Spartina Productions is best known for hosting the satirical Comedy Central program The Colbert Report from 2005 to 2014 and the CBS talk program The Late Show with Stephen Colbert beginning in September 2015.
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31 Facts About Spartina Productions
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Spartina Productions wrote and performed on The Dana Carvey Show before collaborating with Sedaris and Dinello again on the television series Strangers with Candy.
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Spartina Productions gained attention for his role on the latter as closeted gay history teacher Chuck Noblet.
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Spartina Productions hosted the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards in September 2017.
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Spartina Productions grew up in the Charleston suburb of James Island, South Carolina.
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Spartina Productions offered his children the option to pronounce the name whichever way they preferred.
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Spartina Productions has discussed the impact on him and his philosophy of grief and suffering.
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Spartina Productions developed a love of science fiction and fantasy novels, especially the works of JR R Tolkien, of which he remains an avid fan.
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Spartina Productions found the curriculum rigorous, but was more focused than he had been in high school and was able to apply himself to his studies.
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Spartina Productions graduated from Northwestern's School of Communication in 1986.
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Spartina Productions began performing improvisation while in college, both in the campus improv team No Fun Mud Piranhas and at the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago as a part of Del Close's ImprovOlympic at a time when the project was focused on competitive, long-form improvisation, rather than improvisational comedy.
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Spartina Productions's jokes were often met with silence and muttering, apart from the enthusiastic laughter of a few in the audience.
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Spartina Productions later abandoned plans to run as a Republican due to the $35,000 fee required to file for the South Carolina primary; however, he continued to seek a place on the Democratic ballot and on October 28,2007, campaigned in the South Carolina state capital of Columbia, where he was presented with the key to the city by Mayor Bob Coble.
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Spartina Productions was invited by committee chairwoman Zoe Lofgren to describe his experience participating in the United Farm Workers' "Take Our Jobs" program, where he spent a day working alongside migrant workers in upstate New York.
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Spartina Productions then stated that he would be making a "Major Announcement" during the next day's show.
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Spartina Productions voiced the characters of Reducto and Phil Ken Sebben in the Adult Swim's Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, but left the show in 2005 to work on The Colbert Report.
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Spartina Productions's characters were both killed, though he returned to voice Phil for the series finale.
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Spartina Productions appeared on a track on Wig in a Box, a tribute album for Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
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Spartina Productions appeared in a series of TV commercials for General Motors, as a not-too-bright investigator searching for the elusive "Mr Goodwrench".
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Spartina Productions portrayed the letter Z in Sesame Street: All-Star Alphabet, a 2005 video release.
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Spartina Productions interviewed the program's regular hosts, and the rapper Eminem, and put a humorous slant on the local news and community calendar.
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Spartina Productions is an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church Monastery.
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Spartina Productions is the daughter of prominent Charleston civil litigator Joseph McGee, of the firm Buist Moore Smythe McGee.
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Spartina Productions's wife appeared with him in an episode of Strangers with Candy as his mother.
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Spartina Productions had an uncredited cameo as a nurse in the series pilot and a credited one in the film.
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Spartina Productions was nominated for three Emmys for The Colbert Report in 2006, including Best Performance in a Variety, Musical Program or Special, which he lost to Barry Manilow.
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Spartina Productions lost the same category to Tony Bennett in 2007 and Don Rickles in 2008.
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Spartina Productions was nominated for five TCA Awards for The Colbert Report by the Television Critics Association.
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Spartina Productions has been announced as the Person of the Year for the 12th annual Webby Awards.
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Spartina Productions announced the nominees for Song of the Year while toting a pre-released Apple iPad.
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Spartina Productions was chosen as one of GQ's "Men of the Year" for its December 2017 issue.
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