When Stephen Colbert was said how it sounds

Seems many people have forgotten the whole pronunciation of his last name was a joke when he had a show on Comedy Central. When he was on the Daily Show before that he was Stephen Col-bert said just how it sounds. He joked we was going to pronounce it in a French way to be exotic and since at the time there was "freedom fries" and a lot of French hate from the Republicans.

Bill O"Riley even had a segment on his show where he would "expose" this lie. I guess he did not get the joke. Today it's still pronounced in the French way. I guess it's like his stage name now.

 

i don't think i knew his name when it was pronounced phonetically. i always kind of wondered if he was being serious or not with that pronunciation.

 

I'm pretty sure that's wrong.

Gaysplosion - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Video Clip) | Comedy Central

 

Maybe I have that Bernstein Bear spelling thing where people remember the past differently. I swear he was Colbert phonetically.

 

Nah, you're correct. I read an interview with him once, and he said pretty much what you said about how it started as a joke and then never stopped.

 

i don't know what this is about, but he's still telling it like it is.
i've missed more then a decade of snl, so when i first stumbled across him on youtube, to me, it was like he materialized out of nowhere.
almost the same for bill marr and samantha bee.