I am worried about Steven Colbert

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I do not generally watch US TV. After all, I am not generally in the US. I do like Steven Colbert.

I was a little worried about him before, from the few times I saw him when I was on vacation. Now I can put my finger on it.

I just saw his last few monologues. Gee, he talks about drinking heavily a lot. I seem to recall him doing that before too.

On one hand, I would welcome your thoughts. On the other hand, this thread appears as a matter of record in the event we do discover he has a problem.

I hope I am wrong.

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MOST of us talk about drinking heavily a lot.

Since…hmmmmm…early November, 2016, anyway.

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I talk about drinking heavily. And I honestly can’t remember the last time I had an alcoholic beverage. For me, it’s schtick - like when I’ve had a rough day at work, I’ll make a comment about heading for Happy Hour.

I have a bottle of Kahlua that’s been in the cabinet since <thinking> 2013 or 14? It might be half full. Kahlua and cream is my beverage of choice - so you can figure how often I choose it. Not to say that Colbert lives as I do, but I think that’s more likely than finding out he’s a drunk.

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I’d be more worried if he wasn’t talking about it. See Jimmy Fallon who rarely talked about drinking but actually had a problem.

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UCD Diver has a good point. Thank you.

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He’s Catholic; it’s a cultural thing.

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Colbert is OK I think. There’s this guy who really needs help though. I think his name is Foster Brooks.

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Fallon actually drinks on his show all the time.

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Yeah, his drinking is clearly out of hand.

He was supposed to give it up for Lent this spring but he was still tippling on the show.

He has a stash near his desk with a bunch of bottles of liquor and he usually ends his show walking out to the lobby and having a drink.

The man has a problem.

Trump is not an excuse to be non-stop drunk. For someone with his job, being sober is a must.

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He did? I had no idea. I don’t follow any late nite stuff.

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Oh yeah. See this interview with Jennifer Lawrence where he breaks out a bottle of rum and two glasses, and they both dip into it pretty heavily. They start around the three-minute mark, and Jennifer’s getting pretty happy by the end. The whole thing is great.

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No, only half of us.

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A statement that could be equally true from a dedicated tea-totaller or a black-out drunk. :smiley:

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Good point… :smiley:

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Since Jimmy Fallon’s drinking problem has been brought up, I’ve got to ask you to clarify your antecedents (I don’t know of Fallon being Catholic – not that that’s a necessity for someone to be observing Lent, but it does point more to Colbert, in which case I’d like to see a cite).

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Late night talk show host? I’d put that near the top of the list of jobs where being sober is optional.

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I have not evidence for this, but I suspect that Stephen Colbert jokes about drinking much more than he drinks to excess in real life.

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Ditto. He’s kind of a square in real life. Doesn’t do a whole lot of hobnobbing with Hollywood types. (Or so I’ve been told.)

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It’s a schtick.

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I agree. Also plenty of his jokes are not written by him, but by a collection of writers. Comedy writers are not exactly known for being teetotalers (except of course Elliott Kalan).