--- title: Stephen Colbert Debuts New Beard description: All hail the Colbeard canonical: https://time.com/3717581/stephen-colbert-beard/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-21T13:33:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:34.579Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Is Now Sporting a Glorious New Beard og:description: All hail the Colbeard og:url: https://time.com/3717581/stephen-colbert-beard/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90cb538d62de0f1f/6987805fcd1bba4a996f5553/463917324.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Stephen Colbert bear og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Colbert Is Now Sporting a Glorious New Beard twitter:description: All hail the Colbeard twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90cb538d62de0f1f/6987805fcd1bba4a996f5553/463917324.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Stephen Colbert Is Now Sporting a Glorious New Beard ## Video: The Best of Stephen Colbert [Watch (HLS stream): The Best of Stephen Colbert](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/PNJDP9f3.m3u8) (4:30)  _Published 2014-04-10. The next host of_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 21, 2015 1:33 PM UTC  Stephen Colbert at Bad Robot on February 19, 2015 in Santa Monica, California. Stephen Colbert at Bad Robot on February 19, 2015 in Santa Monica, California.Michael Tullberg—2015 Michael Tullberg by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 21, 2015 1:33 PM UTC Gone are the days of buttoned-up, ultra-conservative, ultra-groomed Stephen Colbert from _The Colbert Report._ He’s been out of the fake news game since December, and now we know how he’s been using that time: growing a majestic silver beard. The future _Late Show_ host debuted his new rugged look at Thursday’s 10th annual Oscar Wilde Awards, E! News [reports](http://www.eonline.com/news/627431/stephen-colbert-debuts-new-beard-and-instantly-becomes-a-silver-fox-see-the-pic). He said he decided to test it out during his off-time between the end of _The Colbert Report_ and the beginning of _The Late Show_ later this year. “I was curious what I actually looked like,” he said, “and it turns out it’s this.” Colbert said it took his wife, Evelyn, a little time to get used to his new furry face, but citizens of the Internet are strongly in favor of what they’ve dubbed “the Colbeard.” They’ve gone so far as to call it “a thing of [rare and ineffable beauty](https://twitter.com/dr%5Fwormhole/status/569078092699992064)” and “the facial hair [America deserves](https://twitter.com/moneyries/status/568890575342039040).” \[[_E! 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