Stephen Colbert is a brilliant comedian. And, during his show, he has a lot of important and trenchant things to say. But the excessive and continuous hyping of his audience is becoming ridiculous. Is his ego so weak that any comment he makes has to be greeted with applause, screaming, hoots and wild expressions of approval? This kind of absurdly exaggerated enthusiasm just weakens the intelligence of the show's content. Especially when we, the audiences, know that some toadie is holding up signs that say "applaud", "scream", "whistle". So as much as I like and admire Stephen Colbert, I have to give up watching this show because the absurdly overwrought audience reactions give me a headache.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Au audience of hysterics.
Stephen Colbert is a brilliant comedian. And, during his show, he has a lot of important and trenchant things to say. But the excessive and continuous hyping of his audience is becoming ridiculous. Is his ego so weak that any comment he makes has to be greeted with applause, screaming, hoots and wild expressions of approval? This kind of absurdly exaggerated enthusiasm just weakens the intelligence of the show's content. Especially when we, the audiences, know that some toadie is holding up signs that say "applaud", "scream", "whistle". So as much as I like and admire Stephen Colbert, I have to give up watching this show because the absurdly overwrought audience reactions give me a headache.
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