 Following Colbert's segment on the July 18 program, CBS's legal team was informed by Viacom that the character Stephen Colbert is their intellectual property and cannot appear on "The Late Show".As a result, on the July 27, 2016 episode of "The Late Show", the real Colbert announced that the character "will never be seen again".He then immediately introduced Stephen Colbert's "identical twin cousin" (a possible allusion to The Patty Duke Show), Stephen Colbert, as a new member of "The Late Show" team.