--- description: Happy Birthday to Stephen Colbert — from himself title: Stephen Colbert's 50th Birthday: His Eyebrows in GIF Form image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Stephen Colbert Turns 50 But His Eyebrows Haven't Aged a Bit by [Joseph C. Lin](/author/joseph-c-lin/) ## Joseph C. Lin Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 13, 2014 6:57 PM CUT by [Joseph C. Lin](/author/joseph-c-lin/) ## Joseph C. Lin Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 13, 2014 6:57 PM CUT With a tip of the hat and a raise of an eyebrow, we salute political satirist and consummate comedian Stephen Colbert’s 50th birthday with this gif of him from the past ten years.  Getty Images (21); Gif by Joseph C. Lin—TIME ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/97989/stephen-colbert-turns-50-but-his-eyebrows-havent-aged-a-bit/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/97989/stephen-colbert-turns-50-but-his-eyebrows-havent-aged-a-bit/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert Turns 50 But His Eyebrows Haven't Aged a Bit","datePublished":"2014-05-13T18:57:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:08:24.225Z","description":"Happy Birthday to Stephen Colbert — from himself","url":"https://time.com/97989/stephen-colbert-turns-50-but-his-eyebrows-havent-aged-a-bit/","keywords":["Television","stephen colbert"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joseph C. Lin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joseph-c-lin/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/97989/stephen-colbert-turns-50-but-his-eyebrows-havent-aged-a-bit/","name":"Stephen Colbert Turns 50 But His Eyebrows Haven't Aged a Bit"}}]}] ```