# I am worried about Steven Colbert **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 21, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-worried-about-steven-colbert/816514 "2018-06-21T15:37:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-worried-about-steven-colbert/816514/41 "2018-06-22T20:50:26Z")
This is the first I’ve heard about Fallon having a drinking problem… then again, I’m not tuned into celebrity gossip. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-worried-about-steven-colbert/816514/42 "2018-06-22T21:00:42Z")
Well I’m not particularly tuned in either but the Fallon one somehow seeped into my brain and his fairly frequent drinking on the show solidified it, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-worried-about-steven-colbert/816514/43 "2018-06-22T21:15:49Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Unless that’s your shtick and you want people thinking along those lines. Who wants people to think you get stumbling drunk and make a fool of yourself at a major function??? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-worried-about-steven-colbert/816514/44 "2018-06-23T03:02:40Z")
Uuuuh, everyone. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-worried-about-steven-colbert/816514/45 "2018-06-23T04:13:14Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > So **OP** , do you believe that Colbert was a [hardcore conservative from 2005 to 2015](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458254/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)? It’s an act. Talk show or not, he’s an actor playing a role. I am sure you are completely right when you ignore a warning sign. I, lacking super-powers and forced to err on the side of caution. ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-worried-about-steven-colbert/816514/46 "2018-06-23T05:26:10Z")
By accounts, Colbert is doing better personally than he has in years. He’s openly talked about the fact that he was working himself to death doing the Report and for the first year or so on CBS (when his show was struggling to find an audience). After that first year and an intervention from a producer, he learned to step back and delegate. He now focuses on his hosting and the show’s writing instead of trying to supervise every production detail. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-worried-about-steven-colbert/816514/47 "2018-06-23T11:38:40Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > I am sure you are completely right when you ignore a warning sign. I, lacking super-powers and forced to err on the side of caution. Maybe when you notice how your brother in law displays warning signs at family gatherings but not when someone you have zero interaction with is doing a tv show. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-worried-about-steven-colbert/816514/48 "2018-06-23T12:03:28Z")
Well, I’m organizing an intervention for Foster Brooks if anyone would like to join in. ETA: dammit, we’re too late. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-worried-about-steven-colbert/816514/49 "2018-06-23T14:00:47Z")
> [@typoink](#): > > By accounts, Colbert is doing better personally than he has in years. He’s openly talked about the fact that he was working himself to death doing the Report and for the first year or so on CBS (when his show was struggling to find an audience). After that first year and an intervention from a producer, he learned to step back and delegate. He now focuses on his hosting and the show’s writing instead of trying to supervise every production detail. I watch regularly, and it appears that the Friday night episode is mostly pre-taped interviews, repeats of stuff from earlier in the week and field pieces. I think that was done to make things a little easier for Colbert. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-worried-about-steven-colbert/816514/50 "2018-06-23T14:24:24Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > “A Cry For Help” is the name of a drink I helped create/popularize. You take a bottle of Lipton Diet Green Tea with Citrus. Open the bottle and drink 1/4-1/3 of it. Replace what you drank with an equal volume of vodka. Cap and store in freezer. I’ve consumed this drink while standing next to a cop at a concert. Nobody suspects diet green tea with citrus of shenanigans. This is what my son did to “fool” everyone, only it was Gatorade. Nobody in the family was fooled. I hope you aren’t still doing this. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-worried-about-steven-colbert/816514/51 "2018-06-23T17:30:03Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I watch regularly, and it appears that the Friday night episode is mostly pre-taped interviews, repeats of stuff from earlier in the week and field pieces. I think that was done to make things a little easier for Colbert. See [this](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21029520&postcount=55) post in the clip show thread. The only re-run material he does now that summer is over is The Best of Colbert (or whatever) at the end of the Friday show instead of some crappy band. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-worried-about-steven-colbert/816514/52 "2018-06-23T18:00:10Z")
Wait, summer is over? Already? I thought it was just starting. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-worried-about-steven-colbert/816514/53 "2018-06-23T18:26:10Z")
I don’t think I can even picture Colbert drunk. That’s sort of why it’s part of his schtick, I guess, it’s the incongruity that makes it funny. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-worried-about-steven-colbert/816514/54 "2018-06-23T20:09:00Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Wait, summer is over? Already? I thought it was just starting. Okay, right. Too much on a mental time delay. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-worried-about-steven-colbert/816514/55 "2018-06-23T22:19:59Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > This is what my son did to “fool” everyone, only it was Gatorade. Nobody in the family was fooled. I hope you aren’t still doing this. It’s to fool security at a concert not to hide your drinking problem from your family. At least, istm that’s what kayaker is using it for. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-worried-about-steven-colbert/816514/56 "2018-06-23T22:35:04Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > I am sure you are completely right when you ignore a warning sign. I, lacking super-powers and forced to err on the side of caution. Now I’m worried about you. I’m trying to figure out why you have so much invested in believing (and persuading us) that Colbert has a drinking problem. You’ve always struck me as a pretty level-headed poster, for the amount that I’ve paid attention. Or am I being whooshed? ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-worried-about-steven-colbert/816514/57 "2018-06-24T08:53:03Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > “When someone shows you who they are, believe them.” > > –Maya Angelo Has he been drunk on his show? > [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > If someone says they are drinking heavily, you ought to consider the possibility that they are drinking heavily. Further, I would think about what constitutes “a cry for help.” > > Please forgive me if I was unclear. I’m reminded of the rule for writing: Show, don’t tell. I always interpreted that Maya Angelou quote in a similar vein, where if someone tells you something about themselves, but then demonstrates something different with their behavior, believe what they showed you with their actions, not what they told you with their words. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-worried-about-steven-colbert/816514/58 "2018-06-24T12:07:36Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > It’s to fool security at a concert not to hide your drinking problem from your family. At least, istm that’s what kayaker is using it for. Yep. Pittsburgh has some free summer concerts albeit with a huge police presence. We can drink under their noses with my hack. I do not bother hiding my love for inebriation from my family. Why would I? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-worried-about-steven-colbert/816514.md?page=2)