I'm writing this post at 12:30, a half an hour after the Colbert Report ended. I think the fact that the end of the Colbert Report marks a proper end to the night is finally going to allow me to go to bed earlier. Instead of going to sleep after 2:00am each night, I might just go to sleep around twelve or twelve thirty. That's probably the best part of having these two institutions back.
Otherwise, they were ok at best. You can tell the writers aren't there, and it's disappointing to see the hosts, especially Jon Stewart, struggle. Jon is writing all the material now, and you can tell he's nervous that his material isn't up to snuff. Maybe the success of his jokes is that much more personal now? I don't know. All I know is that, while funny, Jon wasn't his old self at all.
Steven, too, was a little rusty, though his overconfident persona masked things quite well. His bit about the Huckabee bump in particular was quite funny. Still, the overreliance on interviews and the funny:mildly amusing ratio both belied the lack of writers. May this strike end soon, dammit!
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