VIDEO: Stephen Colbert Drops Funny Act to Give Serious Advice to Teenage Girls

Stephen Colbert -- funny man and future LATE SHOW host -- recently took a few serious moments to reflect on questions submitted by teenage girls for Rookie Mag's "Ask a Grown Man" segment. Click below to hear his thoughts on boyfriends, relatonships and nay-saying parents, how to react to misogynist jokes, how to tell when someone likes you, and more!

Since its launch on Comedy Central in 2005, the host's "The Colbert Report" has received widespread critical acclaim while earning two Peabody Awards and 27 Emmy nominations, including an Emmy win for Outstanding Variety Series (2013) and three Emmy wins for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program (2013, 2010, 2008). Prior to that, Colbert spent eight years as a correspondent on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" as an on-air personality and writer of news satire for the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series.

In addition, Colbert is an accomplished author, with two books, I AM America (and So Can You!) and America AGAIN: Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't, appearing on the New York Times best-seller list. America AGAIN also won a Grammy Award for Spoken Word (2014).