Stephen Colbert has another award to add to his trophy case that’s already feeling the weight from his recent Webby win. Stephen Colbert accepted his 2007 Peabody award today for “distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by stations, networks, producing organizations and individuals.”
Much of the ceremony’s pomp was curtailed by the mourning of the media community over the death of Tim Russert. According to Broadcasting and Cable:
Colbert received perhaps the largest ovation, comparing the ‘Colbert Report’ crew to a barium enema for their knack for injecting themselves into a story and flushing out the truthiness. He also told the Waldorf-Astoria crowd about going on Meet the Press during his short-lived, but no less humorous, bid for the American presidency. Host Russert told Colbert about how his pundit colleagues chastised him for giving precious MTP airtime to the prankster. “Don’t you get it?” Colbert said Russert told others who thought Colbert shouldn’t be on. “It’s a joke.”
Colbert’s new Peabody joins the Peabody awards won during his tenure at The Daily Show in 2000 and 2004.
More pics after the cut!
Yay! Even though this is SOOOOO much cooler than an Emmy, I hope it makes the Emmy folks come to their senses and see how they’ve been underrating him for all this time.
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hahah, he is adorable. <3 Emmy, here we come!
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Oh, what fun! And, as ever, he is so photogenic. It must be amazing to be his wife, or his kids. “Dad is everywhere!”
Really, they must give him an Emmy this year.
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Only downside to “Dad is everywhere” is Dad is not home.
Photogenic – totally agree. The first picture is very “Cary Grant”.
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I love how his tie matches his award. It’s so “Stephen” to coordinate his wardrobe with his accolades.
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Yeah. The matching tie is a great touch.
Thanks for the pictures DB. Stephen certainly is a handsome guy.
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that last picture’s caption– “it was only this big, I swear!”
btw, is this man (Mr Colbert) accepting a Peabody, doing a show, and then reading for Bloomsday all today?? I feel bad for him a bit, that is just a lot of running around!! I couldn’t do it.
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Well deserved! and lol, I also love how his tie matches the award.
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yay Stephen! this is the Emmy year, I can feel it. he looks good in gold ties.
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Great tie. Emmy please. Grabby hands
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Congratulations on the Peabody everybody; a very classy win.
On to the Emmys!
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What an amazing moment that must be for him. Congratulations again to Stephen and everyone at The Report. And definite props to the coordinating tie. I love the pic of him pointing to the Peabody. Silly Stephen…
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Stephen also talked about his appearance on Meet the Press with Tim in his acceptance speech as noted here on Multichannel News.
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Congrats to everyone at TCR for a well-deserved Peabody. And I loved Stephen’s tribute to Tim Russert: not only was Russert a great journalist, but he was a total it-getter as well.
And thanks for posting the photos– Stephen looks handsome, as always! :)
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you need to be smart to get Stephen’s humor… Emmy people might not be that smart…
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These pics are too awesome! Wish I had a poster of all of them! There need to be MORE posters of Stephen available! Love that man!
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