Rand going on Colbert's Late Show sometime soon

[jct74]

Two More GOP Candidates Set to Appear on Colbert’s Late Show

by Matt Wilstein | 9:59 pm, September 8th, 2015

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has not even premiered on CBS and it has already become the go-to destination for 2016 presidential candidates. Tonight’s premiere features an interview with Jeb Bush and next week Stephen Colbert will sit down with Bernie Sanders. Vice President Joe Biden could even use the show to break some news on Thursday.

Now, according to a new report from the National Journal, Senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are jumping on board the Colbert train. Cruz is already on the schedule to appear on Monday, September 21. Paul doesn’t have a date set yet, but his staff is reportedly working to arrange a time “in the near future.”

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http://www.mediaite.com/tv/two-more-gop-candidates-set-to-appear-on-colberts-late-show/

 

[Mr.NoSmile]

Makes sense, really. Late night has always been a good avenue for politicians and candidates in general, and Colbert had a lot of energy when he debuted last night, including his interviews with both George Clooney and Jeb Bush, since he can just be his energetic self and not the character. Looking forward to it.

 

[dannno]

First episode:

http://www.cbs.com/shows/the-late-s...1MfDTx_7_kRK90n2_6u0V/the-late-show-9-8-2015/

Colbert was great last night, and Jon Stewart is one of the Executive Producers.

Colbert was making fun of Trump a lot, about how the media covers him and so he has to cover him too and brought up Trump's boycott of Oreo, then started listening to ridiculous clips of Trump while pigging out on Oreos, it was amazing

He also made fun of Jeb! a lot even though he was one of the guests, and got a few good shots in and Clooney as well.

I have my DVR set to record them all.

 

[kahless]

I was able to sit through his show a few times when it was on Comedy Central if he had someone on like. But I tried to sit through it last night and it was painful. I had to turn it off.

If he was doing stand up he would be booed off the stage and given the hook. I really do not understand what people see in him and do not find his sarcasm all that funny.

I thought the Trump bit would at least be good and I thought that bombed. How do you screw that up.

I did not like Letterman either and thought he was a pompous bore but at least he was watchable - liked his interviews and musical acts.

 

[Bergie Bergeron]

I didn't really like the whole promotion part but I thought the Trump part with the oreos was hilarious.

 

[dannno]

I didn't really like the whole promotion part but I thought the Trump part with the oreos was hilarious.

I thought it was pretty good, he was insinuating he sold his soul to be on the show and now had to bow to the God of commercialism... and if he messes up they can just replace him with The Mentalist.

 

[kahless]

Curious, is it a generational thing? Are you guys liking Colbert under 30? I just do not know any 40+ or 50+ folks that like the guy. I am guessing older would be out of the target demographic anyway.

 

[dannno]

Curious, is it a generational thing? Are you guys liking Colbert under 30? I just do not know any 40+ or 50+ folks that like the guy. I am guessing older would be out of the target demographic anyway.

Ya, half the time he is making fun of old people set in their ways so you might not get the jokes.

 

[RonPaulGeorge&Ringo]

The Colbert Report premiered in 2005 and it was a good parody of idiot TV pundits and the hyper-"patriotic" atmosphere in the country in the post-9/11 flag-humping Bush era. I don't think you had to be under 30 to enjoy it. But younger people are less likely to take authority seriously, so it probably helped.

But older people who are, overall, more deferential to "authority" and more likely to take asshats like Bill O'Reilly or W Bush seriously were much less likely to get it.

The show lost a lot of its bite as the Obama era dragged on. I didn't watch it much during the Obama years.

This new show is a different animal. He's not overtly playing a "character" and the whole enterprise will be more mainstream and geared to a wider audience, just as Letterman's CBS show was as compared to his NBC show.

 

[kahless]

I get the humor and just think it tries too hard to the point it is really lame. Yet to me it seems he gets a free pass on his lameness and is praised because he targets older conservatives. A real novelty for young people in their 20s discovering politics.

I always thought of him as the guy the Nickelodeon kids naturally gravitated to when they became adults. I feel about the same torture watching Colbert as I did when I had to sit through some of those Nick shows with the kids years ago.

 

[liberty_nc]

I think the first thing Colbert will bring up is Rand's hair, it looked a bit different in the last Fox interview

 

[Jamesiv1]

This would be very painful to watch.

Rand has a very dry, cynical sense of humor. It is not at all a laugh out loud, gregarious sense of humor.

Colbert will make a big build-up joke, Rand will smile gratuitously - then awkward silence. And Colbert will do the same to Rand's attempts. Though Colbert will gratuitously laugh rather than smile. Then awkward silence.

 

[RonPaulGeorge&Ringo]

I don't think you had to be "just discovering" anything to appreciate the humor. You just had to not buy in to all the flag-humping insanity of 2002-2008.

(PS. "Conservatives" is not a proper noun.)

 

[kahless]

eh, I did not buy into it at the time nor followed the herd to that Progressive icon.

 

[nikcers]

Colbert exposed campaign finance laws and loopholes for superpacs to a lot of people that would otherwise be ignorant of it and was hilarious at the 2006 white house correspondence. He exposes peoples ignorance on a lot of topics by being extremely sarcastic, It may be a generational thing, but I think its probably humor related it just isn't everyone's cup of tea not everyone likes the "straight man" shtick . I don't know how his new format is since I refused to watch the one with Jeb Bush on it, but I look forward to Rand going on there.

 

[69360]

Curious, is it a generational thing? Are you guys liking Colbert under 30? I just do not know any 40+ or 50+ folks that like the guy. I am guessing older would be out of the target demographic anyway.

I liked Colbert's old show. I didn't watch it regularly but when I did it was good. I'm over 40.

 

[Dianne]

F'k Colbert. Anyone who would have Jeb Bush on his debut, smells to high heaven. I wouldn't watch Colbert clean the dog poop out of my back yard. It's bad enough having FOX News promote Jeb 24/7... Now we have a liberal democrat, globalist, doing the same thing.

 

[RonPaulGeorge&Ringo]

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[RonPaulGeorge&Ringo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X93u3anTco0

Colbert's performance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner is the only one besides Norm MacDonald's in the 1990's that wasn't a completely embarassing suckup to the then-President.

If you can't appreciate this, not only are you a stupid humorless twat who can't grasp proper nouns, you're probably a bloodthirsty warmonger as well.

 

[kahless]

I am not alone, the IMDB Colbert board is filled with hate. That Progressive is going down.

Embarrassing
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3697842/board/thread/248139083

More republican bashing liberal bull *b...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3697842/board/thread/248156151

how long until colbert gets fired?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3697842/board/thread/248148243

22 Years Later, The Chevy Chase Show is Back
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3697842/board/thread/248143677

Terribly unfunny first show - he admitted he had 9 months to get ready !
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3697842/board/thread/248139439

Um...what's with the massive amount of hate?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3697842/board/thread/248151846

Colbert, one trick pony?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3697842/board/thread/248165947