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To: bentway who wrote (283591)11/21/2015 11:10:36 PM
From: elpolvo  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 541699
 
Colbert Is Turning Off...
JMO... colbert isn't very funnie.

personally, i love the line-up of guests he's had on the tonight show, but his humor is mediocre
at best. commercial media is about accumulation of eyeballs for sponsors. i don't like that... but
if you're in the biz... that's your job. he's in the biz... but he's failing.

if he realizes that he's not a comedian and he just does serious interviews with his guest line-up
he could have a good PBS program (just because of the guests)... but he's no charlie rose either...
so why bother?

i wouldn't be surprised to see him as a viewer instead of host within a year or two. nothing wrong
with that... but he doesn't seem like someone who would watch the tonight show.
...and neither am i unless someone like john stewart is hosting it.



To: bentway who wrote (283591)11/22/2015 11:55:02 AM
From: koan  Respond to of 541699
 
I hope Colbert doesn't sell out. He should stay where he is as long as he can and continue doing the same thing. It is inevitable that he is educating many people. If he has to leave in the end, he will have no trouble finding a new place to go and he is already rich.

I have hope, that he will be willing to put the good of the people and the planet above any slight inconvenience, or for some race to be number one, which is meaningless to anyone except plutocrats.