The Zen and the Damaged

By Michael Musto Source True story. In his book Truth Be Told, ex-CNN host Larry King remembers going on The Colbert Report, and since he feels Colbert basically does a parody of Bill O’Reilly, Larry purposely did a parody of himself and shticked it up to high heaven. “We had fun,” he recalls. Especially afterward! [...]

By Peter Grier Source Stephen Colbert’s super PAC released its first Federal Election Commission report this week, in case you haven’t heard.

By Patrick Gavin Source Election Day is still nine months away, but if there’s one flag that’s already been planted firmly in the narrative of the presidential cycle, it is this: Stephen Colbert is owning it — comedically speaking.

By Charles McGrath Source There used to be just two Stephen Colberts, and they were hard enough to distinguish. The main difference was that one thought the other was an idiot.

By Lauren Brown Source Last night Stephen Colbert sat down with journalist and friend Jonathan Alter at Montclair’s Wellmont Theatre in a benefit for Montclair’s first International Film Festival in 2012. Colbert, out of character, spoke candidly about growing up in South Carolina as one of eleven children and being out of work in his [...]

By Dave Itzkoff Source Cannes. Toronto. Park City, Utah. If these cities can each be the home of a great film festival, then why not Montclair, N.J.? Isn’t it entitled to a little bit of that cinematic luster, too? “Is it entitled to it?” Stephen Colbert, the late-night comedian and Montclair resident, asked rhetorically. “I [...]

By Lisa Rogak Source I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional iceskater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am? I once told an interviewer that I’d been arrested for assaulting someone with a [...]

By David Carr Source Let’s start with a spot political quiz. Which of the following are legitimate political action committees known as Super PACs, and which is fake? A) Citizens for a Working America B) Make Us Great Again C) Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow D) We Love USA If you guessed that C [...]

By Kirit Radia Source It had already been a long day by the time Susan Rice, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, arrived in “The Colbert Show” studio shortly before 7:00 pm yesterday.

By Mike Ryan Source Steve Carell. Stephen Colbert. Louis C.K. Charlie Kaufman. Robert Smigel. Some of comedy’s greatest minds got one of their biggest breaks on the short-lived but much-loved “The Dana Carvey Show.”