Stephen Colbert to Replace David Letterman on Late Show - Update
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He'd definitely be the most well-known candidate in the race!Sol_HSA said:
I totally agree with this. Ferguson is such a breath of fresh air that moving him to a more conservative, family-friendly time slot wouldn't do anything but ruin his mojo.Covarr said:
You know, I actually feel like making a serious comment on this matter after all.
Where to start. Well, for me Stephen Colbert has probably had more impact on my views and politics than any other person I can think of. I started watching his show in 2006, when I was in still middle school. Before that I was like any other kid who couldn't care about politics and that which I heard about just made me depressed. But one day I was just flipping to Comedy Central and found his show and found him to be quite funny, even without most of the context for a lot of his jokes. Through humor, he introduced me to so much: politics, economics, how the news works, etc. Because of him I actually cared about all this crap and I tried to expand what I knew about these subjects. While I never really used him as a legitimate source of news, what he said got me to go out and think about these subjects on my own. After hearing about much of what he talked about, I often went out to look this stuff on my own and form my own opinions. I read Atlas Shrugged after hearing about in on his show (I hated it for the record). Whereas others have said Dave leaving Late Night is the end of an era, to me at least, this is the real end of an era. To me, he was a permanent fixture of my adolescence, always on my TV 4 nights a week (and a few reruns the next day). I have honestly seen probably +90% of all his shows. His White House Correspondence Dinner speech still ranks as one of the awkward and also awesome things he has done. While I am so happy to see him achieve greater success, it still feels weird that something that had such a strangely profound effect on my formative years is going away.
Where to start. Well, for me Stephen Colbert has probably had more impact on my views and politics than any other person I can think of. I started watching his show in 2006, when I was in still middle school. Before that I was like any other kid who couldn't care about politics and that which I heard about just made me depressed. But one day I was just flipping to Comedy Central and found his show and found him to be quite funny, even without most of the context for a lot of his jokes. Through humor, he introduced me to so much: politics, economics, how the news works, etc. Because of him I actually cared about all this crap and I tried to expand what I knew about these subjects. While I never really used him as a legitimate source of news, what he said got me to go out and think about these subjects on my own. After hearing about much of what he talked about, I often went out to look this stuff on my own and form my own opinions. I read Atlas Shrugged after hearing about in on his show (I hated it for the record). Whereas others have said Dave leaving Late Night is the end of an era, to me at least, this is the real end of an era. To me, he was a permanent fixture of my adolescence, always on my TV 4 nights a week (and a few reruns the next day). I have honestly seen probably +90% of all his shows. His White House Correspondence Dinner speech still ranks as one of the awkward and also awesome things he has done. While I am so happy to see him achieve greater success, it still feels weird that something that had such a strangely profound effect on my formative years is going away.
There's a great Charlie Rose interview with Stephen in the earlier days of the Report and he is basically himself with Rose. I find Stephen as himself to be a thoughtful, quick-witted, and overall nice sort of guy. Additionally, if you look at all the efforts the Report has put into charity work and other humanitarian issues, it's clear that Stephen is in fact a stellar guy.cthulhuspawn82 said:
It's a shame we're losing his Colbert Report caricature and all that, but I intend to give his new show a chance, provided I can catch it on-demand or something, as I'm rarely up that late any more.
I'm seriously bummed we're going to lose the Colbert Report persona, but I know he's going to be great. I'm not a fan of Letterman, but I'll definitely watch the new Late Show.