections.

Madeleine (born 1995), Peter (1998), and John (born 2000) are their three children (2002). They reside in the town of Montclair, New Jersey. In 2018, Stephen talked to Rolling Stone about his anxiety issues. He admitted that he used to take medication until he realized that the symptoms went away while he was performing with Second City.

He told the publication, “Creating something is what kept me from spinning apart like an unweighted flywheel.” “Since then, I haven’t stopped. Even as a writer, I had to appear in front of the camera on occasion. I have to deliver.”

Hello Nancy, a biopic based on John Dickerson’s nonfiction book On Her Trail, My Mother, Nancy Dickerson, TV News’ First Woman Star, was announced in 2018 by Showtime, with Colbert and his wife Evelyn serving as executive producers.

Late Night With Stephen Colbert

Colbert “will replace David Letterman as the host of The Late Show, starting when Mr. Letterman retires from the broadcast,” CBS said in a press statement on April 10, 2014.

On January 12, 2015, CBS announced that Colbert would take over as host of the Late Show on Tuesday, September 8, 2015. George Clooney was the new Late Show’s first guest. Compared to David Letterman’s Late Show, the show is far more political.

Colbert hosted the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards on CBS on September 17, 2017, during his tenure as host of The Late Show.

Jon Stewart Stephen Colbert

Jon Stewart took over hosting duties after Kilborn left The Daily Show in 1997, prior to the 1999 season, and also served as a writer and co-executive producer.

Since then, the series has steadily taken on a more political tone and gained in popularity, particularly during the last months of the 2000 presidential election season in the United States. Correspondents’ roles were expanded to include more in-studio segments and international reports, which were virtually always done in the studio using a green screen.

Unlike Stewart, who effectively hosted The Daily Show as himself, Colbert created a correspondent role for his contributions to the show. “A fool who has spent a lot of his life acting not the idiot – one who is able to conceal it at least well enough to deal with the things that he deals with,” he has said of his correspondent role.

He was frequently put against competent interview subjects or Stewart in scripted exchanges, with the resulting dialogue revealing the character’s lack of knowledge of the topic at hand. In articulating his point of view on any topic, he also made liberal use of funny logic fallacies.

Other Daily Show correspondents have adopted a similar technique; former contributor Rob Corddry recounts how he and Ed Helms “simply copied Stephen Colbert for a year or two” when they initially joined the group in 2002. “I just decided I was going to do my best Stephen Colbert impression,” correspondent Aasif Mandvi said.

Stephen Colbert Donald Trump

By introducing Donald Trump’s Pants-on-Fireplace, Stephen found a way to make use of all of President Trump’s incorrect and misleading assertions.

Stephen Colbert Book

• Stephen Colbert’s Tek Jansen #1
• I Am America by Colbert, Stephen [Hardcover]
• America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never
• Weren’t by Stephen Colbert (2012-10-02)
• Stephen Colbert’s Tek Jansen #3
• Stephen Colbert’s Tek Jansen #2
• I Am A Pole (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert (2012-05-29)
• I Am America Playaway Ready-to-go Audio Book
• Stephen Colbert’s Midnight Confessions
• I Am A Pole (And So Can You!)
• I Am America (And So Can You!)
• America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Weren’t
• Things I’ve Learned from Women Who’ve Dumped Me

Where Does Stephen Colbert Live

Colbert, his wife, and his three children live in Montclair, New Jersey. For their three gorgeous children, Madeline, Peter, and John, they chose to live outside of the hectic cities of LA and NYC.

Stephen Colbert Movies

Stephen Colbert Quotes

• I’m not here to affect you politically or socially. I’m here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.
• Thankfully, dreams can change. If we’d all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses
• I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it’s more than that. It’s an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche and then applies an antibiotic cream.
• You gotta keep it away from your eyes.
• Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
• Facts do matter not at all. Perception is everything. It’s a certainty.
• I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.
• In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes.
• In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.

Stephen Colbert Catholic

Stephen Colbert, the presenter of CBS’ Late Show, is open about his faith and frequently incorporates Catholic aspects in his broadcasts, which he refers to as “joy machines.”

Stephen Colbert Politics

On Saturday, April 29, 2006, Colbert was the featured entertainer at the 2006 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.

Colbert delivered a stinging monologue hitting President George W. Bush and the media while standing just yards away from him in front of a “Who’s Who of power and celebrity,” according to the Associated Press. Colbert satirized the George W. Bush administration and the White House Press Corps in his politically conservative persona from The Colbert Report with remarks like:

Stephen Colbert CBS Colleagues

1. Tony Tantillo
2. Weijia Jiang
3. Kathleen Sullivan
4. Ann Martin 
5. Dana Jacobson
6. Anne Marie Green
7. Elaine Quijano
8. Vinita Nair
9. Serena Altschul