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And the No. 1 Best Replacement for David Letterman: Stephen Colbert

Colbert will reportedly leave behind his right-wing persona he adopted for his Comedy Central show, "The Colbert Report."

CBS announced today that Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report will take over for David Letterman on Late Night when the latter retires next year.

Forbes reports Colbert will be leaving behind his right-wing persona he adopted for his cable channel show.

When Letterman first announced his retirement last week, Los Angeles Eric Garcetti publicly asked CBS to move the popular program from New York to Los Angeles. No word on that, although New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio didn't take to kindly to the invitation

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