It's fine. The only real standout in that list would be Conan's Late Night theme.
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert |OT| Beginning September 8th - 11:30/10:30c
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It's fine. The only real standout in that list would be Conan's Late Night theme.
ComputerBlue
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Letterman's is definitely the best, that theme won't be topped. Conan's old theme was pretty great as well, especially for NY.
Point being though is that other than Fallon's they all have a pretty strong melody to them, the new theme is pretty repetitive.
Edit: just listened again, and I'm definitely warming up to it pretty quickly, it's actually pretty great. But still not as good as the 2 I just mentioned.
I thought it was good. As first shows go, it was great. It's a little to close to the Colbert Report for me, but I think his show is absolutely going to kill for the next year and a half during the whole election run. It'll be interesting to see how the format fairs when there isn't a presidential election to boost interest though.
James Corden's is the best theme song right now. I love Conans old theme song too.
Extra Sauce
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It's the first time I've ever wanted to replay a talk show's theme song. Letterman's theme was awful.
JHoNNy1OoO
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Decided to watch the premiere again. Loved it the second time as well but one thing I noticed rubbed me the wrong way and it was Stephen doing the announcing during the intro. It sounded really bad and it makes you wonder why he didn't get an announcer in the first place. I think this is one of those things where they'll have to do it pre-recorded or eventually get a person for the gig. Would be pretty cool if they got a female announcer to change things up.
Beelzebufo
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This was alright. The parts in the beginning with CBS and that fraud Jimmy Fallon were super cringey. I love Colbert but I think I remembered why I don't watch network TV.
"So the way you're different from your brother is that you're more conservative" and the hummus gag were great though.
"So the way you're different from your brother is that you're more conservative" and the hummus gag were great though.
Aisha Tyler. Hell, just make her his sidekick.
backflip10019
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6.55 million viewers last night for Colbert's opening. Only a 1.4 though in the demo. Not bad.
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vicissitudes
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This was basically better than the current crop of late night shows but not as good as the Colbert Report. About what I expected.
It's like some weird hybrid of the two. The format of a late night talk show with a Colbert flavor.
Theme song is damn good though. Simple but catchy and modern.
It's like some weird hybrid of the two. The format of a late night talk show with a Colbert flavor.
Theme song is damn good though. Simple but catchy and modern.
dead souls
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As a huge fan of Colbert I wish I could disagree, but I don't. Honestly Youtube killed my desire to watch any of these late night shows. The few decent bits will get posted there and I can save the tuners/dvr space for other stuff.
I never watched the interviews on the Report and I'm not interested in them here either.
Watching the stream from CBS now. Can't honestly say that I thought the bit with Clooney was all that great. Really impressed with him having Jeb Bush on the show however. Not that I have much love for Jeb Bush, but after what Colbert has done previously it was really nice to see an interview like that.
Fidelis Hodie
Infidelis Cras
You're really missing out on some of the best parts of the show with that. Colbert is a brilliant interviewer.
SigmasonicX
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Watched the episode, and yeah, it's definitely weaker than the typical Colbert Report episode, and certainly more slowly paced, but it was still enjoyable enough. I enjoyed some of the Report-esque moments like the big collage of Republican candidate faces and Colbert addressing Jimmy the intern. I haven't watched any late night shows until now, but I plan on continuing to watch this.
It was pretty lame, but I did get a good laugh out of their awkward silence bit.
The Bush interview sucked too, it was his first show though. Talk shows always get better after a few weeks.
Agreed. It's a lesser show than the Report, but I think the went as far as this bland timeslot will allow. I walked away with better impressions than I expected and as is often the case with these kind of talk shows it's best to give them a few months before coming to any serious conclusion.
Kind of crazy that Jon Stewart is executive producing 2 competing shows in the same timeslot with The Nightly Show w/ Larry Wilmore and now this.
Hale-XF11
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Yup. Between the safer jokes and the heavily scripted interviews, it just makes want The Colbert Report back even more.
Jimmy King
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I, too, am sick of network comedy featuring demonic amulets.
Yea was kinda bored by this first episode, nothing particularly bad about it but it essentially made the mission statement of the show to be inclusive which, fine, but I think there's a way to do that without sticking so rigidly to what late night TV has been for generations. May check in more this week if I'm bored at work, will mostly watch clips that look interesting in the future.
