Stephen Colbert had a visit from a comedy legend on The Colbert Report last night, and things went completely off-the-rails before they even began.

Stephen Colbert responded to the weekend's biggest news—the theft and publication of a bunch of female celebrities' private nude photos—by taking a stand against looking at or sharing the ill-gotten nudes.

Back before Bryan Cranston was winning Emmys and making out with Julia Louis Dreyfus, he was hawking hemorrhoid cream. Brad Pitt once tried his hardest to make eating Pringles look like a sexy, fun thing to do. Now you can watch those auspicious debuts and more in this "Before They Were Famous" supercut.

Vapshot, the "refreshing new way" of enjoying alcohol by not actually drinking it, is such a ridiculous idea that Stephen Colbert couldn't make it through a bit about how "safe" it is without completely cracking up.

Things just keep getting better and better for the American hero known Apparently Kid. Hours after his appearance on the Today Show, Noah "Apparently" Ritter was the subject of a tribute on the Colbert Report.

As tensions increase overseas between the independent state of Orlando Bloom and pockets of extremist Beliebers, you can count on Stephen Colbert to explain the years-long cold war that turned hot this week when Bloom launched a fist at Bieber's face in Ibiza.

Stephen Colbert will not break character on The Colbert Report—not even for James Franco—but he will do it to give solid fatherly advice to teenage girls.

Actor/Ph.D candidate James Franco was on the Colbert Report last night to promote his movie opening this week, Child of God, and generally just act like James Franco. Whatever. You can skip everything until the very end of the interview, where Franco slyly tries to get an in-character Stephen Colbert to discuss his…

Comedy Central hosts and friendly rivals Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert just corpsed their way through a battle of Star Wars trivia—and lightsabers—to determine which of them is a bigger nerd.

Yo, the "context-based" messaging app that has already landed $1 million in funding for each of the one words it can send ("yo"), has crossed the desk of Stephen Colbert, and he is not impressed. His extremely concise review: "Y?"

Amazon, known 'round these parts as the "Cthulhu of retail," saw its bad PR stretch got worse last night when Stephen Colbert took up the sword. Colbert's books are published by Grand Central, an imprint of Hachette Book Group. Hachette is the company currently struggling with Amazon over pricing. In a negotiating…

If you've put off reading Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century, you can dip your toes in the water with Stephen Colbert's quick primer on income inequality, generational stagnation, r is greater than g, and other economic concepts all the cool kids are talking about this summer.

The Daily Show's "senior black correspondent" Larry Wilmore will take over Stephen Colbert's 11:30 p.m. Comedy Central time slot after he leaves to become the new host of CBS' The Late Show in December. The Minority Report will premiere January 2015. He's been a part of The Daily Show's roster since 2006.

Stephen Colbert, jealous that Sean Hannity beat him to the punch in befriending anti-government, pro-slavery rancher Cliven Bundy, decided to jump on the bandwagon by giving the conservative "folk hero" his own folk song.

Last night, Stephen Colbert visited The Daily Show to personally explain to friend and rival Jon Stewart why he's decided to end his show. No, it's not to host Late Night—remember, the in-character version of Colbert won't be making that jump.

If you thought that, ten years after the debut of Stephen Colbert's satirical conservative character "Stephen Colbert" on his satirical television show The Colbert Report, conservatives would both understand the joke and be over it, you would be wrong. Today, ex-Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro accuses Colbert of…

Stephen Colbert will replace David Letterman as host of The Late Show. CBS announced the decision Wednesday afternoon in a press release, less than a week after Letterman's announcement that he will retire in 2015.

#CancelColbert? More like #PutColbertOnNetworkTVInFrontOfAnEvenLargerAudience, if rumors about CBS's plans to replace Late Night host David Letterman next year are true. Mashable reports Colbert is "the front-and-center candidate" for the job.

In his first show since Twitter activists called for his cancellation, Stephen Colbert devoted an entire segment to the #cancelcolbert hashtag that blew up last week. The controversy was ignited by an out-of-context tweet from the Colbert Report Twitter account, which isn't controlled by Colbert himself.