David Letterman to retire in 2015. Stephen Colbert to take over.

How did you come up with 40% ?

 

I want a dollar from you. If I am right .

 

Don't bring Buffalo Springfield into this!

Evan

 

I think Colbert fits well in a long legacy of social-commentary humorists, in the company of predecessors such as Mark Twain and Jonathan Swift. His basic humor techniques are nothing revolutionary, but he uses them effectively.

Shifting gears, here's an article from Salon.com of 20 things you may not know about Stephen Colbert:

http://www.salon.com/2014/04/15/20_remarkable_facts_you_never_knew_about_stephen_colbert_partner/

Craig.

 

Interesting. Thanks for linking that.

 

I will chime in to say the Colbert hire is a gamble but it is obvious the Colbert on CBS will be different than the Colbert on Comedy Central. And he is probably a lot smarter at figuring that out than many of you here are giving him credit for.

 

Maybe they had a last-minute cancellation.

 

Ha! I would have liked to have seen that.

 

I saw the preview on CBS las night and it looked really odd with Will way up on top of the cake. Sort of intriguing, more more odd looking. I didn't watch the show.

 

Jimmy Webb gas been out and about this past year with the tune, perhaps as a somewhat resurrection of himself. He played a free gig last year here in the MacArthur Park band-shell. It also gives Paul something to do, as if we need this. Watched the show just to see this segment.

 

Maybe because his time is almost up and Dave is in a mood to do whatever strikes his fancy? I don't know but this reminds me of the good old days when he did crazy things like that all the time.

 

Dave explains in the first desk piece that he recently introduced the song to his son during a recent car drive. Dave had satellite radio on and they happen to play 3 different versions of the song. The song intrigued Dave's son Harry but after the third rendition (which totaled about 20 minutes of music!) Harry had enough saying "Please, no more cake!" Dave had a good time showing his son the tune that he asked the band to perform it. As he introduced the segment he dedicated the performance to his son: "This is for my son Harry"

This performance can be filed under the other themed performances Dave has had in the past like Elvis Impersonator week, or magician week or celebrity impersonator week. When he wants something--he'll usually get it!

 

I knew there'd eventually be someone that was paying attention ! Kudos to you Sir !

 

Yup...here Felicia jokes about it during the end of this rig rundown @ 26:34

 

haha yup. They announced on FB that they were going to be performing it and I was genuinely curious about it---Paul and the band are never the musical guests. I knew I had to tune in to get the whole story.

 

Knowing that the days of being an active TV performer are nearly done for him seems to have made Dave harken back to his more adventurous youth of 35 years ago...it's fun to see...

 

Does anyone have the feeling that Dave is leaving us much, much earlier than the penciled in 2015 time frame? On FB, a new tradition has started since his retirement announcement of celebrities sending Dave goodbye related messages. It makes me feel like everyone sort of is aware that he's leaving a little earlier than he promised. On last night's show, Jeff Daniels sneaked in a quiet "I'm going to miss you" before his interview was over. Makes me wonder if Dave is planning a quicker exit to avoid all the fuss. I'm sure CBS wants a huge farewell week for him but I doubt Dave could sit through all that.

 

Dave also plugged Will Lee's new CD and showed it before introducing the song so that's probably the main reason.

 

Well, also some may not ever see him again literally, and since the announcement, want to express themselves now, when they have the chance.
Hell, in my little corner of the world, coworkers gave me the same, 7 months before I actually retired, because the word had spread I was putting my papers in.

 

The main reason? I think dedicating the song to his son suffices as the "main" reason Paul and Dave plugging Will's CD was a courtesy since Will was singing lead on the song. They also promoted Jimmy Webb's CD too. Both releases are about a year old. Pretty sure they wouldn't go this far to promote a band member's solo album especially when the song he's performing isn't even on the album!

 

Oh I didn't realize it was that old! Never mind!

 

They should have got Dave Thomas from SCTV to sing the song.