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Stephen Colbert’s Plans for His New Show, and a Prayer for Trump
“I want to get in front of the audience and hear the laughter,” he said here at a Television Critics Association press event. “The emotion I have right now, it’s not anxiety over doing the show. It’s anxiety of the eagerness to get onstage.”
Mr. Colbert said he feels liberated about the prospect of interviewing guests without playing the character he embodied on “The Colbert Report.” The number of guests he will interview every week is about to jump from four a week to roughly 15.
“One of the reasons why I most wanted to drop the character is that I felt I had done everything I could do with him other than have my honest interest in my guest,” he said. “Which is almost constant. Now I feel actually more freed up. That was in some ways the most energetic, the most exciting part of the show to me and now I don’t have to hold back at all.”
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There’s one thing Mr. Colbert is very interested in: talking about Donald J. Trump.
“Every night before I go to bed, I light a candle and pray that he stays in the race and I also pray that no one puts that candle anywhere near his hair,” he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/business/media/stephen-colberts-plans-for-his-new-show-and-a-prayer-for-trump.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Mr. Colbert said he feels liberated about the prospect of interviewing guests without playing the character he embodied on “The Colbert Report.” The number of guests he will interview every week is about to jump from four a week to roughly 15.
“One of the reasons why I most wanted to drop the character is that I felt I had done everything I could do with him other than have my honest interest in my guest,” he said. “Which is almost constant. Now I feel actually more freed up. That was in some ways the most energetic, the most exciting part of the show to me and now I don’t have to hold back at all.”
...
There’s one thing Mr. Colbert is very interested in: talking about Donald J. Trump.
“Every night before I go to bed, I light a candle and pray that he stays in the race and I also pray that no one puts that candle anywhere near his hair,” he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/business/media/stephen-colberts-plans-for-his-new-show-and-a-prayer-for-trump.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur