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On the night that CBS announced a replacement for Late Show with David Letterman in the coming year, there was no new Late Show to comment on the news. Letterman already had taken the night off Thursday, having been pre-empted 15 minutes anyhow by annual late-night highlights of the Masters …
CBS announced Stephen Colbert will replace David Letterman as its late-night TV host when Letterman retires in 2015. “Stephen Colbert is one of the most inventive and respected forces on television,” CBS Chairman and CEO Les Moonves said in a statement Thursday. “David Letterman’s legacy and accomplishments are an incredible …
When David Letterman announced his intention last week to retire from the Late Show on CBS and all of the late-night TV wars that have come with his career, everyone who had access to the Internet posted a Top 10 List of possible replacements for him. Many even went with a …
Because people neither understand nor want to understand context within satire — particularly when it’s constrained by 140 characters on Twitter — #CancelColbert was a movement of “hashtag activism” that missed its mark by failing to aim for the true target. I’ll let Stephen Colbert as “Stephen Colbert” respond in …
Stephen Colbert must keep up appearances as blowhard mouthpiece “Stephen Colbert” on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, but at the tail end of Monday night’s episode, “Stephen Colbert” offered that if he, in fact, were a comedian…”as a young, bookish man with glasses looking for a role model, I might …
When Jay Leno took over The Tonight Show from Johnny Carson in 1992, there was no visible late-night TV war to be waged. At 11:30 p.m. Eastern/Pacific, there was The Tonight Show, or there was Arsenio Hall. Leno’s ascension over David Letterman, however, revealed a civil war within NBC that …
In the parallel universe of “Stephen Colbert,” he attended theater camp with Buddy Cole and later hired him as a producer for The Colbert Report. We know better, that Buddy Cole is a longtime character of Kids in the Hall’s Scott Thompson, and a perfect person to report on the …
The Writers Guild of America held their annual awards in both New York City and Los Angeles on Saturday night, with Colin Quinn hosting on the East Coast, and Brad Garrett later on the West Coast. Congratulations to this year’s comedy and variety winners! COMEDY SERIES Veep, Written by Simon Blackwell, …
Blink and you may have missed it, but Stephen Colbert debuted a series of TV commercial pitches for Wonderful Pistachios during the second quarter of Super Bowl XLVIII. This is what you saw then. Roll it! But there are several more clips already online. So count your blessings as the …
Stephen Colbert wasn’t in Los Angeles on Sunday night for the Grammy Awards to win his second trophy, this time for Best Spoken Word Album. Which means, as Colbert pointed out with his first Grammy in hand on Monday night’s episode of The Colbert Report, he’s so good at speaking …
