Which is a choice between death by hanging or death by the electric chair. CBS already had a replacement named Craig Ferguson who is twice as funny as Colbert and Letterman combined.
They already tried it: Arsenio stunk. Plus, Richards Simmons is too old now.
There are plenty of talented comics that should have been obvious choices for this gig. I would have loved to have seen Aziz Ansari have his own show. He definitely has the persona that would be entertaining, and he could actually hold an interview that wont be boring. He also is more likable in a way that wont become annoying.
Instead they drag this walking shtick over in hopes that he will bring his deranged army of hipster fans that these days sees every hack “ironic” stunt done by people like him and Fallon as genius.
It will become nothing but a war to see whose made for YouTube skit can be passed around the most.
And in between you will get tons of leftist advocacy.
Late night isn’t for diversity.
It’s to kick around conservatives
Hmmm... Should have pick Dennis Miller if they wanted ratings.
Not many people want to watch a black guy except other black guys.
Comedic actresses are funny...Tina Fey, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus and a few others, but the vast majority of female stand-up comics (the type of comic best suited to the late night talk format) are just annoying, not funny...Wanda Sykes, Sarah Silverman, Joan Rivers, the Asian woman (can't even remember her name), etc.
Network executives care about one thing: ratings. Ratings drive revenues. If Les Moonves thought a black or a woman would draw the biggest ratings he would have hired one.
And then there's the audience: Predominately young white males.
So there ya have it. The explanation to the phony "lack of diversity" among late night talk show hosts.
What about diversity on the basketball court??? We need more 5’6” Latinos! Latinos dream about coming here to play basketball and make millions and millions... It’s not FAIRRRRR!
tried it..didn’t work...ARSENIO anybody ?
The off switch on my TV is flawless. My cable bill
is also a flawless $0. Yammer away about diversity on
something that has zero influence. My life is never
conflicted over a TV show schedule.
Did anyone ask Ellen about this? She seems to be doing fine on her own.
They seem to have plenty of lesbians in daytime TV, why not leave late-night to white men?
No Bush hispanic love for Arsenio?
part if the problem with the niche celebrity mentioned is not that they don't appeal to broader audiences, butt hat they have shown no interest in doing so. If you are making fun of people outside you're core demographic, then you can't expand your demographics. When thrust into the spotlight, they will flip the channel.
you have to have someone that's, foremost, going to entertain, not going to pursue an agenda. Rosie O'Donnell, for all who will complain about her, had an entertaining show in NY, revived Broadway, brought our culture to the country ... Until she had Tom Selleck on her show. She thought her popularity meant people would automatically agree with her. Instead it was the beginning of the end.
As for Colbert, I think this is great. the Colbert Report will go off the air. His "character" will have to "die" maybe to be briefly resurrected in 5 minute segments, and he'll have to be himself, if we can figure out who that is. The guy who was on Whose Line, maybe? I predict massive ratings, like whine letterman first went up against Leno. And I predict that Fallon's slow and steady course will win the race, like when letterman went up against Leno? Colbert will fail miserably, after a fashion, and leave or be dumped in about 5 years.
A better model might be Howard Stern's popularity before and after going to satellite radio. That will be colbert's future. the big fish in the small pond will disappear in the ocean of late night.
Haven’t they already try “diversifying” late night with Arsenio Hall in the 1990’s and George Lopez on TNT a few years ago? As a matter of fact, Arsenio Hall has a new late night show now on one of the lesser networks.
Regardless, his show, like those before will probably fail due to low ratings because you can only scream “kill whitey” or “racism” for so long before the advertisers highly desired white demographic gets fed up or bored and turns the channel.
I agree. Where is the Bible believing Christian host?
The networks are obviously bigoted.
All the names listed above are people who are not funny.