CBS: After Playing ‘Right-Wing’ ‘Idiot,’ Colbert Offers ‘Thinking Person’s Comedy Show’

Kyle Drennen | September 8, 2015
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In a report for Tuesday’s CBS This Morning promoting liberal comedian Stephen Colbert’s debut as host of The Late Show, correspondent Vladimir Duthiers proclaimed: “Colbert had that distinctive voice. His character on The Colbert Report, also named Stephen Colbert, was, in his words, ‘a poorly formed high-status idiot’....It was a parody of a right-wing political pundit, funny to many, but not what he can or will bring to CBS.”

Soundbites were featured of New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik declaring: “I think he’s expected to and wants to bring over much of his audience, which is younger than the other late-night audiences in same time slot....And I think there may be a bit of a branding effort that, you know, fits with his actual persona of kind of being the thinking person's comedy show.”