Colbert was actually funny last night

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqMQDiIiHbk

Colbert is actually funny every night. I don't watch the guests ever, but I go into my DVR to watch his monologue every morning. He's always funny.

Maybe, I stopped watching him after the first few weeks he took over the late show. I found it pretty bad, hopefully he improved. His Republican convention coverage was amazingly funn, as was this monologue last night.

Same here, almost. Here's how I watch the show.

1. Fast-forward passed the credits, applause, and boring banter with the band leader.
2. Watch the political jokes. His regular jokes aren't funny.
3. Watch the first part of the show after he sits down - usually the best part.
4. Scan the guests. If I don't care, I FF until the next one, and the next one.

So out of the whole hour-long show, I will only watch about 15 minutes of it, tops. Steven Colbert, being "Stephen Colbert", is funny as hell. But the rest of the show, the 11:30 time slot, and the "late night" show format constraints I think really work to make the show less interesting.