Felt this was relevant since it features smaug. Didn't find another topic on it so enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaRoqslM4W0

Also, just noticed that the date today is 12/13/14. This will be the last time we see a consecutive date until our grand kids are adults perhaps, or we live to be really old and this site is long gone, or would it be... :J

I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!

...Colbert Report is ending soon...much sadness.

Now I finally know how to pronounce his blasted name.

FatherOfGray said:
Now I finally know how to pronounce his blasted name.

It functions as a sort of shibboleth to spot people who've never actually seen the show.

Moon_Moon said:
I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!

...Colbert Report is ending soon...much sadness.

Perhaps, but he's going to be doing his talk show opposite Fallon, so it's not a complete loss.

That. Was. Bloody. Awesome. D:

Halite said:
Perhaps, but he's going to be doing his talk show opposite Fallon, so it's not a complete loss.

Yeah but he said he's leaving behind the whole persona.

So it's just going to be another talk show, and honestly I never watched the interviews on the Colbert Report because they were always boring, and that's literally all that is going to happen when he replaces Letterman.

Moon_Moon said:
Yeah but he said he's leaving behind the whole persona.

So it's just going to be another talk show, and honestly I never watched the interviews on the Colbert Report because they were always boring, and that's literally all that is going to happen when he replaces Letterman.

You have quite literally no way of knowing how things will turn out.
How about wait until you've seen the show a few times before deciding if it's any good.?

Halite said:
You have quite literally no way of knowing how things will turn out.
How about wait until you've seen the show a few times before deciding if it's any good.?

Well, all I'm saying is it's not going to be the Colbert Report. He's confirmed that he's not going to carry over that shtick. And he's getting all of Letterman's writers, so the shows probably going to remain functionally the same. I'll still watch it to see how it goes regardless.

Moon_Moon said:
Well, all I'm saying is it's not going to be the Colbert Report. He's confirmed that he's not going to carry over that shtick. And he's getting all of Letterman's writers, so the shows probably going to remain functionally the same. I'll still watch it to see how it goes regardless.

Lets all just agree to be sad.

cutiepyro said:
Lets all just agree to be sad.

On the contrary, I'm excited to see what he'll do.
So far I've been happy with Fallon's Tonight Show, and Last Week Tonight.
I'm betting Colbert brings a new, and fantastic take on the late night show format.
Letterman was a bore anyway, couldn't watch him at all, barely ever watched Leno, except when he had a guest I particularly liked (Ricky Gervais, Seth McFarlane etc.).
I watch Fallon most nights, well on Hulu the next day. I tend to enjoy probably 9/10 of them.
Only episode I really didn't like was the recent one where he equated the torture memo revelations to being forced to watch the full ad before a youtube video.
You can make jokes about the torture, Jon Stewart and Colbert did it quite successfully, but it has to actually be funny or it's just in poor taste.
The Ricky Gervais interview was mediocre as well, and he's one of the best guests in late night.

Anyway, got off on a tangent.
TL;DR I'm not sad, so I don't agree.

Halite said:
On the contrary, I'm excited to see what he'll do.
So far I've been happy with Fallon's Tonight Show, and Last Week Tonight.
I'm betting Colbert brings a new, and fantastic take on the late night show format.
Letterman was a bore anyway, couldn't watch him at all, barely ever watched Leno, except when he had a guest I particularly liked (Ricky Gervais, Seth McFarlane etc.).
I watch Fallon most nights, well on Hulu the next day. I tend to enjoy probably 9/10 of them.
Only episode I really didn't like was the recent one where he equated the torture memo revelations to being forced to watch the full ad before a youtube video.
You can make jokes about the torture, Jon Stewart and Colbert did it quite successfully, but it has to actually be funny or it's just in poor taste.
The Ricky Gervais interview was mediocre as well, and he's one of the best guests in late night.

Anyway, got off on a tangent.
TL;DR I'm not sad, so I don't agree.

ah well, i don't know. I rarely ever watch talk shows on TV, mainly because they tend to be extremely biased and unfunny. Colbert was the opposite, He always would take something morbid and make all of us laugh because of it. Again, I don't know, but I never found Leno to be funny, and saturday night live can be funny, but when its not, it DIES. FACEPLANTS. EATS CONCRETE

TL;DR TV's usually boring, colbert is not

cutiepyro said:
ah well, i don't know. I rarely ever watch talk shows on TV, mainly because they tend to be extremely biased and unfunny. Colbert was the opposite, He always would take something morbid and make all of us laugh because of it. Again, I don't know, but I never found Leno to be funny, and saturday night live can be funny, but when its not, it DIES. FACEPLANTS. EATS CONCRETE

TL;DR TV's usually boring, colbert is not

That's just it, the funny is him, not his assumed conservative persona.
Dropping the persona won't make him less funny.
Proof:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3K7Qc6vW5Q

Edit: Also, there's 2 episodes of Whose Line way back in the day that he was fantastic on. Can probably find them if you look.

