To Do: Book Guests, Buy 1-Hour Energy Drink, Figure Out Who Self Is
June 3, 2015 6:56 PM Subscribe
Just under 2 weeks after the Finale of "The Late Show with David Letterman" and 13 weeks before the Debut of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert", we have been given the first hints of what we can expect from the Former Parody Pundit: The Show's Official Website (colbertlateshow.com), the first episode of a podcast with Stephen and members of his staff behind the scenes, and a Very Special Video with the New Stephen and The Colbeard. (SPOILERS: Contains references to Hitler, the Amish, Wolverine and Camptown Races)
The podcast is kinda draggy (too much REAL stuff), but the Colbeard video worked for me, strongly showing how he is transitioning from that Conservative Goofball Character to a Goofball for All the People! Not Satire, Not Cynicism, Just Silly. Maybe not the Late Show host America needs, but the best we're gonna get from CBS.
posted by oneswellfoop at 7:14 PM on June 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by oneswellfoop at 7:14 PM on June 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
COLBEARD SPOILER:
Oh thank god, he didn't eat the hot dog at the end.
posted by maryr at 7:18 PM on June 3, 2015 [3 favorites]
Oh thank god, he didn't eat the hot dog at the end.
posted by maryr at 7:18 PM on June 3, 2015 [3 favorites]
So what does CBS air now at 11:35 pm?
posted by infinitewindow at 7:21 PM on June 3, 2015
posted by infinitewindow at 7:21 PM on June 3, 2015
That "Figure out who self is" memo gag probably isn't entirely a joke. This is going to be a weird transition. In that video, it kind of seemed like he was doing his old Comedy Central character. If "Stephen Colbert" (as opposed to Stephen Colbert) was coming back from a long break, I could see him doing a segment a lot like this.
But on this new show, Colbert is supposed to be himself. What does that mean? It's going to be really odd seeing him do political jokes, (presumably) talking about what he actually believes instead of making fun of conservatives through his old character. The character gave him license to be absurd and inappropriate, and I don't know how he's going to adapt to a more conventional show.
I kind of hope they bring "Stephen Colbert" back somehow, because he's such a great character for political commentary that it'd be a shame to just never use him again. I also hope that Amy Sedaris is a pretty regular presence on the show. I guess it's too much to hope that she could be his Ed McMahon?
posted by Ursula Hitler at 7:24 PM on June 3, 2015 [2 favorites]
But on this new show, Colbert is supposed to be himself. What does that mean? It's going to be really odd seeing him do political jokes, (presumably) talking about what he actually believes instead of making fun of conservatives through his old character. The character gave him license to be absurd and inappropriate, and I don't know how he's going to adapt to a more conventional show.
I kind of hope they bring "Stephen Colbert" back somehow, because he's such a great character for political commentary that it'd be a shame to just never use him again. I also hope that Amy Sedaris is a pretty regular presence on the show. I guess it's too much to hope that she could be his Ed McMahon?
posted by Ursula Hitler at 7:24 PM on June 3, 2015 [2 favorites]
Oh thank god, he didn't eat the hot dog at the end.
I kept expecting the same thing! Maybe they wanted us to spend the segment in suspense about that, but if so I'm surprised it wasn't paid off in some way at the end.
So what does CBS air now at 11:35 pm?
Mentalist reruns, last I checked. As soon as Letterman went off the air they trashed his set and put all the reruns in a vault. It was like a bad breakup, and they wanted to burn all his old love letters or something.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 7:29 PM on June 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
I kept expecting the same thing! Maybe they wanted us to spend the segment in suspense about that, but if so I'm surprised it wasn't paid off in some way at the end.
So what does CBS air now at 11:35 pm?
Mentalist reruns, last I checked. As soon as Letterman went off the air they trashed his set and put all the reruns in a vault. It was like a bad breakup, and they wanted to burn all his old love letters or something.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 7:29 PM on June 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
Still better than ketchup.
posted by Greg_Ace at 7:35 PM on June 3, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 7:35 PM on June 3, 2015 [2 favorites]
what does CBS air now at 11:35 pm?
Next week it's CSI reruns and the week after it's Hawaii Five-O 2.0... Before Letterman, they did try to counterprogram against Tonight with something they called "Crime Time After Prime Time". This is just "Temporary Throwback to Something That Didn't Work So We Can Lower the Expectations for Colbert".
posted by oneswellfoop at 7:36 PM on June 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
Next week it's CSI reruns and the week after it's Hawaii Five-O 2.0... Before Letterman, they did try to counterprogram against Tonight with something they called "Crime Time After Prime Time". This is just "Temporary Throwback to Something That Didn't Work So We Can Lower the Expectations for Colbert".
posted by oneswellfoop at 7:36 PM on June 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
"Crime Time After Prime Time"
wow I had forgotten that
posted by thelonius at 8:01 PM on June 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
wow I had forgotten that
posted by thelonius at 8:01 PM on June 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
Wow they literally have a writer who sits on the windowsill in the writer's room with a laptop actually in his lap.
posted by turbid dahlia at 8:32 PM on June 3, 2015
posted by turbid dahlia at 8:32 PM on June 3, 2015
I remember when NBC was transitioning from Later with Someone Other Than Greg Kinnear to Last Call with Carson Daly, they played old SCTV reruns after Late Night, and it was awesome. Only time I bothered staying up.
posted by Sys Rq at 9:18 PM on June 3, 2015
posted by Sys Rq at 9:18 PM on June 3, 2015
Here is the RSS feed for the podcast, it's not easy to find on the site.
posted by Peccable at 2:54 AM on June 4, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Peccable at 2:54 AM on June 4, 2015 [1 favorite]
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