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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert |OT| Beginning September 8th - 11:30/10:30c

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Mikey Jr.

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Draconian said:
Nah, Kevin Spacey's a great interview, no matter who's doing it.
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The thing is, I really don't see why actors are so celebrated. What happens in their lives, what they think about things, is a complete and utter waste of time IMO.

It is why I stopped watching Late Night shows years ago. I love Conan, and I'll watch his skits because he makes me laugh. But what do I give a shit what Scarlet Johansson thinks about some stupid crap?

Interview innovators, politicians, CEO's, writers. Shit, actors are even good when they have a cause or do something really interesting.

But anyways, I'm glad Stephan is going this way. I know that he has to interview actors and stuff, but I'm glad he's going for more diversity.
 
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9/15: Jake Gyllenhaal; musical performance by Run The Jewels with TV On The Radio
9/16: Kevin Spacey; Carol Burnett with Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer of Broad City; musical performance by and interview with Willie Nelson
9/18: Lupita Nyong’o; Sen. Bernie Sanders; interview with and performance by An American in Paris’ Christopher Wheeldon, Robert Fairchild, and Leanne Cope

Dayum, Stephen's coming out swinging!
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THESE ARE ALL PEOPLE I LOVE

CAROL BURNETT AND BROAD CITY DUO?! RTJ AND KENDRICK?! KEVIN SPACEY AND WILLIE NELSON?! LUPITA NYONG'O AND BERNIE SANDERS?!!?

I'VE DIED
 
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Here's the first two weeks for the second page:

  • 9/8: George Clooney; Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush; musical performance by Jon Batiste and Stay Human
  • 9/9: Scarlett Johansson; SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk; interview with and musical performance by Kendrick Lamar
  • 9/10: Vice President Joe Biden; Uber CEO Travis Kalanick (still?); musical performance by Toby Keith
  • 9/11: Amy Schumer; Stephen King; interview with and musical performance by Troubled Waters
  • 9/14: Emily Blunt; Justice Stephen Breyer; musical performance by The Dead Weather
  • 9/15: Jake Gyllenhaal; musical performance by Run The Jewels with TV On The Radio
  • 9/16: Kevin Spacey; Carol Burnett with Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer of Broad City; musical performance by and interview with Willie Nelson
  • 9/17: Trevor Noah; United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon; musical guest Chris Stapleton
  • 9/18: Lupita Nyong’o; Sen. Bernie Sanders; interview with and performance by An American in Paris’ Christopher Wheeldon, Robert Fairchild, and Leanne Cope

Also, just go watch the latest Rick and Morty.
 
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lednerg said:
Here's the first two weeks for the second page:

  • 9/8: George Clooney; Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush; musical performance by Jon Batiste and Stay Human
  • 9/9: Scarlett Johansson; SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk; interview with and musical performance by Kendrick Lamar
  • 9/10: Uber CEO Travis Kalanick (still?); Vice President Joe Biden; musical performance by Toby Keith
  • 9/11: Amy Schumer; Stephen King; interview with and musical performance by Troubled Waters
  • 9/14: Emily Blunt; Justice Stephen Breyer; musical performance by The Dead Weather
  • 9/15: Jake Gyllenhaal; musical performance by Run The Jewels with TV On The Radio
  • 9/16: Kevin Spacey; Carol Burnett with Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer of Broad City; musical performance by and interview with Willie Nelson
  • 9/17: Naomi Watts; United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon
  • 9/18: Lupita Nyong’o; Sen. Bernie Sanders; interview with and performance by An American in Paris’ Christopher Wheeldon, Robert Fairchild, and Leanne Cope

Also, just go watch the latest Rick and Morty.
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Oh man, Sept 16 is going to be a riot!

When is Doris Kearns Goodwin gonna be on?
 
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I've never watched any late night shows outside of a handful of occasions, but I'll be watching the first few weeks of Colbert at the very least. It helps that he's a host I've already been watching in some form for the past 18 years.
 
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such a bizarrely diverse set of guests. I hope that's the sign of his run on the late show and not just typical big first-week stuff.

so great that he'll interview kendrick lamar. arsenio hall was the only guy who gave rappers a platform to speak on tbh. can't wait for this.
 
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Sanjuro

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Discotheque said:
such a bizarrely diverse set of guests. I hope that's the sign of his run on the late show and not just typical big first-week stuff.
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Impossible it stays like that. The late night circuit is now 3 LA, 3 NY. Going to be a ton of hand slapping for guests.
 
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British Monsoon

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Can't wait for this, Colbert's awesome and I've seriously been missing my late night fix ever since Craig Ferguson left The Late, Late Show. One of the biggest reasons is that all the other late night talk show hosts are terrible interviewers, but that shouldn't be a problem with Stephen.
 
