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about before 23 a character similar to colbert s daily show persona featured in the 2003 book wigfield the can do town that just may not by colbert dinello and amy sedaris russell hokes a self aggrandizing journalist was voiced by colbert in both stage performances of the text and the audiobook colbert likens hokes to his self important correspondent character but more extreme more self involved 24 colbert has also drawn a link between his character and jerri blank the protagonist of comedy central s strangers with candy 1999 2000 a show he created with dinello and sedaris there s a lot of jerri in the colbert report he was well intentioned just incredibly poorly informed and guided 25 non fictional elements edit certain elements of the character are drawn from the real colbert s personal life both the real colbert and the character were raised in charleston south carolina both are the youngest of 11 children both played dungeons dragons as teenagers and both are practicing catholics 13 colbert s own interest in and knowledge of religion science fiction and j r r tolkien s the lord of the rings story will often show through in the report his character has a chocolate portrait of viggo mortensen who portrayed aragorn in peter jackson s the lord of the rings films in a place of honor on his shelf mortensen briefly reprised the role of aragorn in the report s september 13 2007 episode 13 26 he also owns a sting sword presented to him by peter jackson 27 colbert occasionally mentioned his real life siblings on the show in one episode he placed his brother ed a lawyer who advises the international olympic committee on notice for refusing to grant the show the rights to air footage of a dispute between two american speed skaters 28 ed later appeared at the start of the february 22 2010 edition advising stephen on how to cover the vancouver winter olympics since his character does not have the television rights to the games footage from the richmond olympic oval was used after stephen was named a special advisor to the u s speedskating federation generally journalists covering the olympics do not have access to the venues unless their employer has the rights to olympic tv coverage citation needed when his sister elizabeth colbert busch declared her intention to run for congress he mentioned the event later when she was nominated to run against mark sanford and the msnbc show morning joe declared their support for sanford and mentioned colbert he defended his sister s campaign in an appearance at harvard university in 2006 colbert revealed that his character s fear of bears was in part inspired by a recurring dream he has had in which a bear is standing between him and his goal 22 the character s phobia which was initially referenced in the show s first threatdown skit was originally slated to be a fear of alligators by the time the report went to air the alligator story was several weeks old and the writers chose to use a more recent news item involving a bear in its place 23 after colbert received an honorary doctor of fine arts from knox college the show began listing his name in the ending credits as dr stephen t colbert d f a even though using both the honorific prefix and post nominal letters is incorrect during the show the character will sometimes refer to the degree and the qualifications he mistakenly believes it bestows upon him 29 in may 2007 colbert was voted the second most influential person in the world in a time magazine online poll the first spot was taken by rain a young k pop star with a large following in asia and the united states colbert then declared rain his arch nemesis and began mentioning him frequently on the report colbert filmed a satirical music video poking fun at rain s popular single how to avoid the sun and referencing several stereotypical south korean dishes and products the one sided feud eventually culminated in colbert challenging rain to a competition on air after telling colbert not to quit his day job rain appeared in a short segment on the show where he competed in and won a dance dance revolution dance off with colbert 30 both have been defeated by shigeru miyamoto in recent polls 31 though they still continue to be strong contenders as of on june 21 2007 colbert broke his left wrist on the set of the report while performing his warm up for the show 32 this quickly became a regular source of comedy on the show as the self absorbed character requested his audience send flowers launched a campaign against hollywood s supposed glorification of wrist violence and began a wrist awareness campaign with wriststrong silicone bracelets 33 on august 23 2007 the cast was removed on air and was put up for auction to the general public complete with celebrity signatures on ebay where it achieved a winning bid of 17 200 34 all of the proceeds from both the cast and the bracelets were donated to the yellow ribbon fund 35 in an interview with the buffalo news colbert said the weird thing about my character even on the show is sometimes i say what i mean it doesn t matter to me that the audience doesn t know when that is 36 on june 19 2013 colbert returned from an unplanned break of several days following the death of his 92 year old mother lorna colbert the emotional colbert started the show with a tribute to his mother in which he presented a brief biography of her life in photos accompanied by his eulogy of her 37 titles and styling edit over time the character has accumulated multiple titles and styles of address which can be summarized as her excellency the rev sir doctor stephen tyrone b mos def colbert dfa heavyweight champion of the world featuring flo rida la première dame de france he was granted an honorary doctorate of fine arts by knox college in 2006 38 giving him the title of doctor and use of the suffix dfa c this title was featured regularly during the recurring segment cheating death with dr stephen t colbert dfa on april 7 2009 colbert asked to be knighted by queen noor of jordan 39 who bestowed him with the title of sir colbert became an ordained minister on june 2 2011 granting himself the title of reverend 40 yasiin bey gave colbert permission to use his stage name mos def on october 5 2011 41 after mike tyson failed to appear for a scheduled interview with colbert on july 23 2013 colbert declared himself heavyweight champion of the world by default 42 and granted himself use of the title the asterisk denotes that he did not defeat tyson in an actual boxing match during the segment i tried to sign up for obamacare on october 23 2013 43 his name on the aca form included featuring flo rida her excellency was added to the title after colbert was seated next to michelle obama at a white house state dinner in february 2014 in which the then president of france françois hollande was not accompanied by a partner because it is customary that the first lady of a visiting nation is seated next to the first lady of the united states colbert proclaimed himself first lady of france on february 12 2014 44 fictional biography edit colbert avatar colbert s fictional history is not always rigidly adhered to by the show s writers the comedian himself says that my character s history may not always be perfectly consistent there s my bio and there s my character s bio and then there s my character s history which is slightly different than my character s bio 45 his early life prior to becoming host of the colbert report is