The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

[All-American]

Colbert to replace letterman.

[falafel]

I like that.

[Sullyute]

I think Colbert is hilarious, but I don't know if his schtick (sp?) appeals to a wider audience (i.e. republicans and older people).

[beefytee]

Does this mean he ditches his conservative news anchor personality?

[MarkGrace]

Interesting

[YOhio]

I think Colbert will probably be more friendly to Republicans than Letterman, who was just an angry old liberal these last few years.

[smokymountainrain]

Simmons had it on Tuesday

In retrospect, NBC played the chess board brilliantly. After Kimmel started stealing younger viewers from the creaky Jay/Dave corner, NBC moved proactively, sending Leno packing and leveraging February’s Winter Olympics into weeks of mega-attention and mega-promotion for a Leno-to-Fallon transition. When you include the Lorne Michaels/SNL/A-list celebrity infrastructure already in place, Fallon had an overwhelmingly good chance to succeed from day one. (If there’s been a lost story line here, it’s that Conan O’Brien squandered those same advantages four years ago. Instead of staying in New York with Lorne, he moved to California and stupidly left the Lorne Machine behind.) Now we’re already thinking about the Next Next Guy — within 12 hours of Letterman’s stunning announcement, names like Tina Fey, Neil Patrick Harris, Ellen DeGeneres and even Conan were being thrown around for his job. I will spare you the suspense — it’s going to be Colbert. Well, unless he has three more Twitter debacles or something. He’s getting that job.

http://grantland.com/features/david-letterman-retires-cbs/

[MarkGrace]

Does this mean he ditches his conservative news anchor personality?

I would think he'd have to.

[All-American]

I would think he'd have to.

He's had that character so long one wonders what he would be like without it.

Or maybe that will be CBS's big reveal: Colbert actually means every word of it.

[All-American]

Simmons had it on Tuesday



http://grantland.com/features/david-...n-retires-cbs/

Interesting perspective. My first thought was that CBS just took NBC to the cleaners.

[All-American]

He will NOT be in character.

[wally]

This will be interesting. I like Colbert WAY more than Fallon.

[Moliere]

This will be an interesting experiment. Colbert is, IMO, one of the best comedians at thinking on his feet....especially in his interviews. He's fabulous at his current schtick, but I have no idea how that will translate over to a Late Show type of media. I for one hope he succeeds massively because I love his stuff. I won't be watching him though, because I don't really watch any late night TV. I've found that watching clips posted on FB of those shows by others help me weed out the boring sketches from the good ones.

[Green Monstah]

I love Colbert, but this is going to be a train wreck.

[falafel]

I love Colbert, but this is going to be a train wreck.

He's a great interviewer. What makes you think he'll suck?