I wasn’t blown away by TDS or Colbert on Monday, but I thought both shows were excellent tonight. Jason Jones in Denmark was gold, and Fareed Zakaria is always a quality guest. Colbert interviewing Mike “Heck of a Job” Brown(“ie”) was pretty special. I couldn’t believe he agreed to go on Comedy Central. It’s almost a shame Colbert couldn’t attack him harder because of the limits of the character, but he got a few really solid jokes in there. And he did tell him “you suck.”
Maybe I was just in a good mood, but I thought Monday’s show was great. Jon seemed to be getting in a lot of good stuff (like the challenge to Zakaria). I busted up over “your attempts at assimiliation aren’t working”. Though the guest segment did seem a little off.
No comments on Tuesday yet (iTMS puts them up sometime in the night, and I don’t watch them until the next day).
I’ll bump this once now that my suspicion of the last few days has been confirmed: Lou Dobbs has lost his mind.
TDS and Colbert both very funny last night. “What are we doing to pigs?” was good, and the graphic for that War on Easter thing was stunning. Samantha Bee is back, and “Lefkowitz, party of four” was great. Here comes part two of Jason Jones’s Denmark thing…
Yeah, that was pretty funny, as were all the references to “Wikings.”
By the way, did anyone see the bit earlier in the week on The Daily Show where they showed the FOX news report about the serial killer, complete with video of hot college co-eds in bikinis? My jaw was on the floor watching that; i didn’t think even FOX could be so shameless.
I think she has had it for a while. I happily fell asleep a few minutes into her awful interview.
Wikings is just how it is pronounced there.
The Brownie Episode was strange. I wish Colbert could have slammed him and Chernoff for screwing up the relief effort but Brownie seemed to be willing to take some abuse at least.
I think I was too tired this week to add anything else.
I’m 2 days behind in my Tivo viewing, but I thought the week got off to a horrible start. The Michael Gordon interview was strangely disjointed; I really don’t think Jon had even skimmed it. And Tuesday: we had the Andrew Card resignation story, Jason Jones in Denmark,and Fareed. That was it. It’s like the writers and correspondents all had the day off.
The show has changed a bit lately…Jon isn’t even attempting to format the news segment as if it was really a news segment – he’s just cracking jokes about the headlines. And he hasn’t had an interview guest that he’s really respected/connected with in a while. I hate to use the “shark” term, but I’m worried.
I stayed awake for Sharon Stone’s segment. I don’t think Jon asked her anything about the movie, except “It’s a sequel?”
Speaking of the movie, the clip they showed looked like something from a high school play. Who is that wooden guy she’s supposed to be terrorizing? Terrible scene, for him anyway.
