So I missed the very first episode of “The Colbert Report” (it is still on the TiVo), but caught the next two. And so far I’ve enjoyed it. Last night, Scott & I watched the episode together and I laughed more. This is very unusual in our household. Generally I find stuff less funny that he does.
Ezra has a point, though:
It is much tougher to sustain. What’s great about Stewart is..well..Stewart. He seems like our voice in the media. A sane, intelligent, skeptical, well-meaning paladin for the people. We like to watch him because his interviews and humor bring us in on the jokes. Colbert, on the other hand, is the joke, trapped in a self-consciously disagreeable persona for the duration of his program.
And this is very much why I was worried for the show before it aired. But so far he has not laid it on as thickly as he did in his “Daily Show” segments. Color me pleased and hopeful.