Stephen Colbert Age, Height, Wife, Movies, Net Worth And More

Stephen Colbert is an American political satirist, writer, comedian, TV host, and actor. He became famous with the ‘Dana Carvey’ Show and ‘Strangers with Candy’. He is best known for hosting the Comedy Central news satire show “The Colbert Report” from 2005 to 2014.

Stephen Colbert Biography

Education Qualification

Stephen Colbert Age

Stephen Colbert was born on 13 May 1964 in Washington, D.C., United States. He is 62 years old as of August 2026, and his zodiac sign is Taurus.

Stephen Colbert Wife

Stephen Colbert Family

Career

Stephen Colbert Movies And TV Shows

Stephen Colbert Movies

Stephen Colbert Television Show

• 1993 – Missing Persons
• 1996 – The Dana  Carvey Show
• 1996-2011 – Saturday Night Live
• 1997 – The Chris Rock Show
• 1997-2005 – The Daily Show
• 1999-2000 – Strangers With Candy
• 2002 – Crank Yankers
• 2004 – The Wrong Coast
• 2004 – The Venture Bros
• 2005 – American Dad
• 2007 – The Simpsons
• 2012 – The Office
• 2013 – Alpha House
• 2014-15 – BoJack Horseman
• 2015 – The Mindy Project
• 2018 – Harvey Birdman: Attorney General
• 2019 – Madam Secretary
• 2020-23 – Tooning Out the News
• 2021 – Teenage Euthanasia
• 2022 – Fairview
• 2024 – After Midnight

Stephen Colbert Height And Weight

Stephen Colbert Net Worth

The estimated net worth of American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and TV host Stephen Colbert is $75 million as of August 2026. This wealth has been accumulated through his long television career, production ventures, and book sales.

Some Lesser Facts About Stephen Colbert

• Stephen Colbert was born and is the youngest of eleven children, to a Catholic family in Washington, D.C., USA.
• He lived for a few years in Bethesda, Maryland, and then grew up in James Island, South Carolina.
• His father, James William Colbert Jr., was an immunologist and medical school death at Yale University.
• His mother, Lorna Elizabeth Colbert, was a homemaker.
• Many of his ancestors emigrated from Ireland to North America in the 19^th century before and during the Great Famine.
• In 1974, when Colbert was ten years old, his father and his brothers Paul and Peter died in the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 212.
• Stephen Colbert graduated from Northwestern’s School of Communication in 1986.
• He was once an understudy for Steve Carell as a comedian.
• In 1993, he married Evelyn McGee and has two sons named Peter and John and a daughter named Madeline.
• In 2014, it was announced that he was to succeed David Letterman as the host of The Late Show.
• He worked with Jon Stewart, and like Jon Stewart, he became a political satirist.
• He is a talented improviser and got his start in comedy through improv groups like Second City.
• Stephen is a practicing Catholic and even taught Sunday School for some time.
• He has a fascination with spiders and has been known to keep pet spiders in his office.
• He grew up in James Island, an island and a suburb of Charleston, South Carolina.
• As a child, he observed that Southerners were often depicted as being less intelligent than other characters.
• Colbert found the transition difficult and did not easily make friends in the new neighborhood.
• During his adolescence, he briefly fronted a Shot in the Dark a Rolling Stones cover band.
• Colbert won three Emmys as a writer of The Daily Show in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
• Colbert owns a 1972 Richard Nixon campaign poster, which hangs on a wall in his office.
• In 2019, he hosted a conversation with the cast of the film Tolkien.
• Stephen Colbert received three Peabody Awards in 2007, 2011, and 2020.

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