Colbert Thursday Sept 12 taping

[Doug Eastick]

Went with my wife. 

Good monologue. 

Jeff Bridges the sit down guest was a good long interview. 

First guest was Steven's wife and they did a cooking segment for their new cook book, which we got a copy of at the exit from the theatre.

We were in balcony, stage right-ish in second row. 

There was also a surprise musical guest - Sting, and he performed one song from his new album. They were pretaping it for a future episode. 

Unsure if the photo will come through the list.  First trip to NYC and finally got to the Ed.     30 Rock tour tomorrow morning. 

/Doug
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/Doug
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/Doug
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[Dave Sikula]

This has less to do with the specifics of this episode than with the show in general, but I'm finding LSwSC harder and harder to watch. It's not the politics (I'm on Colbert's side); it's the laziness of the writing.

Brian Stack's creativity is limited at best, and turning the first 3-5 minutes of the show over to him every night gets things off to a deadly start. The monologue and desk pieces are toothless, and Colbert's interview skills have never been very good (which is shocking for a guy with his improv training). It's almost all strictly off of the blue cards. The audience (present company excepted) is full of braying animals who howl and give standing ovations at the slightest provocation. To be fair, it's better in the Ed than it was in Chicago. My god, those Dem convention shows were chaotically unwatchable.

And, in nine years, I don't think he's had more than a handful of good bands or musicians.

I guess cancer hasn't slowed down my peevishness.

--Dave Sikula

[Kevin M.]

Kevin M. (RPCV)

On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 4:45 PM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV <tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

This has less to do with the specifics of this episode than with the show in general, but I'm finding LSwSC harder and harder to watch. It's not the politics (I'm on Colbert's side); it's the laziness of the writing.

Brian Stack's creativity is limited at best, and turning the first 3-5 minutes of the show over to him every night gets things off to a deadly start. The monologue and desk pieces are toothless, and Colbert's interview skills have never been very good (which is shocking for a guy with his improv training). It's almost all strictly off of the blue cards. The audience (present company excepted) is full of braying animals who howl and give standing ovations at the slightest provocation. To be fair, it's better in the Ed than it was in Chicago. My god, those Dem convention shows were chaotically unwatchable.

And, in nine years, I don't think he's had more than a handful of good bands or musicians

I will broaden your comments even further to state I tried watching all the post-debate shows the following day, and they were all excruciating. Daily Show in particular was just Jon Stewart mugging to the camera after showing clips. 

I guess cancer hasn't slowed down my peevishness.

F*ck cancer 

--Dave Sikula

On Thursday, September 12, 2024 at 7:19:23 PM UTC-7 Doug Eastick wrote:

Went with my wife. 

Good monologue.

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[JW]

> This has less to do with the specifics of this episode than with the show

> in general, but I'm finding LSwSC harder and harder to watch. It's not the

> politics (I'm on Colbert's side); it's the laziness of the writing.

Yeah. I watch Kimmel's monologue now; the writing is much sharper. (If I'm interested in guests, I'll watch wherever. If not, there's always Perry Mason on MeTV.)

> I guess cancer hasn't slowed down my peevishness.

Keep fighting (in both senses).

[Bob Jersey]

Yeah, we'll know shortly from Sue T when ol' Englishman in NY'll air... Bridges and the cooking thingie aired Thursday/Friday.

Where generally in Manhattan is your hotel, Doug?     B

Doug Eastick, Sept 12th:

[Doug Eastick]

8th Ave around 48th.  I'm learning this is the border between Hell's Kitchen and theatre district.   Omg the number of theatres is nuts.    So far the favorite part of the city is Central Park -- great people watching and chill ambience.

We saw Hell's Kitchen last night (fantastic) and probably going to &Juliet tonight (to hear all of Max Martin's hit songs) 

/Doug
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[Mark Jeffries]

Thursday.

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[PGage]

Yeah, I haven’t been able to sit through Colbert for a while now, though I try periodically. 

If you treat cancer like it was an SNL cast member you will kick its ass. 

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[Kevin M.]

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On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 9:15 AM PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah, I haven’t been able to sit through Colbert for a while now, though I try periodically. 

If you treat cancer like it was an SNL cast member you will kick its ass. 

Cancer: the Kristen Wiig of health issues 

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[Joe Hass]

Jesus, Kevin, let's not say things we can't take back. 

Also please kick cancer's ass.

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