When news stories fall through the cracks, we here at Colbert News Hub find them for a post we call, In The Press.
Two months left Nation, two! After months of getting only scarce evidence that Stephen was still alive, June came around and brought us a new website and lots and lots of things to look forward to every week. From videos, to podcasts, ‘press releases’, polls and tweets—we’ve been truly spoiled! This month’s edition of In The Press covers, among other things, anticipation for The Late Show, some more articles on the business side of late-night, and the upcoming Emmy nominations.
Stephen Colbert
“I won’t be watching his show for at least a year,” Clawson said on the David Glenn Show this week. “You invite someone like that, and I’m sure they paid him a fairly healthy sum to be our speaker, and it was not needed and not appreciated.[…] He got some laughs out of it, which was his goal, but — it is what it is. He spoke the truth. We did not have a good record last year,” Clawson added. “Our students didn’t get to roll the quad as much as we want. The bottom line is that it’s our job to change that, and we’ll get that changed, and I”m fully confident that will happen,” he said. “Did I like that he said it? No, but he spoke the truth. We need to win more football games here, and I’m very confident that we’ll do it.”
- ArtWorks Gets a Colbert Bump – Cincinnati
The heart-warming news continued this month as ArtWorks received a $10,000 check from Stephen’s Americone Dream Fund.
“It’s very touching to hear that somebody recognizes this is important work, ” said Caroline Creaghead, ArtWorks director of creative enterprise.The gift from Stephen Colbert’s Americone Dream Fund of Coast Community Foundation of SC will fund the organization’s creative enterprise programming.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Jazz is definitely not the vital cultural force it once was. It has fewer performers, fewer clubs and much smaller audiences. But the form still has brilliance to share. When Batiste is playing, jazz doesn’t seem at all like the dead art form many insist it is. The more programmed, mechanical and overproduced our music gets, the more we may need the freedom that jazz and social music provides.Colbert and Batiste could do amazing work showing American audiences that jazz is not the stiff, dead music many believe it to be. It’s a dynamic and community-building art form. Batiste knows it better than most. And he’s about to share that knowledge with the nation.
Since leaving the “Colbert Report” last December, the man who would be the next King of Late Night has built a solid digital base to keep his intelligent/funny brand of commentary and silliness on-screen. Colbert’s digital crew have been building on a mighty social media foundation. His official YouTube channel for the “Late Show,” launched barely a month ago, has more than 50,000 subscribers. Videos on the channel have launched more than 4 million views. Beyond posting videos every few days, Colbert has launched a podcast to keep in the public ear and provide insight into how he and his crew plan to make over the iconic “Late Show.”
Obviously the numbers have already changed quite a bit, especially with the “June Is A Lovely Time For A Wedding” video garnering an additional 1.3 million views and the “Only In Monroe” video over 3 million views!
- The 50 Most American Americans in History, Ranked – Thrillist
The Colbert Report may have ended but Stephen remains one of the most American Americans America has ever produced—up there with people like Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, MLK, and George Washington.
It’s a shame The Colbert Report is no longer on the air, as he’d probably be mad he didn’t think of a list of “Most American Americans” first. That said, nobody pointed out the foibles of uber-patriotism better than he did. And while we should all strive to be as patriotic (hopefully, he’ll bring the same level to The Late Show), you can’t ever be a truly great country unless you’re willing to laugh at yourself.
At CBS, marketers are talking about deals for new latenight offerings that call for a hike ranging from 6.5% to 8% in the cost of reaching 1,000 viewers, according to ad buyers and other people familiar with the situation. The measure is also known as a CPM and is central to the annual “upfront” talks currently taking place between advertisers and TV networks for commercial inventory that will support TV’s coming fall schedule.
- Lena Dunham, Amy Schumer and Comedy Actress A-List in Raunchy, R-Rated Roundtable – The Hollywood Reporter
For Lena Dunham as for many other people (mainly women) it has been disappointing to see that, even with the massive transformation late-night has underwent these past couple of years, no woman has been given any of the hosting jobs. It’s interesting to note, though, that both Amy Poehler and Amy Schumer were offered The Daily Show, and turned it down.
