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Stephen Colbert To Be Letterman's Successor
ralphart (70342) writes "CBS has announced Stephen Colbert will replace David Letterman on The Late Show, after Letterman retires in 2015. 'Simply being a guest on David Letterman’s show has been a highlight of my career,' Colbert said in a press release from CBS. 'I never dreamed that I would follow in his footsteps, though everyone in late night follows Dave’s lead.'"
This is good to know about and all, but...
WHY IS THIS ON SLASHDOT!?
Because it's Truthy.
And because most of us like Stephen Colbert. It fits under the "news for nerds" criteria.
So much for #cancelcolbert and the looney tune behind it.
It's a step down IMO.
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If you havent watched either one in years or decades, how do you know they are boring? Maybe it's you.
Erm...people watch it on their computers? So it's...tech-related?
"Simply being a guest on David Letterman’s show has been a highlight of my career"
Wait...he really meant that. It's kinda creepy when Colbert makes out-of-character statements. And now there's gonna be a whole show full of those? Ugh...
And if that isn't nerd news enough for you, you might prefer his RSA keynote instead.
They said he is dropping the conservative character he portrays on The Colbert Report, but they didn't say if he will stop being the egomaniac part. That could make for good television. He could, after all, still be a liberal egomaniac...
(and I know, the slashdot chorus will chime in and declare that to be redundant)
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Colbert is funny, so that makes him a comedian.
But is letterman funny or a comedian? Not at all.
Letterman is pants.
Letterman is WORLDWIDE PANTS
If you like Stephen Colbert, go watch Strangers With Candy. It was one of the first Comedy Central shows and it's just amazing.
I remember the first Colbert Report teaser on the Daily Show, and then a few months later it was a real show. And it was awesome.
Go Stephen! Hate you see you leave the Central, but you need to be exposed to a wider audience.
There is no doubt he is an entertainer.
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Conan should've fought to jump into bed with Fox when they were mulling the idea over, affiliate issues be damned. It's not like it's a live show, let them air it whenever the fuck their news block ends. Fox is the only network that can actually harness his demo and generate ad revenue (via traditional broadcast ratings or "rich media integration" or whatever they call the internet today).
He was dead at TBS before he started, just as we was in the earlier hour on The Tonight Show. NBC offering to push The Tonight Show back an hour and give him his old time slot back was actually very generous. But Conan wanted an ideal of The Tonight Show that didn't exist anymore. Anyone who watched Leno (or his audience) over the years would have known that.
#cancelcolbert gets SC off of CC and the show dies...but only because he got promoted to a prime network spot with more visibility and more money.
Colbert's writers couldn't have scripted this as well as it was performed in real life.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Also, he's the only guy that: /.... but Need I say more?
a. does the liberal/liberation spin that IS silicon valley
b. actually talks about tech like DRONES, along with BEARS.
c. has writers that are very, very tech savvy, much like the Simpsons and Futurama
d. Michael Stipe and Patrick Steward as continuing guests. That is
Patrick STEWARD????? What? Is he the caretaker of the Enterprise until the day comes that the one true Captain returns to claim his rightful chair?
Has Colbert been on for decades?
He looks too new to have been on for decades.
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They are oligarchs, but they ***still have to make a profit*** the game is rigged but not that rigged
NBC is #1 and Fallon gets the ratings/advertising
Colbert is, from a **COMPLETELY FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVE** a great choice.
He's a proven commodity across media and with young and old. Comedy Central is youth demographic 'central' and Colbert is at the top of the product chain there. He's sold books, audio, and gets things like a *treadmill on the ISS named after him.*
Dont tell me Craig Ferguson or Chelsea Handler can come anywhere near that marketshare/reach. Colbert pwns.
So "which is it?"
Neither...Oligarchs still have to play the money game just like everyone else. Colbert pulled it off.
Thank you Dave Raggett
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Colbert didn't observe the boycott and spoke at the RSA Conference where he said, among other incomprehensible statements, that Snowden was " practically a war criminal". In terms of government use of computer technology to control its people, the Snowden revelations are the most important in history. Colbert's ascension to the Letterman position means that the NSA and its accomplices don't need to worry about criticism from that quarter.
Colbert noted.
"I see the Norwegians gave Snowden 30 Nobel Prize nominations. The guy's practically a war criminal - I don't understand how they could put him up for the same prize they once gave to Henry Kissinger."
Stephen Colbert's not a fan of Edward Snowden's whistleblowingStephen Colbert's not a fan of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing
Colbert said. Snowden, he said, should be taken to court over the espionage charges.
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Well played. Well played, indeed.
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this is both
Thank you Dave Raggett
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Woot!
The late show will finally be funny.
Letterman and his backup band are so predictable, so bland, and so American-Cheesy, its unwatchable for the rest of us.
