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Okay, this isn’t news and it isn’t particularly original, but it’s a slow day in the Colbert-verse. From Variety (internal links omitted):
TV: Mock news shows pols tough love
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By ROBERT HOFLERIt wasn’t always this way. The TV news delivered the news, and comedy was just so much sitcom fluff. Then someone learned a bad lesson from Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky’s 1976 masterpiece of media prescience, “Network,” and turned the nightly news report into entertainment.
Fortunately, the slack in political seriousness has been tightened over the years by a triumvirate of Manhattan-based TV comics. On any midweek afternoon, a political junkie in need of a laugh can jump from “Late Night With David Letterman” to “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” to “The Colbert Report,” all of which tape before live auds in midtown.
Who knew that one day Stewart and Stephen Colbert would ask more substantive questions of politicians than Charlie Gibson or George Stephanopoulos?
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For those of you reading the full piece at Variety, is it just me, or does this feel like only the start of an article? I spent a minute looking for the button to forward to the next page before realizing that that was it …
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April 22nd, 2008 at 8:40 pm
I looked for a “next” button as well. It said “‘Sex’ makes jump to bigscreens” and I was terribly confused, because… A) I think we would have heard something if these late-night hosts were involved in sex on the bigscreens, because of the sheer shock (and possible terror) at said news and… B) Sex has been in movies for years… and then I realized that it meant “Sex and the City”.
I commend you though, because from what I gather, besides the Pennsylvania primaries, it’s just a slow news day in general. It’s like the world has slowed down or something. I passed by a friend’s room and they were watching a news story about a newly invented backless bra. Though slightly interesting, not quite *news*.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 2:57 am
@Ms I: “is it just me, or does this feel like only the start of an article?”
It’s not just you. It starts out with a few paragraphs that sound like it’s going to go somewhere, and then it doesn’t.
It’s nice that they gave Stephen a few paragraphs, though. :)
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April 23rd, 2008 at 3:01 am
And a picture.
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