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Bootaaay said:
Can't wait for this, Colbert's awesome and I've seriously been missing my late night fix ever since Craig Ferguson left The Late, Late Show. One of the biggest reasons is that all the other late night talk show hosts are terrible interviewers, but that shouldn't be a problem with Stephen.
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yeah fallon's great as a musical performer and with games/sketches with guests, conan shines on remotes

but there's nobody with great monologues, and the interview game after craig and letterman left is especially garbage. colbert should fill in those blanks. like he seems to have an easy time with both intellectual and celebrity guests as well as political. and he's always funny. anticipating this big time even though these shows never start off great (will be amazing if he's dope straight out the gate tho)
 
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George Clooney and Jeb Bush is such an interesting way to kick off the show. Hollywoods establishment liberal actor and the establishment republican candidate.

I wonder if Colbert will let Clooney remain out there while Jeb is interviewing? Could get interesting.
 
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I used to love late night TV (Conan on NBC specifically - I would watch literally every night). I really like Stephen Colbert and think his Comedy Central show was a brilliant way to do political humor in a fun way that focused on the humor more than the politics and therefore could actually attract more people to listen to the politics.

I wish this show the best, but unfortunately I think I am perma-done with this kind of television. I hope to see some good clips online at work but I just can't dedicate an hour to this stuff anymore. Hopefully executives aren't counting on people like me and expectations are reasonable and he is given the chance to succeed and he does succeed by whatever modern definitions of network TV are, cuz we need more smart people like him to have platforms.
 
D.Lo

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I'm looking forward to it. Some intelligence in the format. An excellent choice and I'm looking forward to him being free to be a broader comedian.

Letterman and Ferguson were the good ones, and with them gone it's a wasteland of tepidity apart from Conan (which doesn't play in Australia anymore :( ).

Ferguson's replacement is just 100% terrible, as bad as Fallon, another pandering buffoon.
 
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Discotheque said:
yeah fallon's great as a musical performer and with games/sketches with guests, conan shines on remotes

but there's nobody with great monologues, and the interview game after craig and letterman left is especially garbage. colbert should fill in those blanks. like he seems to have an easy time with both intellectual and celebrity guests as well as political. and he's always funny. anticipating this big time even though these shows never start off great (will be amazing if he's dope straight out the gate tho)
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The Colbert Report was amazing right out of the gate.

The only thing I'd be slightly concerned about is whatever they're going to do with the format that's out of the box. That's the only thing I could see possibly derailing things as all the ingredients are there for the show to be outstanding.

Obviously the other question is whether the show will be a ratings success on top of that.
 
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dLMN8R

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Sanjuro said:
Interesting write up. However, the author goes a bit nuts on the lack of women involved. She basically tells him to be more like Comedy Central Colbert, a character which had the same man cave to style from what it seems.
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It's two perfectly reasonable paragraphs describing an obvious weird part of the show. In what way is it "going nuts"?

Look at it this way - what if every single person you saw at a test screening was a woman except for Colbert and one other dude somewhere else. You'd think that's weird, right?

Most people would think "Oh this is just a women's show for women"
 
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lednerg said:
  • 9/8: George Clooney; Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush; musical performance by Jon Batiste and Stay Human
  • 9/9: Scarlett Johansson; SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk; interview with and musical performance by Kendrick Lamar
  • 9/10: Vice President Joe Biden; Uber CEO Travis Kalanick (still?); musical performance by Toby Keith
  • 9/11: Amy Schumer; Stephen King; interview with and musical performance by Troubled Waters
  • 9/14: Emily Blunt; Justice Stephen Breyer; musical performance by The Dead Weather
  • 9/15: Jake Gyllenhaal; musical performance by Run The Jewels with TV On The Radio
  • 9/16: Kevin Spacey; Carol Burnett with Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer of Broad City; musical performance by and interview with Willie Nelson
  • 9/17: Naomi Watts; United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon
  • 9/18: Lupita Nyong’o; Sen. Bernie Sanders; interview with and performance by An American in Paris’ Christopher Wheeldon, Robert Fairchild, and Leanne Cope
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hyped
 
ComputerBlue

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Never really been a fan of Colbert, only because I've never really watched him. But he did replace the greatest late night host of all time, so he must be pretty decent right?

With Letterman and Ferguson gone, and Conan being on horrible hours in Canada I could use a new late show to be able to tune into from time to time, Fallons show is alright but his fake laugh makes it hard to watch beyond youtube clips and Corden and Myers are just fucking terrible. Kimmel is alright, but like Fallon, I can only watch clips.
 
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dLMN8R said:
It's two perfectly reasonable paragraphs describing an obvious weird part of the show. In what way is it "going nuts"?

