I actually totally disagree. If you go bit for bit with what Colbert is doing compared with what Letterman did as host, it is very similar quality of shows. Dave just had less competition, Carson had absolutely none. If you watch a full Letterman show from the past there is ALOT of filler, and he always did a terrible job pretending to care about what some of his lesser guests had to say. The best part was when he would have standup comedians on to do their best material
People really look at history with rose glasses on, but honestly Fallon is doing a good job. Better than Leno and Conan did with the same show. I don't love the celebrities playing games part but when you're doing 5 hours of TV every week you need some self-writing material
Late night will never be what it was in Carson's day but it's not like the Internet killed it. It had been declining in importance before the Internet got popular
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