The Return of Stephen Colbert Is Almost Imminent

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If you’ve been jonesing for some Colbert, here at last is your fix — from the new Late Show website.

(Unfortunately from a techie standpoint, the video uses Flash, so you may not be able to watch it on a mobile device.)

UPDATE at 6/4/15 5:28:50 pm by Charles Johnson

The video is now at YouTube, and mobile users will now be able to watch it as well.

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53 comments
1 bratwurst  Jun 3, 2015 5:12:10pm

I suppose that saying “this show won’t be as good as the old show” would be the equivalent of posting “FIRST!” in this thread.

Let’s all accept that this is almost certain to be the case. Now let’s also remind ourselves that Stephen is (quite unlike Jon Stewart) an excellent interviewer, and many of his interviews were basically done out of character.

I am looking forward to the show, but wonder how easy it will be for CBS to re-assemble an audience after 16 weeks of crime drama repeats in that time slot.

2 Charles Johnson  Jun 3, 2015 5:23:36pm

re: #1 bratwurst

I think it might be pretty great, actually! Colbert is nothing if not creative, and I think he’ll come up with some interesting new takes on the late night talk show format. Let’s face it, the format needs some fresh blood.

3 Charles Johnson  Jun 3, 2015 5:25:17pm

This is one of those days when the purity police are being very irritating on Twitter.

4 Charles Johnson  Jun 3, 2015 5:26:20pm

Just unfollowed somebody ranting about evolution being a product of white privilege. Please. Yes, white privilege exists. But come the fuck on.

5 psddluva4evah  Jun 3, 2015 5:26:55pm

UGH!!!!! Excuse my language…but in the words of my young nephew…Ted Cruz is a punk ass bitch!

6 b.d.  Jun 3, 2015 5:26:55pm

I hope Fallon is enjoying his time as #1 while he still has it.

7 Charles Johnson  Jun 3, 2015 5:28:57pm

re: #5 psddluva4evah

Ladies and gentlemen, witness the scumbag in its natural habitat. It’s no wonder Chuck Johnson was so smitten with Ted Cruz.

8 ObserverArt  Jun 3, 2015 5:31:08pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

I think it might be pretty great, actually! Colbert is nothing if not creative, and I think he’ll come up with some interesting new takes on the late night talk show format. Let’s face it, the format needs some fresh blood.

I hope you are right. I sorta have grown away from late night talk shows over the past ten years or so. The shifts of Conan really put me off. Now I forget, sadly, that Conan exists and I used to love him for having great guitar-driven rock bands on his old NBC show.

I do agree Colbert is very creative. It wouldn’t surprise me if he is going to be a bit like his old show in that he may have parts of his talk show that are send ups or mockeries of talk show cliches.

9 teleskiguy  Jun 3, 2015 5:32:09pm

Hey darthstar, check this out.

10 Gus  Jun 3, 2015 5:35:44pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Just unfollowed somebody ranting about evolution being a product of white privilege. Please. Yes, white privilege exists. But come the fuck on.

Wut? DM me.

11 ObserverArt  Jun 3, 2015 5:36:40pm

re: #7 Charles Johnson

Ladies and gentlemen, witness the scumbag in its natural habitat. It’s no wonder Chuck Johnson was so smitten with Ted Cruz.

I hope the jerk is burnt toast by the time the elections are over next November. He has the capabilities to get even staunch GOPers sick of his act.
And he will only have himself to blame. Hopefully he even wears his welcome out in Texas and has to leave the national scene.

12 Charles Johnson  Jun 3, 2015 5:37:33pm
13 darthstar  Jun 3, 2015 5:38:10pm

re: #9 teleskiguy

Hey darthstar, check this out.

I’ve listened to it. It’s good.

14 Gus  Jun 3, 2015 5:38:34pm

re: #12 Charles Johnson

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15 darthstar  Jun 3, 2015 5:38:59pm

re: #13 darthstar

I’ve listened to it. It’s good.

Traditionally called “Dead Air” on tapes.

16 Tigger2  Jun 3, 2015 5:41:18pm

re: #14 Gus

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Ted Cruz’s is a despicable SOB. If he is the poster-boy of Christian values, I want none of it.

17 Charles Johnson  Jun 3, 2015 5:41:32pm

re: #14 Gus

Yup, that’s who these people are. I consider Ted Cruz a sociopath much like Chuck Johnson. Ostensibly intelligent but narcissistic and devoid of empathy.

18 bratwurst  Jun 3, 2015 5:41:45pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

I think it might be pretty great, actually! Colbert is nothing if not creative, and I think he’ll come up with some interesting new takes on the late night talk show format. Let’s face it, the format needs some fresh blood.

