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r/stephencolbert

All things Stephen Colbert. Subreddit devoted to news, photos, memes, and gifs about the man, the myth, the legend: Stephen Colbert. Founded 2009 · 61.5K members

61K members. The best post we have captured here reached 31.5K upvotes, which works out to 515 per 1,000 members.

515peak upvotes per 1,000 members
61Kmembers
31.5Kbest post
992most comments
177posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

36% 25% 17% 15%
Link 36% Image 25% Video 17% Text 15% Question 5% Gallery 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

The Late Show 6 News 4 From the archive 3 Article 2 Interview 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Stephen sports a tan suit at the Grand Opening Ceremony of the Obama Presidential Center today

↑ 31.5K 💬 433 image 2026

Brilliant 😁

↑ 28.1K 💬 252 image 2025

Boycott CBS!

↑ 16.7K 💬 884 image 2026

Stephen on the dance floor at last night’s wrap party

↑ 15.7K 💬 301 video 2026

Cancel CBS and Paramount

↑ 14.4K 💬 803 image 2025

John Oliver and Stephen backstage after their Emmy wins!

↑ 14.3K 💬 212 video 2025

Dayum...the gloves really are off. Anyone else noticed Stephen boosting South Park's Trump PSA? Let's help him and SP make it go super viral.

↑ 11.7K 💬 258 image 2025

Project Truthiness 2026 — Because Facts Still Matter. Probably.

↑ 11.6K 💬 322 image 2025

Stephen Colbert Sets Ratings Record in Wake of Cancellation - LateNighter

↑ 9.5K 💬 318 link 2025

Strike Force Five!

↑ 9.1K 💬 212 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/stephencolbert, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/stephencolbert?
r/stephencolbert ("All things Stephen Colbert") describes itself this way: Subreddit devoted to news, photos, memes, and gifs about the man, the myth, the legend: Stephen Colbert. It was founded in 2009 and has 61.5K members.
How many members does r/stephencolbert have?
r/stephencolbert has about 61K members. ViralHunt has tracked 177 of its posts; the biggest reached 31.5K upvotes, which is 515 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/stephencolbert?
"Stephen sports a tan suit at the Grand Opening Ceremony of the Obama Presidential Center today" reached 31.5K upvotes and 433 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/stephencolbert.
What subreddits are similar to r/stephencolbert?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/stephencolbert?
Of the posts we hold, 36% are link posts and 25% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/stephencolbert?
Across 177 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 15:00 UTC (8.7K avg upvotes), Friday at 16:00 UTC (4.3K avg upvotes), Friday at 04:00 UTC (4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/stephencolbert?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/stephencolbert has 6.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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