Colbert?

[Mofro261]

I said as unfunny as.

Having spent a good bit of my early 20's watching Dave when he was still fresh, I'm going to disagree. Part of it is Colbert by far has better writers but is also better in his monologue and with the interviews. Yes, the shtick is the weakest part of his act now but he'll do fine without it, his best material now is mostly apolitical (ie the Daft Punk/Brian Cranston).

He does still get the conservatives in a tizzy though.

"CBS has just declared war on the heartland of America. No longer is comedy going to be a covert assault on traditional American values, conservatism. Now it's just wide out in the open." Rush Limbaugh

[spook]

haha rush is so good for a laugh. keep waiting for him to choke on his tongue on the air.

[PNWbrit]

"CBS has just declared war on the heartland of America. No longer is comedy going to be a covert assault on traditional American values, conservatism. Now it's just wide out in the open." Rush Limbaugh

Now that. Is funny.

[Benny Profane]

Rush is just jealous, of course. He's still stuck on AM radio doing his schtick, after all these years.

[Tippster]

Wait, you only read one line in a 3 line post?

...yes? (*goes back and reads previous posts*)

[Adolf Allerbush]

I think the whole world is excited to see what project Paul Schaffer tackles next.

Next keyboardist for String Cheese Incident.

[plugboots]

I laughed.

[Deebased]

It's actually a well known fact that people who like Colbert have a way higher IQ than those who don't.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/...d-curly-fries/

Smart People don't use Facebook but it appears Colbert fans do....

[Aldo]

Colbert lives in my neighborhood, watching what they've spent on their house since they moved in I'd venture to say he's really rich already. But I'm using the Benny Meter.

[iceman]

Montclair!!!

[BigDaddy]

Smart People don't use Facebook but it appears Colbert fans do....

QFT... but just smart-asses.

Colbert lives in my neighborhood, watching what they've spent on their house since they moved in I'd venture to say he's really rich already. But I'm using the Benny Meter.

Benny Meter...kids selling Paul Newman organic made from meyer lemons?

[Tippster]

Colbert lives in my neighborhood, watching what they've spent on their house since they moved in I'd venture to say he's really rich already. But I'm using the Benny Meter.

Now maybe he can afford to buy one of your cars.

[Aldo]

Now maybe he can afford to buy one of your cars.

Excuse me, have you seen the Bodega on this block?

[Tippster]

Fuck you, you fucking fuck.

[hortence]

This place has really gotten to be full of old conservatives.

There's a few of us old liberals around also.

He's definitely stretching himself. Making fun of the right wing's fallacious logic, inability to understand science, hypocrisy and double standards is kind of the low hanging fruit of comedy. The Late Show is not overtly political comedy, it is much more mainstream, so being consistently funny there I think is going to be much harder.

[spook]

might be a lot easier, actually. sure you can ridicule the idiocy of the right for an extended period and make it profitable, but you're basically laughing at the same joke over and over again and that involves a certain level of hatred/egomania/hypocrisy on the part of the audience to make it work.

now he can do whatever he wants that doesn't have to do anything whatsoever with politics. he may be fantastic at the new gig and end up disappointing some of his die-hard fans.

[hortence]

might be a lot easier, actually. sure you can ridicule the idiocy of the right for an extended period and make it profitable, but you're basically laughing at the same joke over and over again and that involves a certain level of hatred/egomania/hypocrisy on the part of the audience to make it work.

That's why I rarely watch an entire show, but I do see a lot fo clips from time to time.

He's best when he looks like he's having a lot of fun.

[Benny Profane]

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/ry...are_copy_email

[My Pet Powder Goat]

Last Colbert Report tonight!

[MMP]

[guroo270]

I'm gonna miss the Colbert Report a whole lot. I had a hard time cracking a smile at his show this past week knowing he was gonna be gone soon. John Stewart is a little too complainy and cynical for my tastes while Colbert lets people's actions be the joke and keeps it light hearted. His Super Pac stunt was all-time. Can't wait to see what his new show is all about and I hope he can reinvent himself instead of crashing and burning.

[From_the_NEK]

His Super Pac stunt was all-time.

I knew that Super Pacs were really shady before that stunt but Colbert was really able to put it into a clear perspective which is amazing for a cable comedian to have pulled off. He wasn't partisan about it either. He was critical of the entire Super Pac system.

I hope he can bring that kind of stuff to the Late Show. The only problem with it being that a lot of the broader late night audience that the Late Show is targeted at, doesn't really want to actually think about how fucked up things are in this country. Even if it is told to them in a humorous way. They just want to giggle a lame one liner monologue jokes. A joke that takes more than 10 seconds to develop gives them an itchy remote finger.

[KQ]

[k2skier112]

Damn, I missed it...my fav.

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wtf, share, imbed, copy and paste..wtf!?!?

[k2skier112]

http://youtu.be/95KTrtzOY-g