I am a big fan, and I am certain I will find this show much more to my taste than any of the other current late night shows.

Having said that, I am holding out no hope whatsoever for innovation of any kind. Letterman twisted and bended the format more than anyone in history at NBC, but by the time he arrived in the earlier slot at CBS, he almost stopped doing anything out of the ordinary. Part of that was specific to his evolution into a curmudgeonly old man, but I guarantee it also had to do with the significant pressures that go along with a higher profile show.

If you want to credit the relative lameness of Letterman’s CBS run to burn out, keep in mind that Colbert is actually 5 years OLDER than Dave was when he started The Late Show!

19 b_sharp  Jun 3, 2015 5:42:03pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Just unfollowed somebody ranting about evolution being a product of white privilege. Please. Yes, white privilege exists. But come the fuck on.

I see that a lot. For some reason there are people who believe evolution is all about racism.

20 Dave In Austin  Jun 3, 2015 5:42:11pm
21 Belafon  Jun 3, 2015 5:42:24pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Just unfollowed somebody ranting about evolution being a product of white privilege. Please. Yes, white privilege exists. But come the fuck on.

If you’re going to go that far, computers are a product of white privilege. Get off the internet everyone.

22 darthstar  Jun 3, 2015 5:43:47pm

Sadly, Ted Cruz’s behavior will only help him in the primary.

23 b.d.  Jun 3, 2015 5:44:14pm

re: #14 Gus

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Cruz is a POS but let’s not forget his audience is a bunch of miserable, horrid, inhuman jerks who probably laughed.

24 Gus  Jun 3, 2015 5:45:22pm
25 bratwurst  Jun 3, 2015 5:46:52pm

re: #24 Gus

Credit where credit is due: he didn’t go the whole “if I offended anybody” route!

26 Gus  Jun 3, 2015 5:47:14pm
27 Charles Johnson  Jun 3, 2015 5:48:45pm
28 HappyWarrior  Jun 3, 2015 5:48:52pm

Still an ass. He knows better.

29 HappyWarrior  Jun 3, 2015 5:49:13pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

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Exactly.

30 HappyWarrior  Jun 3, 2015 5:49:39pm

re: #22 darthstar

Sadly, Ted Cruz’s behavior will only help him in the primary.

Yeah the base eats this shit for breakfast.

31 #FergusonFireside  Jun 3, 2015 5:50:20pm

Excellent news!

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32 darthstar  Jun 3, 2015 5:51:51pm

re: #24 Gus

33 teleskiguy  Jun 3, 2015 5:52:58pm

So, I won a contest on Twitter yesterday and got a tour of Red Rocks Amphitheater’s backstage area before a screening of great stupid movie Super Troopers. One of the writer/actors involved was there (the “meow” guy) and we got some photos and got to schmooze onstage while a band was playing.

Caption: Can I get a picture right meow?

Yeah, that’s me in one of I think four green rooms. Cavernous in every sense of the word.

The tour culminated with a gander at the walls of the tunnel that leads from the backstage area to the soundboard area in front of the stage, underneath the crowd.

Artists write their names on the wall in this stairwell if they’ve played onstage at Red Rocks. There were too numerous acts I found I couldn’t take a whole lot of pictures. A who’s who, as it were, of rock and popular music.

34 Charles Johnson  Jun 3, 2015 5:53:01pm
35 ObserverArt  Jun 3, 2015 5:53:09pm

I watched Meet the Press Sunday because Ohio’s John Kasich was on. Before answering Todd’s first question he stopped and offered condolences to Joe Biden and said in spite of the politics, he liked Joe Biden and mentioned how Joe had been through more tough times than anyone he knew. He almost seemed like he was going to choke up when he said it.

Kasich can be a real prick a lot of times, and then he gets times when he is human.

Cruz…not so much, so I don’t take his apology serious because he deliberately said what he said…it was no mistake slip of the tongue. Sorry Ted, you are known as an ass.

36 b.d.  Jun 3, 2015 5:53:35pm

Sen. Cruz apologized on Facebook & Twitter, I wonder if he has called the Vice President to apologize?

37 b.d.  Jun 3, 2015 5:53:47pm

re: #32 darthstar

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well said

38 goddamnedfrank  Jun 3, 2015 5:53:59pm

This is what really irritates me about people like Cruz, they can’t even apologize like adults without sliding in a little stank on the side.

39 HappyWarrior  Jun 3, 2015 5:54:19pm

re: #34 Charles Johnson

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He showed what he meant to do when he walked away when asked. Glad he apologized but he’s a punk ass.

