Colbert has been semitransparent about the Friday pre-tapes since they started, making a remark or two every damn week alluding to it being Thursday. I'm already on record here and elsewhere to the effect that I think it's a terrible mistake not to do Friday's show on Friday.
On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 4:42 AM, JW <[email protected]> wrote: > > Two shows (Thursday and Friday) were taped back to back. However - they > did > > NOT see one of Thursday's guests (Kate Winslet) or one of Friday's > guests > > (Carol Burnett). In fact, they were told that Burnett's segment was > taped > > three weeks ago. > > They did, however, see Mark Hamill (Friday's guest - they said his > segment > > was great) and the Thursday segment with Laura Benanti as Melania. > > They also said that the two monologues were taped back to back - the > Friday > > monologue was taped immediately after the Thursday one. > > On Friday's show, Colbert did mention at the beginning of the monologue > that the audience was good enough for two shows. The guests were Carol > Burnett and Lewis Black; our old pal Sue Trowbridge's site shows Hamill as > next Friday. > > Given the news cycle, Colbert would be well-served to be explicit about > taping the show a day early. (Seth Meyers mentioned on his Wednesday show > that it had actually been taped Tuesday so as not to have to deal with the > crowd for the tree-lighting, so his lack of Matt Lauer mentions was > understandable.) > > > > > -- > -- > 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. > -- -- 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.
