Stephen Colbert

Awards & Honours

Awards Won

Honours

Rankings

Covers

Records

Colbert is one of the most decorated figures in late-night television. He won seven consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Variety Series for The Colbert Report, a record for that category. In 2014, he received the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the nation's highest humor honor. He also holds a Guinness World Record for the longest continuous live television talk show (30 hours, 8 minutes) for a 2009 episode of The Colbert Report. Time named him one of the 100 Most Influential People in 2006 and 2012.

AwardsColbert has won 11 Primetime Emmy Awards, including seven for The Colbert Report as Outstanding Variety Series (2008–2014) and one for The Late Show as Outstanding Variety Talk Series (2016). He also won two Grammy Awards: Best Comedy Album for The Colbert Report (2006) and Best Spoken Word Album for I Am America (And So Can You!) (2008). He has won three Peabody Awards for The Colbert Report (2006, 2008, 2010) and a Tony Award as a producer of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (2014).

Honours & Distinctions

Time 100 Most Influential People

Time·2012

Named one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Time 100 Most Influential People

Time·2006

Named one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Hollywood Walk of Fame Star

Hollywood Chamber of Commerce·2014

Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

Kennedy Center·2014

Awarded the nation's highest humor honor.

Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters

Northwestern University·2011

Awarded an honorary degree.

National Book Foundation Literarian Award

National Book Foundation·2018

Awarded for outstanding service to the American literary community.

Guinness World Record for Longest Continuous Live Television Talk Show

Guinness World Records·2009

30 hours, 8 minutes for a 2009 episode of The Colbert Report.

Rankings & Lists

#19

50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time

Rolling Stone·2015

#11

60 Greatest Shows of All Time

TV Guide·2013

#Listed

10 Best TV Shows of the Year

Time·2016

#Listed

100 Most Creative People in Entertainment

Entertainment Weekly·2006

Magazine Covers

Time

2006-04-10

The Colbert Report: Is This Guy the Funniest Man on TV?

Rolling Stone

2005-10-20

Stephen Colbert: The New King of Late Night

2015-08-01

Stephen Colbert: The Last Late-Night Host

Vanity Fair

2015-09-01

The Colbert Report: The Final Days

Esquire

2015-09-01

Stephen Colbert: The Man Who Will Save Late Night

Records & Feats

Most consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Variety Series (7)

Awards·2014

Won Outstanding Variety Series for The Colbert Report every year from 2008 to 2014, a record for the category.

Longest continuous live television talk show (30 hours, 8 minutes)

Career Milestone·2009

Set the Guinness World Record for a 2009 episode of The Colbert Report.