Behind the scenes of `The Colbert Report'

“The Colbert Report” has been working this way, more or less, since it debuted on Oct. 17, 2005. The show began with what might still be its biggest success—the coining of the term “truthiness.” The term, which means a truth one feels in the gut rather than learns in books, was a home run in the first at bat that Colbert calls the “thesis statement” to everything that’s followed.