Stephen Colbert to take over for David Letterman on the Late Show in 2015

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famousringo said:

mornelithe said:

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.

Who's blaming him? Most comedians don't have ten years of funny in them, even if they move on to new jokes. I know he has a small army of writers behind him, but keeping one joke going for ten years and about 150 episodes per year is a grueling task. He's up to almost 500 hours of onscreen douchebag punditry, not counting Daily Show and other appearances.

Makes you wonder if he'll ever really be able to free himself of the persona.

Well, I didn't really take exception to it or anything, so not a huge deal either way hah.

He's pretty good at switching persona's though, oh man, I just thought of something...maybe he'll be able to do Harvey Birdman again!  And Stranger's with Candy!

EDIT: Not sure why I thought that, come to think of it, he'll be doing more shows per year.