The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

His ratings will never be Fallon-level due to his guests, unfortunately. The average American doesn't choose to see an interview with the Secretary of Energy over an interview with Kanye, which is sad. That being said, no one makes a conversation with an intellectual more engaging than Colbert. He's a really intelligent, gifted guy.

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2) Having real interesting guests which I find to be great. I bet there is at least some copying of this on other shows.

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In my opinion, Fallon, Kimmel, Conan, or Meyers are not capable of conducting a provocative/informative/insightful/witty combo-platter-interview like Colbert expertly & routinely does. He is a brilliant info-tainer.

Whereas, the others are simply entertainers; more Carson than Cavett (and there's a place for both styles). Their interviews of serious non-celebrity news figures are mostly met with giggling, fawning, pandering or pampering throughout their interviews.

Their skill-set is more guffaw than grey matter, so booking more scholarly guests would not be a successful move, imo, unless they want to get replaced by, say, a Jon Oliver or someone similar one day if the network insisted on copying the format.

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I have been DVRing the show every night. I still like some of the Viral video ready stuff that Fallon does, but I really like Colbert's lineups and style of show. The weakest point for me may be the wind piano.

yeah that's a great bit