He means he's viewing the first week as four shows with the same goal: Introducing himself and the new show. It's not a literal miniseries. It's a metaphor. He used it in an older interview but nobody noticed then because he made sure it was known it was just a metaphor.

He means he's viewing the first week as four shows with the same goal: Introducing himself and the new show. It's not a literal miniseries. It's a metaphor. He used it in an older interview but nobody noticed then because he made sure it was known it was just a metaphor. Will try finding the link.

He used this in an older interview. It's a metaphor. He's saying he's viewing the first week as one block of shows to introduce himself and the new show to viewers. Not a literal miniseries. Come on, AV Club.

The Daily Show's new set looks fantastic, by the way: http://i.imgur.com/uL3xEZs.jpg

Not the best guest list, but it's not very different from the guests Jon Stewart would have on a typical week. And honestly, I'd only tune in to the interviews if I knew it would be an interesting or confrontational interview between Stewart and his guest, or if it was one of his comedian buddies and they'd just shit…

It does. The problem, of course, is that political negotiations are nothing like business negotiations.

Colbert has a way of being civil with guests he vehemently disagrees with while allowing them to still look like a total jackass, as Trump did. (Though, to his credit, he came off as oddly likeable, despite the insane border wall and birther comments.)

True. The only correspondent who debuted post-2005 and really became a star was John Oliver, and that was really only because of Jon Stewart's hiatus.

It'd be great to see the correspondents develop their personalities and get their own recurring segments. Some of The Daily Show's funniest bits (This Week in God, Even Stevphen, Ad Nauseum, Mark Your Calendar, etc.) were all correspondent-driven. The only one that's left is pretty much Back in Black, but even that's…

The key will be finding the show's perspective. I have no doubt it'll be funny. Trevor is a pretty good comedian and he's keeping most of Stewart's old staff. But the key will be Trevor finding a perspective that isn't just a poor Jon Stewart imitation. Whether that's something like acting like a bewildered and amused…

True, I just hope CBS does it more along the lines of "Hey, we've got X show or Y game to promote this week. Do a bit about it, and make it funny and don't embarrass us." This seemed more like CBS basically wrote the sketch for Colbert.

I've been mostly impressed by Colbert so far. What's I've liked:

Speaking of celebrity bosses, that meta casting of Bob Odenkirk in that office in Philadelphia in Season 9 was brilliant. Really makes you wonder what the show would've been like if Odenkirk got the Michael Scott role over Steve Carell.

The Office's lows were much lower than 30 Rock, Parks & Rec, and other great sitcoms of that era, but its highs were, in my opinion, much higher.

"It’s all just first impressions here; for more conclusive opinions, check back for a look at the first week of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert next Monday."

"Mmm, sort of an oaky afterbirth."

I always forget about Scott's Tots. Such a cringe-inducing but hilarious episode.

To be fair, the writers never really knew what to do with his character after Season 4. He was great as the angry douchebag coworker who sucks up to his boss and then was a great foil for Dwight with the whole Angela storyline. But after that they kind of just kept him around until they could repurpose him into…

The tone of the show definitely shifted starting in Season 3, but I think it was just as consistently hilarious through the halfway point of Season 4. Then the second half of Season 4 and Season 5 were less consistent but still mostly great. Then the show went to crap. At least following Jim and Pam's wedding. Between…

Those last few episodes of Season 9 are very good. It's just a shame that they were preceded by two objectively bad seasons of television.