40 HappyWarrior  Jun 3, 2015 5:54:39pm

re: #36 b.d.

Sen. Cruz apologized on Facebook & Twitter, I wonder if he has called the Vice President to apologize?

This is a good point too.

41 unproven innocence  Jun 3, 2015 5:56:47pm

re: #19 b_sharp

I see that a lot. For some reason there are people who believe evolution is all about racism.

Prior to the publication of Origin of Species, the biggest rift in the friendship between Darwin and Robert Fitzroy was over Fitzroy’s decision to forcibly transport several natives of S. America to England in order that they could be educated, Christianized and civilized. Reference: Three Men of the Beagle by Richard Lee Marks.

42 darthstar  Jun 3, 2015 5:57:36pm

Ted Cruz will be fundraising off this apology in 24 hours.

43 Charles Johnson  Jun 3, 2015 5:57:59pm

re: #33 teleskiguy

I’ve played there a couple of times, and been in that backstage area. A really unique concert venue. Unfortunately I never signed that wall!

44 HappyWarrior  Jun 3, 2015 5:58:07pm

re: #42 darthstar

Ted Cruz will be fundraising off this apology in 24 hours.

I sadly will not be surprised if that happens.

45 teleskiguy  Jun 3, 2015 5:58:33pm

re: #33 teleskiguy

I also spotted Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Tom Petty, Grateful Dead, Radiohead, Phish, Slayer, Primus. John Mayer got greedy and took up a whole step. Well, the steps were powerwashed last fall, so you can barely see his name now. Like I said, too numerous to photo them all, and too numerous to list here!

46 teleskiguy  Jun 3, 2015 6:01:15pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

I’ve played there a couple of times, and been in that backstage area. A really unique concert venue. Unfortunately I never signed that wall!

Was it with Al Jarreau in 1982 by chance? They have the wall in front of the catering area that lists every performance on that stage since 1902. Here’s 1982, the year I was born. Al’s on that list.

47 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 3, 2015 6:04:07pm

I’m off to count sheep…

niterz, lizardz!

48 Maddies Mom  Jun 3, 2015 6:08:29pm

re: #33 teleskiguy

You’re totes adorbs! (but you need some sun on those legs!)

49 CleverToad  Jun 3, 2015 6:09:20pm

re: #45 teleskiguy

My husband is now sitting here reminiscing about the old Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin. Right before they shut it down, he got a chance to look around — writing down all the graffiti in the performers’ bathrooms, after they auctioned off the bathroom doors.* Included comments from Chrissie Hynde, Annie Lenox, Bob Dylan; not to mention a poem from the Austin Ballet. ‘Why play the Met, play the Dillo. Play for the bikers, for the ballet likers…”

I am green with envy, would loooove to see the backstage at Red Rocks. It’s research for the novel!

** Correction, he says it was AFTER they auctioned the doors.

50 William Lewis  Jun 3, 2015 6:10:38pm

re: #46 teleskiguy

. Here’s 1982, the year I was born. Al’s on that list.

Class of ‘82 here… wish I could have seen that August 9 show before joining the Army in September that year.

51 teleskiguy  Jun 3, 2015 6:15:24pm

re: #48 Maddies Mom

You’re totes adorbs! (but you need some sun on those legs!)

Hey, my legs are covered up all the time, skiing and outdoor-related work means I rarely do get to wear shorts! Besides, I’m really white, sun damages my skin easily.

52 teleskiguy  Jun 3, 2015 6:24:44pm

DELETED, meant for upstairs.

53 KerFuFFler  Jun 4, 2015 12:11:14am

Colbert had me at “resandwichment”.

From 2-14 -05 (The Gates installation in Central Park):

Stewart: As our conceptual art critic, is this great art?
Stephen: Yes Jon, because like all great art it challenges what we thought we knew about the world. For instance, I used to think 21 million dollars could be used to achieve something noble, like, I don’t know, build a hospital wing. But The Gates has forced me to recontextualize my notion of what 21 million dollars can be used for, in this case, redecorating a bike path.
Stewart: So, you believe that shrouding these walkways in these orange curtains will somehow change our lives in New York?
Stephen: Oh, it’s happening already Jon. Just today I saw an installation artist take a sandwich and … and wrap it in a paper like substance, almost waxy in texture, and he kept wrapping it, and I’m not doing it justice here, he kept wrapping until he visually achieved ‘not-sandwich’, then, this is the genius part Jon, at the last minute he cut it in two, in a final act of ‘re-sandwichment’.
Stewart: So … so you had lunch at a deli?
Stephen: Ok, fine, I was at “a deli”. Ordering “lunch”. That’s how you need to think of it. “Jon”.

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