The Stephen Colbert Show

[Oilwellian]

Stephen Colbert, who plays a phony correspondent on the fake-news program "The Daily Show," is getting a real promotion.

Comedy Central said yesterday that it was giving Mr. Colbert his own show: a half-hour that is expected to follow "The Daily Show" on weeknights and will lampoon those cable-news shows that are dominated by the personality and sensibility of a single host. Think, he said, of Bill O'Reilly and Chris Matthews and Sean Hannity.

Where "The Daily Show" and its host, Jon Stewart, generally spoof the headlines of the day (and the anchors and reporters who deliver them), Mr. Colbert's program will send up those hosts who have become household names doing interviews and offering analyses each night on the 24-hour cable news channels. The program, which is expected to begin appearing on Comedy Central as soon as early fall, is being produced by Mr. Stewart's production company, Busboy Productions.

It will be called "The Colbert Report" - though, if Mr. Colbert has his way, the announcer will pronounce it with a faux-French accent: The co-BEAR ra-PORE.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/04/arts/television/04come.html?ex=1272859200&en=6c08458b36d1de64&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

[paineinthearse]

1. I saw the promo last night but didn't realize it was going to be a regular

show.

Good luck, Mr. Colbert, break a leg!

[Bozita]

2. Daily Show will segue into new Colbert show seamlessly

from the NYT article:

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That "The Daily Show" has reached the point that it is considered ripe for a spinoff is something of a milestone for the program and for Comedy Central, which is owned by Viacom. But in moving Mr. Colbert off "The Daily Show" - he is expected to make only intermittent return visits - the network is also risking diluting a recipe that has made it so popular.

To that end, Comedy Central is considering ripping an actual page from the cable news networks it so often mocks, and having Mr. Stewart, at the end of his half-hour show, share a split-screen with Mr. Colbert, in what is known in the news business as a "throw" or "toss."

"It could be kind of seamless," said Doug Herzog, president of Comedy Central and Spike TV, who presided over the debut of "The Daily Show" in 1996. "It would have the effect of extending 'The Daily Show' to a full hour."

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more...

[GiovanniC]

4. Lots of People Have Been BEGGING For a Full Hour of TDS

Looks like they got their wish, in a way.

[paineinthearse]

3. Sean Hannity has the levelest head

Jon Stewart had the best Hannity one liner I ever heard. In relation to the "runaway bride" cable news coverage, during a split screen where Hannity suggested to two other "reporters" that the bride had a case of cold feet.

Stewart he said something to the effect that "we are in trouble when Hannity has the levelest head in cable news".

[Bozita]

7. Bill O'Reilly's "falafel" was inspiration for new show

from the article

[coloradodem2005]

5. The Colber Report.

It's French. Bitch.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. He's got plenty of material to work with.

I hope he includes some of the screaming heads on talk radio too.

[loro mi dicevano]

8. I'm torn. For one, I don't think it'll take off, which is unfortunate.

And another, I'm a little worried about who'll replace Jon Stewart when he leaves, now. I was always under the assumption that it would be Stephen Colbert, considering he's filled in on multiple occasions.

On the other hand, I loved the times he did fill in, and I am a much bigger Colbert fan than I am a fan of anyone else on the show. I would really not like to see him doing what Steve Carrell is now, though. *shrug*

I just don't think that it'll make it.

[Norquist Nemesis]

13. Is Jon Stewart leaving?

Or are you looking down the road?

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

14. Jon has a contract with Comedy Central till 2008

Edited because I re-read the OP and saw that this is a Busboy production. Well, this story is interesting reading anyways:

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TV's anti-Walter Cronkite has obtained financing from his home base cable network to resurrect his long-dormant Busboy Production shingle. In exchange, Stewart will give Comedy Central first crack at picking up all the projects it develops, network president Doug Herzog announced Tuesday.

Stewart will run the company with Daily Show executive producer Ben Karlin, a former Onion editor who joined the fake news anchor's staff in 1993, became head writer in 1999 and with whom Stewart cowrote his New York Times bestseller, America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction. (The tome, a parody of civics textbooks, owes a measure of its success to Wal-Mart, which banned the book for its naked illustrations of the Supreme Court justices, in turn pumping up sales.)

The first-look deal allows Stewart and his team to create new comedy series that mine the habitual funnyman's trademark brand of humor. If Comedy Central passes on the shows, Stewart is free to shop them to other channels.

"Jon Stewart is the preeminent voice in comedy today," Herzog says in a statement. "As evidenced by the incredible success of America (The Book), Jon and Ben have much more than a nightly TV show's worth of comedy in them and we're incredibly excited about the possibility of making more television with this exceptionally talented group of artists."

A little more: http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,15936,00.html

[Norquist Nemesis]

15. Thanks! n/t

[peacetalksforall]

9. Start spreading the word. How many people have you turned on

to the Daily Show? Now we start over.

Comedy will break through where pathos doesn't.

I didn't know about Viacom owning Comedy Central.

[Oilwellian]

10. It's a great idea for a show

Spoofing this administration AND those who are its propaganda ministers is just what we NEED. :D

[ET Awful]

11. Hehehe, an extra 1/2 hour of Ted Hitler

and his drunken panda dining :)

[AllegroRondo]

12. Will he take "This Week in God" with him?

thats his best stuff!

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

16. GREAT news

Not only an expansion of The Daily Show's attack on MSM, but a whole half hour of Stephen Colbert. Mmmm..... :loveya: