Stephen Colbert

From the time he first had ambitions to perform, Stephen Colbert had wanted to not just play, but be Hamlet. Indeed, the comedian famous for his well-intentioned yet poorly informed idiot persona on the fake news program, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” (Comedy Central, 1996- ) and later as anchor of “The Colbert Report” (Comedy Central, 2005- ), first thought of himself as a serious thespian-in-the-making. So consumed was he with the notion of being a dramatic actor, that Colbert wore all black all the time and adopted an impenetrable air of severity that in retrospect, seemed ridiculous.