Holy shit. This is really really bad.

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

It wasn't terrible. It wasn't great either. The same judgment your wife gave after sleeping with you for the first time. It takes a while to get comfortable.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

A HUGE HUGE downgrade from Letterman. The best part of the show was Fallon's 1 second appearance at the very end.

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

The next thing you'll tell me is that Neal Anderson was a downgrade from Walter Payton.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

I laughed harder at the comments in this thread than I laughed at Colbert tonight.
I never watched his comedy central show so he is new to me. I didn't hate him though and liked a couple of the bits. Giving Clooney a "I don't know you" paperweight was funny but only worth a chuckle. Most of what he did was chuckle worthy but no guffaws.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

lol go figure that the CSFMB's very own SCOREHEAD doesnt like colbert. i'm sure he watched the repor for years and was sad to know that TV punditry was losing "one of the good ones" when he decided to go showbiz.

they need to get rid of the walkout/monologue thing where he stands and tells lame jokes.... yeah it's a late night institution and all that, but once he got over to the desk and started showing off the CBS/v2.0 version of the Repor's wall of stuff that's when the show basically turned into the Repor for awhile. personally i dug the baphomet-style head and that playfulness re: conspiratorial types who say that ppl gotta pledge loyalty to the baphomet to make it in showbiz.... hopefully the cursed amulet returns and has more yummy products for us.

the desk stuff where steven sits there with a video window next to him doing his thing = what the show should focus on, IMO. in its prime the repor was the best thing on latenight TV cuz stephen and his writers are "it-getters" and especially during the first ~4 years they didnt treat their audience like idiots..... but now that they're on network TV (ready the mentalist button) they've got more old curmudgeons like scorehead and jimmy and others in the audience like WTF MAN THIS GUY IS NO GOOD! THE LIBTARD IS OVERRATED MAN.... HE WAS NEVER GOOD! HORRIBLE CHOICE TO REPLACE DAVE! SERIOUSLY THEY SHOULD HAVE OFFERED THE GIG TO HARBAUGH FIRST EVEN THO HE PROBABLY WOULDN'T TAKE IT BECAUSE AT LEAST THE SHOW WOULD BE DISCIPLINED AND HAVE A FOUNDATION OF STRONG MORALS AND IT WOULD TURN AROUND AND BE NO LESS THAN 11-5 WITHIN 2 SEASONS.

plus jim could sit there and stare at the crowd transfixed like "i love watching people applaud me at the highest level possible"

but i digress... hopefully stephen and his team start to roll out some proper recurring segments/bits/etc.... and hopefully they can continue the meta stuff with the baphomet/sponsors/etc.... i'm very interested to see what his recurring stuff is cuz thats going to give us an idea on whether or not they eventually try to devolve the show back into the standard late-night format (like jimmy and harboy want) or if they start to eschew things like the monologue and mandatory shots of the creepy smiling band leader and rah rah rah blah blah blah and just do their best to bring us an hour where the pre-guest stuff is basically the repor and the guests/musical-acts are the second half.

i noticed a lot of edits during the interviews, so that was kinda awkward (i.e. lots of resets to a shot of stephen sitting at the desk asking a new question after the last one's resulting dialogue ended abruptly) oh and i'm convinced that his band leader is a child killer or something. he has this offputting creepy vacant smile that doesn't just tell me "i'm gay as shit", but it also tells me "i got bored the other day so i had my people drop off a kid in garfield park.... and nobody will ever catch me... why do you think there's a baphomet head just chiilin over there? ALL GLORY TO THE AMULET.

that was my favorite part of all this btw.... that meta thing where stephen addressed the tinfoil people who say to make it at the highest levels of the satanic entertainment industry/industries you have to pledge allegiance to baphomet/satan/whoever. that was great and i hope theres more of that going forward..... cuz if the monologues and the late night conventions start to win out..... arrrrghhhh. just give me 1/2 a show of a CBS-caliber repor and i'm all good. i miss that indelible part of my M-TH weeknights from 05-10 or thereabouts.

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I fell asleep early last night (and woke up early in turn), so I missed it, but am hoping to catch it online this morning.

Count me in the crowd that's worried about Colbert. His characters are terrific, but he's sort of an empty vessel without them: a less versatile Peter Sellers, if you will. (That's no shot at Colbert, it's just that it's hard to be more versatile than Peter Sellers.) In time, I could see him reprising the premise of The Colbert Report and sending up the obsequious buttmonkeys of late-night like Jimmy Fallon or Andy Cohen, but didn't Craig Kilborn more or less do the same thing 17 years ago and fail? And didn't David Letterman himself already do a bang-up job deconstructing the sillier conventions of television?

So I have a little trepidation, but at least the man is fucking funny, which is more than I can say for the cooing little shit on NBC.

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These networks have had an opportunity to turn late night on its ear the past few years and have instead kept the status quo.

ALL of the these shows suck. I never understood their attraction from the time I was a kid. I remember thinking it was cool to be able to stay up past the news only to be met with this stultifying form of entertainment.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

No one got Kilborn. He was a bit ahead of his time and also not exactly the best of his craft but he surely went for it. Today I think that the style could hold up better.

I watched Kilborn in middle school on the tail end of his Daily Show and then on CBS. If you want me, I'm here. But, you'd better bring, your stuff.




Cuz I'm ready for ya.

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I don’t know how Colbert‘s show is going to do in terms of ratings. But I think Colbert’s style, rather than Fallon’s style, more closely resembles that of Letterman. The unconventional sense of humor and more thoughtful approach to interviews separated Letterman from others such as Leno.

Craig Ferguson's adventures did not suck.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

IT. WAS. COLBERT'S. FIRST. SHOW.

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Not a mult.

Exactly. They could have hired a host who is edgy and somewhat controversial. Corden, Colbert and Meyers are just soooo vanilla.

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Colbert is not vanilla. You hate him because he made a career mocking people and beliefs that you respect. It's fine, just own it.

I don't think you ever watched Colbert's previous show.

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Gee, ya think?

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I couldnt care less about his right wing bit. He is vanilla as vanilla can be. He has no personality and isnt interesting. I'm not the only one who is saying this today.

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

I was hoping that he would break the mold a bit from the traditional talk show format.

Monologue-Sit and desk and do a bit-Guest, Guest- Musical Act you usually won't care about.


Thought it was okay. Deserves time to breathe and adjust.

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Team Cutler.

I entirely agree with that. I'd love to see what it will be like in a year or so.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Yeah, but all those people are idiots.

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Another brick in the wall ....

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Colbert is fine and will be fine. Show wasn't great but at least he isn't completely abandoning his character.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

No one is calling him Vanilla because he's absolutely not. Love him or hate him he's not vanilla. Its just a terribly inaccurate description.

That was the bit, you dope.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

http://www.avclub.com/article/late-show-stephen-colbert-debuted-strong-ratings-c-225102

6.6 million folks tuned in for the debut.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

What is with the stupid dance this guy does with his band leader at the beginning of the show? He looks like a douche. I heard Boers say today that he read that this guy fancies himself a song and dance man. Well, he needs to lose that thought.

This show sucks. And it seems all the critics agree.

This might be a Conan thing where he gets fired in less than a year.

What critics? You?

Stephen hasn't lost a step. Fucking awesome show. Fucking awesome comedian.

Exactly.

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Well if Beardown and Scorehead agree ......

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George