# Is the guy from this video really the son of Stephen Colbert? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 13, 2007, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-guy-from-this-video-really-the-son-of-stephen-colbert/403910 "2007-05-13T06:06:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2007, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-guy-from-this-video-really-the-son-of-stephen-colbert/403910/1 "2007-05-13T06:06:20Z")
And, if so, then, ummm… that’s pretty cool. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s3GLhWwUv0) He claims to be so in the beginning in Japanese and the end in English. For Japanese speakers the video is pretty funny as well. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2007, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-guy-from-this-video-really-the-son-of-stephen-colbert/403910/2 "2007-05-13T06:15:45Z")
Stephen Colbert is 43 and his oldest child is a girl. ---
**Author:** ![anson2995](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@anson2995](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anson2995)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-guy-from-this-video-really-the-son-of-stephen-colbert/403910/3 "2007-05-13T15:26:13Z")
And for the record, his daughter is eight years old. [All three of Colbert’s kids](http://www.child.com/child/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/child/story/data/colbert.xml&catref=chd73) have appeared on his television show. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-guy-from-this-video-really-the-son-of-stephen-colbert/403910/4 "2007-05-13T20:39:09Z")
[QUOTE=BobT] Stephen Colbert is 43 [/QUOTE] 43 _today_, I might add. Happy birthday, Dr. Colbert! ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-guy-from-this-video-really-the-son-of-stephen-colbert/403910/5 "2007-05-13T22:54:45Z")
[QUOTE=anson2995] And for the record, his daughter is eight years old. [All three of Colbert’s kids](http://www.child.com/child/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/child/story/data/colbert.xml&catref=chd73) have appeared on his television show. [/QUOTE] I remember the one with his daughter - it was a story about a dispute between a gas station owner and the gas company, where she was playing the role of the oil industry. “How does (the guy in the story) doing this make you feel?” "It makes me sad ☹ "