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Originally Posted by Red Mile Style
I love John Stewart, but I have to be in the mood for the Colbert Report - even the way he says report like "repoire" bugs me.
He is just so cocky and arrogant, maybe he is playing the super-right neo-con role, but to me he just comes across as full of himself, which wasn't the vibe I got from him when he was on The Daily Show.
I hate the way he runs to the guest and takes credit for the applause from the audience. I mean, that could be funny once or twice, but every show... it just gets boring.
Some of the things he does is hillarious, but I usually end up turning it off half way through whenever he starts talking about himself.
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Well they could basically made a Daily Show clone but as the Daily Show was a parody of news shows they needed to do something different so the Colbert Repoire (a spoof on his own name's pronounciation) is a spoof of the ultra-conservative talk shows especially Bill O'Reilly. I give him credit for finding the fine line between acting in a spoof role and actually maintaining that entertaining edge that keeps it centered.
John Stewart has the much easier job of just being glib and comedian Liberal on everything and comes across much more honest and clean. Colbert definetely has to work a lot harder to walk that line.
But Stephen Colbert won't even let his own kids watch the Colbert Report because he says that kids don't understand the difference between real life and parody and he doesn't want his kids to see their dad acting that way.
I also mainly turn off the Colbert Report half way - but just because it's at freaking 12:30 AM and I need to sleep for work.
There was a thread before about how an OHL hockey team named their mascot after Stephen Colbert and they ended up having a hilarious segment with lots of hockey and Canadian cities mentioned on the show.