DU S'Carolinians Take Heart! Stephen Colbert is from Charleston!

[KoKo]

My Home Town! And, I'm falling on the floor with this!

Here's some scoop:

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/433/433111p3.html

And MORE SCOOP! He even went to Preppy Hampton-Sidney! Good Guy with amazing roots....

The Post and Courier | Charleston.net | News | Charleston, SC
Two floors up, Stephen Colbert sits at his desk eating a bowl of asparagus soup while ... I love Charleston, I love the Lowcountry, but it's very insular. ...
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[hiaasenrocks]

1. I have seen him around town.

I've heard he has a house on Sullivan's Island. I live about a mile and a half from there.

[babylonsister]

2. I just finished reading "Sullivan's Island" recently, by

Dorothea Benton Frank. Light beach reading, and I enjoyed it, coming from a summer place that was similar.

[hiaasenrocks]

4. Now I'm going to sound like I am name-dropping. :)

But she has a house just across the intracoastal waterway from where I live.

I might as well get this out of the way and say the other "celeb" that lives within a few miles of me is the lead singer of Hootie and the Blowfish. I see him at the grocery store and gas station sometimes. (Not that this is anything great, mind you. :) )

And, for the record, Mrs. Frank is the only approachable one of the three...

[KoKo]

5. Well...I grew up in that area .....but before

the group you are talking about by a few years...but it was incredible to me he grew up on James Island...I grew up on Johns Island. :D

AMAZING! And ...well...just amazing! Glad to see some "Lowcountry Folks" get recognition....

[hiaasenrocks]

7. James Island is the Big Local News Story here today.

They're trying (once again) to incorporate and break away from Charleston.

Stupid move, IMO. They don't have the tax base to sustain their own city.

[KoKo]

9. Ha! I'm in favor of it...but maybe we need to take this to SC Forum...

:D

[hiaasenrocks]

11. Sounds like a good idea. I hardly ever

go to that forum. I guess when I used to check it, nothing sparked my interest. In any case, if you want to talk about it over there, let me know.

[KoKo]

13. I don't live there anymore and haven't for years.....

but keep up with it because of relatives and because once the lowcountry is in your roots no matter how far away you go...it stays with you....

I, like Colbert cut out of there in my early years. It WAS very INSULAR....so I understand what he says. Still...there's so much good stuff there in the "lowcountry" and Charleston still being VERY DIFFERENT from rest of SC it does give one good stuff to draw on...it does help one have some "perspective."

[KoKo]

10. Wow...so little interest in Colbert's Birthplace......maybe folks are just

so "blown outta the water" they can't grasp it. I for sure, was!

[hiaasenrocks]

12. It's interesting. But for me it's not a huge deal because

I've known it for a while. And I'm not really all that impressed with him anyway. (Not having to do with the dinner the other night; just other things.)

[KoKo]

14. Okay.......

Maybe you are more a "conservative Dem?"

[hiaasenrocks]

16. My problem with him isn't political.

Let's just say that.

[KoKo]

15. It just might have rocked folks back that Colbert could come from a RED

STATE...and survived, though. :D

I think there might be many shocked DU'ers about this. And, it's good that Colbert has struck out on his own course and yet he's a product of our GREAT LOWCOUNTRY...which just has such a long line of outspoken folks who speak for TRUTH.

SC isn't what it was these days...the voices to silence reign...but there was always ANOTHER SIDE...and I took that with me in my suitcase and carry bag WHERE EVER I WENT...It held up for me...and I've been around and back again..but not to SC as it is today.

Still, I hope that the spirit and truth that taught me still lives somewhere there..and assume because you post here..it lives with you..even if you are a "transplant."

Peace...:-)'s I'm probably over the top with nostalgia.

[hiaasenrocks]

17. My family has been in the Charleston

area since the late 1800s. That's my mom's side. My dad's side, since about 1940.

[KoKo]

6. Well...she's defintely a good "beach read"......

Having grown up there...sometimes I get like a Harpie about books about the area..

[KoKo]

3. A little more background for folks without a "subscription" on his ROOTS

Great Charlestonian? ... Or the greatest Charlestonian?
Stephen Colbert

By Bryce Donovan
The Post and Courier

NEW YORK ? It's quiet in the Comedy Central studios on West 54th Street. No camera rolls, no spotlight shines and no audience cheers.

But three hours from now, this place will be electric with the energy of hundreds of people who have waited for as long as two months to see firsthand what is arguably the smartest and funniest show on television.

Two floors up, Stephen Colbert sits at his desk eating a bowl of asparagus soup while making the kind of face one would when, well, eating a bowl of asparagus soup. This is the same face he'll make later in the evening when interviewing John Kasich of Fox News' "The Heartland." Kasich is the very type of person his show, "The Colbert Report" (pronounced col-BEAR re-POR), lampoons on a nightly basis. But right now, more pressing things face him, such as showing off some of his prized possessions.

"I just love 'The Lord of the Rings,' " Colbert says in between sips. "As you can see, I have all the figures given out by Burger King."

His assistant constantly reminds him that he should be getting dressed and ready for taping, but he continues to talk about the things that matter most to him: science-fiction books, his family and his fondness for his hometown of Charleston.

The path to humor

Colbert might have finally made it big with his own hit TV show, but that doesn't mean he's unfamiliar with sharing the spotlight. That's because the 41-year-old is the youngest of 11 brothers and sisters.



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[KoKo]

8. If anyone wants more from Charleston Post & Courier

just PM me for the rest of the article...I have a subscription. Will get back to you with the stuff, if you're interested.

[KoKo]

18. Well...whever he's from ...I'm still proud and buttons are popping off my

sweater, vest, jacket...I feel so good about what he did.....

[incapsulated]

19. And he's a Taurus, how perfect

Stephen Colbert Born: 13-May-1964

The bull in the china shop. :D

[SaveAmerica]

20. Did you see this article in the Charlotte Observer: Carolina connections

of Colbert and others in DC? Thanks for the link to the article about him, by the way.

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/14470145.htm

Start with Charleston-bred Stephen Colbert, the mock-conservative host of "The Colbert Report" (pronounced Coal-bear Re-pour) on Comedy Central.

As the evening's official entertainment, he drew blood with his satiric jabs at Bush, the White House press corps and Fox News -- home of Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, the right-leaning pundits Colbert apes on his weeknight show.

The fake-news anchor even invoked a Carolinas university in one of his jokes.

No, not Duke.

This particular ha-ha came during a "tribute" to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.. The 2008 presidential candidate has been busy lately shedding his maverick image a bit by wooing the Rev. Jerry Falwell.

"Welcome back into the Republican fold," Colbert said about McCain. "I have a summer house in South Carolina. Call me when you go to Bob Jones University."

[KoKo]

21. Thanks for the link...glad us Southern Red Staters have someone to

speak out for us. Who would have known.....