LA Improv Pals Recall Early Genius of Stephen Colbert
Pound for pound, Stephen Colbert remains the funniest man on TV. And per a write-up this week in the Chicago Sun-Times, this man’s talent was evident from a very early college age.
Several of Colbert’s one-time Improv troupe mates at Northwestern, who performed together as the No Fun Mud Piranhas, are now based in LA. They, along with others, recall how obvious it was that Colbert was part of a special comedy breed. Here’s how Joy Gregory, writer-producer on Swingtown, Jericho, and a number of other TV shows, remembers it:
“Even then he was someone who, when he got going, you would just kind of step out of his way and let him go,” Gregory says.
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