The Late Show With Stephen Colbert is a reality show run by improv actor and comic Stephen Tyrone Colbert (born: May 13, 1964),[1] with the series having over nearly 1,500 episodes of the popular and critically celebrated "The Colbert Report" at the helm of this long-running late-night talk show. Following the genre's classic formula, each show kicks off with a monologue and a look at recent headlines, and features sketch comedy, celebrity interviews and musical performances. Joining Colbert is his bandleader, Julliard-trained Jon Batiste, and house band Stay Human. The show is filmed in Ed Sullivan Theater, a theater in New York, and the longtime home of "The Late Show." This show premiere on CBS on September 8, 2015.[2]
Personal life[]
Stephen was born in Washington, D.C.,[3] the youngest of eleven children in a Catholic family. He spent his early years in Bethesda, Maryland. He grew up in the Charleston, South Carolina, suburb of James Island. Colbert and his siblings, in descending order by age, are James III, Edward, Mary, William, Margo, Thomas, Jay, Elizabeth, Paul, Peter, and Stephen. His father, James William Colbert Jr., was an immunologist and medical school dean at Yale University, Saint Louis University, and finally at the Medical University of South Carolina, where, from 1969, he served as the school's first vice president of academic affairs. Stephen's mother, Lorna Elizabeth Colbert, was a homemaker.
He attended Charleston's Episcopal Porter-Gaud School, where he participated in several school plays and contributed to the school newspaper but was not highly motivated academically. During his adolescence, he briefly fronted A Shot in the Dark, a Rolling Stones cover band. When he was younger, he had hoped to study marine biology, but surgery intended to repair a severely perforated eardrum caused him inner-ear damage severe enough to preclude a career involving scuba diving, and leaving him deaf in his right ear.[4]
He been married to Evelyn "Evie" McGee-Colbert since 1993.[5] She is the daughter of prominent Charleston civil litigator Joseph McGee, of the firm Buist Moore Smythe McGee. His wife appeared with him in an episode of Strangers with Candy as his mother. She also had an uncredited cameo as a nurse in the series pilot and a credited one (as his wife Clair) in the film. McGee met Jon Stewart before she met her future husband in 1990. They met at the world premiere of Hydrogen Jukebox at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston. Colbert later described the first moment he met Evie as being a love at first sight encounter. Moments after they met though, they realized they had grown up together in Charleston and had many mutual friends. The couple have three children, and live in Montclair, New Jersey.
Trivia[]
- He is deaf in his right ear.
- In 2006, he was named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People.
- His father James was a immunologist.
- His best friends is Jon Stewart.
Subscriber Milestone[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
- 1 million subscribers: October 2016
- 2 million subscribers: January 2017
- 3 million subscribers: August 2017
- 4 million subscribers: April 2018
- 5 million subscribers: November 2018
- 6 million subscribers: April 2019
- 7 million subscribers: January 2020
- 8 million subscribers: January 2021
- 9 million subscribers: December 2022
Video View Milestone[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
- 1 billion views: January 25, 2017
- 2 billion views: September 25, 2017
- 3 billion views: May 16, 2018
- 4 billion views: January 2, 2019
- 5 billion views: August 3, 2019
- 6 billion views: March 4, 2020
- 7 billion views: January 25, 2021
- 8 billion views: November 5, 2021
- 9 billion views: April 17, 2023
References[]
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0170306/
- ↑ https://www.paramountpressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/shows/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/releases/?view=38627-cbs-announces-stephen-colbert-as-the-next-host-of-the-late-show
- ↑ https://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/winter2005/alumninews/close-ups/colbert.html
- ↑ https://photoni.care/10-celebrities-and-famous-people-with-hearing-and-ear-issues/#:~:text=Stephen%20Colbert%3A%20Stephen%20Colbert%20had,in%20the%20National%20Football%20League.
- ↑ https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/news/a46438/stephen-colbert-met-wife-evelyn-story/
