Oh, goodie! A second reason to watch TV.
'Daily Show' Personality Gets His Own Platform.
Stephen Colbert, who plays a phony correspondent on the fake-news program "The Daily Show," is getting a real promotion.
Comedy Central said yesterday that it was giving Mr. Colbert his own show: a half-hour that is expected to follow "The Daily Show" on weeknights and will lampoon those cable-news shows that are dominated by the personality and sensibility of a single host. Think, he said, of Bill O'Reilly and Chris Matthews and Sean Hannity.
Woohoo! Glory be to the cable gods and goddesses!
The money quote:
"It's about a man and his forum," Mr. Stewart said of such shows, including Mr. Colbert's. "And by the way, he's not doing it for himself. He's doing it for the people. As a public service."
Geniuses. Ironic and true and a big F.U. all at the same time. How do they do it?
And what does Mr. Col-BEAR have to say about his program?
"We're going to deal with truth on my program," Mr. Colbert said. "We're going to catch the world in the headlights of my justice."
I'll be able to go off the fumes of "headlights of my justice" for at least a week.
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