TIL Despite growing up in South Carolina, comedian Stephen Colbert does not speak with a southern accent. As a child, he saw that Southerners were often depicted as being less intelligent than other characters on TV. Instead, he taught himself to imitate the speech of news anchors

TIL Despite growing up in South Carolina, comedian Stephen Colbert does not speak with a southern accent. As a child, he saw that Southerners were often depicted as being less intelligent than other characters on TV. Instead, he taught himself to imitate the speech of news anchors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert szekeres81 April 27, 2022 at 11:47AM