'Unleashed'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I gotta say that those are my favorite interviews, where the guest thinks the Colbert persona is so funny that he cracks up Colbert himself.
Me too. I find the ones where the guest doesn't get it uncomfortable to watch -- it's much more fun when they realize they're meant to be arguing with a straw man.
The Daily Show was always able to find rubes.
Their explanation was--people just want to be on TV, and TV makes people stupid.
But I would think that the political types guesting on the Colbert Report would be more aware of pop-culture stuff like TDS and TCR.
He (and the show) are getting pretty famous, as I've seen a number of articles about the show. So in the future fewer people will not get the joke, methinks.
I certainly think the volume of guests that don't get is going to go down, though somehow Ali G managed to get away with it for longer than I would have expected. That's why I'd send him out on the street - even with the press, there are bound to still be a lot of non-media people who don't know because they don't read the press and don't follow Comedy Central at all.
Shouldn't it be against the rules to feel both apathetic and pathetic at the same time?
Stoopid Mondays Tuesdays.
But I would think that the political types guesting on the Colbert Report would be more aware of pop-culture stuff like TDS and TCR.
As was demonstrated in the past year, that's a HUGENORMOUS assumption.
I find the ones where the guest doesn't get it uncomfortable to watch
This is me, and it doesn't matter if they are someone I'd likely agree with politically or not, at least for the interview guests. Either way it makes a little uneasy.
I wouldn't have quite the same issue with folks on the street, for some reason, even though in some ways it's more unfair than making someone who agreed to be on the show look clueless - they bought their own ticket, so to speak, if they agreed to do the show (and usually have something they are trying to publicize).
I'm getting my haircut after work today and I'm ready for a change. What do people think of this [link]
too mullet-ty?
As was demonstrated in the past year, that's a HUGENORMOUS assumption
Well, yeah. Sometimes I like to assume that people have brains....
I wouldn't have quite the same issue with folks on the street, for some reason, even though in some ways it's more unfair than making someone who agreed to be on the show look clueless - they bought their own ticket, so to speak, if they agreed to do the show (and usually have something they are trying to publicize).
True, but I don't expect folks on the street to have prepared for an interview -- there's no reason they shouldn't be clueless, so it's less embarrassing that they are.
Sometimes I like to assume that people have brains....
I think you're the one doing the assuming. I have a good friend who's the smartest guy I know--a Harvard grad and a Rhodes Scholar who works in policy (international economics) has no interest in television. His wife, who does Green Economics, is the same way, as are most of their friends. They are just not that interested in pop culture.