> Colbert is not a sports fan (unlike say, Jimmy Kimmell) and it always shows.
Exactly. The only problem with him not being a fan is when he has to pretend he is. The value of going on live after the Super Bowl is the ability to reference what happened in the game and on the broadcast. If Colbert is unsuited to do that, find a correspondent (be it an employee of the show or a friend) to report from the site and do interviews; for that matter, they could have used those kinds of spots in the week prior to the game. This may be where not really establishing anyone else on the staff as an on-air personality hurts. And, if they're not going to do any of that, they should just pretape the show, have some fun with the idea that it's prerecorded (like they did with congratulating "the winning team" in the tossing-the-football segment), and make it an all-star version of a normal show. -- -- 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.
