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Time: Stephen Colbert is sitting at a conference table, poring over a dossier on the first and most mysterious celebrity who will appear on CBS’s “Late Show” when he takes over on Sept. 8 — Stephen Colbert. The research is part of a planned series of “Late Show” segments titled “Who Am Me?,” a takeoff on the question people have been asking since Colbert was named David Letterman’s successor last year, after playing conservative pundit “Stephen Colbert” for nearly a decade on “The Colbert Report.” Who is the real Stephen Colbert?