The Stephen Colbert Report's Comedian To Host Late Night With David Letterman, Obvious Choice With The Star Wattage, Comic Talent'

The Stephen Colbert Report. Stephe Colbert is an epic figure among comedians of today and he is revered among Generation X for getting the latest current events and news commentary on politics, entertainment and just about everything else. He's a Rush Limbaugh of sorts, only Colbert and his The Stephen Colbert Report does not reflect the conservative, Republican side of Limbaugh.

Stephen Colbert has said goodbye to his late night show on Comedy Central and he's moving on to the Late Show on CBS with David Letterman set to retire. Earlier in the year, Limbaugh called Colbert's selection for the David Letterman Show as a 'war on heartland of America.'

'No longer is comedy going to be a covert assault on traditional American values, conservatism. Now it's just wide out in the open,' Limbaugh said in a report by the DailyMail. He added, 'What this hire means is a redefinition of what is funny, and a redefinition of what is comedy...There's no unity in this hire. They hired a partisan, so-called comedian, to run a comedy show.'

Among the funny and famous comedians to say goodbye to their own shows was Johny Carson who left the Tonight Show starring Johny Carson in 1992. After thirty years of hosting the funniest late night comedy show, Carson bid his audience farewell saying, "I bid you a very heartfelt goodnight." Time magazine's definition of Carson's tenure on TV was apporpriate: "The history of Carson's years at the Tonight show is, to a large degree, the history of television."

Next in line was Jay Leno, though Carson was a tough act to follow. Leno still wanted to give it a shot. In 1993, Conan O'Brian came on Late Night. And he managed to hang on to his role by adjusting his appeal to his audience. In 2009, Jimmy Fallone followed Conan O'Brien and his Late Night Show. In the same year, Jay Leno decided to leave the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

And finally, Stephen Colbert of the Stephen Colbert Report will replace David Letterman on his time slot next year. Just after a week following Letterman's announcement, "CBS announced Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert would be taking over the Late Show seat," Time.com reports, adding, "Colbert seemed in many ways like an obvious choice—one of the few people not already hosting a major-network late-night show with the star wattage, the comic talent, and the interest."