Backlash after "racist" Stephen Colbert tweet

Octoberist said:
Think about this: Imagine if family advocate groups being upset that Homer Simpson, Peter Griffin or Archer Bunker aren't a responsible fathers.
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Which is exactly the point: These are not responsible fathers, role models or people. They are completely inappropriate and we all know it but we can still laugh at them. I think the media and everyone who blows their top off of people who are intentionally bad aren't seeing why we laugh at them.
 
Pink Ranger said:
I sometimes wish Jon Stewart and Bill Maher were on opposite sides of the political spectrum, so we could have a show where those two really go at it. Sadly, I imagine they are on side with each other on most things.

A Dennis Miller/Jon Stewart debate show would be interesting though.
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Is Dennis Miller a staunch Republican or more of a Libertarian?
 
Dennis Miller stopped being fun when he became too self aware of his intellect. Then instead of jokes, he just rambles jargon.
 
Yeah, I seriously doubt he could go toe-to-toe with Jon Stewart.

Though Stewart is just plain cut throat when debating his enemies.
 
jmc said:
Wouldn't it be better for CBS to retire the Late Show name and build a new show around Colbert? The Late Show is Letterman, will always be associated with Letterman.
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And?


The Tonight Show was and always (and still is) associated with Johnny Carson, then the same with Jay Leno.

And the Late Show will always be associated with Conan O'Brien, and now Jimmy Fallon, who has moved on to the Tonight Show.


The show will become his in time. Just depends on what he does to make it his.
 
Rename the show

'The Colbert Show with Stephen Colbert'
 
SpideyFan866 said:
And?


The Tonight Show was and always (and still is) associated with Johnny Carson, then the same with Jay Leno.

And the Late Show will always be associated with Conan O'Brien, and now Jimmy Fallon, who has moved on to the Tonight Show.


The show will become his in time. Just depends on what he does to make it his.
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The difference is there's more history to the Tonight Show even before Carson. I get it that Carson was and still is highly associated with it but that's kinda the problem, subsequent Tonight Show hosts have had to live in that shadow. It doesn't make a lot of sense to continue the Late Show name because it's always been Letterman's baby, it doesn't have a history of being in any other persons hands other than Dave's. The easiest solution is just to retire Late Show and start fresh, it clears the air that this is not Colbert taking over from Letterman, it's Colbert's new show, it also avoids the issue like with the Tonight Show in terms of how much people still prefer Carson over the last few hosts.
 
I'm actually curious to see Colbert out of character. I've seen brief interviews of him out of character, but never like this.
 
Old Timer said:
No offense, but it is SO easy to create jokes, b*tch, and whine about superfluous political maneuvering here in the States, on the other hand, it is really hard to create solutions that are able to adjust on the fly and make progress within mountains of government bureaucracy. Seriously, let Stewart do the easy stuff as that's really the only thing he is good at.

Short and simple: There is a reason Stewart is not the CEO of a major company somewhere. You know.... ?
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Maybe Stewart wanted to fame and fortune while making people laugh.

Not everyone aspires to being a business CEO.

When it comes to funny political commentary and satire Stewart is very good at what he does and few comedians can match him.
 
Old Timer said:
No offense, but it is SO easy to create jokes, b*tch, and whine about superfluous political maneuvering here in the States, on the other hand, it is really hard to create solutions that are able to adjust on the fly and make progress within mountains of government bureaucracy. Seriously, let Stewart do the easy stuff as that's really the only thing he is good at.

Short and simple: There is a reason Stewart is not the CEO of a major company somewhere. You know.... ?
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Uh...who is doing that exactly?
 
Is this turning into the Stephen Colbert General Discussion thread? :hmm
 
Thundercrack85 said:
I'm actually curious to see Colbert out of character. I've seen brief interviews of him out of character, but never like this.
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I don't understand why Colbert would get the job in the first place if he's supposed to be OOC. Does anyone know if he's even funny when he's just being himself?
 
I think it implies that a man that can create an entire concept like he did must be a comedic genius.
 
Old Timer said:
No offense, but it is SO easy to create jokes, b*tch, and whine about superfluous political maneuvering here in the States, on the other hand, it is really hard to create solutions that are able to adjust on the fly and make progress within mountains of government bureaucracy. Seriously, let Stewart do the easy stuff as that's really the only thing he is good at.

Short and simple: There is a reason Stewart is not the CEO of a major company somewhere. You know.... ?
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And you are....? If getting paid millions to make jokes and whine is so easy according to you, then please get me a job doing it. Yeah, what a loser... he's only hosted the Academy Awards twice, but he'll never be CEO of some company. :o I'm sure that's his real dream!
 
Has Suey Park ever said anything about the "success" of her Twitter campaign?
 
RachelDawes said:
I don't understand why Colbert would get the job in the first place if he's supposed to be OOC. Does anyone know if he's even funny when he's just being himself?
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I've seen him in interviews out of character, he's very sharp, and pretty funny.

Not that I find Letterman funny. Or particularly sharp (though he's certainly not a dummy). And to be fair, he's hardly in his prime now.
 
Yeah, even if his out-of-character personality isn't as hilarious as Colbert Report-Colbert, he's still going to be a huge step up from current Letterman in the humor department. That guy stopped putting effort in quite awhile back.
 
Lencho01 said:
Has Suey Park ever said anything about the "success" of her Twitter campaign?
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It's so weird. I just read one interview with her DURING the campaign, and then she fell into obscurity. As far as I've seen, sure there has been some interesting discussions about race in general due to this campaign, but overall it was deemed a failure to my eyes. There's no payoff.

I just think whatever support she had died quickly because Colbert has such a large and loyal support. I really, really think she underestimated Colbert. And almost all of the Asian-American people on Twitter (that I've seen) were totally against Park (not against her overall ideas -which has weight - but on this particular agenda).

Again, I don't know her history with The Colbert Report. She's never mentioned anything about seeing the show or her familiarity to the satirical nature of Colbert's on-air character. Nada.
 
Octoberist said:
It's so weird. I just read one interview with her DURING the campaign, and then she fell into obscurity. As far as I've seen, sure there has been some interesting discussions about race in general due to this campaign, but overall it was deemed a failure to my eyes. There's no payoff.

I just think whatever support she had died quickly because Colbert has such a large and loyal support. I really, really think she underestimated Colbert. And almost all of the Asian-American people on Twitter (that I've seen) were totally against Park (not against her overall ideas -which has weight - but on this particular agenda).

Again, I don't know her history with The Colbert Report. She's never mentioned anything about seeing the show or her familiarity to the satirical nature of Colbert's on-air character. Nada.
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I found these and they're "interesting" responses...

#CancelColbert activist Suey Park: “This is not reform, this is revolution”

#CancelColbert activist Suey Park (sort of) responds to “Late Show” announcement
 
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