Colbert ready to catch talk-show wave
On Tuesday night, Stephen Colbert will do his first show as host of "The Late Show" on CBS.
By Wednesday morning, there will be a pack of media hounds baying that the Emmy-nominated host jumped the shark and that he'll never be as good as he was on Comedy Central .
Conan O'Brien was making fun of such instant judgments back in 1993, when he opened his first show as "Late Night" host by preparing to hang himself .
And yet there came a time when O'Brien - who now plies his trade on TBS, like CNN a unit of Time Warner - came to be a treasured part of the late-night landscape, with his fans eagerly awaiting the next episode and even non-fans acknowledging his impact.
By Wednesday morning, there will be a pack of media hounds baying that the Emmy-nominated host jumped the shark and that he'll never be as good as he was on Comedy Central .
Conan O'Brien was making fun of such instant judgments back in 1993, when he opened his first show as "Late Night" host by preparing to hang himself .
And yet there came a time when O'Brien - who now plies his trade on TBS, like CNN a unit of Time Warner - came to be a treasured part of the late-night landscape, with his fans eagerly awaiting the next episode and even non-fans acknowledging his impact.
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