Jan 20 2015

The Daily/Nightly Show (Series Premier)

As I’m sure is true with the shows themselves there are still some kinks to get worked out.

What do we know?

Larry Wilmore on Colbert Takeover: ‘Replacing Stephen Is Impossible’

By Andy Greene, Rolling Stone

January 16, 2015

Wilmore was chosen for the job almost a year ago, soon after David Letterman announced his retirement and CBS signed up Colbert. “Jon Stewart and I got together to talk about what we might do with the slot,” says Kent Alterman, the president of content development and original programming at Comedy Central. “He had this idea for this show with Larry as the host, since his whole career has really built him toward that moment. Considering Jon’s track record when it comes to discovering talent, you’d have to be a real idiot to argue with him.”

Stewart’s pitch was rather simple. “His basic idea was there were lots of underrepresented voices out there that deserve to be heard,” says Wilmore. “He envisioned it as a Daily Show/panel show, with me hosting it. I was surprised he had me in the middle of the bull’s-eye. My jaw just kinda dropped. I went, ‘OK . . . sure. That sounds great.'”

There is still no guest list, this is what Jon Looks like for the week-

The Daily Show

Some continuity-

Alabama Justice

Mike Huckabee == Elmer Gantry (that’s an equation test not an assignment operator for the uninitiate).

I have here in my pocket – and thank heaven you can’t see them – lewd, dirty, obscene, and I’m ashamed to say this: French postcards. They were sold to me in front of your own innocent high school by a man with a black beard… a foreigner.

You want to read the whole thing?  It was written by Sinclair Lewis and dedicated to my meta namesake, H.L. Mencken.  I assure you that it will do more to feed your soul than any amount of time spent listening to this charlatan mountebank grifter.  Hot Dog?

But I do hope you’ll stick around for the Second Act.

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  46. going for the yin yang thing.

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