Colbert, Tomlinson New Shows After Big Game on CBS

[Mark Jeffries]

Of course, they are following the Super Bowl, the series premiere of "Tracker" and local news on Sun. Feb. 11 and CBS says that they will be starting at the normal time of 11:35 p.m. ET that night, but knowing past Big Games, we kinda doubt that:

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/super-bowl-late-night-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-after-midnight-1235886818/

No guests announced for either yet.

[Doug Eastick]

The commercials for Tracker have caught my wife's attention because of a handsome male actor from a previous show she liked.  (million little things?)

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[David Bruggeman]

The lead was one of the adult kids in "This is Us"

David

[Dave Sikula]

I watched both shows out of a morbid curiosity.

I still watch Colbert even though the show is rarely funny and gotten really calcified. It's deteriorated into Colbert slamming Trump in the same ways over and over (which is, admittedly somewhat enjoyable) and saying "Biden is old!" It was a confusing episode, though; the monologue was new (lots about the game), but the Jon Stewart segment seemed like a pre-tape. The Krazinski panel definitely was (they admitted as much), and I couldn't tell whether Gosling was "live" or taped. I can't imagine it was live, but it would have required filling the Ed at, what, 10:00 on a Sunday night or a ten-minute monologue? I mean, Colbert's audience is nothing if not fanatic, but that?

As for "After Midnight," I had slight hopes because of the guests (though I'm not really a fan of Maria Bamford), but Tomlinson is still really unfunny on an SNL-level, mistaking yelling for being humorous. Given the current state of comedy, though (from my limited perspective), that's probably a thing for most audiences.

(Parenthetically, I'm watching Jon Stewart's return to TDS and am just dee-lighted to see his both-sidesing skills are as sharp as ever: "Trump is a direct threat to American democracy, but that Biden sometimes mixes up his words like he's been doing for 40 years.")

--Dave Sikula

[David Bruggeman]

A side note, Tomlinson has a special debuting on Netflix tomorrow.  She is, at least for me, much more natural and less shouty in her standup than on After Midnight.

The show in general is still rough.  I've either gotten used to the hour-length or they've managed to make it feel faster than it did the first week.  The panelists are a lot more hit or miss than what I remember from the @ version.

While I appreciate the show trying something different for the post-game episode (they had a musical guest for 'halftime'), the execution was poor.  They seemed to spend more time on talking about the guest than on his performance.

David

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[JW]

> I still watch Colbert even though the show is rarely funny and gotten
> really calcified. It's deteriorated into Colbert slamming Trump in the same

> ways over and over...

I stuck with Colbert through the Trump administration since his outrage resonated with me. Even then, though, there'd be some jokes where the writing would poke through, and it wasn't impressive.

Once Biden came into office, the monologues became more about the writing than outrage, and they didn't work for me. So I watch Kimmel now. And if he goes to filler segments with people on Hollywood Blvd., or I'm not interested in any of the interviews, there are always Perry Mason reruns on MeTV.

After Midnight drives home why talk shows evolved the way they did. It's hard to be funny for four or five solid hours a week; you're much better off taking the top 25% of your comedy and filling the rest of the time with interviews.

[Doug Eastick]

David wrote:

> While I appreciate the show trying something different for the post-game episode (they had a musical guest for 'halftime'), the execution was poor.  They seemed to spend more time on talking about the guest than on his performance.

when I heard it was Mark Rebillet, I thought "oh cool".   Then as he started his set it hit me.... Mark takes a while to get his loops and effective groove going.   Thus, giving the guy 4 minutes (or whatever snippet they gave him) was not really a good thing for him.

For Mark's full Coachella set (50 mins) that I saw in person.... try this.

https://youtu.be/xUkeB99Sy_c?si=Irgry52I8UA48SCP

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