The Clobert Repot

Wednesday, October 19, 2005 » general

So last night I wrote this entry about the Colbert Report, and how unimpressed I was by its inaugural1 episode, and how I was going to hold off passing Final Judgment2 for a week, or month, or whatever. But now much of it no longer applies, so I scrapped it and wrote this instead.

Tonight's episode turned out to be much better than last night's, which felt sort of like when you show up on the first day of class and the professor just goes over the syllabus. Tonight was also no longer a brand new experience, so it was easier to start picking up on how each episode is going to flow. Now I'm looking forward to new episodes more, since it'll be fun to see the show establish its identity. I've also sort of wondered from time to time whether an hour-long Daily Show would be a good thing or not, and this might be something of an indicator.

Still, there's a part of me that remains unenthused and disappointed, but I think it's just because the show is just a reminder that Stephen Colbert won't be on the Daily Show anymore. (I wonder how long they're going to have the check-in with Colbert at the end of the Daily Show, too.) Even if the show completely bombs, I doubt he'd find his way back to being a correspondent, because that would be really awkward. Like, John Kerry-awkward.

1 I said that in the old post and wanted to say it again.
2 That too.