Look at it this way - what if every single person you saw at a test screening was a woman except for Colbert and one other dude somewhere else. You'd think that's weird, right?

Most people would think "Oh this is just a women's show for women"
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Because it's a more personal rant in a recon article.

For your example, I probably would have thought nothing of it. I'm not personally familiar with the sex/race/height of the writing staff. All I know is they have received accolades for their work, and they followed Colbert to his new program.
 
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- The Week: A sneak peek at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert isn't yet perfect, and it likely won't be once it begins airing next week. The test taping had its highs and lows, but all I could think about upon leaving the Ed Sullivan Theater was the genuinely playful spirit that Colbert and everyone involved in The Late Show with Stephen Colbert projected. Though late-night television has been shaken up by new hosts and new formats in recent years, it's always put a bit too much stock in manufacturing genuine-seeming moments. Here's hoping that Colbert will change that, one childish ear trick or imperfect duet at a time.
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- IGN: Stephen Colbert Test Show Info Reveals New Direction.
One attendee called Colbert "genuine" and said he didn't carry his "goofy persona" from his Comedy Central show. One bit is said to have played with that history, as he took a lie detector test to answer "Who is the real Stephen Colbert?" Another bit took shots at presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's evasive responses, which one viewer said "felt like an old Colbert thing." The test shows conducted interviews as well, with Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher and U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins.
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NYR said:
Hoping Colbert saves us from Fallon's fake laugh and his childish games.
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Me too, I hate his laugh. I mean, I know you have to laugh even if what the guest says is not funny, everybody does that, but I just can't stand his laugh.
Also not a big fan of Conan, he yells too much. So I really can't wait to see Colbert, I really like him.
 
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Suikoguy said:
I had no idea Mo Rocca moved on to do serious news. Having re-watched much of the first 2 years of daily show, it's amusing.
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I didn't realize he had either. My Experience with him post Daily Show was occasionally on NPR's Wait, Wait...Don't Tell me.

I was honestly blown away by how successful Jon Stewart's comedy tree has been when they brought everyone back. I had never sat down and thought about it but it is really incredible.

Lorne Michaels at his peak is the only one I can think of in a generation to have that success.
 
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NYR said:
Hoping Colbert saves us from Fallon's fake laugh and his childish games.
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I don't mind some of his skits(then again I really only watch the major ones that go viral on youtube) but his laugh has always annoyed me in how obviously fake it comes off.

Colbert is just so genuine I would be shocked if he doesnt hit a homerun with this show after he hits his stride(then again he nailed his first episode of Colbert Report with the "truthiness" bit so maybe he won't need that growing period).
 
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Discotheque said:
such a bizarrely diverse set of guests. I hope that's the sign of his run on the late show and not just typical big first-week stuff.

so great that he'll interview kendrick lamar. arsenio hall was the only guy who gave rappers a platform to speak on tbh. can't wait for this.
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Kendrick? He's not a rapper tho.
 
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Never really tuned in for the Colbert Report or the Daily Show but have been loving all the promos Colbert has been doing. Have seen most of the stuff on youtube and his snapchat promos were amazing too.
 
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Premiere today with:
Guests: George Clooney, Jeb Bush and Jon Batiste.
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Bam Bam Baklava said:
I think he's annoying and is trying too hard to be best friends with everyone as the ultimate unoffensive host. Colbert is not afraid to take stands.
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I don't think he comes off as insincere. That's how he has always been doing it. His program is quite fun overall, and he makes great usage of Higgins and his house band.

There are strengths and weaknesses everywhere. Only one who I think comes across poorly to his audience is Corden.
 
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Me too, I hate his laugh. I mean, I know you have to laugh even if what the guest says is not funny, everybody does that, but I just can't stand his laugh.
Also not a big fan of Conan, he yells too much. So I really can't wait to see Colbert, I really like him.
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Jonm1010 said:
I don't mind some of his skits(then again I really only watch the major ones that go viral on youtube) but his laugh has always annoyed me in how obviously fake it comes off.

Colbert is just so genuine I would be shocked if he doesnt hit a homerun with this show after he hits his stride(then again he nailed his first episode of Colbert Report with the "truthiness" bit so maybe he won't need that growing period).
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I actually liked Fallon when he did the late show, he was funnier and his laugh wasn't so fake, but I could be misremembering and he didn't really change that much.
Can't wait to see Colberts show.
 
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lednerg

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Colbert is in another class compared to the other late night hosts. That's not a slight on fans of Fallon or Kimmel or whatever. People simply don't know yet. One is a long time legend in the comedy scene and the others just aren't. Colbert is talented as a motherfucker, a guy who fucks your mother so well you can't wait to high five her and get the scoop.
 
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