(b. 1964– )
U.S. television host, writer, comedian, and political satirist“It may sound greedy to want more days with a person who lived so long, but the fact that my mother was ninety-two does not diminish—it only magnifies—the enormity of the room whose door has now quietly shut.”
more infosource: Stephen Colbert’s tribute to his mother, Lorna Tuck Colbert, on The Colbert Report, June 19, 2013.
category: death, grief, mother
medium: Televison
“My heart always leads me to me!”
more infosource: “Colbert for President? Tune In Tonight,” by Brian Stelter, Media Decoder (blog), New York Times, January 12, 2012.
category: heart, narcissist, self
medium: Blog
“Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Before I begin, I’ve been asked to make an announcement. Whoever parked 14 black bulletproof SUVs out front, could you please move them? They are blocking in 14 other black bulletproof SUVs, and they need to get out.”
more infosource: White House Correspondents’ Dinner, 2006
category: block, bulletproof, politics, SUV, White House
medium: roast
“I’m sorry, I’ve never been a fan of books. I don’t trust them. They’re all fact, no heart. I mean, they’re elitist, telling us what is or isn’t true or what did or didn’t happen. Who’s Britannica to tell me the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say it was built in 1941, that’s my right as an American! I’m with the President. Let history decide what did or did not happen.”
more infosource: White House Correspondents’ Dinner, 2006
category: book, fact, heart, history, politics, trust, White House
medium: roast
“That’s where the truth lies, right down here in the gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up. Now, I know some of you are going to say, ‘I did look it up, and that’s not true.’ That’s ’cause you looked it up in a book. Next time, look it up in your gut. I did. My gut tells me that’s how our nervous system works.”
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Stephen Colbert