Amy, your name came up when people were talking about who should replace Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, sparking a conversation about why women are so absent from late night. Why are they? LENA DUNHAM: The idea of risk-taking is terrifying. I love Stephen Colbert, he’s a genius, but CBS [couldn’t] take the David Letterman slot and hire somebody who represented even an ounce of diversity? Also, when they got James Corden — another guy I love — there was this joke, “We’ve run out of white men here, we have to import them from England.” There is no shortage of established women who’ve been on the comedy circuit for years. It bums me out that someone like Kathy Griffin was relegated to Fashion Police.
5. He can inhabit, and transcend, the structure
This is the point Colbert defeatists seem to have missed. They’re putting the cart before the horse. The character he played on “The Colbert Report” wasn’t great in and of itself. “Stephen Colbert” was great because Stephen Colbert was the person inhabiting the character.
What he did while inhabiting the character is what enabled him to transcend the premise of a bumbling right-wing mouthpiece and become a legitimate cultural force. Everything mentioned above is what gave him the ability to pull this off, and it’s what’ll give him the ability to fully inhabit and ultimately transcend the role of Stephen Colbert, host of “The Late Show.”
Or in terms Colbert himself would approve of: On Comedy Central, he was Gandalf the Grey. On CBS, he’ll become Gandalf the White.
Late Night Television
- Post-Dave Ratings Indicate Two Jimmies Have Not Inherited His Audience – Media Post
Since Stephen won’t be starting the show until September, CBS has been airing reruns of various crime shows. Oddly enough a look at late-night ratings reveals that Letterman’s departure has not translated into an increase in the ratings for the two Jimmys, and viewers are still tuning into CBS at 11:30.
The numbers for “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live” for the post-Dave week of June 1-5 were not far off from their season-to-date averages. In fact, they were a little down (except for Kimmel’s demo rating), due possibly to the usual decreases in viewing levels when the summer season sets in.But one thing that didn’t happen: Neither seemed to have collected viewership from the absence of Letterman. “Late Show with David Letterman” ended its run with a final-season average of 3.007 million total viewers (and a 0.56 rating in the demo). The average was pulled upward by an increase in viewership in Letterman’s final weeks as his last airdate drew near. A more “normal” average for the Letterman show without the finale spike would likely have been in the mid-2 million range.
But now Ilic finds himself heading back to familiar shores after the organisation unceremoniously gave him the boot when it emerged that he had used studio down time to film and edit an audition reel for a gig as a correspondent on Trevor Noah’s upcoming incarnation of The Daily Show.According to Ilic, he used roughly 40 minutes of otherwise vacant studio time to shoot the promo reel, in addition to the use of company bought make up.
Now this, in and of itself, isn’t an uncommon practice – particularly when it comes to on-screen talent. For TV presenters, it’s the equivalent of browsing Seek and knocking together a job application while you’re at your current workplace.
That leaves one talk show slot up for grabs. Will it go to the final season of The Late Show with David Letterman? (It has accumulated 13 noms over the years — winning in 2000, 2001 and 2002 — but hasn’t been a finalist since 2009.) Will sentimentality be trumped by fresh blood? (John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight, Larry Wilmore’s The Nightly Show and James Corden’s The Late Late Show are eligible for the first time.) Or might there be a surprise? (Conan was last nominated four years ago, while Ferguson’s The Late Late Show, Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live, Chelsea Handler’s Chelsea Lately and Seth Meyers’ Late Night with Seth Meyers have never been nominated.)
- John Oliver on CBS This Morning
Was choosing Stephen Colbert as Letterman’s successor a good move for CBS? John Oliver seems to think the answer is a very emphatic yes.
Stephen Colbert is coming up for us on CBS. Is that a good move for CBS? You know him.
