On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Diner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 5:33:20 AM UTC-5, PGage wrote: >> >> >> > I love his short monologue and current events oriented Act 2, but it may >> be costing him - of course I hope he never changes. >> > > > I love his desk bit too - when he finally gets around to it. > > You mentioned his poor rapport with the bandleader, but that's just the > tip of the iceberg. The show takes WAY too long to get started, and it gets > started the same damn way every night. It's not fun anymore. The crowd > standing and chanting his name got old by the second night; note that > Kimmel never allows his audience a standing ovation (except when he's on > the road), and while Fallon sometimes does, he never lets it delay the > monologue. There's no reason to mention your guests in the short monologue > when the announcer mentions them in the montage. And that montage is the > longest opening montage in late night right now. (Letterman and Kimmel > shortened theirs over the years.) > > I find it interesting that Seth Meyers shortened his opening montage and > even eliminated the walk out from the curtain so that he could get quickly > to the thing people tune in to see, political jokes. It's a lesson that > Colbert should learn. Meyers is now telling his first joke less than a > minute into his show; last week I noted that Colbert didn't tell his first > desk joke until six minutes into his show. Six minutes! Half the audience > is probably asleep by then. >
I disagree with some of this Tim, though very much agree about the standing ovation. But I think Colbert is trying to do a show which is less monologue-joke centered. I at least do not feel a rush to get to jokes, and if anything the cold open gets the audience into the show pretty quick (if he would just cut out the schtick with the bandleader). I do wonder about saying the names of the guests when they are just going to repeat them again in a few seconds, but then I think that Dave was doing that same thing in the last couple of years, and I assume there is some research that this increases stickiness. Where I really disagree is about the opening montage, which I love, and would be very sad to see them shorten, though history of most television programs suggests you are right and inevitably it will be. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
