Colbert hosting the Late Show

[waywardgs]

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/04/11/business/media/stephen-colbert-to-succeed-letterman-on-late-show.html?from=business.media

" Stephen Colbert Next Host of "The Late Show" CBS Announces Letterman Successor

The CBS Television Network today announced that Stephen Colbert, the host, writer and executive producer of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning “The Colbert Report,” will succeed David Letterman as the host of THE LATE SHOW, effective when Mr. Letterman retires from the broadcast."

Huh.

Maybe ClydeR's got a career in teevee in his future?

Seriously tho, will Colbert stick with his schtick?

Edit: changed the broken link, looks like he will be hosting as himself. I bet he'll be good.

[Tisket]

That link doesn't work.

CBS changed their mind!

[Nilandia]

From what I've been given to understand, he'll drop his alternate persona and host as himself.

Gretchen

[Ashliana]

Anything that pisses off Rush Limbaugh is a good thing for the nation.

http://www.businessinsider.com/rush-limbaugh-stephen-colbert-cbs-late-show-2014-4

Or an ex-Breitbart editor calling Stephen Colbert's act "vile, political blackface."

http://gawker.com/conservative-writer-calls-stephen-colbert-political-bl-1561972751

[Atlanteax]

From what I've been given to understand, he'll drop his alternate persona and host as himself.

Gretchen

My understanding as well.

[Gelston]

I wonder how successful he'll be playing himself.

[Taernath]

I wonder how successful he'll be playing himself.

The only other role I remember him in was one of the Ambiguously Gay Duo.

[Parkbandit]

Anything that pisses off Rush Limbaugh is a good thing for the nation.

http://www.businessinsider.com/rush-limbaugh-stephen-colbert-cbs-late-show-2014-4

Or an ex-Breitbart editor calling Stephen Colbert's act "vile, political blackface."

http://gawker.com/conservative-writer-calls-stephen-colbert-political-bl-1561972751

I don't get Limbaugh's outrage. Letterman was a die hard liberal who didn't hide his political beliefs. That plays well for the audience.

I think it's a dumb act.. at least Jon Stewart stands up for his beliefs.

[cwolff]

I don't get Limbaugh's outrage. Letterman was a die hard liberal who didn't hide his political beliefs. That plays well for the audience.

I think it's a dumb act.. at least Jon Stewart stands up for his beliefs.

Do you really believe this or are you just putting on an act? You're saying that satire is not a valid form of expression. This throws away gobs and gobs of art.

As for Letterman what makes you think he's a liberal? He may very well be a flaming liberal but it doesn't show up in his comedy and his personal life is rather private. Here's and alternate theory. Letterman makes fun of the people that are easiest to make fun. The people who say and do stupid shit. He even invented the "Stupid Human Tricks" skit.

It sounds to me like anyone who is not far right is automatically labelled a liberal. Could it be that your political views are the extreme views?

[Atlanteax]

It sounds to me like anyone who is not far left is automatically labelled a (neo-)conservative. Could it be that my political views are the extreme views?

Fixed for you...

[Parkbandit]

Do you really believe this or are you just putting on an act? You're saying that satire is not a valid form of expression. This throws away gobs and gobs of art.

I think his act got old very quick. It's called an opinion.


As for Letterman what makes you think he's a liberal? He may very well be a flaming liberal but it doesn't show up in his comedy and his personal life is rather private. Here's and alternate theory. Letterman makes fun of the people that are easiest to make fun. The people who say and do stupid shit. He even invented the "Stupid Human Tricks" skit.

It sounds to me like anyone who is not far right is automatically labelled a liberal. Could it be that your political views are the extreme views?

You would have to be someone who has never, ever watched the show before.. or completely oblivious to it in order to actually believe it.

I think you've watched the show before.. so I guess we know where you stand.

Are you going to next suggest that Colbert isn't liberal now too? Because that would be hilarious x 2

[cwolff]

Conservativeface!! The right is awesome. I can't wait to see this get lampooned. I love the part about how Colbert doesn't need to dress up to play a conservative because they come in all shapes and size. HAHA Especially the shape of a middle aged white guy.


And this is precisely what Colbert does with regard to politics: he engages in Conservativeface. He needs no makeup or bulbous appendage to play a conservative – after all, conservatives come in every shape and size. Instead, he acts as though he is a conservative – an idiotic, racist, sexist, bigoted, brutal conservative. He out-Archie Bunkers Archie Bunker. His audience laughs and scoffs at brutal religious “Colbert” who wishes to persecute gays; they chortle at evil sexist “Colbert” who thinks men are victims of sexism. This is the purpose of Colbert’s routine. His show is about pure hatred for conservatives in the same way that blackface was about pure hatred of blacks. In order to justify their racism, racists had to create a false perception of blacks; in the same way, Colbert and his audience can justify their racism only by creating a false perception of conservatives.

This is why Colbert is such an effective weapon for the left. Unlike Stewart, whose mockery is no different in kind from Greg Gutfeld’s on the other side, Colbert’s shtick is of a different sort: it’s based on creation of a character who doesn’t exist, but the audience is supposed to believe does exist in type. “Colbert” may not be real, but his audience thinks that Colbert’s Conservativeface resembles reality closely enough to suffice as a stand-in for conservatism. Which means that when they do encounter conservatism, they’re firmly convinced they’re looking at “Colbert-ism” in disguise.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/stephen-colberts-vile-political-blackface

[Tgo01]

I think Colbert tries too hard to be funny. Give me John Stewart any day.

[Tisket]

Do you really believe this or are you just putting on an act? You're saying that satire is not a valid form of expression.

Fucking moron.

[Buckwheet]

I think Colbert tries too hard to be funny. Give me John Stewart any day.

I tend to think that Stewart is more consistently funny and I enjoy that. Colbert is funny, but sometimes I find extremely funny on a single topic or interview and it blows Stewart out of the water. Much ma Quichi anyone? But it seems like he tries to hard and comes off as mediocre. Like his Prescott Pharmaceutical bits.

He is a devout Catholic and so I wonder what it will be like watching him straight face it. I think Ellen would have been a better choice. I might have actually watched that. I don't think I will watch Colbert and I will miss him after Stewart.

[Taernath]

So satire is racist now? This stance totally won't blow up in their face later on.

[waywardgs]

So satire is racist now? This stance totally won't blow up in their face later on.

And conservatives are a race, apparently?

[Taernath]

And conservatives are a race, apparently?

One with a proud history of alienating their voting bloc, one race at a time.

[Warriorbird]

One with a proud history of alienating their voting bloc, one race at a time.

Given the sheer nonsense of some of the recent Democratic record we should be thankful. For purely political reasons we should probably root for them to stay xenophobic.