Was anyone else as disappointed with the Daily Show – Colbert – Late Night crossover?
I liked everything leading up to it, especially Stewart pulling out his old tapes from his MTV days, and Colbert just going at him for being tiny compared to O’Brien, but the final showdown wasn’t much of a payoff to me.
I caught the start on the Daily Show, and thought, “This is going to be good.” Then I stayed tuned to The Colbert Report, where it was pretty much the same joke all over again (them wanting to fight each other, but having to wait for one of them to finish their show, while the other two stood outside and made awkward conversation), but I went with it thinking it was going to lead somewhere.
Then we finally get to Late Night, and after a really long recap from Conan, we get to the promised “ass kicking,” and while it was good (I did like when they Conan helped his stunt double up, and I laughed when they just broke out into dance), but I guess for all the hype they did, I guess I expected more of a pay off from 3 of the best comedic minds on TV today then, super slow-mo punching. (Yes, you can say they did it without writers, but have you seen their shows during the strike? Each has held their own, especially Conan, who proved that he deserves to take over after Leno. And please don’t take that as a knock against any of their writers. I can’t wait for this thing to end so we can get back to full throttle funny.)
Not to mention that at the end of all this they let Huckabee come out and do a campaign ad.
I kinda thought that the whole point of this was that Huckabee is a crazy conservative candidate that only Cobert’s alter-ego would like, and that none of them would actually support him in real life.
Yet here his is at the end of all this, promising to do more for America and to ignore this idiots. It just felt weird and out of place. The whole time I at least expected Chuck Norris to walk up behind him, and claim he was out for blood now, or something.
Would have been better then an ad from a candidate who’s target is clearly not anyone who watches these 3 shows.
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