Watching Stephen Colbert and the nightly Colbert Report is
an evening routine I look forward to as one that both informs me on the daily
"truthiness" and makes me both contemplate political and world events
and laugh out loud at Colbert's "conservative" view point.
His onscreen persona as
Stephen
Colbere...the savvy, intelligent, very conservative news
anchor allows him to brilliantly explore and parody both sides of the political
aisle.
One of my favorite aspects of
the Colbert report is its over all gentle approach to this type of sarcasm.
Stephen Colbert never sprinkles expletives or edginess throughout his
stories simply for shock value.
Stephen Colbert grew up in a
family of 11 children in
Charleston, South
Carolina.he began his acting career while studying at
Hampden-Sydney
College in
Virginia,
and became a Theater Major after he transferred to
Northwestern University.
In his early career, he was hired to perform with Second City's
touring company, and there he met Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello.
The three comedians at first didn't get along. Dinello
thought that Colbert was pretentious, and Colbert thought Dinello to be an
"illiterate thug". During the tour everything changed, and they all
became very close friends.
The three collaborated on a show called, Strangers with Candy. While filming the show, Stephen
Colbert met his future wife, Evelyn McGee, who played several roles in the
filming of both the series and the resulting film.
The Colbert-McGee family is a happy one with three children: Madeline,
Peter, and John. When asked if his children watch The Colbert Report, Stephen
replied that he prefers that his children not watch the show. he recognizes
that kids do not really understand his style of sarcasm and irony, and that he
would never want them to perceive their dad as being insincere.
All of this information about my favorite news guy only
supports my feeling that all of this time I was being entertained, informed,
and amused by a very intelligent, caring, and decent man.
