Which is what makes him not a good straight-interviewer.

Maybe “softballs” wasn’t the right word, but he’s definitely lacking in sounding like he’s not scripted. The entire Biden interview felt like he was just doing what the PR team wanted him to do to make Biden a sympathetic future candidate. Normally I don’t care because all POTUS and VP interviews are exactly that, but…

Agreed. Especially when everyone does every show now. And don’t confuse getting Biden with landing anything, no way he’s showing up if this is Colbert’s third season.

No, he was asking pre-approved questions. There was no interview.

Literally the one right after. How about that?

This was entirely scripted to make Biden sympathetic. Fooled you.

I predict zero actual questions being thrown at Trump. And we’ll really see how hard we got screwed.

Thank you for understanding my reasoning. You seem to be the only one who genuinely got that from what I wrote. And even if I’m wrong in that, thank you.

Yeah, getting guests on the Late Show has always been a problem.

How about, let’s not talk about that on the third episode of a legendary comedy show?

Yeah, I was so enthralled with questions about Joe’s faith. So interesting to learn that a politician had faith.

It’s too watered-down. Colbert was funny and interesting. This is just so bland. They had free reign to hire anyone to take over for Dave, and, while Colbert seemed like a great choice, they fucked it up. Now we have another boring white guy throwing softballs, no Colbert Report, and no one willing to take a chance on…

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But when you consider who could have hosted the show, maybe I’m not asking for Crossfire. Maybe I was willing to settle for “good.”

The Tonight Show was never about tough questions. Every single host of that show was there to promote the guest. Johnny did it, Jay certainly did it, and now Jimmy is doing it in a different way. That’s literally the job description. “Make the guest look amazing.”

It’s more than Biden, it’s overall. It’s like he’s just asking questions the guests wrote. I love Colbert, and I really want this to work out. But I think that him going from a satirical character through his entire television career on The Daily Show to The Report, and then to the straight guy on a huge stage, this…

That’s clearly what I meant, good job.

I’m just going to go out and say it. Colbert is not that good in a straight interview. It was just such softballs being tossed that they could have just put a stagehand out there.

Cheater-defender calls someone names. Quite original.

I believe Griffin’s failure is a product of the way the NFL plays offense in general. While I’d like to blame Washington, the fact is that no team is ready to handle a quarterback that runs. They exploit then the first year because defenses can’t keep up. The second year they try to slow them down, the QB just sees…