Stephen Colbert Biography
Born: May 13, 1964
Comedian Stephen Colbert was born in 1964 in South Carolina and studied philosophy at the all-men's private liberal arts school Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. Moving to Chicago to study theater at Northwestern, he got involved at Second City, where he met fellow comedians Amy_Sedaris and Paul_Dinello. The three of them moved to New York to create the sketch comedy show Exit 57, originally aired on Comedy Central. As a writer for The Dana Carvey Show, Colbert got the chance to write for Saturday_Night_Live for several seasons. While working on SNL, he met up with animator Robert_Smigel and provided voices for TV Funhouse's "The Ambiguously Gay Duo" (along with the voice of Steve_Carrell). Colbert has also provided voices on the puppet show Crank_Yankers and the Cartoon Network series Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.
Colbert is probably best known as a senior correspondent for The_Daily_Show on Comedy Central. He joined the show in 1997 when Craig_Kilborn was still the host and held on when Jon_Stewart took over in 1999. That same year, Colbert teamed with Sedaris and Dinello to create Strangers_With_Candy, an after-school special parody of sorts on Comedy Central. In addition to writing and producing, Colbert starred as history teacher Mr. Noblet. The team also collaborated on a book called -Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not published by Hyperion. Projects for 2004 include Strangers With Candy: The Movie. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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