STEPHEN COLBERT IS FREE AT LAST. FREE, that is, to be Stephen Colbert, 51-year-old father of three, husband of 22 years, professional entertainer, soon-to-be signature star of CBS in late-night television — as opposed to Stephen Colbert, dim-bulb host of a faux right wing talk program, persistently, in every act of comedy or on-air conversation, at a distinct remove from his real reality — as it were.
Colbert, who may qualify as the most thoughtful and intellectual figure ever to sit behind a late-night desk and crack Donald Trump hair jokes, has made little secret of the relief he feels at this transition. “Now I don’t have to hold back at all,” Colbert told reporters at the summer press tour. “I had to put everything through, like, an occipital CPU…
