Comments on: Colbert’s Move to the Late Show http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2014/04/11/colberts-move-to-the-late-show/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: What exactly does being a media studies major entail? | Citations http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2014/04/11/colberts-move-to-the-late-show/comment-page-1/#comment-432422 Tue, 06 May 2014 16:20:53 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=23942#comment-432422 […] an April 11, 2014, post for Antenna, “Colbert’s Move to the Late Show,” Geoffrey Baym discussed the strategies, challenges and implications of political comic Stephen […]

]]> By: JB Stephens http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2014/04/11/colberts-move-to-the-late-show/comment-page-1/#comment-430696 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 02:36:59 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=23942#comment-430696 Good points, all. Another risk is how the current fanbase, enjoying the mask of S. Colbert, will like “the real thing.” As Geoff says, there will be one less layer of artifice, which has allowed the creativity and freedom of The C. R.
One query: will Late-Late night on the networks eventually become a lot closer to the Cable parodies? Recall the crazy stunts that David Letterman did earlier in his late-late experience. There is room for experimentation there, if only because the audience is so much fewer – and either incarcerated or intoxicated….or both.

]]> By: Media Studies Head Writes on Colbert’s Move to the Late Show | UNCG Dept of Media Studies News http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2014/04/11/colberts-move-to-the-late-show/comment-page-1/#comment-430624 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 21:14:28 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=23942#comment-430624 […] column by Dr. Geoffrey Baym has been posted in Antenna: Responses to Media and Culture, discussing the replacement of David Letterman with Stephen Colbert on the Late Show. Dr. Baym, who […]

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