Just to refresh - it is not that I really want this kind of banter between Colbert and JB; I just think that since Colbert seems determined to make JB a contributing player in the show and not just a musician, I think it would be less destructive to the show to channel it in this kind of traditional vein than to keep trying to turn JB into some kind of skilled improv partner, which he clearly is not,
Great show last night - top to bottom. On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:34 AM, JW <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is what I want more from them - Colbert > > making fun of JB's outfits and jazziness; JB > > making fun of how white and nerdy Colbert is. > > I don't think Mr. Batiste is nearly as interested in participating in that > as you'd like. There have been a couple of times where Colbert set Batiste > up with easy chances to deliver a line, and Batiste just let them pass. > Maybe as Jon becomes more comfortable, he'll be more willing to engage, but > he's apparently not looking to be Paul Shaffer. (And if that's not who he > is, he's doing the right thing.) > > I found the following quote from one of the Variety articles interesting: > > "And late-night is now a very profitable thing for us with Colbert and > [James] Corden [of ‘The Late Late Show’], while as in the latter years of > Letterman and [Craig] Ferguson it wasn’t,” said Leslie Moonves, chief > executive of CBS, at a November presentation to investors. > > It's easy to imagine that Dave and his longtime staff had gotten very > expensive. But the Late Late Show? They must have paid Ferguson a LOT of > money, because they certainly didn't put it into the production. Corden's > show looks more expensive, so he must be getting a lot less than Craig was. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > 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 [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
