Stephen Colbert to replace Letterman on ‘Late Show’

CBS announced today that when David Letterman retires in 2015, Stephen Colbert will replace him.

Colbert’s “The Colbert Report” is one of Comedy Central’s best shows, right up there with Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show.” In fact, Colbert worked as a “correspondent” on Stewart’s parody of a news show before getting his own political, ultraconservative, talking-head satire pulpit in 2005.

Colbert has always shamelessly admitted he is a practicing Catholic and, as far as I know, hosts the only TV show with its own chaplain, Jesuit Fr. James Martin.