A hugely successful spin-off of The Daily Show during the Jon Stewart days, Stephen Colbert's cleverly stupid namesake helped prove to the rest of the world that the USA can do satire. Making its standalone debut on Comedy Central in October 2005, Colbert made headlines by deconstructing the news agenda, having his own flavour of Ben & Jerry's ice-cream (AmeriCone Dream) and starring in countless awkward interviews with high-profile guests, not to mention his relationship with the US presidency. In 2006 he tore into George W Bush during the White House Correspondents' Dinner which no doubt endeared him to Barack Obama who agreed to host a segment of The Colbert Report in the show's final month. Drawing comparisons with programmes like The Day Today, Britain, the home of political humour, could sorely use a show like this today. The Colbert Report wrapped at the end of 2014 having changed the face of daily topical humour for good, as the man himself stepped into David Letterman's shoes as the new incumbent of the CBS Late Show.