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  1. Ayun Halliday (C87) Halliday joined Chicago’s Neo-Futurists in 1988 as they started their signature (and still running) show, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, in which the company performs 30 plays in 60 minutes. That’s where she met her husband, Greg Kotis.

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    For those who haven’t caught his act yet, let’s recap: Stephen Colbert (C86) plays a character named Stephen Colbert on the award-winning Colbert Report, which draws an average nightly audience of 1.2 million viewers. Stephen Colbert the character began as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show in 1997 and evolved into a satiric embodim...

    The real Colbert explored his ancestry this year for Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates’ PBS series Faces of Americaand found out his DNA is entirely European — Irish-German. “I am the inescapable black hole of white people,” he quipped. Where does the TV Colbert come from? Northwestern friends see a direct line between Colbert’s work at Northwest...

    The character of Stephen Colbert truly pierced popular consciousness with two breakthrough events. First, Colbert invented the term “truthiness” for the first episode of the Reportin 2005, inspired by the war in Iraq and President George W. Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court: “We are divided between those who think with their ...

  2. Partner. Stephen Colbert (1986–1990) Children. 2. Website. www .ayunhalliday .com. Ayun Halliday is an American writer and actor. [1] She is best known as the author and illustrator (or, as Halliday herself terms it, "the chief primatologist ") of the long-running zine The East Village Inky. [2]

  3. Oct 19, 2006 · He was not a fraternity boy,” Ayun Halliday, Colbert’s college sweetheart, told the Sun-Times. What kind of boy was he? Apparently a geek, more inclined to play Dungeons & Dragons than show...

  4. Sep 24, 2015 · Feminist publisher Seal Press has just reissued Halliday’s super-hilarious, best-selling memoir, No Touch Monkey!: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late. Stephen Colbert said that these tales of (pre-Internet!) global adventures made him “laugh hard on nearly every page.” (And then maybe on the others, he wept?)

  5. Aug 25, 2015 · Zine queen Ayun Halliday confesses the best-and worst-of her globetrotting misadventures. “I laughed hard on nearly every page of this shockingly intimate memoir and deeply funny book.” — Stephen Colbert

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  7. -- Stephen Colbert Ayun Halliday may not make for the most sensible travel companion, but she is certainly one of the zaniest, with a knack for inserting herself (and her unwitting cohorts)...

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