To be fair, the only truly funny regular joke is in the opening credits where New York is described as the best city in the world.
People post clips. I start the clips. I shut them off less than half way through.
They're not funny. Letterman especially reminds me of a high school smart-ass more than a comedian. He thinks he's funny, but what everyone is laughing at is the pissed off teacher.
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Also, he's the only guy that: a. does the liberal/liberation spin that IS silicon valley b. actually talks about tech like DRONES, along with BEARS. c. has writers that are very, very tech savvy, much like the Simpsons and Futurama d. Michael Stipe and Patrick Steward as continuing guests. That is /.... but Need I say more?
no sharks with lasers, I don't know...
Well, it is true he was effective against the laser bears!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJmWN1eMLi4
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Nah, Dennis miller is a conservative former comedian. Back when he was still doing comedy, it was pretty centrist, with the social aspect leaning a bit to the left.
After 9/11 made him shit his pants, he started being conservative, and stopped being a comedian, opting to move his "big words and obscure references" style into punditry, where it works about as well as you might expect.
You think he's not funny. But don't assume that you know what the rest of us are laughing at.
Comedy is more subjective than food. You can certainly disagree with what millions of people find funny about Letterman, and you can voice your opinion of those people for enjoying his humor, but when you make a statement about WHY those people are laughing, you reveal more about your own ignorance.
I've learned that they're worthless, so I don't read AC comments anymore.
Totally agree. I'd much rather read more Q&A's from McAfee.
It isn't sloppy mixing at all. Kissinger has also been accused of being "practically a war criminal". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_of_Henry_Kissinger. Whether you agree with the accusations or not (much the same could be said about Snowden), the parallels are there; hence the double standards satire reference.
Letterman was lefty but I liked him fine. Colbert is lefty but he's got a weird quirky humor that is sometimes hilarious but often falls flat. Also he's not going to pick at the left's silliness like Dave often did, he's one sided and people will tire of the bias. He will lose a huge chunk of people that loved Letterman and I doubt he'll be able to make up the difference. Time will tell.
I think they're afraid of Chelsea. Terrified more likely.
That's the cunning appeal of Colbert. Both conservatives and liberals love him but for completely different reasons. This has actually been studied:
Summary: Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report
Full Study: The Irony of Satire
Crypto-ideologue replaced by overt ideologue.
Stephen Colbert has been called "The biggest Tolkien geek I've ever met". Coming from Peter Jackson, that's quite an honor. The guy's a nerd, so it's something remarkable that he's become as much of a cultural phenomenon as he is, and now he's set to take on one of the big late night shows. It'll be interesting to see what happens- weird to see him out of character, but he's phenomenally talented and versatile, if anyone can pull it off he can. The thing I like about Colbert is that it's clear he really enjoys doing what he's doing, there's just something about watching someone at work who's having the time of their life.
It's also going to be interesting to see what Comedy Central does now. John Oliver and now Stephen Colbert have left, so they've lost two of their top three comics, and I'd argue that they've lost the best two. I know a number of people who are still John Stewart fans but personally I think Stewart has lost his mojo. He's not passionate, he seems tired and burned out, his humor has an edge that's not just self-deprecating, it's self-pitying, an endless series of sad jokes about how old he is and how short he is. The humor is also increasingly juvenile, but not in a good way. It's all dick jokes, which would be great if Stewart and the writers could make funny dick jokes like Parker and Stone, but they can't. The supporting cast has issues as well. In particular Jason Jones is supposed to be playing a character who's a dick, but he just comes across as actually being dick, and the show has taken on a mean-spirited tone that it didn't used to have.
Personally, I think Comedy Central is in trouble. The Daily Show has some serious issues and Stewart's directorial gig and Oliver's stint as guest host makes it clear he's thinking about moving on. Colbert has now left. John Oliver demonstrated last summer that he's talented and charming enough to host a half-hour show, but now he's on HBO. This move probably doesn't come as a complete shock, so if Comedy Central was clever, they would have encouraged John Oliver to sign a contract that would leave him free to come back to Comedy Central. But the other issue is that Oliver seems like a perfect replacement for Stewart. It's unclear who would- or could- fill in for someone as unique as Colbert.
Jon Stewart always impressed me for being a lefty that didn't seem to have a problem pointing out stupid lefty shit just like he did stupid right stuff.
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Yes.
Oh give it up. There's this thing called context. It's a topic being discussed by Americans about an American involving American politics. It doesn't fucking matter if it offends your personal European opinion on what constitutes the Left because the Left in Europe doesn't fucking matter in this topic.
I'd call you a damn turian, but at least then you would pull the stick out of your ass and use it to beat people up.
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Double down: Stewart seems *more* irritated by stupid lefty shit, in the tone of "Hey, why are you being as stupid as the other side, you're supposed to be the smart ones!!!"