Halite said:
That's just it, the funny is him, not his assumed conservative persona.
Dropping the persona won't make him less funny.
Proof:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3K7Qc6vW5Q

OH, for a second i thought you meant like, turning into jay leno essentially. This guy's still funny, regardless of if he has a persona

Halite said:
That's just it, the funny is him, not his assumed conservative persona.
Dropping the persona won't make him less funny.
Proof:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3K7Qc6vW5Q

Edit: Also, there's 2 episodes of Whose Line way back in the day that he was fantastic on. Can probably find them if you look.

oh crap, internets about to cut out, gnight <3 wuv you all

On-topic: I couldn't quite make up my mind whether Smaug was physically present as a robot (I think we're far enough for that), more of a CGI insert or paintover, or something in-between. Also, the fantastic nature of the interview and actual discussion cringed me out a bit too much to really follow what they were saying. I get that way... Still, it's awesome that they got the go-ahead to actually bring the interview to fruition. I do know that Colbert is a self-proclaimed Tolkien fan.

Everything else: My impression of Colbert when I saw him outside highly-scripted or prepared bits was that he's still quick-witted and smart. My only concern about the move is if the existing network he's moving into applies even more red tape to his creative freedom than he already experienced with The Report. That's my major crit of those kinds of late night talk shows: there's some things they just can't say, like when Jon Stewart interviewed Obama, so the message gets watered down or presented through the filter of tongue in cheek parodies (e.g., Colbert's persona). The Colbert Report and The Daily Show were my life support, adding some color to the world, for a while when I was really reclusive and depressed, in addition to other comedy shows, but I just sort of became disenchanted. After becoming familiar with those shows and their limits, I wanted more political satire and direct discussion, and more of that from them. I don't think thirty-minute time slots are enough, either.

Eh. Now the only thing that tethers me to TV is Real Time with Bill Maher. I thought it was a boring show for the longest time, until I woke up one day, figuratively and literally, and realized his show is pretty goddamn serious, occasionally funny, and very uninhibited. Oh... and it largely passes my personal "bullshit tests", which disqualify so much in politics, but one shouldn't become complacent in maintaining individual perspective for such topics (i.e., don't "bandwagon" and turn your brain off when dealing with political rhetoric), regardless of the source.

Nevertheless, the bottom line is that the move to the Late Show is a great opportunity for Colbert, no two ways about it. I'm both excited for him--well, as much as I could be in my position--and a tiny bit disappointed that Jon Stewart didn't get the part, if he was ever in contention, that is. That Colbert's leapfrogging Stewart cannot be overlooked since Stewart helped Colbert develop quite a bit, and Stewart's style is probably more well-rounded (read: safer, something that the Late Show should stereotypically desire for its demographic) than Colbert's sometimes biting witticisms. I can understand, though, why Colbert was chosen over Stewart from an entertainment standpoint: Colbert's wittiness is hands down more "hip" than Stewart, and Stewart has already "tried moving onto the big time and flopped". Colbert in individual situations should be fine, but the big question is if he can gel into his new position to engineer something successful (that won't turn off The Report's original following).

abadbird said:
On-topic: I couldn't quite make up my mind whether Smaug was physically present as a robot (I think we're far enough for that), more of a CGI insert or paintover, or something in-between. Also, the fantastic nature of the interview and actual discussion cringed me out a bit too much to really follow what they were saying. I get that way... Still, it's awesome that they got the go-ahead to actually bring the interview to fruition. I do know that Colbert is a self-proclaimed Tolkien fan.

Everything else: My impression of Colbert when I saw him outside highly-scripted or prepared bits was that he's still quick-witted and smart. My only concern about the move is if the existing network he's moving into applies even more red tape to his creative freedom than he already experienced with The Report. That's my major crit of those kinds of late night talk shows: there's some things they just can't say, like when Jon Stewart interviewed Obama, so the message gets watered down or presented through the filter of tongue in cheek parodies (e.g., Colbert's persona). The Colbert Report and The Daily Show were my life support, adding some color to the world, for a while when I was really reclusive and depressed, in addition to other comedy shows, but I just sort of became disenchanted. After becoming familiar with those shows and their limits, I wanted more political satire and direct discussion, and more of that from them. I don't think thirty-minute time slots are enough, either.

Eh. Now the only thing that tethers me to TV is Real Time with Bill Maher. I thought it was a boring show for the longest time, until I woke up one day, figuratively and literally, and realized his show is pretty goddamn serious, occasionally funny, and very uninhibited. Oh... and it largely passes my personal "bullshit tests", which disqualify so much in politics, but one shouldn't become complacent in maintaining individual perspective for such topics (i.e., don't "bandwagon" and turn your brain off when dealing with political rhetoric), regardless of the source.

Nevertheless, the bottom line is that the move to the Late Show is a great opportunity for Colbert, no two ways about it. I'm both excited for him--well, as much as I could be in my position--and a tiny bit disappointed that Jon Stewart didn't get the part, if he was ever in contention, that is. That Colbert's leapfrogging Stewart cannot be overlooked since Stewart helped Colbert develop quite a bit, and Stewart's style is probably more well-rounded (read: safer, something that the Late Show should stereotypically desire for its demographic) than Colbert's sometimes biting witticisms. I can understand, though, why Colbert was chosen over Stewart from an entertainment standpoint: Colbert's wittiness is hands down more "hip" than Stewart, and Stewart has already "tried moving onto the big time and flopped". Colbert in individual situations should be fine, but the big question is if he can gel into his new position to engineer something successful (that won't turn off The Report's original following).

Damn... I've thought about this more than is normally called for. Oh well.

Colbert also has a stronger social media presence, he's seen as better at getting the younger audiences.
Also, Stewart is very comfortable where he is, I doubt he'd have taken it if it was offered.
At this point he can basically do anything he wants, and aside from Colbert is one of the few shows keeping Comedy Central alive (@midnight too, but it's so young that it's hard to count it already).