Watch: Stephen Colbert Doesn’t Have the Legal Rights to “Stephen Colbert”
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What do you do when you’re the host of a successful fake news/comedy show for 10 years and then find out you can’t … be … you … on your new late-night talk show because your old network owns … you? You create an identical twin cousin of your old self with the same name as you, obviously.
Last week, The Late Show host revived the much-missed Colbert Report by bringing back “Stephen Colbert,” fan-favorite Report segment “The Word,” and calling in Jon Stewart for a segment of conservative bashing following the Republican National Convention. While audiences were delighted to hear the report from Colbert and Stewart, the folks at Comedy Central were apparently less amused.