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I'm pretty certain Stephen himself admitted the Scottish pronunciation of his last name, during a panel discussion where he sat alongside Jon Stewart answering audience questions out-of-character. 2600:8807:7F00:100:E8E3:B8FD:C79E:6BD5 (talk) 17:19, 26 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

He claims that his father always wanted to be "Kohl-Bear," but I'm not finding any source for that other than Colbert himself. If you want to change your name for vain reasons, it's certainly easy to attribute it on your deceased father. Are there any sources for his father's alleged desire other than Colbert's assertion? John2510 (talk) 20:35, 12 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

How is a family story an allegation? ~2026-64424-8 (talk) 11:37, 7 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

so he isn't "coal-bert", like the coal-colored version of Bert, OKay- check, noted! — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-32215-87 (talk) 18:11, 30 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Change 23 to 22:

On May 23, 2026, immediately following the final episode of The Late Show, Colbert guest hosted an episode of Only In Monroe, a public access talk show out of Monroe, Michigan. ~2026-33481-51 (talk) 14:53, 7 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

 Done. Good catch. A. Randomdude0000 (talk) 17:15, 7 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

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In the Early life section, in the last paragraph before the last sentence please add “While at Northwestern, he was in an improv group with David Schwimmer called the No-Fun Mud Piranhas.” https://www.businessinsider.com/david-schwimmer-and-stephen-colbert-2016-2 ~2026-36422-42 (talk) 17:28, 23 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

 Done Day Creature (talk) 18:58, 23 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

From the 2008 Presidential Campaign section:

On November 1, 2007, the South Carolina Democratic Party executive council voted 13–3 to refuse Colbert's application onto the ballot. "The general sense of the council was that he wasn't a serious candidate and that was why he wasn't selected to be on the ballot", stated John Werner, the party's director.[188] Several days later he announced that he was dropping out of the race…

As this is a new paragraph, and Culbert, not Werner, was the one dropping out, that "he" I bolded should be "Colbert" to avoid ambiguity. ~2026-34805-60 (talk) 05:40, 29 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

In 2012, Colbert received a Peabody for his reporting about the Super PAC…

He received a what? Well, I know what a Peabody Award is, and you may too—but suppose we take pity on the average reader and spell out the award's proper name and make it a link to its WP page? Considering it's an award for excellence in writing, it seems only appropriate. ~2026-34805-60 (talk) 05:50, 29 June 2026 (UTC)Reply