We’re smack in the middle of the Golden Age of Late Night, and right now no one does it better than GQ Man of the Year Stephen Colbert, who’s left behind his satirical Fox-loving, milky white, cartoonishly conservative “Stephen Colbert” character to become the much more human, much more direct (though no less hilarious)...Stephen Colbert. "One of the things I’ve had to learn on this show is I’ve got to be myself. I’ve gotta play straight to the guest’s character to a large degree. Changing my interview style was a challenge for me," he tells GQ editor Anna Peele in his Man of the Year interview for our December issue.

Read the story now to hear more from Colbert on the four-letter word no one wants to hear, reckoning with being a white straight Christian male (or, as he calls it, "American neutral"), and his renewed sense of purpose after the election, as well as graffiti-tastic photographs of him shot by the legendary Mark Seliger.

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