Stephen Colbert Cited For Excellence As "One Of Electronic Media's Sharpest Satirists"
"The Colbert Report," COMEDY CENTRAL's nightly talk show in which Stephen Colbert gives his take on the issues of the day and, more importantly, tells viewers why everyone else's take is just plain wrong, has been honored with a prestigious George Foster Peabody Award in the 67th Annual Peabody Awards competition, it was announced.
In announcing the winning programs, the Peabody committee said of the series: "Let none dare call it 'truthiness.' Colbert, in his weeknight COMEDY CENTRAL parody of all that is bombastic and self-serving in cable-news bloviasion, has come into his own as one of electronic media's sharpest satirists."
Considered the broadcast and cable industry's most prestigious prize, the Peabody Awards were announced by the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, which has administered the Peabody Award program since its inception in 1940. The awards will be presented at a luncheon ceremony to be held at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City on June 16, to be hosted by NBC News' Brian Williams.
