Hoo boy, second night was a little bit rougher.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 10 September 2015 04:58 (eight years ago) link
Kendrick fucking slayed it though!
Yes and yes.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Thursday, 10 September 2015 12:41 (eight years ago) link
I just watched Kendrick's performance and holy shit
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Thursday, 10 September 2015 15:15 (eight years ago) link
the sketchy CBS stream i was using blew up just before he came on so i missed it.
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Thursday, 10 September 2015 15:25 (eight years ago) link
It was on the Kendrick thread, I'll repost because it should really be put on every thread (and also every music school's curriculum):
http://pitchfork.com/news/61137-kendrick-lamar-performs-to-pimp-a-butterfly-medley-on-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Thursday, 10 September 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
that may be a candidate for Is there such thing as a good medley? !
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Thursday, 10 September 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
I could not help but contrast that performance against a sixth installment of two dweebs purporting to teach the history of rap.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Thursday, 10 September 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link
wow that was nuts
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 10 September 2015 15:43 (eight years ago) link
(TV nerdery: Some really nice editing and shot selections throughout, too.)
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Thursday, 10 September 2015 15:51 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, the low-shot from behind Lamar, looking at the ceiling, that one will be used again on this show.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 10 September 2015 15:55 (eight years ago) link
I hope sparingly.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Thursday, 10 September 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
I dunno, they seem pretty proud of that ceiling.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 10 September 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
his habit of interrupting guests was cute, or at least made sense, when he was in character as right-wind blowhard "Stephen Colbert"
but it just seems like a nervous habit no. I think Scarlett Johansson actually had to say something like "I was saying..." twice.
the segment w/ clooney was an odd situation where two very smart people, who you'd think would be good talkers, failed to find any way of engaging meaningfully, or even entertainingly, with each other.
i'm guessing he'll look over his performance and course correct. because i doubt too many guests are going to want to come on his show only to be talked over every time colbert thinks he has something clever to add.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 10 September 2015 21:00 (eight years ago) link
i found watching the interview segments a little uncomfortable, in the way that watching any interaction where one person isn't following the "rules" of conversational turns-taking is a little uncomfortable. maybe as a teacher i'm hyper-conscious of this stuff. and it might just be first-week nerves. (lord knows when i'm nervous i tend to talk over people.)
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 10 September 2015 21:03 (eight years ago) link
His desk is too big to do interviews there. They need a separate nook with two chairs or something like the Report had. With that desk, the guest feels a mile away.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 10 September 2015 23:17 (eight years ago) link
otm. Set should be more like this:https://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr52vz6yrp1r2i7nxo1_500.jpg
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 10 September 2015 23:47 (eight years ago) link
or this:https://31.media.tumblr.com/adb03c3fcdb978f528045631357b4729/tumblr_n6rrgrtJyl1td73xio1_400.gif
― Gett Off, Eileen (WilliamC), Friday, 11 September 2015 00:05 (eight years ago) link
http://www.blazermediagroup.com/images/susskindBrooks.jpg
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 September 2015 01:51 (eight years ago) link
he interrupted biden horribly a couple of times
― nose, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:00 (eight years ago) link
generally enjoying this though
He did, but he also gave him long periods of time to go full Joe Biden.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:04 (eight years ago) link
Even the interview with the Uber guy was a lot more competent than the one with Elon Musk the night before. I guess there's gonna be up nights and down nights for a while until everyone settles in, but the difference between Wednesday night's show and Thursday night's show was huge.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link
I'm never gonna see this show (my job requires me to get up at 5:30 AM, so watching late night talk shows would be out of the question even if I wanted to), but the story behind that Uber interview is interesting.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 11 September 2015 15:09 (eight years ago) link
Whoa.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:21 (eight years ago) link
That's great. Has Colbert always been a great human being? I bet he'll write an incredible memoir one day.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:23 (eight years ago) link
he's been really grossly smarmy in interviews, i find it really off putting. intermittently there will be a jolt of old colbert but otherwise he's so overly gushing. it's bad.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 11 September 2015 15:36 (eight years ago) link
so the CBS computers kept crashing as they were editing Tuesday night, and premiere almost didn't air on time. That woulda been nagl.
all shows take some time to find themselves, sez me who hasn't seen a minute of this
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 September 2015 15:38 (eight years ago) link
intermittently there will be a jolt of old colbert but otherwise he's so overly gushing
I'm sure they're all trying to make a point and they want those not familiar with Colbert to see him as an approachable friendly person. But Fallon's got the ass-kissing nice guy market cornered so it'd be better for Colbert to continue playing the smartest guy in the room.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Friday, 11 September 2015 15:54 (eight years ago) link
xp That's true, and I'm sure the show will find a nice groove before long.
