Posted on 09/09/2015 12:02:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Stephen Colbert won his first outing as CBS’s new late-night host, as 6.6 million viewers tuned in late Tuesday night to watch “The Late Show.”
Mr. Colbert’s debut had about 3.6 million more viewers than Jimmy Fallon’s “The Tonight Show” and about 4.8 million more viewers than ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
Mr. Colbert also led in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic key to advertisers, drawing 1.4 million viewers compared with Mr. Fallon’s 900,000 and Mr. Kimmel’s 400,000. CBS hopes that he can retain many of the younger viewers who watched his Comedy Central political satire show, “The Colbert Report.”
Still, Mr. Colbert’s first episode did not do nearly as well as Mr. Fallon’s February 2014 debut, which drew 11.3 million viewers, benefiting partly from following NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage.
Mr. Colbert has gone to great lengths in the past few weeks to prove that he is friendly with his late-night competitors, and Mr. Fallon made a cameo Tuesday night. It was a strong contrast from David Letterman’s first episode on CBS in 1993, when he spent a good portion of his monologue bashing NBC, his former network. (The late-night landscape has changed significantly since Mr. Letterman’s debut, which had 15.2 million viewers.)
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I personally don’t care. He had Heb on his show. That alone is enough for me to not watch.
Well, Trump will be on Jimmy Fallon on Sep. 11. I bet many FReepers will watch that.
Sure, because it isn’t Heb Bush.
I have no intention of watching Jimmy Fallon, ever —
— unless he is able to bring Bob Marley or Jim Morrison back from the dead as a musical guest.
It was basically a single joke extending for way too long to the point of making Eminem and the audience uncomfortable.
Colbert promised that he would have a lot of similar "humor" that made people uncomfortable on his show.
I wonder how long that will work out for him?
Letterman lost audience because he was slightly edgy. Colbert's numbers could plummet if he tries to do a late night version of The Office.
It was so boring, it wasn’t worth watching.
Letterman to Stephen Coalbear is not an improvement.
I would be surprised if Colbert’s show last over three years. I think even if we finally get a Republican president, Colbert’s brand of humor, is somewhat confined to making fun of anything conservative, and everybody knows it.
When Jon Stewart left his show, I think that marked the end of an era, where a cursing, openly lying propagandist would be taken so seriously. Every dog has his day. Secondly, Colbert seems to radiate unhappiness, bitterness and dissatisfaction. That gets old too.
I have virtually no interest in watching his show.
Edgy? Yeah, if by 'edgy' you mean boring and dumb.
Letterman had about half a dozen running jokes and that was it.
Letterman was extremely boring, Colbert even more. I stopped watching before Jeb.
How about in America?
Seth Meyers is worse. He seems to be angry about something.
Just a late-night comedian now.
We’ll see how that works for him. I won’t be watching, but I’m sure the Bush Family will.
Colbert had some funny bits now and then (like, “I don’t see race. I didn’t know I was white until somebody told me.”)
I couldn’t stand Letterman.
I liked Conan O’Brien’s routine where he’d interview a big picture of a celebrity (like Arnold Schwarzenegger) where only the lips moved, a la Clutch Cargo.
Never liked the guy won’t watch his show. What he does has no relevance to my wonderful life.
Saw it last night and thought it was a funny show, until Jeb showed up.
Dude brought down the average I.Q.’s in the room...
I always thought that W. had more humor than Jeb.
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