Colbert Report is an American late-night talk and news satire television program hosted by Stephen Colbert that aired four days a week on Comedy Central from October 17,2005, to December 18,2014, for 1,447 episodes.
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39 Facts About The Colbert Report
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The character, described by The Colbert Report as a "well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot", is a caricature of televised political pundits.
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The Colbert Report is a spin-off of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, where Colbert was a correspondent from 1997 to 2005.
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Colbert Report saw immediate critical and ratings successes, leading to various awards, including multiple Emmy and Peabody Awards.
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The Colbert Report recalled that Stewart specifically asked him to have a political viewpoint, and to allow his passion for issues to carry through into his comedy.
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The Colbert Report became a fixture on The Daily Show, occasionally hosting in Stewart's absence.
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In 2003, the program began running advertisements for a fictional program titled The Colbert Report, starring Colbert as a parody of cable news pundits.
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The Colbert Report anchored many sketches in his persona, including "Even Stepvhen", in which he debated current issues with fellow correspondent Steve Carell, often devolving into petty name-calling and insults.
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The Colbert Report met with network president Doug Herzog the day following the 2004 Emmy Awards to first discuss the concept.
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The Report's writing staff was predominantly male and white; Colbert acknowledged this lack of diversity, but contended that he hired writers based solely on the quality of their material and had never looked at the names on writing packets submitted for employment.
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Colbert Report was taped and broadcast four nights a week, Monday–Thursday.
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Typically, The Colbert Report starts with the audience cheering and teasers regarding the show's topics and guest; each headline is structured to be a deliberate pun.
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The May 4 episode in 2009 featured hints planted by JJ Abrams about when and where The Colbert Report would be in the Persian Gulf, and "Farewellison" for the final episode of former producer Allison Silverman.
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The opening begins and ends with an eagle as before, but features new background renderings, new shots of Stephen The Colbert Report, and is colored in an American, red white and blue motif.
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The Colbert Report phoned guitarist Rick Nielsen during development of the show to discuss the theme, noting that he loved the band's song "I Want You to Want Me"; the show's theme music is largely that song's melody backwards.
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The Colbert Report often calls to "Jimmy", a reference to program director Jim Hoskinson, to roll video clips.
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Sometimes, there is a "Colbert Report Special Repor-t", or even a "Colbert Report, Sport Report, Special Repor-t", in which Colbert devotes a section of an episode, and sometimes the entire episode to a special subject.
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The real-life The Colbert Report once remarked that his personal favorite segment of the program were the interviews, which involved more listening on his end in order for the character to "ignorantly deconstruct" his opponent's argument.
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Host of The Colbert Report is Stephen Colbert, a "self-important right-wing commentator", portrayed by his real-life namesake.
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The Colbert Report is veracious in his approach, while often ridiculously overblown in his statements.
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In parodying the cult of personality, the Colbert character developed a real-life equivalent, creating what was dubbed the "Colbert Nation".
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The Colbert Report disagreed that the show's emphasis on politics represented a liberal bias, noting that he himself was uninterested in modern politics.
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Show's popularity resulted in The Colbert Report headlining the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner, which he performed in character.
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In 2006, The Colbert Report encouraged fans to vote for his name to be the new name of a bridge in Hungary, which was being decided via an online poll, beating the runner-up by more than 14 million votes.
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The Colbert Report was disqualified, as the name of the bridge was intended to be a memoriam.
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In June 2007, The Colbert Report broke his left wrist while performing his warm-up for the show.
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The Colbert Report modified the pronunciation of the show's name, pronouncing both of the formerly elided final "t"s ; a similar move was made by The Daily Show which returned to air as A Daily Show.
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In 2008, The Colbert Report made a series of jokes directed at various towns in the United States named "Canton", with many attracting negative responses from each respective area's local government and residents.
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The Colbert Report had a suit tailored for him in the Army Combat Uniform pattern and went through an abbreviated version of the Army's basic training regimen.
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In 2010, while in character, The Colbert Report appeared before judiciary subcommittee hearing on the issue of farm workers and immigration.
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In early 2008, in the midst of the writer's strike, The Colbert Report posted an eleven-percent gain over its averages from the following fall.
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Colbert Report received numerous awards and accolades throughout its run.
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The The Colbert Report was nominated each year for the rest of its run for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Series, but lost each time to The Daily Show until 2013— breaking the longest winning streak for a television show in Primetime Emmy Award history.
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Viewers of The Colbert Report were on numerous occasions cited as being more knowledgeable about current events than traditional news viewers.
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The Colbert Report was awarded a Peabody Award for the parody, which was described as an "innovative means of teaching American viewers about the landmark court decision".
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Outside the United States, The Colbert Report was shown in Canada on the cable service The Comedy Network, simultaneously with its original US broadcast.
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The Best of The Colbert Report, released in 2007, contains several of the show's most memorable early moments.
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