The Colbert Report is in vacation right now (it returns on September 14), so how about we look at the career of Stephen Colbert to get us through these weeks?

Rolling Stone has a new cover story on Colbert and an interesting feature up at their site that gives an overview of what Colbert has done over the years. Not just the stuff we've all seen (like The Dana Carvey Show and Strangers with Candy), but also his work on the short-lived sketch show Exit 57, a dramatic turn on Law and Order: CI, and voiceover work for a really terrible-looking video tennis game.

There's also footage from an independent film he made with in 2005 called The Great New Wonderful, where he plays a school principal trying to talk to Judy Greer and Thomas McCarthy about their nasty kid.

The magazine mentions his very short stint on Good Morning America years ago, and here's a video of it. Let's all be happy he left to do other things.