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mornelithe on 10 April 2014

Announced this morning, Stephen Colbert has signed a 5 year contract with CBS to replace David Letterman on the Tonight Show, in 2015.

Wasn't expecting it, myself.  I can imagine the money's better, but Colbert had built quite a following with his person on the Colbert Report.  It's unfortunate, since this is likely the end of the Colbert Report...but good luck to him anyway!

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/04/10/stephen-colbert-announced-as-david-lettermans-replacement?utm_campaign=ign+main+twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

 



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vivster on 10 April 2014

Great for Colbert, great for CBS, devastating for Colbert Report fans :(

I just hope he will keep at least a bit of his satire in the new format.



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TruckOSaurus on 10 April 2014

I don't think I've ever seen Stephen Colbert out of his Colbert Report persona (which he already had when he was a correspondant on the Daily Show). It'll be interesting to see how this turns out.



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mornelithe on 10 April 2014
TruckOSaurus said:
I don't think I've ever seen Stephen Colbert out of his Colbert Report persona (which he already had when he was a correspondant on the Daily Show). It'll be interesting to see how this turns out.

There's a number of youtube videos where he's his true self.  The stage interview with Neil Degrasse Tyson was pretty natural.



mornelithe on 10 April 2014
Miguel_Zorro said:
I realized recently that there are a lot of people out there who don't get that Stephen Colbert is satire.

Yeah, there's many folks who completely missed that boat.



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kitler53 on 10 April 2014

wtf!?!? but colbert report???



mornelithe on 10 April 2014
kitler53 said:
wtf!?!? but colbert report???

I know, the Colbert Report is awesome.  So much better than Late Night talk shows.



famousringo on 10 April 2014

Stephen Colbert has basically been telling the same joke and keeping it funny for ten years. Probably good that he finds a new joke before we come to our collective senses, rise up, and cast out the blowhard pundits he's made a career of lampooning.

That's still on, right? We're still gonna do that?



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kitler53 on 10 April 2014
mornelithe said:
kitler53 said:
wtf!?!? but colbert report???

I know, the Colbert Report is awesome.  So much better than Late Night talk shows.


yeah this really pisses me off.  i mean i guess this make colbert more "accessible" but there is no way he'll be able to really "be himself" on late night like he was on colbert.   we're trading in unique, comedy gold for more generic PC-friendly bullshit comedy.  i'm soo disappointed right now.



mornelithe on 10 April 2014
famousringo said:
Stephen Colbert has basically been telling the same joke and keeping it funny for ten years. Probably good that he finds a new joke before we come to our collective senses, rise up, and cast out the blowhard pundits he's made a career of lampooning.

That's still on, right? We're still gonna do that?

Can't really say it's his fault, he's just commenting on what politicians are giving him.  That our politicians are like broken records, is the more concerning issue heh.