Stephen Colbert, Bruce Watson
Stephen Colbert, Bruce Watson
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Stephen Colbert
Beyond Truthiness

Author: Bruce Watson

Narrator: Stephen Bowlby

Unabridged: 2 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/04/2017

Synopsis

Stephen Colbert is far more than a comedian and improv genius. As head of his fanciful Colbert Nation, the quick-witted host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and former host of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report has delighted fans with his wit, audacity, and innovative uses of language and the media.In this biography, award-winning journalist Bruce Watson, author of Jon Stewart: Beyond the Moments of Zen, charts Colbert’s rise from boyhood tragedy to “greatest living cultural-media critic.”

About Bruce Watson

Bruce Watson is the author of Sacco and Vanzetti, a finalist for the Edgar Award, and Bread and Roses, named a New York Public Library Book to Remember. His journalism has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Smithsonian, and Reader’s Digest.

About Stephen Bowlby

Stephen Bowlby is an experienced audiobook narrator. He earned his BA in speech & theater at Westminster College in Pennsylvania, a short trip from his native North Jersey. His career quickly moved from commercial radio into television and film production as a writer, an editor, and a director with voice work ever present.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Book2Dragon

I found Stephen Colbert on YouTube during the 2020 election cycle and his satire was a balm for non-news (I'd believe his before theirs), and craziness (truthiness) for a world gone mad. The book chronicles his rise from a fun-loving family to Second City to the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, finally......more

Goodreads review by Theresa

I bought this off Bookbub without actually paying attention to what I was buying. It’s a book about Stephen Colbert, not by him, whoops. But I’m fascinated by people who can write sketch and perform improv, and indeed, much of Colbert’s history with Second City and the Second City philosophy toward......more

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