The Colbert Report

[Rhettzky]

Anyone watch this show? The one last night was not too bad (a little heavy on the Kim Jong Il) but "the word" segment of the show was awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeIC0HaUPbU

[troutman]

Very funny show (along with Jon Stewart):

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/t...rt/index.jhtml

[Robbob]

Colbert and and the daily show are pretty much the only thing I watch besides sports. Great shows.

[Clarkey]

His ear annoys me.

[Hack&Lube]

I miss Steve Carell. He was the better "Steve(n)" of the two all along until he left for movies and the Office and Colbert got his own show. Carell visited John Stewart and it was hilarious. They just sat around awkwardly and didn't talk to each other. It would be the best Colbert episode if Steve Carell visited him but Colbert doesn't typically interview celebrities.

Carell and Colbert were actually buddies before the show who worked on improv an other comedy shows.

Colbert makes me cringe when the guests try to improv and fit into the image of the faux-ultra-conservative nature of the show but are really bad at it.

[fanforever1986]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

I miss Steve Carell. He was the better "Steve(n)" of the two all along until he left for movies and the Office and Colbert got his own show. Carell visited John Stewart and it was hilarious. They just sat around awkwardly and didn't talk to each other. It would be the best Colbert episode if Steve Carell visited him but Colbert doesn't typically interview celebrities.

Carell and Colbert were actually buddies before the show who worked on improv an other comedy shows.

Colbert makes me cringe when the guests try to improv and fit into the image of the faux-ultra-conservative nature of the show but are really bad at it.

John Stewart, Carell and Colbert have produced some of the best quality TV in the best 20 years. Those 3 in a political satire would be out of this world.

A bit off topic, but I was thinking the other night about how much good TV is on between 12 AM and 2 30 AM. I find myself staying up til the end of conan most nights these days.

Between Stewart, Leno, Lettermen, Colbert, Conan, Kimmel, and that guy that follows Dave on CBS (am i forgetting anyone?)...and Sportscentre....wow its tough to balance it all out. They need to make a single show with all those guys having segments. Im sure it'll happen

[troutman]

Originally Posted by fanforever1986

John Stewart, Carell and Colbert have produced some of the best quality TV in the best 20 years. Those 3 in a political satire would be out of this world.

A bit off topic, but I was thinking the other night about how much good TV is on between 12 AM and 2 30 AM. I find myself staying up til the end of conan most nights these days.

Between Stewart, Leno, Lettermen, Colbert, Conan, Kimmel, and that guy that follows Dave on CBS (am i forgetting anyone?)...and Sportscentre....wow its tough to balance it all out. They need to make a single show with all those guys having segments. Im sure it'll happen

On shaw digital you can get stations from Eastern Canada/US and watch all of these shows between 9:00 and 11:30 MDT.

[fanforever1986]

Originally Posted by troutman

On shaw digital you can get stations from Eastern Canada/US and watch all of these shows between 9:00 and 11:30 MDT.

ya i've got that on bell as well. problem is I can't devote 4 or 5 hours to them on any given night, the PVR is helping a bit...lets me record one and watch another. Still not enough time in the day.

[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.

[Hack&Lube]

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.

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.

[The Goon]

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.

Have you ever watched the O'Reilly Factor? The Colbert show is a complete parody of that, right down to "The Word" being a parody of O'Reilly's "Talking Points".

Colbert's over the top, and most of his guests get the joke. I think the highlight for me occurred last week when he had Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda on to discuss feminism and talk radio. He interrupted the interview to have them make an apple pie in a segment he called "Cooking With Feminists". Brilliant.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

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.

Look up....way up....i think it's....that's right.....it's a joke. But what's it doing way up there...way over your head?

The whole point of the Colbert Report (pronounced Re-pore, as in French), is that it is a parody of the right wing news pundits from networks like Fox News. He's supposed to be an arrogant rightwing jerk, that's the character.

As for pronouncing it "Re-Pore", if you'd seen him on the Daily Show before he got his own show, he actually did several segments of the Colbert Report. In which the into went something like "Welcome to the Colbert Report...It's frech bitch".

Either way, if you think he actually is an arrogant jerk who takes credit for the applause, they you're missing something rather important to the show.

[Red Mile Style]

Yeah, I get that he's trying to just portray a character but for me at least, it's a little over the top, to the point where I don't want to watch it.

I don't know, I just find him annoying more than anything. But that segment last week with "cooking with feminists" was hillarious. He does do some funny stuff, I personally can only handle doses of him.

[AFireInside]

The Daily show is so well done, been a fan for a long time, and I absolutely love the Colbert Report.. I think he does such a great job portraying that character.. Great one two punch at 12, and 12:30...

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Originally Posted by Red Mile Style

Yeah, I get that he's trying to just portray a character but for me at least, it's a little over the top, to the point where I don't want to watch it.

I don't know, I just find him annoying more than anything. But that segment last week with "cooking with feminists" was hillarious. He does do some funny stuff, I personally can only handle doses of him.

I don't know--to me, it's gold. But then I had a friend a few years back who insisted on watching a LOT of The O'Reilly Factor, so I have a pretty good sense of how bang-on Colbert's satire of that guy really is. If anything, Colbert's character is LESS arrogant and over-the-top than the real life Bill O'Reilly, who's working hard on getting his picture placed next to "windbag" in the dictionary.

[Igottago]

The first few times I watched Colbert I didn't really care for it too much..but its growing on me for sure. I think i'm starting to get his style of humour. I like the tandem of Daily Show followed by Colbert..starting to watch them both more regularly now.

[KevanGuy]

Heh, Colbert had another OHL bit tonight. Great stuff. Hopefully its up on YouTube. Makes fun of Brampton, Sarnia and Owen Sound. Heh, he requested people to send in thier Owen Sound smack talk. Should be interesting.

[Devils'Advocate]

I like the show and it along with the Daily Show are the *ONLY* television I watch (I do watch the CSI's and 24 and Lost.... but only on DVD).

I don't like running gags though.... it gets too repetive. For example 1-800-OOPS-JEW. He had to explain the joke 5 times in one week. I don't mind the running gags that don't need to be explained, like "Bears" on the threat-down, but 1-800-OOPS-JEW required a 45 second set-up time each time he did the gag.

[troutman]

Rolling Stone Cover Story on Colbert and Stewart:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/cov...ericas_anchors

[Maritime Q-Scout]

I was Colbert for Halloween, love the show