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- CBS
- Sep 8, 2015
- CBS
- Sep 8, 2015
- CBS
- Sep 8, 2015
- CBS
- Sep 8, 2015
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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81% Positive
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19% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
72
81% Positive
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
19% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Colbert is on his quest to find his authentic self. Thankfully, so far it's fun to watch. Can it be what America needs, to process the day's events? Late Show now, officially, feels like a real option.
User Score
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Based on 93 User Ratings
5.8
56% Positive
52 Ratings
52 Ratings
10% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
34% Negative
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 93 User Ratings
5.8
56% Positive
52 Ratings
52 Ratings
10% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
34% Negative
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
This is smart comedy, interesting comedy. Fallon is a bit mindless, simple gags over and over again. Colbert is lightning quick in interviews and pretty relatable.
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SEASON 1
Overall, this was a good start.... The show was rushed, the commercialism troubling, the interviews a mixed bag. But no one looks for perfection the first night--just signs, and they were mostly positive Tuesday.
Colbert’s first episode generally stuck to late-night conventions--the monologue, banter from behind a desk, interviews, and band were all present and accounted for--but it tweaked and teased them in heartening ways, especially for a debut. The show looked and felt like late night, but a more wild, antic, theatrical version, especially once Colbert got off his feet and got behind that desk.
He was overeager, a tad hyper, and trying to do too many things at once. But after a bumpy start, Colbert seemed to gain in confidence as the show wore on.
He'll need to relax a bit: As you might expect, given the stakes and the hype, he seemed a bit over-caffeinated. But calm will almost certainly come with time.... Colbert's chat with Clooney felt oddly stilted, with uncertain transitions from serious topics to prearranged comedy. He actually seemed more at ease with his second guest, Governor Bush.
The monologue had some fairly tired jokes about being at CBS (even the bit where Les Moonves kept switching the telecast over to "Mentalist" scenes evoked Conan O'Brien's old "Walker Texas Ranger" Lever gag), both Colbert and George Clooney struggled to feign interest in their interview, and even the livelier conversation with Jeb Bush suffered from being so heavily edited.... His take on the format wasn't boring--the opening credits, which made Manhattan look like the world's largest dollhouse, and the music of Jon Batiste and Stay Human, were both marvelous--but nor was it exciting enough to make me set a season pass for the kind of show I long since lost interest in.
It's a mixture of art and psychology to entertain, laugh, think and make sense at the same time. Stephen Colbert and the writers do this so well in their shows making people enjoy realistic & real world comedy - not by performing just hypothetical, anecdotal and idiosyncratic content like in usual comedy routines. I see some Fox users have written reviews too. I'm surprised they are awake for Late Show.
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SEASON 1
It is a real shame that CBS is trying to make Colbert fit into a format that is obviously not reflective of his style. Hopefully the network will allow him the latitude to develop the show in a direction which is better suited to his comic style and obvious intellect. In the premiere episode the mini skit with the network executive sitting at a desk with a giant switch to kill the show is probably very reflective of the reality behind the shows programming.
Hey CBS - let Colbert develop his own format.
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SEASON 1
Guess I am in the minority because I actually liked David Letterman. Granted he slowed down but so would a lot of people after 32 years.
Colbert on the other hand doesn’t entertain or inform me like Letterman did; although his interview with Vice President Joe Biden was excellent.
Has anyone else noticed that Colbert’s set looks like a copy of Jimmy Fallon’s from The Tonight Show?
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SEASON 1
I saw nothing original or fresh that Fallon and Kimmel or even Letterman haven't already tried and more successfully. It was a struggle to crack a smile for the majority of the debut show. The largess of the production, staging and the frenetic, over-caffeinated host might want to remind himself this is late night television that is often consumed in bed. Perhaps monologues are not a particular strength of Mr. Colbert so maybe that device should be ditched altogether. The Clooney interview was amazingly dull as was the ensuing painfully unfunny sketch involving Clooney. I would have enjoyed more banter and sarcasm with Jeb Bush. I''ll tune in a few more times since it is unfair to judge anything just based on one episode but this loyal Colbert Report viewer was not at all impressed at this over hyped premiere. The talk show host as shameless advertising shill is commonplace in late night with Kimmel and his sidekick, Guillermo typically eliciting the most laughs. Colbert's attempt was "meh"
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SEASON 1
I was hoping and praying for some insightful humor and commentary - I did not see any. Really wanted a m ore cerebral alternative to Fallon and Kimmel who are way too ****, not getting the sense this is going to work on any level. I grew up with Carson and was a fan of Leno, no heir apparent in any of the current offerings in my opinion. I will give it a few more tries however.
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