Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Stephen Colbert
Pud,
I am usually pretty good at determining if someone is cool or not. But Stephen Colbert stumps me. Should I find Stephen Colbert cool or not?
Jason
You should indeed consider Stephen Colbert to be "cool." He is smart and funny, with a good grasp of of pop culture and has the potential to be great.
But his shtick is too inconsistent to have any long-term success.
For example, he'll do some story in his newscaster parody persona, and then all of a sudden switch to more serious interview-guy with his guests. And while interviewing, he'll snap in and out of the schtick persona, which is almost always less interesting than his guest.
It's annoying to people, and if he wants lasting success, he needs to choose a persona and stick with it. (yeah yeah...so do i:)
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