I thought it was a bit odd on Wednesday when he said that he hasn’t watched that night’s “coverage”. He’s had enough of it as well.
-Stan On Sunday, August 30, 2020 at 9:40:34 AM UTC-4 Tom Wolper wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 5:25 AM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I'd guess it was a combination of two weeks of live shows, the move back >> to the Ed, and his utter disgust with Trump. He really went after Chris >> Christie tonight (as who wouldn't?). >> >> I'm guessing that two weeks off will do him a world of good. >> > > I watched the first two shows when he moved the show back to Broadway and > the monologues were barely monologues. He wasn't preaching but he wasn't > really trying to be funny either. I think, like most people, he is dealing > with the strain of these times. All of the behind the scenes stuff we read > and hear of about these daily talk shows relates how they keep the host > grounded by keeping everything except the guests the same day after day. > When the shutdown was announced in the spring Colbert turned his show into > a podcast like all of the talk shows. He could deal with it because it was > only temporary. Now 5 months later there's no end in sight. He's back in > the Ed (office building) but there are no staff meetings and his guest > interviews are still being done remotely. The stuff his guests usually > plug, outside of politics, has been suspended and the live audience which > usually gives the host his energy has been gone for a long time. I'm not > surprised he's feeling the strain. > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/d7de22a9-151a-4540-9e59-8a8566fb91fan%40googlegroups.com.
