Captain Colbert
Stephen Colbert is an amazing man with an amazing show. I’m sure he’d agree. But how muc do we know about the real Stephen Colbert? Not much, and that suits him fine.
“I get away with a lot,” Colbert says. “My character gets to ask for a free iPhone [on-air] and I actually get to use it. I have an ice cream with Ben & Jerry. And that’s exciting … but that character’s not hard to drop. This guy, the guy who’s talking to you right now, that’s harder to drop. Being a writer and executive producer and the star requires a great deal of my focus.… Letting go and not being the boss is much harder [at the end of the day] than letting go of my character.“That’s why I drive myself home at night,” adds Colbert, who lives on a cul-de-sac in suburban Montclair, New Jersey. “The network would happily—they don’t want me tired; they don’t want me running off the road—they’d happily send me home in a car. But I’d work the entire way home, and I need more than the 30 seconds from the car to the front door to become a dad and a husband again. So I drive home and I crank my tunes. And by the time I get there, I’m normal again.”
