“CBS has just declared war on the heartland of America. No longer is comedy going to be a covert assault on traditional American values [and] conservatives. Now, it’s just wide out in the open. What this hire means is a redefinition of what is funny and a redefinition of what is comedy.”
Please Note both the typical “War on Christmas” victimization ploy and the redundant use of “redefinition” as a dog whistle on Marriage Equality and the “scary Gay Agenda”. You do realize that Ace and Gary were simply cartoon characters and not a documentary, Don’t You?
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Our best satirist of inane right wing television blowhards and shock jock talkers is now getting spayed and neutered by the network by Bob Barker’s old network. I sincerely hope Stephen can continue to be insightful, hilarious, and satirical and that he elevates the Late Show to new heights rather than lowers himself to it’s current heights*.
*Not bashing Dave as a one time innovator-but he really has been mailing it in the past 15 years
While I agree that Letterman’s not been at the top of his game of late, it seems that he’s been more sharply liberal in the points he makes and the questions he asks guests during that time.
I do fear Colbert will be focusing a lot less on politics and a lot more on interviewing guests pushing their new movies on this show than on the Report, and I will miss the Colbert Report a bunch. Happy for him, but not all that happy about it for me.
And someone else mentioned that the Colbert Report and Daily Show had a lot of public intellectuals and authors on in a format more suitable to a young demo than the Charlie Rose program (which I’ll proudly say I’m a big fan of). And now he will likely draw from the same movie and tv show of the week guests that Dave and his competition did. I do think he and Fallon have a good spirited rivalry that will only grow now. Rumors are he will significantly change the scope of the program and it may be totally different. I hope
so, I feel we are already over saturated with Conan, Fallon, Kimmel and Meyers doing the same show.
When it was Carson, there was Dick Cavett, Joey Bishop and later Arsenio Hall. Seriously, the only really new and different version of the show is “Inside the Actors Studio”, and even that is more of a mash up of Carson and This is Your Life.
*Whom I read on the Times and see Youtube clips of
And he had a bunch of high brow guests on his program and a lot of interesting conversations. Grantland seems to think Colbert could do the same, I hope so since he is one of the few informal outlets for public intellectuals on mainstream television. Him, Jon, and Charlie Rose (who is far more formal).
but his show was very much in the mold of the late night show. I was addressing your concern about how there is “over saturation” of the format with “Conan, Fallon, Kimmel and Meyers doing the same show”.
It has always been that way.