Comedy fest names Colbert person of year
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Stephen Colbert, a faux conservative who often honors himself on his Comedy Central show, was lauded by the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival as their "Person of the Year."
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Blog: Host of 'The Colbert Report' laments the pervasiveness of technology, but whoops it up after bagging iPhone.
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Stephen Colbert â who announced plans to run for the presidency, though only in South Carolina â is serious enough about the stunt that his staff reached out to the stateâs Democratic and Republican committees in advance of his declaration.
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Stephen Colbert is gone, but Jon  Stewart is still on. "South Park" is out, but "Adult Swim" is  still in.
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Days after becoming a United States citizen, Craig Ferguson will get a chance to zing President Bush. Mr. Ferguson, host of the âLate Late Showâ on CBS, said he had been booked as the entertainer at the annual White House correspondentsâ dinner in Washington on April 26. Mr. Ferguson, born in Glasgow, was sworn in as an American citizen on Friday. Customarily attended by the president, the dinner, described by Mr. Ferguson as âlike the Oscars for politicians,â is a gathering not without pitfalls for comics. Barbed political jokes led to criticism of Don Imus and Stephen Colbert.
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While most TV characters remain boxed inside the frames of our sets, Stephen Colbert has routinely injected his on-screen persona into everything from the presidential race to ice cream.
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Following the lead of Jay Leno and Conan OâBrien, the late-night cable comedy duo will return in early January.
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US comedy star and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres will host next year's Academy Awards, it is announced.
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On Monday night, past and present "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" honored Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of "Saturday Night Live," who was awarded the 2004 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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Colin Quinn, Eddie Izzard, Paula Poundstone and Sarah Silverman are just some of the comics who will perform at the annual U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo. (Feb. 9-13), according to organizers.
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After losing a hockey bet with Stephen Colbert, the mayor of Oshawa, John Gray, now must pay up &#151; by declaring his own birthday, March 20, to be "Stephen Colbert Day" in his city, just east of Toronto.
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Dave Chappelle is home. The comedian, who abruptly halted his hit television show last year, told the crowd at a blues and jazz festival on Sunday that he enjoys living in the community and doesn't plan to leave.
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The writersâ strike forced hosts like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to improvise more than most viewers probably know.
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"Truthiness" and "Wikiality" -- two  of the words popularized by political satirist Stephen Colbert  on his TV show "The Colbert Report"-- were named on Sunday the  top television buzzwords of the year.
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Two more late-night TV stars, political satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert of the Comedy Central cable network, said on Thursday they will go back to work next month despite the presumed continuance of the Hollywood writers strike.
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LOS ANGELES  &#151; Comedian Lewis Black won the Grammy for best comedy album on Sunday, but he thought the musical winners were more deserving.
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Jay Colbert missed last season with a dislocated wrist suffered in a car accident. The injury has made the Howard RB a better player on the field and better man off of it.