CBS has found their man, tapping Stephen Colbert – the popular host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report – to replace David Letterman when the longtime funny man retires from his Late Show in 2015.
Colbert will join a chorus of new anchors on late night television programs, with Jimmy Fallon how at the helm of The Tonight Show and Seth Meyers on Late Night, which Fallon, Letterman, and Conan O'Brien have formerly hosted.
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