Stephen Colbert

Comedian and satirist Stephen Colbert hosts a nightly comedy and talk show called The Colbert Report, a spin-off of The Daily Show, where he used to be a correspondent. On his show, Colbert plays the role of a high-brow, right-wing bloviator, modeled after the persona of Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly.

On June 7, 2009, Colbert, who was taping his show in Baghdad, had his head shaved by General Ray Odierno.NY Daily News: Stephen Colbert Gets Military Hair...

After leaving Second City, Colbert worked with Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello on the sketch comedy show Exit 57. Colbert was hired as a temporary correspondent on The Daily Show in 1997 and co-developed Strangers with Candy for Comedy Central in 1998.

Colbert became known on The Daily Show for his acerbic wit and the recurring segment "This Week in God." The Colbert Report premiered on October 17, 2005. The success of the show inspired Colbert's invitation to host the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, the video of which has become famous for Colbert's lampooning of The Bush Administration.

For his show, Colbert plays Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D.F.A., a right-wing pundit who prefers to "feel" rather than "think." This variation of Stephen Colbert is the author of I Am America (And So Can You!), as well as a series of science fiction novels featuring Tek Jansen, most notably Alpha Squad 7 - Lady Nocturne: A Tek Jansen Adventure.

• http://www.colbertnation.com/

Colbert successfully pranked NASA's online contest to name a new room in the International Space Station. In the March 2009 contest, the name "Colbert" got 230,539 write-in votes; the next closest entry "Serenity" was beat out by over 40,000 votes.MSNBC: Oops: Colbert wins space station name contest (March 23, 2009) The next month, NASA announced that although Colbert had received the most votes, they named the new room "Tranquility" instead. As a sort of consolation prize, the treadmill in the new room will be has been named Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill, or COLBERT.TV Guide: Colbert's NASA Dreams are Crushed (April 15, 2009)

• Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• May 13, 1964: Born

• 1997-2005: The Daily Show

• 1999-2000: Strangers with Candy

• 2005: Strangers with Candy Film

• 2005-present: The Colbert Report

• 2009: Voice of President Hathaway in Monsters vs Aliens