I think he's be in line with Europe; the current events and public issues he discusses, being American, are what's to the right.
I really, really, really hope this somehow kills The Daily Show. Jon Stewart went from comedian to ultra-liberal political activist. When he replaced his entire show with a serious segment about 9/11 Fire Fighters just to make a political action, it was clear he belongs more on some 24 hour news channel than Comedy Central and I think he knows that. He's basically Bill Murray at this point. They should replace him with an hour long show that's ACTUALLY comedy.
Are you talking about the Return of the Kirk?
A lose-lose situation.
Colbert's fans get deprive of The Colbert Report.
Colbert loses viewers from going on at a later time and having his humor constrained by the stricter rules of broadcast television.
It seems like Letterman's ( or Leno's ) job is a place where comedians losing steam go to wait to die.
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Actually, I always had wanted Stewart cast as Denethor. Not only could he have played the character much closer to how he's portrayed in the book, he'd have been a great foil to McKellen's Gandalf.
I see what you did there :)
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Nah, Dennis miller is a conservative former comedian. Back when he was still doing comedy, it was pretty centrist, with the social aspect leaning a bit to the left.
After 9/11 made him shit his pants, he started being conservative, and stopped being a comedian, opting to move his "big words and obscure references" style into punditry, where it works about as well as you might expect.
He is still to the left on social issues (abortion, gay marriage, etc.)
So much so that one suspects collusion.
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How do you know that they aren't only posting the clips of their worst work and not their best?
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if you watch a 2 minute clip and stop them at 1 minute, they are not going to be funny, you stopped it in the middle of the buildup and before the punchline
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/After/ he shit his pants.
This from an anonymous coward? WTF?
Stephen Colbert joined the cast of Comedy Central's parody-news series The Daily Show in 1997, when the show was in its second season. Originally one of four correspondents who filmed segments from remote locations in the style of network news field reporters, Colbert was referred to as "the new guy" on-air for his first two years on the show, during which time Craig Kilborn served as host. When Kilborn left the show prior to the 1999 season, Jon Stewart took over hosting duties, also serving as a writer and co-executive producer. From this point, the series gradually began to take on a more political tone and increase in popularity, particularly in the latter part of the 2000 U.S. presidential election season. The roles of the show's correspondents were expanded to include more in-studio segments, as well as international reports which were almost always done in the studio with the aid of a greenscreen.[28]
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During Johnny Carson's three decades of near stranglehold on late night TV in the US, CBS threw a little of everything (fortunately that included The Avengers and The Prisoner and Adderly) against the wall to see if something would stick. Near the end, Pat Sajak had a talk show for a little over a year.
Limbaugh filled in one night near the end of the run.
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Always race baiting. Can we all be like colbert here and not see race? I am sick and tired of the media always bitching when someone who deserves what he gets (and most people would agree that he has worked his butt off) what he has worked hard to do
Lets look at some of the other people that were being spoken of shall me??
Ellen - she just isnt funny, the only reason people wanted her is she is a lesbian, (or maybe you just need to be one to find her funny?)
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Am I the only one who, as a foreigner, has no idea who David Letterman is ? I've seen plenty of clips of gifs of Colbert on the 'Net though. He certainly is a lot more relevant than whoever Letterman is/was.
You've no idea who Letterman is, but you're certain that Colbert is more relevant?
More relevant in what context?
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I was thinking more of the Colbert Report which has been on since 2005 or 2006 or something in terms of his own show. But I guess you are right about him being on TV for decades. Thanks for the clarification.
In the context I described: he's all over the 'net making memes. Letterman isn't. Or I've never noticed.
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Never really liked the "late night" shows.
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So, either Colbert is a sell-out,
I take you don't watch the Colbert Report?
Colbert is openly a total sell-out. But he manages to make it funny for everybody's involved.
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You don't know what a Lefty is. He's to the right of all the countries in Europe.
Or, some countries in Europe are way to the left of the rest of the world. Europeans can criticize Americans for feeling like they're representative of the world, which is a fair point, but don't let Europeans fall into the same trap.
Letterman used to be funny. Now he's just a grouchy old man. At least when Bob Hope stopped being funny, he was still a joyful old man.
I feel that Letterman is a far better interviewer than he is a comedian. We'll see how Colbert interviews once he sheds his satire personality.
no problem, his show began in 2005 FWIW
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Based on that story, it seems like the audience was chosen to heckle him
If by chosen you mean self-selected, then yeah, probably so.
I expect it took CBS by surprise, though.
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But since we're talking about one guy taking over another guy's TV show, I'm not sure that "internet relevance" is particularly relevant to this story.
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To be fair, there's a reason the UK kicked Piers Morgan off their isles.