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Full Craig Kilborn Biography
Kilborn was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Shirley, a homemaker, and Hiram Kilborn, an insurance executive. He was raised in Hastings, Minnesota, located thirty minutes from Minneapolis-St. Paul. He played basketball at Hastings High School, earning All-State & All-Conference honors and a basketball scholarship to Montana State University.
In 1996, Kilborn became host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central. In a 1997 interview with Esquire, Kilborn described Daily Show creator and executive producer Lizz Winstead as an "emotional bitch" who over-reacts to him. Kilborn apologized publicly and insisted that the remarks were "said in jest," but was suspended for a week. A source suggested to the New York Post that there might've been more to the suspension than the comment in Esquire, saying, "the network has been angry because of inappropriate sexual comments he makes to female staff members, especially junior staffers. There's a real problem." Winstead later quit the show.
Kilborn hosted The Late Late Show for five years, changing the format to appeal to a younger audience. In August 2004 he elected not to extend his contract, stating "I simply want to try something new. I can now focus on writing and producing different television projects I haven't had time for." Kilborn made his motion picture acting debut with a small role in Old School and has since appeared in four other motion pictures: The Shaggy Dog, The Benchwarmers, Full of It, and Cursed.
Some of Kilborn's more popular segments on the Late Late Show included Five Questions (a bit he originally used to end interviews on The Daily Show), To Blank with Love, Recreation of a Press photo and Yambo the brain teasing game of skill and intelligence.
One of his most popular recurring characters include Sebastian the Asexual Icon, an androgynous character loosely based on Morrissey, the former lead singer of The Smiths. |
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