Lawyers representing his old company complained to CBS after he revived the character he played under his own name on “The Colbert Report” a clueless, full-of-himself cable news host. The host told his audience Wednesday that Comedy Central claims the character of Stephen Colbert, from The Colbert Report, is its intellectual property and asked that he stop playing him on CBS.
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Stephen Colbert is struggling to maintain the rights to his own name and face. Then the real Colbert did one of the old show’s most popular recurring segments, retitling “The Word” to “The Werd”. Comedy Central declined to comment. The host of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” just discovered this about his former on-air “Stephen Colbert” politically incorrect TV host persona. Last year, Colbert retired the character after taking over for David Letterman on CBS. In a twist ripped straight out of “The Patty Duke Show”, he then welcomed “Stephen Colbert’s identical twin cousin, Stephen Colbert”, live via satellite from Philadelphia.
Well, it turns out if you create some intellectual property while working for an employer, that employer owns that specific piece of IP.
Letterman poked fun at that on his first CBS show. After announcing the end of “Stephen Colbert”, he introduced “Stephen Colbert’s identical twin, “Stephen Colbert”, who may be a worthy replacement”.
In this regard, I expect nothing less than Comedy Central hiring an actor to play this character Colbert.
On Wednesday night’s pre-show session, a woman in the crowd asked Colbert what he would ask GOP nominee Donald Trump if the orange ogre were a guest on that day’s show.
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For instance, Colbert said that during the coming campaign, Hillary Clinton will say things that will make Donald Trump appear to be a racist.