It is a phenomenal move. There’s barely a better move. You’re losing a legend in Letterman, but you could not be in—you know, it’s always a gamble appointing anyone knew, and with him it is no gamble. That is as funny and as smart a man as you’ll ever meet. He’ll be amazing. He will objectively be amazing.
In the Press – June 2015
When news stories fall through the cracks, we here at Colbert News Hub find them for a post we call, In The Press.
Two months left Nation, two! After months of getting only scarce evidence that Stephen was still alive, June came around and brought us a new website and lots and lots of things to look forward to every week. From videos, to podcasts, ‘press releases’, polls and tweets—we’ve been truly spoiled! This month’s edition of In The Press covers, among other things, anticipation for The Late Show, some more articles on the business side of late-night, and the upcoming Emmy nominations.
Stephen Colbert
“I won’t be watching his show for at least a year,” Clawson said on the David Glenn Show this week. “You invite someone like that, and I’m sure they paid him a fairly healthy sum to be our speaker, and it was not needed and not appreciated.[…] He got some laughs out of it, which was his goal, but — it is what it is. He spoke the truth. We did not have a good record last year,” Clawson added. “Our students didn’t get to roll the quad as much as we want. The bottom line is that it’s our job to change that, and we’ll get that changed, and I”m fully confident that will happen,” he said. “Did I like that he said it? No, but he spoke the truth. We need to win more football games here, and I’m very confident that we’ll do it.”
The heart-warming news continued this month as ArtWorks received a $10,000 check from Stephen’s Americone Dream Fund.
“It’s very touching to hear that somebody recognizes this is important work, ” said Caroline Creaghead, ArtWorks director of creative enterprise.The gift from Stephen Colbert’s Americone Dream Fund of Coast Community Foundation of SC will fund the organization’s creative enterprise programming.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Jazz is definitely not the vital cultural force it once was. It has fewer performers, fewer clubs and much smaller audiences. But the form still has brilliance to share. When Batiste is playing, jazz doesn’t seem at all like the dead art form many insist it is. The more programmed, mechanical and overproduced our music gets, the more we may need the freedom that jazz and social music provides.Colbert and Batiste could do amazing work showing American audiences that jazz is not the stiff, dead music many believe it to be. It’s a dynamic and community-building art form. Batiste knows it better than most. And he’s about to share that knowledge with the nation.
Since leaving the “Colbert Report” last December, the man who would be the next King of Late Night has built a solid digital base to keep his intelligent/funny brand of commentary and silliness on-screen. Colbert’s digital crew have been building on a mighty social media foundation. His official YouTube channel for the “Late Show,” launched barely a month ago, has more than 50,000 subscribers. Videos on the channel have launched more than 4 million views. Beyond posting videos every few days, Colbert has launched a podcast to keep in the public ear and provide insight into how he and his crew plan to make over the iconic “Late Show.”
Obviously the numbers have already changed quite a bit, especially with the “June Is A Lovely Time For A Wedding” video garnering an additional 1.3 million views and the “Only In Monroe” video over 3 million views!
The Colbert Report may have ended but Stephen remains one of the most American Americans America has ever produced—up there with people like Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, MLK, and George Washington.
It’s a shame The Colbert Report is no longer on the air, as he’d probably be mad he didn’t think of a list of “Most American Americans” first. That said, nobody pointed out the foibles of uber-patriotism better than he did. And while we should all strive to be as patriotic (hopefully, he’ll bring the same level to The Late Show), you can’t ever be a truly great country unless you’re willing to laugh at yourself.
At CBS, marketers are talking about deals for new latenight offerings that call for a hike ranging from 6.5% to 8% in the cost of reaching 1,000 viewers, according to ad buyers and other people familiar with the situation. The measure is also known as a CPM and is central to the annual “upfront” talks currently taking place between advertisers and TV networks for commercial inventory that will support TV’s coming fall schedule.
For Lena Dunham as for many other people (mainly women) it has been disappointing to see that, even with the massive transformation late-night has underwent these past couple of years, no woman has been given any of the hosting jobs. It’s interesting to note, though, that both Amy Poehler and Amy Schumer were offered The Daily Show, and turned it down.
