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Rick Folbaum (born August 5, 1969) is an American news anchor and correspondent for the Fox News Channel and the former co-anchor of WNYW's Fox 5 News at 6.
Folbaum was most recently a co-anchor for the FOX flagship station in New York City, WNYW. He joined in early 2006. In 2009, he returned to Fox News Channel where he is a weekday substitute anchor and regularly hosts the Saturday 6pm edition of America's News Headquarters.
Folbaum is largely known for his years at Fox News Channel as an anchor of Fox News Live, the Fox Report Saturdays, and as a substitute anchor for Shepard Smith's programs. Joining in 1996, he was the network's London-based correspondent from 1998 to 2000, covering news stories across Europe and the Middle East.
Prior to his years at FOX, he worked as a writer for MSNBC and in radio at WOR-AM in New York City. He is a regular guest-panelist on Fox's late-night satire show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.
Stephen Tyrone Colbert ( /koʊlˈbɛər/ or /ˈkoʊlbərt/; born May 13, 1964) is an American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor. He is the host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, a satirical news show in which Colbert portrays a caricatured version of conservative political pundits.
Colbert originally studied to be an actor, but became interested in improvisational theatre when he met famed Second City director Del Close while attending Northwestern University. He first performed professionally as an understudy for Steve Carell at Second City Chicago; among his troupe mates were comedians Paul Dinello and Amy Sedaris, with whom he developed the critically acclaimed sketch comedy series Exit 57.
Colbert also wrote and performed on the short-lived Dana Carvey Show before collaborating with Sedaris and Dinello again on the cult television series Strangers with Candy. He gained considerable attention for his role on the latter as closeted gay history teacher Chuck Noblet. It was his work as a correspondent on Comedy Central's news-parody series The Daily Show, however, that first introduced him to a wide audience.