The hilarious part is that Politically Incorrect began its life on Comedy Central. Selling it to ABC made way(money wise) for the Daily Show and South Park.
I enjoyed the 1/22 episode (Cuba). For the first few episodes I worried that it was going to be to the Daily Show what Blackish is to Modern Family, with the first three nights’ topics cops & blacks, Bill Cosby, and that other black guy Obama - was this a trend? Looks like he’s expanding the topics, and I very much enjoyed his 1/22 monologue.
The 100 kind of feels like Craig Kilborn’s Five Questions bit, but it’s interesting.
Big time. It started bugging me early in the first episode, but I think he’s already getting better about it. Possibly hydrating more before airtime?
I have yet to get through a full episode. The intro is fine, a touch awkward still but worth watching. The panel segment is rough to get through; I simply stopped watching and deleted the episode a minute or so into the panel for the first few days. On Thursday’s episode I FFWDed through the panel to see what was on the next segment, which turns out to be the keeping it real segment. I got 7 seconds into the first person’s honest answer and deleted the episode.
I think I might just set my Daily Show timer to record an extra 10 minutes and only watch Wilmore up until the panel starts.
Yeah…I’m not feeling the panel or the weak tea stuff. I agree with Hentor there - the panel could be decent in the right situation, but I’m not sure it works for this.
It’s early, and I need something on between TDS and @midnight. I’ll give it a shot for a while.
I think he has improved noticeably in the last couple weeks, and is more comfortable in what he is doing now which makes it more enjoyable to watch. I’m not sure the entire format of the show is destined to be long lasting though. It seems like that panel debate is going to go through the interesting topics in not that long of time, and then just be rehashing stuff over and over. I could see more likely once a week with that and some new bits to fill the segment.
I gave it a couple of weeks, but I’ve just found it to be not that funny and kind of boring. The panel is the weakest part, and it’s a large chunk of the show. I’ve deleted the season pass from my DVR.
I wish we didn’t have to wait so long for Colbert’s Late Show.
I made it through the panel during the obesity show, but I doubt I’ll make it through many. However, the monologue on the obesity episode was longer than usual, which was a good change. The episode was so good I even gave the 100 another shot, but nope, still douche-chill-palooza.
He should have asked Morgan Spurlock, “Will you give us your eating journal you kept during Supersize Me?”
I may be outdated, but my understanding is Spurlock did not publish his log of what he ate, with calorie count. He claimed to eat a huge amount of calories at McDonald’s daily, but it is very hard to add up his numbers from the regular menu. He must have filled his soda with a bunch of refills, but he(as of a few years ago) refuses to release the log of his food intake.
Would have busted him massively on TV.
I’ve kept watching, but I’ve skipped most of the panels. I think it would be better if it was just 2 or 3 panelists, instead of 4, so that there would be less people trying to get their punchlines out, and they could be choosier about who they’d have on. I watched the panel on Cuba, and it seemed like John Leguizamo was constantly making unfunny jokes. I started watching the panel on vaccination, but he started talking to the woman who thinks that vaccinations should be optional and that they might be harmful and I couldn’t handle it.
I can kinda sorta understand the thought behind the “keeping it 100” part, like is ‘X’ what you really believe, or had you just been saying that because it’s what your side believes. But I think that the bigger problems with cable news shows are people yelling at each other about the same things, or people being on talking about things that they are not knowledgeable about at all, or people taking things right to the extreme ends, and the panels and keeping it 100 can easily have all of these problems.
I might keep watching the opening, and maybe some of the panels. But once Colbert’s new show starts later this year, I might cancel the Nightly Show recording and record Colbert instead.
Remember that Colbert’s new show isn’t going to be about politics as much as his Comedy Central show was. I don’t know what he’s planning, but I think it will be more like a typical broadcast late night talk show, with celebrity interviews and the like.
Still really enjoying the show, including the panel segments and the “keep it 100”. Larry does a pretty good job with opposing viewpoints in the limited time of the segment.
I think the first segment often has problems – his correspondents are good, but they’re still learning delivery and timing to act “naturally” when doing the scripted segments. They could learn a lot from the Daily Show correspondents.
The monolog is worth keeping. The rest is a few minutes at best, until people start talking past one another.
The keeping it 100 bit is a fun hashtag but too many real world issues are not that cut and dried. And his attempt to do a brand extension to keeping it 70 failed big time. I thought it was hilarious that the guy he asked couldn’t figure out what the hell it was supposed to mean and Larry had to withdraw the question. But that wasn’t supposed to be the funny part.
It’s evolving slowly. We just have to hope that at some point he’ll cut his losses and give up on the panel.
Yeah, I definitely know that Colbert’s new show won’t be like the Colbert Report, and that Stephen Colbert will be somewhat different than the “Stephen Colbert” we’ve been watching for years. But I’m interested to see what he does, and while I wish I could watch all the TV shows I want to watch I do have limited time, so if I had to choose between them, I might choose Colbert’s show. But that won’t be for another few months, and Wilmore’s show might have the kinks worked out a little better by then.
That’s exactly it, the keeping it 100 would be a good hashtag game, since with Twitter you have to cut right to the matter. But for a discussion, things aren’t so cut and dried, and I’d rather hear intelligent discussion rather than people going to the extremes to keep it 100, with the audience cheering or booing.
It was alright, he’ll find his stride soon. I thought The Colbert Report was going to flop when it first began too.
I was only half paying attention during their debate, but felt that Michel Faulkner’s point that ‘religious guidance is intimately involved in his moral compass, how can one help but vote for legislators willing to act in accordance to that’ should have been directly challenged. That was the crux of his argument and while I don’t agree with his conclusion, it’s one of the few times anti-SSM don’t come off as simply hateful bigots.
I agree with this. They need to come up with some other segments. That was the best thing about Colbert. He had a different thing going all the time. The panel is going to get old, real fast. It will kill the show unless they mix it up a bit.
They had a nice long time to ramp up this format, and probably had guests lined up in advance. But can you imagine the challenge down the road in wrangling 4 relevant guests for a current trending topic? It won’t happen, and you’ll get 4 nobodies lamely riffing on whatever. It will SUCK!
I also thought it was only OK at the beginning. I posted about it almost 10 years ago.
By the way, it is fun to read our thoughts from nearly 10 years ago.
I don’t have a problem with a panel, but I’m not loving all his guests. Some of them are just not very good. Or some talk over others and seem to have never been on tv before. So more polished guests would help.
I really like the Keeping it 100. I didn’t think I would, but I like seeing people genuinely surprised by the questions they get and watching them … well… keep it 100. Or the weak tea. Those are fun too. I love the brief look of horror on the guests’ faces, the panic. It’s one of the few things that’s not rehearsed or scripted or just empty talking points on tv and it’s very entertaining. Plus he never goes too far. Just far enough for hilarity, not total embarrassment.
And remember, you can’t spell “Nightly Show” without N-I-G! 
I am so going to Hell . . .
Starts off really well. His segments are quite fun.
Then the panel comes in and it goes downhill. The Keeping It 100 is just awful and then some.
The show needs to be retooled.
The show is decent but needs work or more time.
I think that the panel either has to many people or not enough time to get a deeper discussion going.