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.'"

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Re:WTF?

[Em Adespoton]

This is good to know about and all, but...

WHY IS THIS ON SLASHDOT!?

Because it's Truthy.

Re:WTF?

[rsmith-mac]

And because most of us like Stephen Colbert. It fits under the "news for nerds" criteria.

Genuine?

[multi io]

"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...

Will he still be an egomaniac?

[damn_registrars]

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)

Re:So no change then

[rudy_wayne]

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

Re:Snowden, that's why it's relevant to /.ers.

[Mr. Slippery]

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."

That whooshing sound you hear? That's Colbert's satire going right over your head. If the Kissinger/peace prize reference didn't tip you off, consider that he said it at the same event that he said "I'm sure that under enhanced liberty you can have all the privacy that you want, just like under enhanced interrogation you can breathe all the water you want."

Re:WTF?

[BitZtream]

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.