Stephen Colbert has a new show!

thanks. i'll keep it in mind. i'm currently scared of bitTorrent.

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I like that he's staying in character but NOT in that Jiminy Glick way, god no. It makes things like the interaction btwn the stage manager and Colbert pretty great, yet the viewer doesn't feel left out of the joke. A weird balance of laughing at and laughing with.

haha, "babies", yes - xpost

Without Colbert, Rocca, Carell, less Lewis Black, no more Esquire sex columnist, etc. I don't have a lot of interest in watching the Daily Show.

Also:

http://img445.imageshack.us/img445/2088/colbertreport29qx.jpg

...and when the guest made his entrance, it was Colbert running across the studio waving to camera whilst the guest was already sat down so you could hardly see him. Genius.

ooh, anthony said a dirty word

That was definitely the joke and I thought it was hilarious! Stone Phillips looked genuinely uncomfortable milling around in the dark.

Yeah, but is it a joke you can do every night? I want them to get all those jokes out of their system and see what they do then. (And yes, I could listen to Colbert enunciate all day.)

"The Word" reminds me of Kevin Nealon's Subliminal Man character.

>a faux-O'Reilly is way better comedy material than a liberal who reacts to news clips by making funny noises and bugging his eyes out.<

You guys just hate pure comedy, right?

I've only seen the first 2, but the Savannah congressdork is one of the funnier things Colbert has ever done. That kind of sadism needs a worthy target to work, and he had one.

Making these TV-news guests look like 'good sports' is insidious. (Leslie Stahl balking at SC's perceptive comment that Nixon was in many ways to the left of John Kerry: omigod, don't rip the curtain away from our pretense...)

Hmm. I dunno.

This guy made a salient point: "Even Bill O'Reilly knows that Bill O'Reilly is already a caricature, and even a fan of Colbert's preening idiot routine can start feeling claustrophobic after a whole 22 minutes of it." That simpering eunuch Aaron Brown seems more parodyable (tho I'd assume the SNL guy's version is toothless).

I used to find Hardwick incredibly annoying, but I guess a couple seasons of The Talking Dead have softened him up for me. That said I can still see why his persona would be irritating. Just remember we still live in a world where The Big Bang Theory is the most successful sitcom...

yeah...*hangs head down low*

Is there any other way to prove yourself a legit nerd in nerdy culture BESIDES dropping references?

yes, you make something new that nerds like.

I understand it's nagl to police who can be a nerd. I don't even identify as a nerd. But if you try to make money by appealing to a 'nerd audience' you should be making something new that speaks to that audience, rather than just making references to that audience's canon. You can drop some references while having a conversation with some nerds and that is fine because you aren't selling them anything.

Hardwick's personality is causes a wide range of reactions. I generally dig much of what he does, but his style is so distinctive it can be easily mocked.

I really enjoyed his interview with Andrea Romano, someone I believe never gets enough credit for what she was able to achieve:

http://www.nerdist.com/pepisode/nerdist-podcast-andrea-romano

Hardwick is probably pulled by two different sides of nerddom, one being comics/sci-fi and the other one being standup/comedy (the latter has a very devoted, judgmental and intense fanbase as well).

xp yeah, Romano is amazing. I should give that a listen.

Listening now. It's really really good.

Is there any other way to prove yourself a legit nerd in nerdy culture BESIDES dropping references?

Hardwick never seems to know anything about what he's referencing, just that he's learnt references from somewhere and has an idea of when to shout them

^^^ guy comes off like an idiot to me

Who doesn't though

You really don't think he's authentic? I never suspected it was an act.

I guess this kinda explains it all

I knew that I had two choices: I could continue living the way I was living and die pickled and unemployed, or make sweeping changes with the hope of salvaging my life. It occurred to me that I had arrogantly banished all the nerd qualities that defined me as a youth. I distinctly remembered that I once had the ability to focus intensely on many things. Programming computers, winning chess tournaments, playing videogames, collecting action figures, Dungeons & Dragon-ing, ruining the bell curve in Latin class. I needed to reconnect with that past and find a way to harness those nerd powers to turn my life around. They had to be useful for something other than frightening girls away by deconstructing the character of Tron as a Christ figure.

I think I sense this desperation in each reference and that is what puts me off.

Also, I dig @midnight just for the amazing guest roster of comics & improv-types

Every episode with Bret Gelman and/or Ron Funches is worth yr time

that's an interesting article by Hardwick, I didn't know any of that about him. can definitely relate too much to it *cries*

watched the debut of Nightly Show - p good! I approve of the panel/Bill Maher format w/out Bill Maher. Not interested in a nother late night show trotting out people peddling books and bad movies.

Yeah, Nightly Show will keep getting better, but it started really strong imo. Was surprised the Keep it 100 segment seems to be an every night thing rather than an occasional thing.

best-of clips up on the comedy central website

(they are also streaming the whole of the daily show for the next 42 days apparently)

last week i went looking for clips. there were a few, sorted by year. - http://www.cc.com/shows/the-colbert-report

today i went looking for clips and there were 9974 sorted by season. that'll do. - http://www.cc.com/shows/the-colbert-report/video-guide

Colbert suggested the other day that the 2 best prog bands are Yes and Steely Dan

I shouldn't get mad about this but I am