>>512809352 (OP)Because he sucks? I have been a fan of Colbert for a really long time. Went back to the Dana Carvey show then Strangers With Candy. I bought the dumb Colbert books that were pretty good and the Colbert Report was a sharp bit of satire. Then he suddenly got bumped up in the shakey late night restructure and ended up a full-fledged talk show host. Well, a half-hour heavily produced and written smaller show on cable is quite different from an hour-long traditional late night network talk show. So he just let his writers and producers do it and he was the dancing monkey. His show was gross in its naked agenda and agreement/buy-on for the potential audience to cede. Though conservative, Colbert Report kept a keen edge and pointed out hypocrisy in a sharp clipped manner, the tone consistent and mannered. Watching Colbert be himself was atrocious, he was better as a character. Kind of a doofy ok well i'll get along to get along kind of guy than the sharp, weird character of "Colbert." Not the wittiest, but can be witty. As long as you agree, he agrees. Friendly but not good at handling adversity in conversation. This is where the writers and producers come in. They see the monkey will dance, so dance he will. Like Fallon, only Colbert thought he had unearned integrity for a life of being a dancing monkey to amuse the crowd. His "education" amounts to the pathetic life of an improv performer who would pretend to blow an audience member in a black box theater with 10 people in it if it guaranteed a laugh. Now a glorified clown, he agrees because everyone else there agrees and those people that don't are crazy racist homophobic nazis anyway. Why do you think we make fun of them, after all? Then their ideas turned out to be destructive diarrhea shit that fucked everything up for over a decade and the dancing puppet abruptly gets his strings cut mid-dance. Pathetic.