expanded upon in i am america and so can you like the actor who portrays him stephen t colbert is the youngest of 11 children born into a devout catholic family the character s family was so devout in fact they sent their teenage son to an exorcism day camp located in canton ohio after they discovered he liked dungeons dragons in his in character appearance on the o reilly factor colbert stated that he is of irish descent and only adopted the french pronunciation of his surname to get the cultural elites on his side 46 colbert has made conflicting statements regarding his middle name which he has at different times stated to be tyrone colbert s actual middle name tiberius like that of captain james t kirk lee harvey 47 and qxyzzy 48 the character has said he was regularly beaten up in high school and by the time he left for college he was determined never to be a victim again as such on the first day of his freshman year he walked into class and punched the first person he saw unfortunately this happened to be his ethics professor 49 he attended dartmouth college instead of his first pick hogwarts claiming that his white owl led them to reject him 50 and was a member of the σαε fraternity 51 although his acceptance into the college appears to have been largely influenced by a claimed familial relationship with a wealthy donor 49 and graduated in the top 47 percent of his class with a major in history 52 he has also referred to bob jones university as an alma mater prior to embarking on a career in journalism colbert worked as a carnival roustabout and a construction worker during the 1980s he was the lead singer and guitarist of an abc like new wave band called stephen and the colberts the comedian portrays his character s younger self in the band s music video wearing worn jeans cowboy boots and a spiky hair style their only revealed song to date is entitled charlene i m right behind you one of numerous references to an ex girlfriend and cousin whom he continues to stalk despite numerous restraining orders 53 this song has been made available for download for free in the video game rock band on the may 14 2008 episode colbert claimed to have been the totalitarian ruler of malawi from 1982 to 1984 he mentions that his wife s first name is lorraine colbert later moved into reporting working in tv news for several stations in virginia and north carolina he has shown footage of himself as a young man portrayed by colbert wearing a false moustache working as an anchor at a local news station wpts in patterson springs north carolina still displaying his trademark outrage over minor municipal issues in the manner of 20 20 correspondent john stossel in 1997 colbert was promoted to anchor of the channel 7 news on wpts patterson springs after outing the previous anchor wayne colt for his cocaine addiction his ensuing investigative reports into colt s downfall earned him a local emmy and eventually a correspondent position at the daily show 49 this corresponds with the year the comedian joined the cast of the show colbert often makes digs at the expense of daily show host jon stewart 54 he has implied a strained relationship with stewart in contrast with the real colbert s admiration for the comedian 45 and suggests that his departure from the daily show occurred under dubious circumstances the character has described stewart as a sexual predator 55 and has been known to become tearful when his name is brought up 56 on the other hand colbert has also implied that he only got his own show by blackmailing stewart with incriminating photographs 57 colbert is described in america the book a citizen s guide to democracy inaction to which he was a contributor as holding the positions of the arthur m schlesinger professor of american studies at harvard university 58 and of chief defender of international war crimes at the world court in the hague 58 92 the book also states that he is a seven time recipient of the werner heisenberg prize for excellence in theoretical mathematics 58 121 paradoxically colbert is described as being barely capable of feeding himself 58 121 as well as being personally unpleasant 58 92 retirement from television edit on april 10 2014 it was announced that the real life colbert would be replacing david letterman as the host of cbs s the late show in 2015 it was also announced that the colbert report would be ending and colbert would not be using the character on the cbs show 8 following the announcement the character made a special surprise appearance on the april 23 2014 episode of the daily show to report that it has become clear to him that he has won television and changed the world the goal he originally set out to do and thus no longer feels the need to continue he expressed interest in taking over the late show after letterman retired but could not because they already gave it to some fat guy 59 60 during the final episode colbert accidentally kills lifelong friend and colleague grimmy in the final segment of cheating death after which he becomes immortal and uses his powers to fuel a star studded celebrity singalong of we ll meet again before boarding a sleigh driven by santa claus abraham lincoln and the man with all the answers 61 at the end of the show colbert tosses back to stewart at the daily show implying that the show s existence was just an extended correspondent report for the program 62 on the july 18 2016 episode of the late show with stephen colbert colbert is revealed to have been living with a now retired stewart in a remote cabin in a forest in the skit the real colbert visited stewart asking him to explain how donald trump became the 2016 republican nominee for president perplexed stewart turned to colbert the character who briefly returned to television to deliver an edition of the wørd explaining trump s appeal before turning the show back to that other guy the real colbert 63 on the july 27 episode the real colbert claimed that cbs s then sister company viacom had informed cbs that the character stephen colbert was their intellectual property and could not appear on the late show he then introduced stephen colbert s identical twin cousin a possible allusion to the patty duke show stephen colbert as a new member of the late show team 64 colbert stated the difference between him and the other colbert is they have birthmarks of the opposite olsen twins he returned for a w e rd segment on the late show on january 19 to beg obama to stay in office 65 a segment of the wørd appeared on the late show again in january 2023 66 presidential campaigns edit colbert 08 edit main article stephen colbert 2008 presidential campaign colbert dropped hints of a potential presidential run throughout 2007 with speculation intensifying following the release of his book i am america and so can you which was rumored invariably by colbert himself to be a sign that he was indeed testing the waters for a future bid for the white house colbert staunchly refused to confirm or deny his candidacy stating he had not yet made up his mind and must first talk the possibility over with his family colbert confirmed his presidential ambitions on his october 16 2007 show 67 stating his intention to run both on the republican and democratic platforms but only as a favorite son in his native south carolina in an interview with larry king he revealed that as his running mate he would consider mike huckabee who himself jokingly offered colbert the vice 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