Did you know Colbert's father was a big fucking deal in epidemiology?
Stephen Colbert's father:
Armed Forces Epidemiological Board
Director of Hepatitis Research Team
Technical Director of the Hepatitis Laboratory in Munich, Germany
Assistant Dean of the Yale University School of Medicine
Dean of the St. Louis University School of Medicine
Associate Director for Extramural Programs at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
http://waring.library.musc.edu/exhibits/colbert/index.php
And he also died in a plane crash
Eastern Airlines 212