and largely the tide has seemed to be turning for the late night host
What?! Which tide? Where? Recent ratings have been absolutely abysmal. He did well after the debate, but, then, everybody did well after the debate.
He's ever so slightly moving back to the harsher sarcasm of the Report persona, and, at times, he's a bit more comfortable than he used to be, but, contrary to how both he and the author are attempting to spin it, this 'reboot' (if you can even call it that), fixes only a small fraction of what's wrong with this show.
The stuff Brian Stack contributes is still just as subpar as it used to be. Cartoon Trump just isn't funny. The God skits are just as bad. Just about every day, Stephen gives Brian his own segment, and, just about every day, it falls on it's face. Stack used to do the occasional solid sketch on Conan. For instance, Wikibear was, the first couple of times he did it, pretty funny. But the Conan-Stack chemistry is very far from the Colbert-Stack dynamic. Until they fire Stack, at least 1/5 of this show is going be broken.
And they sure as heck haven't fixed Batiste, who, as many have pointed out, is still as annoying as ever.
Lastly, while Colbert can successfully incorporate his trademark political satire into his monologs, he can't do the Report-ish persona with his guests, so the guest segments are still just as lackluster as they've always been.
People were watching me learn to play a new instrument in public. Now I really don't care and it's so much more fun. I tried so hard to be myself that I kept on fading away. I've surrendered to my natural instincts, and to how I actually feel on a daily basis.
What the F are you talking about? Being yourself is difficult? Just cut the crap already. You're just a feeble, shallow narcissistic performer who desperate wants to be liked- so desperate that you'll bring back a character you were ecstatic to never have to play again.
Did you learn nothing in 9 years? Have you learned nothing from this election? Anger is good. Honesty is gold. You can be angry, brutally honest AND not be a racist, a facist or an a-hole. In fact, you can be angry, brutally honest AND be anti racist, anti-facist- AND be wildly successful. You did it for 9 years. The public, the universe, despises prevarication, abhors wishy washiness. Hillary Clinton is basically running against the next Mussolini, and, because she's so saccharine and manufactured, she's actually tied with this moron.
It is all me. Of course it's me. I thought of the character. It's my humor... If I do things that are like the old show, it was a good show.
Translation: I'm a one trick pony reluctantly being forced back into doing the trick that I didn't want to do any more, and abysmally attempting to rationalize the backward step as "I meant to do that."
Stephen, you can pretend to 'have fun' doing the old character from now until the cows come home, but nothing is going to remove the bad taste viewers have in their mouths from being fed garbage for months.
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