There was a bootleg clip of the interview on YouTube last night but it was so boring I stopped watching. I dispute that they knew which Mooch was going to show up. He is volatile. It might have been a Trump-bashing Mooch. They rolled the dice. The Mooch is a freak show act in his 16th minute of fame. He is probably not bashing Trump because he wants to return to FOX News. Without Fox in three months he will be as relevant as Ken Bone.
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On Aug 15, 2017, 7:01 AM, at 7:01 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >The link to the Post story is a pretty good summary of Colbert's >interview, >for those who did not and are not planning to watch it: > > >https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/08/15/anthony-scaramucci-talks-to-stephen-colbert-about-trumps-charlottesville-remarks-reince-priebus-and-working-in-the-white-house-for-10-days/?utm_term=.425858aa36e6 > > >Early reports are the ratings were very good, but apparently not >roof-busting. > > >I thought Kevin's comment from last week was relevant - I do not quite >agree with it, but it is something that should always be seriously >asked >and confronted by performers and viewers alike in a situation like >this. >With good ratings from this interview, one could ask if Colbert is >thinking >of having David Duke on next week, or Alex Fields the week after that? > > >In the end I do not agree that public figures who serve in unpopular >and >repugnant White House administrations should be banned from late night >comedy shows. It would be disturbing if those shows pulled their >punches - >and there have been times when they did. Jon Stewart in particular >really >whiffed when he had Don Rumsfeld on (and I would put Rumsfeld in a much >deeper circle of hell than the lightweight and intrinsically >self-parodying >Scaramucci). Dave often asked serious questions of political guests, >but >mostly took a welcoming stance towards them, and appreciated them >coming on >his show. > > >To me it seemed that Colbert was aware of the dangers, and was intent >on >both gleaning the ratings benefits of having him on the show, while >still >stabbing him with his steely knives. Colbert almost adopted the persona >of >a cross examining prosecutor, from the start not allowing Scaramucci to >fire off the kind of self-effacing one-liners that people in his >position >use to begin rehabilitating themselves. While he may have come close to >erring on the side of lacking graciousness to a guest, I thought it was >the >smart side to err on, and Colbert did a pretty good job. He did let the >guy >give him the framed front stabbing knife at the end, and accepted it >with a >smile, but kept it very short and minimized any point-scoring. Given >that >this interview occurred so soon after the horrors of the weekend in >Virginia, many of the questions for the short lived Communications >Director >were, appropriately and predictably, about Trump's incompetence in >condemning Nazis and the KKK. The main problem with this was that >Scaramucci had already spoken out about this, pretty critically, on his >own >over the weekend, so it was mostly a rehash. Colbert also gave him a >chance >to get in some punches at his old in-house enemies at the WH, also >mostly a >rehash. While he made a few indirect jokes about it, Colbert did not >really >go directly after Scaramucci for his own bad behavior while working in >the >WH, and while it may have just been a straight line to set up his first >joke, Colbert did allude to an agreement he had made not to ask him any >"gotcha" questions, and it kind of seemed like in that spirit he did >not >push on the abhorrent behavior of Scaramucci himself while in office. >Altogether I didnt think the interview was particularly funny or >newsbreaking, but also avoided for the most part the most obvious >dangers >of the situation. > > >The main problem for me, as a huge Odenkirk fan, was that it was so >obvious >that Colbert should have reversed the order of the guests last night. > > > > >On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 8:11 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> This highlights my disdain for late night tv. Colbert will take jabs >at >> the guy, and the guy will giggle along and be self effacing, and >America >> will forget how the two-faced little turd helped the man now >threatening >> nuclear war. >> >> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 5:14 PM 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'll just note that shortly after his dismissal Colbert lamented >that the >>> show had just completed it's cartoon version of the Mooch. The >possibility >>> of shenanigans is, I think, not zero. >>> >>> David >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> On Wednesday, August 9, 2017, 7:43:23 PM EDT, Steve Timko < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Scaramucci to guest on Colbert's 'Late Show' next week >>> >>> LOS ANGELES (AP) - CBS says Anthony Scaramucci will be a guest on >Stephen >>> Colbert's late-night show next week. >>> The network said Wednesday that Scaramucci will appear on Colbert's >"The >>> Late Show" on Monday. >>> The former White House communications director lost his job with >>> President Donald Trump's administration July 31, after only 11 days >in the >>> job. His firing came after he gave an expletive-filled interview. >>> Scaramucci had been scheduled to make other public appearances, >including >>> at the Politicon political convention in Southern California, but >the >>> financier canceled. >>> Colbert's gleeful focus on the Trump White House has given his show >a >>> late-night ratings lead, and landing Scaramucci is a coup for the >host. >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> TV or Not TV .... 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