All Stephen Colbert Had To Do Was Not Suck; He Couldn’t Do It
Derek Hunter
It was his last show and it was the only episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert I’ve ever watched. Yes, I’d seen clips, but I had honestly never watched a full episode ever. I never actually watched an episode of The Colbert Report either, or The Daily Show for that matter. Watching liberals pretend to be honest brokers on the news of the day never appealed to me. But Colbert’s last show did, mostly because I wanted to see one fresh before it was too late and I figured he and his ample staff would bring their A-game. Boy, was I wrong.
More than a decade ago (closer, probably, to 15 years) I twice turned down “being on” The Daily Show. I wasn’t asked to be the in-studio guest either time, I was asked to be interviewed as part of a package, or whatever they were called when one of their “correspondents” did a “report” on something. I think one topic about Net Neutrality and I can’t remember the other beyond it was about a column I’d written.
Both times they seemed genuinely surprised that I had no interest in being on their show, but I had no interest in being “famous.” I’d known and heard about enough people who’d been in those types of segments where a half hour interview was boiled down to about 45 seconds, out of context, and cut to make the subject look like a moron. You didn’t have to watch their crap to know the toilet needed to be flushed and I didn’t have any desire to be a part of it.
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