I generally either mute or FF through the cold opens (depends on if I'm watching live or delayed). They wouldn't be so egregious if a) they were funny (which they never will be while Stack is there) or b) they didn't repeat material in the monologue.
There are myriad problems with TLS, from the cold opening to the cutesy titles in the intro to the pre-tapes (both the bands and the Friday shows; I assume they tape those on Thursdays, but the monologue is occasionally timely enough to make me wonder just when it was done). The biggest ones, though, are the writing generally (I can't stand the minutes-long intros to the "Meanwhile" segment, though Colbert seems to love them) and Colbert's weakness as an interviewer: he constantly interrupts, steps on the guest's lines, and gets in the way. On Friday's show, Sam Waterston may have the best stories in the world, but he came off as an absolute stiff because Colbert had no idea of how to deal with him. I don't mind the current events panels, since he generally defers to the guests, but the others are generally a mess. The show isn't as much of the train wreck Noah has turned TDS into, but it's not that much better. --Dave Sikula On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 9:56:13 AM UTC-8 Mark Jeffries wrote: > This would be the opportunity for Colbert to make changes that aren't > working--or do they really think those cold opens are working? For the > most part, the audience response to them is not huge (and I'm assuming > they're not sweetening, especially since I think I'm pretty good at telling > what's real and what's canned, even if they aren't using Charley Douglass' > loops anymore). > -- 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 tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/3bfe7918-603b-4d0f-a95b-120225ec9378n%40googlegroups.com.
