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re: Late night talk shows are dead and buried
Posted on 5/26/26 at 10:05 am to VOR
Posted on 5/26/26 at 10:05 am to VOR
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If you don’t think the Colbert Report was funny, you literally have no sense of humor…
The Colbert Report was funny. Not always, but it was legitimately funny.
Late night started dying, honestly, with the whole Leno/Letterman/Conan saga. Leno became seen as an unwatchable a-hole. Letterman was leaving. Conan was hysterical but his humor didn't appeal to everyone.
So networks just aimed for Letterman and Leno-lite.
Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers are "safe". They don't have the absurdly quirky antics of Conan, but lack the charm of someone like Craig Ferguson, who could just charm the pants off of anyone on his show.
Another nail in the coffin is that it used to be the only time you got the skinny on celebrities was on late night; the internet's saturation has made it both easy to learn a billion things about any celebrity as well as learning too much about them. How many celebrities did you enjoy only to learn something about them that made you second guess wanting to learn anything new?
Late night died with the saturation of the internet coupled with a focus on "safe" hosts instead of ones that pushed neither the comedic or charismatic enveople.
Also... it still feels weird to refer to Jimmy Kimmel as the "safe" one for those of us who remember his time on the Man Show.
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Posted on 5/26/26 at 10:06 am to The Boat
At the time of Letterman‘s last NBC show and his first CBS show, I went to the trouble and put them on VHS.
I was a fan.
I was a fan.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 10:07 am to kingbob
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The Colbert Report was hysterical
This board loved the on-notice board meme back in the day.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 10:14 am to kingbob
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The Colbert Report was hysterical. Colbert on the Late Show was truly bafflingly awful.
I agree. I watched Colbert Report regularly and thought it was great. I knew he was "in character" as an exaggerated spoof of a Fox News type of anchor, but never realized he was such a lefty propagandist until he got the Late Show gig. Sad, because I thought he'd carry over the same level of humor to the Late Show and couldn't have been more wrong.
Should have known he was a raging lib when he partnered with the commies at Ben & Jerry's for a signature flavor back during his Colbert Show run.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 10:51 am to BitBuster
quote:By far the best modern chat show and possibly one of the best ever. Guests are far more relaxed and real on this show than any other I have ever seen and the format is really effective. Multiple laugh out loud moments in each show.
Graham Norton (
Posted on 5/26/26 at 11:46 am to S
Posted on 5/26/26 at 12:11 pm to coolpapaboze
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Graham Norton
quote:James Cordon attempted to mimic Norton's format, but he didn't have Norton's conversational talent and the dark and closed-in set didn't have the same open party feel of the British show.
Guests are far more relaxed and real on this show than any other I have ever seen and the format is really effective.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 12:31 pm to The Boat
quote:good
Colbert had a 0 page thread.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 12:33 pm to Roaad
Kam is a one trick pony. He’s even worse than Yang 
Chloe, Ashley Padilla , Mikey Day, and that new Jeremy guy are great though. Chloe is a smoke
Chloe, Ashley Padilla , Mikey Day, and that new Jeremy guy are great though. Chloe is a smoke
This post was edited on 5/26/26 at 12:35 pm
Posted on 5/26/26 at 12:38 pm to The Boat
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Late night talk shows are dead and buried
They did it to themselves
Posted on 5/26/26 at 12:43 pm to VOR
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If you don’t think the Colbert Report was funny, you literally have no sense of humor…
lol what
Is your idea of comedy “Trump is a pedo, amirite?!!”
He’s awful at comedy
Posted on 5/26/26 at 1:06 pm to VermilionTiger
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your idea of comedy “Trump is a pedo, amirite?!!”
That was Colbert on the Late Show, not The Colbert Report. The Colbert Report had gold running gags like “Better Know a District”, Ham Rove, and “On Notice”. It’s almost the polar opposite of The Late Show. It was satirical, edgy, and subversive.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 1:07 pm to Tiger Prawn
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The Colbert Report was hysterical. Colbert on the Late Show was truly bafflingly awful.
I agree. I watched Colbert Report regularly and thought it was great. I knew he was "in character" as an exaggerated spoof of a Fox News type of anchor, but never realized he was such a lefty propagandist until he got the Late Show gig. Sad, because I thought he'd carry over the same level of humor to the Late Show and couldn't have been more wrong.
I am one of those who argued it doesn't matter your politics if your focus is actually being funny. He may or may not be the same person ideologically as he was during the Colbert Report but he is clearly not the same person comedically.
It became just insults. The insult became the punchline. The writing and the jokes were on another level during the Colbert Report and they were terrible during the Late Show run.
Perhaps he was told what side he needed to be on, maybe he decided Trump was Hitler, maybe he decided it was just the best way to get the biggest slice of a diminished slice of viewership pie and extend his run. It doesn't matter now. He became exceptionally more wealthy and still tried to play the victim.
If he was still funny or his show was profitable it would seem different to me. Whatever. Go away and lay on your piles of money Steven.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 1:08 pm to VOR
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If you don’t think the Colbert Report was funny, you literally have no sense of humor…
It had its moments. But the setup made it too limited. You can only get so much out of parodying O'Reilly.
Was also annoying when he had interesting guests and didn't let them talk.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 1:44 pm to Bestbank Tiger
As a conservative I admit Stewart is funny but I honestly never found Colbert funny at all. Kimmel can be funny but he's chosen to be bitch instead. Meyers I don't get at all .
Posted on 5/26/26 at 1:48 pm to bcoop199
To this day, his best work is still on Harvey Birdman.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 1:57 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
Ambiguously Gay Duo
Posted on 5/26/26 at 1:57 pm to The Boat
Craig Ferguson was the last great late night host.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 2:00 pm to bcoop199
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As a conservative I admit Stewart is funny but I honestly never found Colbert funny at all. Kimmel can be funny but he's chosen to be bitch instead. Meyers I don't get at all .
Stewart was definitely good.
Colbert had great moments on the Daily Show, like when he drew a picture in the sand of Geraldo with his head up his arse.
Also had some gems on the Colbert Report, like when he proposed giving guns and drugs to school students. "Nobody's going to attack a building full of armed, pregnant teenage drug addicts. It would be like storming the Thunderdome". The bullet point to the side said "Or the Superdome".
Posted on 5/26/26 at 3:47 pm to Bestbank Tiger
I remember distinctly in college the daily show was seen as more liberal and the Colbert report was more for the “conservative” demographic. Wild how Colbert did a 180 but he probably always was a diehard lib just toting the company line to bring in viewers.
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