Stephen Colbert's CBS "Late Show" Will End in May

[abuxb]

Stephen Colbert is funny. He has been since his early days on The Daily show and in The Colbert Report. I'm also a big Letterman fan and I think that Colbert was an outstanding choice to replace him. His show is the top rated show in his time slot. Of course, since I'm eighty, I'm not in the demographic that advertisers look for, there's that. I rank Colbert right up there with the great social commentators of the past, like Washington Irving, Jonathon Swift, Mark Twain, H L Mencken, and Will Rogers.

[MikoTython]

Stephen Colbert is funny. He has been since his early days on The Daily show and in The Colbert Report. I'm also a big Letterman fan and I think that Colbert was an outstanding choice to replace him. His show is the top rated show in his time slot. Of course, since I'm eighty, I'm not in the demographic that advertisers look for, there's that. I rank Colbert right up there with the great social commentators of the past, like Washington Irving, Jonathon Swift, Mark Twain, H L Mencken, and Will Rogers.

Well, I think Steven is funny too, but c'mon - he's got a phalanx of writers and has to deliver every night. Those other folks wrote all their own 'content', and were funny when they chose to. Besides which, c'mon man - you're talking about titans there, not a late-nite talk show host. Keep it real.

One irony here was the suggestion of people being banned. It seems to follow the theme of the thread rather nicely, the drift of the dreary oppressive zeitgeist, namely : "I don't like what you say, so I will cheer-lead at best, conspire at worst, any attempt fair or usually foul to shut you up."

That said, its a beautiful Sunday here, at least, and I intend to enjoy it.