Stephen Colbert ("The Colbeard")
There is a long pedigree of late night talk show hosts growing out their facial hair, from Conan O’Brien and David Letterman’s writers’ strike solidarity beards to Jon Stewart’s serious director beard, which he grew on the set of
Rosewater. One of the more recent and better-received late night beards was Stephen Colbert’s, affectionately dubbed "The Colbeard." Even though it only stuck around during the gap between
The Colbert Report and the start of Colbert’s tenure on
The Late Show, it was fun while it lasted,
before he sent it off in style.