On the December 13, 2010 episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen reads a passage of A Modest Proposal in support of Ted Turner's suggestions on reducing overpopulation by having poor people sell ( to rich people ) their right to bear a single child per family.

Rush was interviewed by Stephen Colbert and they performed " Tom Sawyer " on The Colbert Report on July 16, 2008.

* In December 2010, Stephen Colbert wrote and performed an " extended ending " to ' Send in the Clowns ' to composer Stephen Sondheim when he appeared on Colbert's program, The Colbert Report.

* On The Colbert Report, following the death of Captain America in Marvel continuity, Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada bequeathed a " replica " of the Captain's vibranium shield to Stephen Colbert.

This shield continues to have a place on The Colbert Report set.

Simon performed the song live on The Colbert Report on December 16, 2010.

On November 18, 2008, Simon was a guest on The Colbert Report promoting his book Lyrics 1964 – 2008.

Examples of the evil goatee's appearances in other media include Bender's " evil twin " Flexo in Futurama and a 2009 episode of The Colbert Report featuring Stephen Colbert and Dan Maffei wearing fake goatees while pretending to be evil versions of themselves.

The Hispanic Caucus Controversy ( see above ) was parodied on The Colbert Report on February 7, 2007.

* Colbert Report, Jan. 17th, 2011.

* Colbert County was featured in a three-part comedy feature on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report from November 28 – 30, 2006.

On December 9, 2010, Ellsberg appeared on The Colbert Report where he commented that the existence of WikiLeaks helps to build a better government.

Describing Republican candidates for president Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich on a panel on the Colbert Report, Cassidy stated, " I believe the both of them are the most embarrassing, sad, pathetic ...

In August 2007, Branson announced on The Colbert Report that he had named a new aircraft Air Colbert.

Novello has appeared as Sarducci on many television shows since then, including Married ... with Children, Blossom, It's Garry Shandling's Show, Unhappily Ever After, Square Pegs and The Colbert Report.

On June 23, 2010, he appeared on The Colbert Report portraying Father Guido Sarducci.

* The Colbert Report ( 2010 ) ( TV ) ( as Father Guido Sarducci )

He appeared on The Colbert Report on June 23, 2010, claiming to have conducted an interview with Glenn Beck while visiting the Vatican .< ref >

On July 21, 2008, Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report made a comment about John McCain making a campaign stop in Canton, Ohio, and " not the crappy Canton in Georgia.

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

One of the few bright spots on the team during the early years was first baseman and slugger Nate Colbert, an expansion draftee from the Houston Astros and still the Padres ' career leader in home runs.

* November 26 – Universal Pictures releases the first film version of Fannie Hurst's novel, Imitation of Life, starring Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers.

Neither Gable nor Colbert were the first choices to play the lead roles.

Other actors noted Colbert's comic timing ; David Niven related in his biography that Gary Cooper was " terrified " at the prospect of working with Colbert in his first comedy, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, because he considered Colbert to be an expert in the genre.

The film gave Niven one of his first significant parts, and he wrote that Colbert took a nurturing role towards him and " was the soul of fun and a most generous performer ," although he noted that her insistence that she be filmed only from her left side created difficulties for the cameramen.

Claudette Colbert commented that Davis was the first actress to play roles older than herself, and therefore did not have to make the difficult transition to character parts as she aged.

When France colonised America, the territory it conquered was immense, including the whole Mississippi River ( whose first European name was the River Colbert ), from its mouth to its source at the borders of Canada.

" As the mother and center of the family, Claudette Colbert gives an excellent show of gallantly self-contained emotion, and Jennifer Jones is surpassingly sweet as a well-bred American daughter in the first bloom of womanhood and love.

In France, for example, the Ordinance of Marine of Louis XIV was published under the auspices of Colbert in 1691, and was the first complete code of maritime and commercial law ; and " when we consider the originality and extent of the design and the ability with which it is executed, we shall not hesitate to admit that it deserves to be ranked among the noblest works that legislative genius and learning have ever accomplished.

Supported by the young king Louis XIV, Colbert aimed the first blow at the man accused of being the greatest of the royal embezzlers, the superintendent Nicolas Fouquet.

In 1673 Colbert presided over the first exhibition of the works of living painters ; and he enriched the Louvre with hundreds of pictures and statues.

In 1665, Jean Talon was sent by Minister of the Marine Jean-Baptiste Colbert to New France as the first Intendant.

Mark Gardener and Loz Colbert of Ride released an album as The Animalhouse ; in 2006, Gardener's first solo album was issued.

In 1662, Pierre-Paul Riquet, a rich tax-farmer in the Languedoc region, who knew the region intimately, believed he could solve the problem, but he first had to persuade Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the finance minister of Louis XIV, which he did through his friendship with the Archbishop of Toulouse.

This was his first independent command, and his responsibilities included the design and construction of the Riverton Lock at Colbert Shoals.

During her first pregnancy, Louise was removed from the Princess ' service and established in a lodging in the Palais Royal, where, on 19 December 1663, she gave birth to a son, Charles, who was taken immediately to Saint-Leu and given to two faithful servants of Jean-Baptiste Colbert.

During spring training, Ault competed with veterans Nate Colbert and Ron Fairly for the starting first base position.

Ma and Pa Kettle first appeared in supporting roles as neighbors in The Egg and I, starring Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert as a refined city couple who move to a rural chicken farm.

The part of Brad Colbert was the closest to a " lead " in Generation Kill, and director Susanna White and executive producer David Simon at first disagreed about casting Skarsgård.

") and closing (" If I Had Time ") songs for the 66th Tony Awards ; the score of the adaptation of John Waters ' Cry-Baby, which opened on Broadway on April 24, 2008 and was nominated for a 2008 Tony Award for Best Original Score ; and eight original Christmas songs for Stephen Colbert's 2008 television special, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All !, which won him his first Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.

This was also the first time Claudette Colbert would be filmed in color.

In 1946, Long was hence cast in his first film, Tomorrow Is Forever as Drew, the son of Claudette Colbert.

The first digital advertisers included: Calvin Klein, Apple Computer, Stephen Colbert, Toyota and Nike.