A side note, Tomlinson has a special debuting on Netflix tomorrow. She is, at
least for me, much more natural and less shouty in her standup than on After
Midnight.
The show in general is still rough. I've either gotten used to the hour-length
or they've managed to make it feel faster than it did the first week. The
panelists are a lot more hit or miss than what I remember from the @ version.
While I appreciate the show trying something different for the post-game
episode (they had a musical guest for 'halftime'), the execution was poor.
They seemed to spend more time on talking about the guest than on his
performance.
David
On Monday, February 12, 2024 at 11:33:46 PM PST, 'Dave Sikula' via
TVorNotTV <[email protected]> wrote:
I watched both shows out of a morbid curiosity.
I still watch Colbert even though the show is rarely funny and gotten really
calcified. It's deteriorated into Colbert slamming Trump in the same ways over
and over (which is, admittedly somewhat enjoyable) and saying "Biden is old!"
It was a confusing episode, though; the monologue was new (lots about the
game), but the Jon Stewart segment seemed like a pre-tape. The Krazinski panel
definitely was (they admitted as much), and I couldn't tell whether Gosling was
"live" or taped. I can't imagine it was live, but it would have required
filling the Ed at, what, 10:00 on a Sunday night or a ten-minute monologue? I
mean, Colbert's audience is nothing if not fanatic, but that?
As for "After Midnight," I had slight hopes because of the guests (though I'm
not really a fan of Maria Bamford), but Tomlinson is still really unfunny on an
SNL-level, mistaking yelling for being humorous. Given the current state of
comedy, though (from my limited perspective), that's probably a thing for most
audiences.
(Parenthetically, I'm watching Jon Stewart's return to TDS and am just
dee-lighted to see his both-sidesing skills are as sharp as ever: "Trump is a
direct threat to American democracy, but that Biden sometimes mixes up his
words like he's been doing for 40 years.")
--Dave Sikula
On Friday, January 26, 2024 at 9:12:51 AM UTC-8 Mark Jeffries wrote:
Of course, they are following the Super Bowl, the series premiere of "Tracker"
and local news on Sun. Feb. 11 and CBS says that they will be starting at the
normal time of 11:35 p.m. ET that night, but knowing past Big Games, we kinda
doubt that:
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/super-bowl-late-night-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-after-midnight-1235886818/
No guests announced for either yet.
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