Beelzebufo
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I think there's also something to be said that its disappointing that Stephen sort of went in the opposite direction from John Oliver. HBO is subscription only but allows John to shit on everyone and do whatever he wants. Colbert is now on basic cable but he has to do awkward endorsements for CBS shows now.
Don't know if "boring" is the right word since the Report was never exactly a non-stop rush. It felt kinda neutered to me.
But I mean of course if he's happy where he is good for him, the guy's a joy to be around.
Don't know if "boring" is the right word since the Report was never exactly a non-stop rush. It felt kinda neutered to me.
But I mean of course if he's happy where he is good for him, the guy's a joy to be around.
funkystudent
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morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
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The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
So Jon Stewart has a producer credit? I wonder just what that entails
Man I loved Conan's theme. Especially towards the end of Late Night/Tonight Show when it get a real kick to it. His new theme is good, but a bit bland in comparison.
Spladam
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Cool avatar dude, I get nostalgic just seeing that.
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
Yeah, I was not expecting that.
Perhaps it's part time; he could not leave the format completely.
A quick google search brought up this article:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/09/media/jon-stewart-producer-stephen-colbert/
Colbert's production group from Report came over intact to Late Show. Stewart was an EP there, so he's an EP here.
I imagine it's coming right? Letterman had clips of his shows up on youtube available to everyone.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig
Unless these are region blocked, you should be able to already.
Dave owned his show. CBS owns the Colbert version.
It's why there wasn't any Dave re-runs leading up to Colbert, CBS didn't have the rights to air re-runs.
Region blocked. Letterman's weren't for me. I guess it's the reason stated above.
TheSadRanger
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I really hope the Mentalist becomes the next Walker Texas Ranger lever 
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
I really hope the Mentalist becomes the next Walker Texas Ranger lever
I think it may show up a couple more times this week, but then we will never see it again.
An underwhelming start. I was watching him interview Tyson and deliver the correspondence dinner speech earlier, he's so obviously very sharp and funny and little to none of that carried over to yesterday's show. Not that I expect him to be that great day in and day out, but I was hoping for more considering it's the debut.
Conservative, tired jokes, vacuous interviews. I'm probably being too critical here, but the overindulgent applause got irritating fast as well. I'll keep watching because Stewart left a gaping void and Colbert is just too smart to keep doing shows this boring... I hope. The Mentalist gag was the one bright spot I recall. That Trump segment was rough:
Where's that guy?
Conservative, tired jokes, vacuous interviews. I'm probably being too critical here, but the overindulgent applause got irritating fast as well. I'll keep watching because Stewart left a gaping void and Colbert is just too smart to keep doing shows this boring... I hope. The Mentalist gag was the one bright spot I recall. That Trump segment was rough:
Where's that guy?
Beelzebufo
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thepotatoman
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Overindulgent crowd for a Colbert show seems par for the course. It was always the most annoying part of the Colbert Report for me.
This was basically an average Colbert Report and I think some people forget that the Colbert Report can be pretty average when you're not just watching the best stuff that catches fire.
If it's only downhill from here, I'd be very worried, but usually these things get better over the first year as Colbert and his writers get used to the format.
I don't think their sense of humor matches up that well. Only late show host wacky enough to work with her would probably be Craig Ferguson.
MrOogieBoogie
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Agreed with everything you said.
Just caught up with everyone and I thought the first episode was pretty underwhelming. Colbert seemed very obviously nervous to me. The interview with Clooney was so awkward. Clooney just looked bored and lost and disinterested in conversation. None of the monologue jokes landed with me. The audience interrupting with applause and chants became grating as well.
It just seemed all over the place and nobody--Colbert included--could find the rhythm. I'm sure it'll get better, but that's what I said about Jimmy Fallon after his debut and I don't think he's improved significantly since then. I'm hoping Colbert improves, but his job IS really difficult, and though he performed well on The Colbert Show, this type of late night programming is a different beast. He needs to drop the quirky characters and over-the-top acting and just be himself.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
Only saw the clips on YouTube so far and it does seem like he is nervous. Standing up and doing the monologue is weird for me
It was basically a couple of Colbert report segments but not as biting. Also it's a little weird seeing him legit interviewing someone instead of having them part of a joke. Clooneys interview was that though.
It was basically a couple of Colbert report segments but not as biting. Also it's a little weird seeing him legit interviewing someone instead of having them part of a joke. Clooneys interview was that though.
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