Stephen Colbert's Show Is Failing

[VanceMack]

Bring back the Colbert Report.

The late night show and every other show like it is boring and sucks ****.

The problem is he doesnt have Jon Stewarts program to ride on. Colbert was a schtick...at best.

 

[Henrin]

The big mistake your reference makes is this one: "The big mistake CBS made was assuming that the fact Colbert and Jon Stewart generated dedicated following among influential liberals would translate into a mass audience." The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon is every bit as liberal, and Jimmy Kimmel isn't that far behind...and Seth Meyers on the Late Show is even more so. In other words, there's more than enough of a liberal audience to justify a liberal late night talk show host...but Colbert simply just isn't able to compete with the others, especially with Jimmy Fallon who, it turns out, is not just a very good talk show host, but is also a very talented performer.

So every other show is liberal and they thought it was a great idea to put one more on the deck? :lol: Anyway, it amazes me that TV networks can't figure out that biased agenda driven **** sucks balls.

 

[yankintx]

So every other show is liberal and they thought it was a great idea to put one more on the deck? :lol: Anyway, it amazes me that TV networks can't figure out that biased agenda driven **** sucks balls.

That is why I watch Hannity once a year, it balances out CNN the rest of the year.

 

[poweRob]

The problem is he doesnt have Jon Stewarts program to ride on. Colbert was a schtick...at best.

His "schtick" ran very successfully for several years and ended only because he wanted it to.

 

[VanceMack]

His "schtick" ran very successfully for several years and ended only because he wanted it to.

It is 'schtik' nonetheless. It worked fine on Comedy Central. He's like a sort of edgy comedian that does fine filing little comedy clubs because he has an angry niche, but then when he moves to concert halls everyone is shocked that he is bombing because he is still bringing in his small angry niche audience.

 

[Reformedfindlay]

It is 'schtik' nonetheless. It worked fine on Comedy Central. He's like a sort of edgy comedian that does fine filing little comedy clubs because he has an angry niche, but then when he moves to concert halls everyone is shocked that he is bombing because he is still bringing in his small angry niche audience.

I don't consider myself a very angry person, but whatever.

 

[Glen Contrarian]

So every other show is liberal and they thought it was a great idea to put one more on the deck? :lol: Anyway, it amazes me that TV networks can't figure out that biased agenda driven **** sucks balls.

Yes, Fox News has a really terrible business model and never made any money, huh?

 

[Henrin]

Yes, Fox News has a really terrible business model and never made any money, huh?

I spoke towards all TV networks.

 

[VanceMack]

I don't consider myself a very angry person, but whatever.

Do you follow edgy comedians that play in small comedy clubs with an angry niche? Is it possible that that was an 'example' and not a description of you, per se?

 

[Reformedfindlay]

Do you follow edgy comedians that play in small comedy clubs with an angry niche? Is it possible that that was an 'example' and not a description of you, per se?

Is it possible that your example wasn't the best example and may just be wrong?

 

[VanceMack]

Is it possible that your example wasn't the best example and may just be wrong?

Far more likely that you decided to make it be about you and got butthurt along the way.

 

[Thrilla]

Louis CK is great. Don't know how well he'd do in a censored role because his strengths are with going all out against common-place sensibilities.

I prefer my comedy uncensored too... but Louis wrote for Letterman, Conan, Chris rock, and Dana Carvey shows... not to mention filling every role in his sitcom Louis on FX.....he's proven beyond a shadow of a doubt he has the goods to deliver comedy in PG, instead of R.
like i said, the interviews would be the unknown with him... but i think he can pull it off

but really, the politcal comedians need to just go away... do a couple of hours specials a year to entertain us, but having this politics thrown at us 24/7 is just bull****.

 

[Reformedfindlay]

Far more likely that you decided to make it be about you and got butthurt along the way.

Why not? Your example was of who you think follows Colbert. Since I don't match your pathetic example of what you think Colbert's audience is made of, then I don't see an issue with using myself to refute your point.

Butthurt? Far from it.

The only thing that really gets me butthurt is Homework.

 

[VanceMack]

Why not? Your example was of who you think follows Colbert. Since I don't match your pathetic example of what you think Colbert's audience is made of, then I don't see an issue with using myself to refute your point.

And here you are...STILL making a comment that was not about you be all about you...

 

[Reformedfindlay]

And here you are...STILL making a comment that was not about you be all about you...

I followed Colbert, you made a statement about his "angry niche audience." I find it reasonable to refute you using myself as an example.

Not all about me, but I was included in your statement, whether you wanted that to happen or not.

 

[Howler63]

The big mistake your reference makes is this one: "The big mistake CBS made was assuming that the fact Colbert and Jon Stewart generated dedicated following among influential liberals would translate into a mass audience." The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon is every bit as liberal, and Jimmy Kimmel isn't that far behind...and Seth Meyers on the Late Show is even more so. In other words, there's more than enough of a liberal audience to justify a liberal late night talk show host...but Colbert simply just isn't able to compete with the others, especially with Jimmy Fallon who, it turns out, is not just a very good talk show host, but is also a very talented performer.

One more thing is that they don't do politics as a shtick. They may dip their toes in it occasionally, like Johnny Carson did, but Colbert is steeped in it.

 

[VanceMack]

I followed Colbert, you made a statement about his "angry niche audience." I find it reasonable to refute you using myself as an example.

Not all about me, but I was included in your statement, whether you wanted that to happen or not.

Why dont you go back and reread the comment. The angry comic niche comment wasnt even about Colbert. It was an 'example'.

 

[Glen Contrarian]

One more thing is that they don't do politics as a shtick. They may dip their toes in it occasionally, like Johnny Carson did, but Colbert is steeped in it.

On his previous show, he certainly was...but on his current show, he's no more "steeped" in it as are the others - I know, because I DVR and watch the monologues of Fallon, Colbert, and Meyers (though not Kimmel (who is also liberal btw)) - takes about 45 minutes of watching, and it gives me a smile.

So...no, it's not because of his politics - it's because the others are simply better entertainers.

 

[Deuce]

All anti-trumppers are failing..

Colbert Report was a parody show and would have never worked with Trump.

Because you can't parody that.

 

[BloodRedKane]

This is a difficult subject.

I deeply sympathize with the 'Harvey Birdman' actor who lost his family in a plane crash.

However - I do feel his show keeps it too cosy w/ US Govmnt and connected types. His show is too loud and obnoxious like Jimmy Fallon. You feel the overt empty commercialism, too many ads, lousy music - if any - and you dont get any insight like the quiet talk of introspection of the late Tom Snyder.

It belongs on a scrap heap like the other 12 late night shows crappola. They exist for the sole purpose of selling Sony, Disney, and other studios worthless, overpriced movie tickets, or inflated price gouging arena bands - like every other aspect of unregulated capitalisms stranglehold over American pop culture and cost prohibative living standard, it has little or no real intrinsic value - it is like most things in the nation - a consequence or facet of our enslavement to the perpetual war economy, hollow laughter, empty symbolism, meaningless drivel, fruitless quests and journeys, scripted sport events rigged from beginning til end, and the pointless worship of unworthy pop icons and media fixtures. Cobert tears away the veneer and last vestiges of American respectability by showing us that he, like the chimps in his audience, and American culture in particular is defunct, raped down to the last dollar of our impoverished souls, with only tattered tapetries, fake smiles and canned phrases left to fill the void.