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Different profile pic?

Shouldn't he be clean-shaven in his profile pic, since he's usually clean-shaven? _pbp 14:38, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Small edit

There is not a space between the speech in the Early life and education 141.161.133.60 (talk) 02:37, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Thanks for pointing that out. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 02:40, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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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 12.75.178.90 (talk) 00:33, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: This reads as a bit of trivia to me and doesn't tell us enough about Colbert to include in his bio. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 18:27, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

AI fake?

I have seen on the ...tube that Colbert threw out Megan Markle from his show. To me this looked faked with the help of AI. Maybe this should be mentioned? As AI draws in material from other sites without checking if it's genuine, we need to be more aware of this. 2001:8003:A070:7F00:D1BF:F9CF:9FF3:299C (talk) 03:43, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

kol 'BERT'

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)[reply]