Before his own show, Stephen Colbert did Good Morning America
Posted Sep 3rd 2009 3:07PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Late Night, Celebrities, Reality-Free
The Colbert Report is in vacation right now (it returns on September 14), so how about we look at the career of Stephen Colbert to get us through these weeks?
Rolling Stone has a new
cover story on Colbert and an interesting feature up at their site that gives an overview of
what Colbert has done over the years. Not just the stuff we've all seen (like
The Dana Carvey Show and
Strangers with Candy), but also his work on the short-lived sketch show
Exit 57, a dramatic turn on
Law and Order: CI, and voiceover work for a really terrible-looking video tennis game.
There's also footage from an independent film he made with in 2005 called
The Great New Wonderful, where he plays a school principal trying to talk to Judy Greer and Thomas McCarthy about their nasty kid.
The magazine mentions his very short stint on
Good Morning America years ago, and
here's a video of it. Let's all be happy he left to do other things.
Tags: comedy central, exit 57, good morning america, harvey birdman, judy greer, law and order ci, mr. goodwrench, outlaw tennis, rolling stone, stephen colbert, strangers with candy, the colbert report
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9-03-2009 @ 11:50PM
svrkevi said...
I will be reading this at work...he;s awesome...and so was strangers with candy
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9-04-2009 @ 1:18AM
RAB said...
Nice to see that video! It's elevated by that fleeting glimpse of the future Colbert persona towards the end -- that touch of deadpan irony in his comment about migrant workers letting you know this guy is something special.
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9-04-2009 @ 9:53AM
Adam said...
He was also on Harvey Birdman as Phil Ken Sebben
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