Donald Trump announced today he is running for President of the United States and it is a late night show’s host’s dream come true. That is unless you are someone like Stephen Colbert, who is currently between shows. So what do you do if you are him? You get your Late Show staff together and record a video mocking the Billionaire’s announcement.
September 8th can’t come soon enough for Colbert, his staff, CBS and most importantly us!
BTW how much do you want to bet, Colbert is so happy he still isn’t doing his show on Comedy Central because he would not have been able to do something like that if he was still working on The Colbert Report.
We are just over three months from the debut of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and he is already hard at work on the CBS late night show. After 6 months of torturing his family, getting to know the checkout lady at his local Rite-Aid and growing a beard; he is ready for his next job. That means, off with the Colbeard. The first thing he did when he got to his new office was turn on the video camera, hit record, say a thing or two before shaving off his friend. He didn’t do it all at once, he did it little by little and tried out new styles as he did it. Some were better than others, but the best one was the one at that end.
If this is what The Late Show is going to be like, September 8th can’t come soon enough.
Stephen Colbert has been off the air for 5 months now and it looks like he has gone through quite the transformation. Gone is the clean cut man who always wore a suit and tie and in his place is a man with a beard, a pipe and a sailor’s cap.
Arrg, I don’t know what to make of Popeye. I know he said we were going to see a different side of him when he launches his CBS late show in 3 months, but I don’t know how I feel about setting sail with him with that look. Are you aboard with it?
Comedy Central wasted no time in finding a replacement for Stephen Colbert because today they announced that The Daily Show’s Senior Black Correspondent Larry Wilmore got the job. The show will not be called The Wilmore Report, instead the show that debuts in 2015 is named The Minority Report.
Are you excited to see what he will bring to late night? I’m curious.
Stephen Colbert was on The Late Show yesterday and he talked to David Letterman about him taking over the CBS late night show sometime next year. Even though the Comedy Central host asked when Letterman’s last day is, Dave didn’t have an answer for him. So Colbert’s family will be stuck with him for longer than they hoped, according to him.
While that question wasn’t answered, Stephen did find out he will get paid for this job unlike the first one Letterman’s then NBC late night show offered him. You see back in 1986, Colbert went with his now-ex-girlfriend to interview she had for an internship at Late Night and he’s the one that got the job and she didn’t. He then turned it down because he realized that interns don’t get paid money. So he wanted to make sure that this time around he would get more than college credit. And he does!
The two men talked about a whole lot of stuff. The biggest thing I took away from it, is that Stephen Colbert is going to be an excellent replacement whenever he takes over the show in 2015.
I am sad to see Letterman go after all of this time, but I know the show is being given to someone who is the perfect fit for it. As we witnessed from his 1997 Top Ten List that he read on the show last night. That time around Colbert didn’t get the writing job on The Late Show he applied for back then. Instead he wound up with Strangers with Candy. Who knows what would’ve happened if he had taken that internship or he’d gotten the writing job? Maybe we wouldn’t be saying The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in about a year. See everything happens for a reason and that reason was to give us a suitable replacement to the man who changed late night forever.
