re: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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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.