Amy, your name came up when people were talking about who should replace Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, sparking a conversation about why women are so absent from late night. Why are they? LENA DUNHAM: The idea of risk-taking is terrifying. I love Stephen Colbert, he’s a genius, but CBS [couldn’t] take the David Letterman slot and hire somebody who represented even an ounce of diversity? Also, when they got James Corden — another guy I love — there was this joke, “We’ve run out of white men here, we have to import them from England.” There is no shortage of established women who’ve been on the comedy circuit for years. It bums me out that someone like Kathy Griffin was relegated to Fashion Police.
5. He can inhabit, and transcend, the structure
This is the point Colbert defeatists seem to have missed. They’re putting the cart before the horse. The character he played on “The Colbert Report” wasn’t great in and of itself. “Stephen Colbert” was great because Stephen Colbert was the person inhabiting the character.
What he did while inhabiting the character is what enabled him to transcend the premise of a bumbling right-wing mouthpiece and become a legitimate cultural force. Everything mentioned above is what gave him the ability to pull this off, and it’s what’ll give him the ability to fully inhabit and ultimately transcend the role of Stephen Colbert, host of “The Late Show.”
Or in terms Colbert himself would approve of: On Comedy Central, he was Gandalf the Grey. On CBS, he’ll become Gandalf the White.
Late Night Television
Since Stephen won’t be starting the show until September, CBS has been airing reruns of various crime shows. Oddly enough a look at late-night ratings reveals that Letterman’s departure has not translated into an increase in the ratings for the two Jimmys, and viewers are still tuning into CBS at 11:30.
The numbers for “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live” for the post-Dave week of June 1-5 were not far off from their season-to-date averages. In fact, they were a little down (except for Kimmel’s demo rating), due possibly to the usual decreases in viewing levels when the summer season sets in.But one thing that didn’t happen: Neither seemed to have collected viewership from the absence of Letterman. “Late Show with David Letterman” ended its run with a final-season average of 3.007 million total viewers (and a 0.56 rating in the demo). The average was pulled upward by an increase in viewership in Letterman’s final weeks as his last airdate drew near. A more “normal” average for the Letterman show without the finale spike would likely have been in the mid-2 million range.
But now Ilic finds himself heading back to familiar shores after the organisation unceremoniously gave him the boot when it emerged that he had used studio down time to film and edit an audition reel for a gig as a correspondent on Trevor Noah’s upcoming incarnation of The Daily Show.According to Ilic, he used roughly 40 minutes of otherwise vacant studio time to shoot the promo reel, in addition to the use of company bought make up.
Now this, in and of itself, isn’t an uncommon practice – particularly when it comes to on-screen talent. For TV presenters, it’s the equivalent of browsing Seek and knocking together a job application while you’re at your current workplace.
That leaves one talk show slot up for grabs. Will it go to the final season of The Late Show with David Letterman? (It has accumulated 13 noms over the years — winning in 2000, 2001 and 2002 — but hasn’t been a finalist since 2009.) Will sentimentality be trumped by fresh blood? (John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight, Larry Wilmore’s The Nightly Show and James Corden’s The Late Late Show are eligible for the first time.) Or might there be a surprise? (Conan was last nominated four years ago, while Ferguson’s The Late Late Show, Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live, Chelsea Handler’s Chelsea Lately and Seth Meyers’ Late Night with Seth Meyers have never been nominated.)
Was choosing Stephen Colbert as Letterman’s successor a good move for CBS? John Oliver seems to think the answer is a very emphatic yes.
Stephen Colbert is coming up for us on CBS. Is that a good move for CBS? You know him.
It is a phenomenal move. There’s barely a better move. You’re losing a legend in Letterman, but you could not be in—you know, it’s always a gamble appointing anyone knew, and with him it is no gamble. That is as funny and as smart a man as you’ll ever meet. He’ll be amazing. He will objectively be amazing.