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Monday, December 26, 2005
Posted
1:19 PM
by freelance radical
. STEPHEN COLBERT In case you've not yet discovered it, Stephen Colbert runs a late-night half hour called The Colbert Report (right after the Daily yuck) that's really quite amazing. I think it's the first intelligent TV-show since that British guy was on 20 years ago. I forgot his name.........got it: Dick Cavett. What I admire about Colbert, is the beautiful brain-dance in which he engages his guests, who usually consist of two separate individuals. It's fun to watch how he invites these people into a dialogue about something that's important to THEM.........after which he creates a kind of "invent-it-as-you-go" script for them to follow, so they can't help but become incredibly funny in a fast, high-powered exchange that often has the most dogmatic, most stern one of them, become victim to a delightful interaction of brilliant amusement. All this, while never offending anyone and never resorting to the annoying politial insults that have become so popular among other hosts. Watch this guy, if you can. PS.........about TV? =======
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