Stephen Colbert is the host and executive producer of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series, The Colbert Report. Before launching The Colbert Report in 2005, Colbert was the longest-tenured correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Born and raised near Charleston, South Carolina, Colbert graduated from Northwestern University and then joined Chicago's famed Second City improv troupe. Colbert, his wife Evelyn, and their three children reside in the New York metropolitan area.