NEW YORK — With help from three prominent artists, Stephen Colbert has retouched a self-portrait to please the discerning art collector eye of Steve Martin. Martin was Colbert’s guest Wednesday on “The Colbert Report,” where he was promoting his new novel, “An Object of Beauty.”

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