C: Is for The Colbert Report

My son Zach is in town and he is into the production side of film and television. So on to seeing shows filmed in NY we went. The first day we went to see the Letterman Show. Getting tickets to this is not as difficult as it sounds. You go on-line and make your request. Since it is not high tourist season there is a good chance that you will become a recipient. It also turned out that my son is a fan of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report, with the later being his favorite. Now, until two days ago I lived with my head under a rock in terms of tv shows, but Zach introduced me to them. They are satirical and right up my alley politically so in search of tickets I went. The same rule to Letterman applies, however these are the new generations, cult favorites, so we were going to have to pray for stand-by. Since I have been getting up early (not my norm), when I read the address I had us on the other side of town and a few blocks off. Not a problem though as we ran into the Jon Stewart line. Though not first choice, this was left as an option. A few blocks away was our target, The Colbert Show, but where the Stewart show had a line, blocks long the Colbert Shows line was hidden. We finally found it and managed to get in. Score one for the Mom. Whew!

Stephen Colbert turns out to be one terrific actor, highly funny and his show, well run. Stephen got his start with the famed improve group Second City, initially as an understudy for Steve Carell. Leaving Second City he relocated to New York and worked on the sketch comedy show Exit 57. The series debuted on Comedy Central in 1995 and lasted a year. Next, he was not only a cast member, but also a writer on The Dana Carvey Show. Then onto Saturday Night Live, VH1 and MTV as a sketch writer and a script consultant, which lead to...Strangers with Candy and The Daily Show. On the Daily Show, Colbert developed a correspondent character for his pieces on the series. In 2005, Colbert got his own television show, The Colbert Report, a Daily Show spin-off which parodies the conventions of television news broadcasting. The series has strong ratings, averaging 1.2 million viewers nightly and winning a Emmy for writing. Colbert has also appeared as a actor in Bewitched, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Spin City, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and on the improvisational comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway?. To fans of the Simpson's, he was Homer Simpson's life coach in the Simpsons episode "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs".

The Colbert Report is totally worth watching on TV and standing in line to watch live and that is a NY F.A.C.T.