Don't get me wrong... I think everyone is entitled to a vacation, especially the hard-working folks at the comedy factories known as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. But it sucks when I tune into Comedy Central to get my late night fix and I see reruns. This is the situation I'll find myself in this week, as both shows are on vacation.I can tell right away that TDS is a rerun; if the intro to the show doesn't show the date, it's a repeat. From there, there's a 95% chance that Colbert is also a rerun, so the entire 11 PM - 12 AM block is now available to me.
It's a weird feeling; without TDS/Colbert, I feel kind of adrift.
It's not like I watch the show to get an idea of what's going on in the world, since I'm one of the few people under 50 that watches the evening news. But once I know what the stories of the day are going to be, I eagerly look forward to how TDS and Colbert are going to goof on them. Without that anticipation at 11, I'm resigned to either watch my local news or Seinfeld reruns.
Next week should be great for both shows, with the highly-anticipated midterm elections coming up; in fact, Jon Stewart and company will be in the battleground state of Ohio all week. But this week is going to be painful. What do you watch when Jon and Stephen are on vacation? Let me know in the comments.
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10-23-2006 @ 4:23PM
gwangi said...
I feel lost too. I usually watch The Daily Show at night and then watch the Colbert Report (Tivoed) the next day during dinner. Now I dont know what to do for dinner.
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10-23-2006 @ 5:14PM
Diego said...
Colbert said he will be back on November 13 !? Three week vacation?? Just like Bush :-/
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10-23-2006 @ 5:18PM
Ytoabn said...
I scream in pain and occasionally watch Adult Swim.
However, there is just as good a chance that I go to bed early.
Jay Leno is also an option.
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10-23-2006 @ 5:24PM
Allen said...
It does suck, but we Tivo TDS and TCR at 5 something in the morning and watch it with brekfast. It's better than any of those crappy morning "news" promotional tools.
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10-23-2006 @ 5:34PM
Manish M. Patel said...
Damn you Stewart!!!! Damn you!!!
Colbert, you are On Notice.
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10-23-2006 @ 6:11PM
Karen said...
I'm so with you, Joel. "Adrift"--that's exactly how I feel when I have no TDS/CR to get through my evening.
When they're on vacation I tend to watch DVDs instead. Or Adult Swim, if it's a Futurama or Family Guy I haven't seen yet. But mostly DVDs.
I realize their jobs are as grueling as regular newsmen's are, given that they don't have a "season" and then a hiatus, so I don't actually begrudge them their little one-week, two-week breaks now and then. But it always seems as if something profoundly ridiculous happens when they're on vacation, and I have to wait so long to see Jon Stewart come back and say, "So, I go on vacation, and then THIS..."
Sigh.
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10-23-2006 @ 6:12PM
Denji said...
The only weeks when I get to bed at a decent time are the ones that they have off.
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10-23-2006 @ 6:33PM
Happy Monkey said...
And this is the week that Bush claimed he hasn't been "stay the course"! Curses!
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10-23-2006 @ 6:52PM
Joey Geraci said...
We all know that Bush is going to grow a pair and fire Rumsfeld, the Republican's are going to concede the House and the Senate, and the Christian Right and all the homosexuals are going to come together in a huge Kumbaya circle. As is destined to happen when TDS goes on vacation.
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10-23-2006 @ 8:30PM
Georgia said...
These two take more vacations than anybody I have ever seen. They take two weeks off for every two months they work I think!!
I love them, tho!
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10-25-2006 @ 6:27PM
FlagPatrick said...
It's TDS, Colbert Report, and Late Night w/Conan O'Brien and all 3 of them are a rerun. All of today's reruns are ones I've seen, but they're are a couple Daily Show eps I've missed so I may catch them during the week. But it still feels like there's a late night gap.
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10-26-2006 @ 7:17PM
kevin (clearwater, fl) said...
I actually don't mind when they go on vacation. It gives us a chance to catch up on all the old shows that fill up our recorders. I can't remember the last time I saw an episode of TDS or Colbert within a day or two of it's first airing.
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10-29-2006 @ 10:22AM
Kirsch said...
I dont watch anything else during repeats i just cry myself to sleep, same with lost reruns lol just kidding i get threwing it by oding on pot
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