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A Short Biography of Stephen Colbert

Author Name:

Stephen Colbert

Born As:

Stephen Tyrone Colbert.

Other Names:

Born:

13 May 1964

Died:





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Selected Works:

The Can-Do Town That Just May Not - Colbert, Dinello, Sedaris - May 19, 2004

America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction  - September 2004

I Am America (And So Can You!) - October 9, 2007

Discography:

A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! - 2008 - Grammy Award                          
Mother Lorna Colbert - née Tuck
Father James William Colbert, Jr., was the Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Wife Evelyn McGee-Colbert, three children.

The youngest of eleven children in an Irish Catholic family.

Many of his ancestors immigrated to North America from Ireland in the 1800s before and during the Great Famine.                          
Three Emmys - Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program -  The Daily Show - 2004, 2005, and 2006.

Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program - The Colbert Report - 2008

Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program - The Colbert Report - 2010

Featured Entertainer - White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. 2006.

Intention to run both on the Republican and Democratic platforms, but only as a "favorite son" in his native South Carolina.

Named the 2nd Sexiest TV News Anchor by Maxim Online, next to Mélissa Theuriau of France and was the only man featured on the list - September 2006

Named a "sexy surprise" by People in the Sexiest Man Alive honors, In November 2006,  December 2006 issue of GQ he was named one of GQ's "Men of the Year".                          
Stephen Colbert's father and two of his brothers, Peter and Paul, were killed in a crash of Eastern Air Lines.