I think the thing that's making me most uncomfortable about it is the set. There's way too much going on. Catwalks, spiral staircases, nooks and coves and a smaller-than-usual alley between the desk set and the band set where the monologue takes place. It feels claustrophobic and maze-like.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:58 (eight years ago) link
maybe Colbert will be the one to take down Trump. guesting later in sept
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 11 September 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Friday, September 11, 2015 10:36 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah i think i get this. like during the jeb interview he said something like "there is a non-zero chance that i would vote for you" and then said nearly the same thing in the thursday night monologue. also maybe a calculated attempt to distance the new character from the old but definitely self-important/off putting.
― nose, Friday, 11 September 2015 17:08 (eight years ago) link
He also said "On the last show I played a narcissistic conservative, now I just play a narcissist."
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 11 September 2015 17:31 (eight years ago) link
That non-zero chance bit is a favorite with some engineer types. But negative numbers are also non-zero.
― Aimless, Friday, 11 September 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link
i'm not asking him to be letterman or something but i feel like colbert swung hard back in the other direction and it really doesn't even seem genuine to me. i dunno maybe i'm just being really coldhearted but the solemness of the biden interview was laid on soooooooo thick.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 11 September 2015 17:50 (eight years ago) link
but also like, he had on the uber guy and started off by telling this glowing story about the first time he got an uber, it was just weird and uncrticial and based in the sort of fantasy land that colbert existed to puncture! with fallon it's one thing because he came from a different arm of comedy, there should not really be an expectation of him doing prickly interviews that might actually illuminate an issue relevant to the world. and fallon doesn't even really have those sorts of people on. but colbert has purposefully loaded his first week with politicians and businessmen who to some extent control the future of the world and to what end has that produced literally anything worthwhile? to bring those people on and then kiss their ass really serves no purpose. if you're gonna do the happy go lucky late night thing just have on celebrities and keep it moving.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 11 September 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
Nah you can still celeb pander and hold a network talk show wo stooping to Fallon levels of grovelling.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 11 September 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link
maybe Kissinger on his CC show was an omen
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 September 2015 18:23 (eight years ago) link
was deeply moving to see biden struggle with his grief.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 11 September 2015 19:02 (eight years ago) link
sorry, that wasn't in response to anything above, just a stray note.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 11 September 2015 19:03 (eight years ago) link
Not sure I see an issue with Colbert being acerbic with a politician on the campaign trail, empathetic with a public figure undergoing grief, and nonsensical with movie stars who don't have anything to promote.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Friday, 11 September 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
he wasn't acerbic with jeb bush though -- he told him he might vote for him!!
― J0rdan S., Friday, 11 September 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
In the same sense Jim Carrey has a chance with Lauren Holly in Dumb and Dumber.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Friday, 11 September 2015 19:13 (eight years ago) link
And I see him inviting entrepreneurs onto this high-profile first week as a move toward elevating them to celebrity status, and surreptitiously cutting business-as-usual movie stars down to size (tho mentioning Darfur to Clooney and then not giving him a chance to actually say anything about it was nagl).
Also, that Kendrick Lamar set.
the biden thing, whatever. i dunno. it wasn't the subject of the interview but the fawning. he kept saying things like "service to your country" that just give me the willies
― J0rdan S., Friday, 11 September 2015 19:13 (eight years ago) link
But I'll grant that we're asking for some level of personality consistency from the man behind the desk because that's almost literally the only one important thing a late show host has to provide.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Friday, 11 September 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
Somehow it passed me by until now that Colbert teaches Sunday School. Is that a detail that was fed to the media in this image makeover campaign?
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Friday, 11 September 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link
xp yeah during the jeb interview there was a point where he was really needling him about his motto in a funny way and walked him right into a huge laugh line but then the rest of the interview was like, "jeb i feel like you can fix the scourge of partisanship in washington"
― J0rdan S., Friday, 11 September 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link
I didn't get that sense (e.g. "you do know Vito Corleone was the villain right?") but then again I know plenty of people who think Colbert dumping a vat Sabra hummus over Jeb's head would've been a fair and balanced interview.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Friday, 11 September 2015 19:18 (eight years ago) link
i guess i'm not looking for him to necessarily filet the guy, i think the bigger problem is that his serious questions aren't even interesting. to jeb: "why do you want to be president?" to biden: "how did your faith help you?"
― J0rdan S., Friday, 11 September 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link
Death to America. pic.twitter.com/StY5SgZ3ru— Malcolm Harris (@BigMeanInternet) September 18, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 September 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
may we celebrate Indictmas henceforth every halloween eve :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbXO52kWT9g
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 31 October 2017 15:03 (six years ago) link
Jimmy Carter rules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQR5G3kvfNQ
― Eris (Ross), Sunday, 1 April 2018 07:38 (six years ago) link
returned to a live audience last night. man, his shtick works so much better in front of a crowd.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 18:44 (two years ago) link
It's going to be such a shock when John Oliver is once again getting consistently interrupted with whoops and hollers.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link