‘Late Show’s’ Stephen Colbert is off to a strong start as new host
Television Critic And so it came to pass Tuesday night, after nine months of gestation and preparation, of podcasts and promos, that Stephen Colbert, late of “The Colbert Report,” became the second host of CBS’ “Late Show,” created for David Letterman in 1993. Jeb Bush and George Clooney were his first guests, a yin-yang booking that seemed to say, “Whatever you might have expected from all those years of liberal-skewing, conservative-skewering satirical faux punditry, the new Colbert would not bow down to your expectations.” The real key to his intentions seemed to be in the night’s closing number, in which bandleader Batiste was joined by Colbert, Mavis Staples, Buddy Guy, the Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard and Ben Folds, in a performance of Sly Stone’s “Everyday People.” “We’ve got to live together,” everybody sang. “It’s a little Stalinist, isn’t it?” said Colbert, reminding us that he is a different cat in network late night. “It is only better.” Twitter: @LATimesTVLloyd MORE STEPHEN COLBERT: What we still need from Stephen Colbert How is CBS marketing ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’?
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