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Comic and journalist Stephen Colbert is the former senior correspondent on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with John Stewart. And true to the industry he parodies, Colbert's incisive work has landed him in the anchor's chair on a show of his own: The Colbert Report.
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On Saturday, April 29, 2006, Stephen Colbert was the featured entertainer for the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. Standing a few yards from U.S. President George W. Bush[35]—in front of an audience the Associated Press called a "Who's Who of power and celebrity"[36]—Colbert delivered a controversial, searing routine targeting the president and the media.[37] In his politically conservative character from The Colbert Report, Colbert satirized the George W. Bush Administration and the White House press corps with such lines as:
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As part of the “Better Know a District” segment on the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert interviewed Congressman Robert Wexler, who’s running uncontested in November. As a joke, Colbert asked him to say some things that would normally lose him the election, like how much he enjoys cocaine. And as a joke, Wexler did. Funny stuff. But the Today Show and Good Morning America followed up with a story that wondered why Wexler would do such a thing. “(It exposed) the uncomfortable truth about journalists,” writes Jeff Jarvis.
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Amid a clamor of patriotic music and raining red, white and blue balloons Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert announced a presidential run, but only in his home state of South Carolina. Colbert made the confusion inducing proclamation on his popular faux news show, The Colbert Report, Tuesday evening and said he plans to run as both a Democrat and Republican. Great President or Greastest President?
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Stephen Colbert, who will deliver the commencement address, will receive an honorary doctor of fine arts degree. From 1997 until 2005 he was a correspondent on the Emmy and Peabody award winning political humor program "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and contributed to the best-selling book "America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction." Colbert now hosts his own show on Comedy Central network, "The Colbert Report," which spoofs pretentious, personality-driven commentary programs.
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On Wednesday night's The Colbert Report, frontman Stephen Colbert presented a $171,525 check to the Yellow Ribbon Fund, a charity that aids injured service members and their families. The source of the benevolent windfall: sales of the "WristStrong" bracelets Colbert has been peddling, largely in jest, as part of a "wrist awareness" campaign he launched after fracturing his left wrist last June. Hey, even Lance Armstrong can't have a beef with that. read more
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