Colbert is the best.

I'm very excited for this. I was at the premiere of his Cuba episode (basically, they filled up the studio audience and used them as the laugh track for the episode. It was a cool experience. They gave us some delicious Cuban desert and soda and 'Conan in Cuba' hats and t-shirts. Plus the band was there and played,…

"check back for a look at the first week of episodes next Tuesday."
*impatiently taps foot on the ground*

As if I needed another reason to not watch Fallon.

"I will bring about the classiest, best, greatest, most luxurious apocalypse God has ever given Earth. It's gonna be YUUUUGE." - Donald "The Donald" Trump

"You can't lose in the National Football League and still win." - Trent Dilfer

Stewart's show at its peak (probably between 2002 and 2007) was 100 times funnier and smarter than Kilborn's show. It had the perfect mix of political satire and absurdist correspondent's pieces that made the show almost perfect. The show did become a bit predictable and self-righteous down the stretch, though,…

I think he's going to hang it up when his contract is up in 2018. I went to the premiere of his Cuba episode and he mentioned a few times there about how he's challenged sometimes to make the talk show interesting to him anymore but always feels invigorated going out and doing remotes. He said he would be intrigued…

It's not fair to really say for sure, but it does seem like Conan is a bit more hands-off than he used to be, at least judging by the scraps they post online. I know he used to be heavily involved with the writing process (and maybe he still is), but it seems like he has no idea what the show's going to look like when…

He did tone down the show, though. The last couple years of Late Night and his entire run on The Tonight Show up until the last few weeks were much safer and less experimental than the stuff he did for the previous 15 years.

It's a decent show still. I know I can tune in on any given night and get some laughs out of Conan's interactions with Andy, the guests and the audience. He's so naturally funny and witty and is probably better than anyone, with the possible exception of Colbert, at just riffing off some random thing and making it…

That's the thing I really don't understand. Letterman said it well during this whole thing, if I recall. Why didn't Jay just tell NBC to go to hell and go to Fox or ABC and beat both Dave and Conan in the ratings with his safe as hell comedy? Why screw over Conan, destroy what's left of your reputation and make NBC…

Same.

That went much better than I thought it would. It felt nice to have The Daily Show back before flipping over to Colbert for the first time in almost a year (sorry, Larry.)

Agreed on Noah's experience being a big question mark, but to be fair: Everyone aside from Oliver only filled in for Stewart for an episode or two at a time (a week at most). The writers couldn't easily adjust the show for them for just one episode. Hell, look at Oliver's first Daily Show episode. It was basically…

I'm thinking he'll at least be decent. I mean, he has Stewart's staff. He can't be that bad, right? He seems a little too green for the job, but he's funny and smart enough to make it work.

I don't know if I'm excited, but I'm curious. I can't really picture him bombing, not with what's essentially the same staff as Jon Stewart's behind him. But I also can't see him excelling, since the show sounds like it's going to be almost exactly like Stewart's. That'll make it hard to escape his shadow. I imagine…

That show could've been great, but it just mostly became the corny sitcom it hoped to parody.

Glad to see the "Hey, I Remember That Thing! Forced Nostalgia Aren't Celebrities Fun? Funtime Hour with Starring Jimmy Fallon" is going strong.

No, it's not. It's a metaphor. There's no literal miniseries.