TV Review: 5 Reasons You Should Be Watching The Colbert Report
Published January 11, 2006
1. Stephen Colbert coined the American Dialect Society's 2005 Word of the Year: "Truthiness." Sublime, no?
2. His "On Notice" board, which lists the recipients of his threatening warnings to shape up, includes Lutherans, Grizzly Bears, The Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy, 'Business Casual,' Barbra Streisand and Faberge Eggs. The E Street Band just had a reprieve.
3. His "Dead to Me" board, which is — duh — self explanatory, includes CNN En Espanol, Owls, Bowtie Pasta, New York Intellectuals and Men with Beards. Among others.
4. This man, the recipient of a Peabody Award, uses questionable terms like "grippy" and "trustigious" with righteous conviction that makes one wish we could all make up words...for our own TV shows.
5. Colbert actually referenced Soylent Green in tonight's 'The Word' segment. Stephen and I...we're simpatico.
Funny as hell. If you're not yet watching The Colbert Report, you should. And if you are? Good on you.
Trish Doherty muses, mocks and tosses around entertainment opinion as if it were confetti over yonder at and i was the echo.
- TV Review: 5 Reasons You Should Be Watching The Colbert Report
- Published: January 11, 2006
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- Section: Video
- Filed Under: Video: Comedy, Video: Television
- Writer: Trish Doherty
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I try to not miss despite it being late at night. The best follow up to TDSwJS
Yeah, it's a smashing follow-up to The Daily Show. Colbert actually makes his shtick work through each half hour (though the interviews lag at times), no easy feat. It really is a great daily send-up of the pomp and circumstance of cable TV pundit-ego-excess.
And the waving of the American flag in the intro is outstanding.
I love that intro. The bald eagle flying into the camera and making the eagle cry at the end of the intro makes me laugh every time.
All interview shows lag at times. The amazing thing is how good some of the interviews are despite the fact that the interviewer is a caricature. They said 9/11 signalled the end of the Age of Irony. They were wrong.
I was gonna write about this too, but in a nutshell Colbert keeps his character better like Eric said, while the Daily Show has become more institutional and more of a forum for serious issues.
I never thought I'd say this, but the very show Stewart produces is the one that makes his own show look a little bad. So that's his Kryptonite.
Aren't the titles for the show brilliant? My favorite shot is when he's standing with his arms crossed, looking at the swirling camera above while simultaneously twisting his body. His arm-sweep-and-finger-point shot runs a close second.
I hadn't seen The Daily Show in several years due to not having the sweet sweet flow of basic extended cable. Just got it back recently, and think The Daily Show is funny as ever. I think it's great and amazing that the interview segments are mostly serious with some humor thrown in. So much more interesting than seeing the same stupid actor hawking the same stupid flick..
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I absolutely love this show! Perfect chaser to The Daily Show!