The details of Stephen Colbert’s young life — raised in a devoutly Catholic family as the youngest of eleven kids, two of whom were killed, along with his father, in a plane crash — are not new. But to hear Colbert talk in the way that he does in this GQ profile is to understand how central that incident, and his continued faith, are to the comedian’s unique perspective. The last quarter of Lovell’s piece is moving in a way celebrity profiles rarely are. — Gilbert Cruz, Television Editor
