--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > I've never seen Stephen Colbert's show because I guess it's air > > time conflicts with my schedule. But I used to love him on the > > old "Daily Show" with Craig Kilborn (I never saw Colbert in the > > Daily Show version with Jon Stewart because Stewart is Roger > > Moore to Kilborn's Sean Connery and I just can't stomach it). > > The only TV I watch is clips online and shows on Fox 15, the only > channel we get. I'd never even heard of Craig Kilborn until I read > the above paragraph, but I'm a *huge* fan of Jon Stewart because of > his tremendous popularity online. So, I'm sitting here > thinking, "If Craig Kilborn is so great, why haven't I heard of > him?"
Maybe because he was doing his thing before there were a lot of online clips? He quit the Daily Show in 1998 and did the Late Late Show on CBS until 2004. I never saw him on the Daily Show, so I have no idea what he did with it. But if he slanted the show to the left as much as Stewart does, he'd have had to tone it way down on the Late Late Show. Stewart is primarily popular with the left, and he's become a huge deal primarily because of the interaction between lefty blogs and the proliferation of online clips. Stewart wasn't that widely known until his famous appearance on CNN's Crossfire, where he blasted the hosts for having shouting matches with the guests rather than actually exploring the issues. Clips from that show went viral, and he began to attract a much larger audience. (And Crossfire was canceled not long after, at least partly due to Stewart's flogging.) I'm not that big a fan of either Stewart or Colbert, actually, although I strongly support what they're doing. They both have flashes of real wit, but most of what they do is too unfocused and burlesque-like for my taste. > BTW, Petra and I both think Roger Moore is way smokin' hotter than > Sean Connery. Oy. *Nobody* is hotter than Sean Connery, by me! To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
