Monday, December 22, 2014

MEDIA - Colbert Transition to CBS Late Night Show

"Stephen Colbert leaves the pundit behind to play himself" PBS NewsHour 12/18/2014

Excerpt

HARI SREENIVASAN (NewsHour):  Finally tonight, there’s a finally tonight coming from late-night comic Stephen Colbert.

Jeffrey Brown looks at his run and what’s ahead.

STEPHEN COLBERT, “The Colbert Report”:  Truthiness.

(LAUGHTER)

JEFFREY BROWN (NewsHour):  He gave the late night world something called truthiness.

STEPHEN COLBERT:  Now, I’m sure some of the word police, the wordinistas over at Webster’s are going to say, hey, that’s not a word.

JEFFREY BROWN:  An approximation of fact that somehow captured the moment in American journalism and culture.  He presented “The Word,” a circular monologue that began in one place, meandered through puns and sight gags, and ended back where it started.

Night after night for nine years on “The Colbert Report,” Stephen Colbert did it all in character, a character named Stephen Colbert, an excitable, hyperactive, brash, but also reasonable voice of conservative bluster, clearly modeled on the cable TV and radio styles of Bill O’Reilly and others, all played for laughs and lessons.

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