Colbert to air live after Trump-Clinton presidential debates
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Talk show host Stephen Colbert performs on the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena during a taping of his program in Cleveland on July 17.
BEVERLY HILLS » Stephen Colbert, who capitalized on the political conventions with live airings of his late-night show, will do the same for the presidential and vice presidential debates.
“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” will air live on CBS after the scheduled Sept. 26 and Oct. 19 debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and following the Tim Kaine-Mike Pence debate Oct. 4, the network said today.
Colbert, who is in his first-season transition from his Comedy Central series “The Colbert Report,” clearly reveled in making his CBS show more topical with convention comedy.
It also yielded what the network called his “biggest viral clips to date,” a measure beyond ratings of how much attention a show is attracting. Those popular bits: fellow Comedy Central alumnus Jon Stewart’s guest appearance and Broadway star Laura Benanti’s impersonation of Melania Trump.
The host also has introduced a version of the faux Colbert he played on “Colbert Report,” using him to crack biting political jokes. Colbert told viewers that lawyers from his old company said the blowhard cable news host he had played was not his intellectual property — so he introduced “Stephen Colbert’s identical cousin.”
CBS entertainment chief Glenn Geller was asked at a meeting of TV critics today if negotiations were underway to allow Colbert to use more of his old character.
Geller ducked the question, saying that Colbert addressed it on his show and that he would let him speak for himself.
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Obviously scrounging for ratings!
On what channel does you political commentary/entertainment show air?
Is there something wicked this way coming? Buy GOLD
How any sensible person who has reviewed the current and past facts could actually vote for that demo nominated thing is beyond me…
Can see how other countries are very concerned when all the rules purported to be true in the US are denied, flouted abnegated and betrayed–every day!
Don’t you mean the Johnson/trump/Clinton debates? As the two joker candidates lose votes daily, Johnson is gaining votes hourly. Plus think of how much more interesting these debates could be with Johnson on stage shining the light of Liberty.
Can’t wait for Trump to give him a name. Just another Kasich.
I like Johnson and only disagree with his platform in a few areas but he is not “gaining votes.” Nobody is voting nor will vote until November. In all of the current polls, he’s still floating along at the same sub 10% mark where he’s been for the last three months. His trend line is flat. The way it stands now he’s still unelectable with less than half of the traction that Ross Perot (also unelectable) had in the 1992 election. The sad take-away is that a vote for Mr. Johnson is a vote for the Republican or Democratic candidate you most dislike; whoever that may be.
The mayor of Fairfax City, Virginia, who supports Hillary Clinton, was arrested Thursday for allegedly giving methamphetamine to an undercover detective in exchange for sex, according to Fairfax County police.
Richard “Scott” Silverthorne, 50, was nabbed in the parking lot of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Tysons Corner. He was charged with felony distribution of methamphetamine and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia.
The mayor, who has held office in the Washington, D.C. suburb since 2012, was allegedly trading meth for sex on a website used to set up male-on-male sexual encounters.
David Duke, a supporter of Donald Trump, is a white supremacist and a former Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan.
Every vote counts. HiLIARy is a criminal and the news is leaking out on the Clinton Foundation. Wiki wiki
sarge22–correct. Seems they have the smoking gun for the “pay to play” Clinton Foundation, why the heck doesn’t the DOJ prosecute???? Too Important to fail?
Howard Johnson? HoJo.
Siddique Mateen, father of Omar endorses Crooked Hilliary Clinton. Barrack Obama endorses Crooked Hilliary Clinton. Klastri and Ikefromeli endorses Crooked Hilliary. Next week when the real polls come out its going to be Hilliary who? I’m with Him.
Let’s see what happens when the going gets tough for Crooked Hilliary.
Btain , Crooked Hilliary isn’t particular either. She’s got the father of the guy who killed 49 queens, the Mayor of Fairfax who got caught in a meth for sex sting man on man. A vote is a vote, she doesn’t care where it comes from.
Let’s not forget. 1-State Department releases emails tying Clinton to Foundation while Secretary of State. Pay for Play.
2-Iran Scientist executed. Clinton implicated
3-No comment on $400 million ransom payment.
4-Siddique Mateen endorses Crooked Hilliary Clinton.
5-Mayor of Fairfax, VA accused of meth for sex endorses Crooked Hilliary.
6-Parents of Benghazi killed file suit against Clinton for defamation,
hope they cushion the floor behind the female felon and have a medical trauma team standing by to give her oxygen or an i.v. during intermission.
don’t want the nation to view an empty podium while the female felon recovers from the strenuous walk to and from the dressing room.
Std, I don’t know if you watched Phelps. He’s got these red spots on his body. I found out that they use heated bottles to draw the blood to the surface. If you see Hilliary with red spots that’s what it’s from. It’s supposed to increase circulation.
What strange outfit will be wear when he storms the stage and disrupts the debate?
Murder Conspiracy?
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange implied in an interview that a murdered Democratic National Committee staffer was the source of a trove of damaging emails the rogue website posted just days before the party’s convention.
If I don’t remind people that Trump is running the news won’t get reported or we will find it in the classifieds.
This is news? Used to like Colbert but got tired of the same jokes which are always about Trump. Granted Trump is a character but gee, try joke about Clinton at least once a week.
Jus, nothing to joke about.
I presume “free trade” will be brought up during the debate and I would hope the commentator would bring up free trade with the USA and Hawaii and Alaska????????
The 56th and 57th States.