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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)
- 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)
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The article currently reads "Colbert filed reports from the floor of the Democratic National Convention" which seems likely to be a typo that should read "Colbert filmed reports" 162.205.248.202 (talk) 06:37, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
- I think "filed" is correct: it's referring to the 7th meaning of to file ("to transmit a news story"). And it wasn't Colbert who filmed the reports. --Qcomp (talk) 16:56, 3 October 2025 (UTC)
- It's not that "filed" is grammatically or semantically incorrect, just that "filmed" seems much more likely to be the intended verb in common usage. See for example earlier in the article, "Originally one of four correspondents who filmed segments [...]". It's common to refer to actors as "filming" when they are being filmed, and probably rare to refer to "filing" reports when they are not text. 162.205.248.202 (talk) 06:30, 4 October 2025 (UTC)
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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 2600:382:2B23:D4B2:A10A:B0E7:11B3:2536 (talk) 17:27, 15 October 2025 (UTC)
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From the article's current version: »"the depth of his selfish evil musn't be forgotten.« –
The word »musn't« seems to be a typo to me. -- ~2026-14816-08 (talk) 16:29, 8 March 2026 (UTC)