"If I can do that by having Stephen Colbert make a joke about 'Ulysses,' why not?" said Rosenbach director Derick Dreher. His 2012 title America Again: Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't: Now in 3-D High-Def Depthiness! also made the New York Times Best Seller List.PHILADELPHIA - Talk show host Stephen Colbert's foray into children's books has landed him alongside some exalted literary company.Ī playful new exhibit at the Rosenbach Museum & Library pairs priceless material by James Joyce and Maurice Sendak with, um, perhaps less valuable items used by Colbert to write "I Am A Pole (And So Can You!)."Ĭolbert's pens, beer bottles and lunch remnants are certainly not the usual fare for the Rosenbach, the Philadelphia institution that houses the only complete manuscript of Joyce's "Ulysses."īut museum officials say the display reinforces their mission to engage and inspire visitors with collections that include papers from Lewis Carroll, Bram Stoker and Miguel de Cervantes. Colbert is published author whose 2007 book, I Am America (And So Can You!) made number one on The New York Times Best Seller list. He is also the recipient of three Peabody Awards. He was nominated for three Emmys for The Colbert Report in 2006, and in 2008, he won the award as a writer for The Colbert Report. In 2005, he left The Daily Show and began hosting his own television show, The Colbert Report. He, along with the other writers of the Daily Show, received three Emmy Awards in 2004, 2005, and 2006. In 1997, Colbert joined Comedy Central's The Daily Show where he was a correspondent and writer for eight years. While there, he met Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello with whom he developed the award-winning sketch comedy series Exit 57.
After graduation, he joined the Second City comedy improv troupe in Chicago. In 1986, Colbert graduated with a theatre degree from Northwestern University. He is a published author, comedian, and television host who is well-known for his spin-off series of The Daily Show, The Colbert Report. on and grew up in Charleston, South Carolina.
Stephen Colbert was born in Washington, D.C.
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