Date 24/01/2017 - News People
First gaining widespread fame as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, former improv comic and NYC-based actor Stephen Colbert became a household name via his Comedy Central series The Colbert Report. Running from 2005-2014, the show presented a fictionalized version of Colbert that served as a send-up of popular conservative political commentators, and afforded its star an outlet to produce some of the most acclaimed small-screen political satire in recent memory.