Stephen Colbert Net Worth 2023: Salary, The Late Show, Bio, Age, Height, Family, Wife, Children

Stephen Colbert Net Worth 2023

Stephen Colbert has a net worth of $75 million dollars as of 2023. He has accumulated his net worth with the versatility he has shown in each field he has worked in.

His main source of earnings is from his career as a comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host.

Year Net Worth
2023 $75 Million
2022 $70 Million
2021 $65 Million
2019 $60 Million
2018 $55 Million

Stephen Colbert Salary 2023

Stephen Colbert’s salary is $15 Million per year and gets a monthly salary of $1.2 Million, he is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host.

Year Salary Per Year Salary Per Month
2023 $15 Million $1.2 Million
2022 $10 Million $833,333.33

Stephen Colbert Biography

Stephen Colbert is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host who is best known for hosting the satirical Comedy Central program The Colbert Report from the year 2005 to the year 2014 and the CBS talk program The Late Show with Stephen Colbert beginning in September 2015.

He originally studied to be a dramatic actor but became interested in improvisational theater while attending Northwestern University, where Stephen met 2nd City director Del Close. He first performed professionally as an understudy for Steve Carell at Second City Chicago, where his troupe mates like; Paul Dinello along with Amy Sedaris, comedians with whom he developed the sketch comedy series Exit 57.

Stephen wrote and performed on The Dana Carvey Show before collaborating with Sedaris and Dinello again on the television series Strangers with Candy. He gained attention for his role on the latter as a closeted gay history teacher named; Chuck Noblet.

Stephen’s work as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s news-parody series The Daily Show gained him wide recognition. In the year 2005, he left The Daily Show to host The Colbert Report. Following The Daily Show’s news-parody concept, The Stephen Report was a parody of personality-driven political opinion shows including The O’Reilly Factor, in which Stephen portrayed a caricatured version of conservative political pundits, receiving Stephen an invitation to perform as a featured entertainer at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in the year 2006, which he did in character.

This event resulted in the series becoming one of Comedy Central’s highest-rated series, after ending The Stephen Report, Stephen was hired in 2015 to succeed the retiring David Letterman as host of the Late Show on CBS. Stephen hosted the sixty-ninth Primetime Emmy Awards in September 2017.

He has won 9 Primetime Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and three Peabody Awards. Stephen was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the year 2006 and 2012. Stephen’s book I Am America (And So Can You!) was listed as No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list in the year 2007.

Stephen Colbert Wiki

Birth name: Stephen Tyrone Colbert
Date of birth: May 13, 1964

Place of birth:  Washington, D.C., United States
Stephen Colbert’s age: 58 years (as of 2022)

Birth sign: Taurus
Height: 5′ 11″

Spouse:  Evelyn McGee-Colbert (m. 1993)

Education:  Northwestern University (BA)

Profession:  Comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host.
Salary: $15 Million per year

Net worth: 75 million dollars (2023)

Stephen Colbert Age

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Colbert is 58 years old as of 2022, he was born on May 13, 1964, in Washington, D.C., United States. He normally celebrates his birthday with his family and close friends every year on May 13. His zodiac sign is Taurus.

Year 2022 2023
Stephen Colbert Age 58 years 59 years

Stephen Colbert Height

Colbert stands at an average height of 6 feet 1 inch approximately 1.85 m.

Stephen Colbert Parents and Siblings

Stephen is the son of James William Colbert, Jr., and Lorna Colbert. He was born in Washington, D.C., United States, the youngest of 11 children in a Catholic family. Stephen spent his early years in Bethesda, Maryland.

Stephen grew up in the Charleston suburb of James Island, South Carolina. He and his siblings, in descending order by age, are James III, Edward, Mary, William, Margo, Thomas, Jay, Elizabeth, Paul, and Peter, along with Stephen.

Stephen’s father was an immunologist as well as medical school dean at Yale University, Saint Louis University, and finally at the Medical University of South Carolina, where, from 1969, he worked as the school’s first vice president of academic affairs. His mother was a homemaker.

Stephen Colbert Education

Stephen enrolled in Charleston’s Episcopal Porter-Gaud School, where he participated in several school plays as well as contributed to the school newspaper but was not highly motivated academically. During his adolescence, Stephen briefly fronted A Shot in the Dark, a Rolling Stones cover band.

After 2 years, he transferred in the year 1984 to Northwestern University as a theater major to study performance, emboldened by the realization that Stephen loved performing, even when no one was coming to shows. Stephen graduated from Northwestern’s School of Communication in 1986.

Stephen Colbert Wife

Colbert is married to Evelyn McGee-Colbert since 1993. The couple first met at a showing of a musical and wed in October 1993, before the talk show host became a household name.

In the years following, Colbert and Evelyn welcomed three children and have also collaborated on a few projects, as his wife Evelyn is a talented producer. The couple has three children named Peter Colbert, Madeline Colbert, and John Colbert, and they live in Montclair, New Jersey.

Stephen Colbert Children

Colbert is a father of three children named Peter Colbert, Madeline Colbert, and John Colbert.

Stephen Colbert The Late Show

On April 10, 2014, CBS announced in a press release that Stephen (will succeed David Letterman as the host of The Late Show, effective when Mr. Letterman retires from the broadcast.) On January 12, 2015, CBS announced that Stephen would premiere as the Late Show host on Tuesday, September 8, 2015. The first guest of the new Late Show was George Clooney, The show has a much more political focus than David Letterman’s Late Show.

During his tenure as the host of The Late Show, Stephen hosted the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards, broadcast on CBS on September 17, 2017. More recently, he and his Spartina Productions company had signed a deal with CBS Studios, through which programs such as Tooning Out the News as well as Fairview are produced. Stephen is also an executive producer on Comedy Central’s Tha God’s Honest Truth.

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