[pepsionice]

I agree....but this has been on the negotiation table for months. Jon Stewart, I think, asked for a heck of a lot of money. Colbert...maybe half that much (my hunch).

Here’s the thing...his gimmick of I’m-a-Republican-pretender act....has a limit, and won’t fit for the Late Night Show. His numbers will start to fall within six weeks, and after a year...there will be talk of him going away. He might get between two and three years out of this deal.

He might be a hit with college kids....but beyond Chicago and New York? No.

[highball]

Here’s the thing...his gimmick of I’m-a-Republican-pretender act....has a limit, and won’t fit for the Late Night Show.

Agreed. But he's already said that he's retiring the character and will do the show as himself. So the new host of the Late Night show will be a practicing Catholic who teaches Sunday School. That ought to be interesting.