LSSC: Season Ten Episode Talk

[shapeshifter]

9 minutes ago, DanaK said:

She just seemed to take it too seriously

IIRC, Nicole Kidman and the last person (can’t recall whom) both said something implying they had chosen not to read the questions ahead of time, and both were terrible.

Jeff Goldblum was fabulous. But the Questionert is very much in his wheelhouse. Still, I seem to recall he was prepared with answers? No?

Below is Julia Louis-Dreyfus being wonderful at taking The Colbert Questionert. Of course, she and Stephen are comfortable doing a sort of improv here, but she does seem to have prepped a few answers — maybe she just did her homework and watched a few others? — which anyone could choose to do. I wonder if Nicole Kidman regrets having chosen to not see the questions ahead of time. Maybe The Late Show staff got a directive to suggest to Questionert takers that it would be more spontaneous if they avoided watching others doing the Questionert ahead of time? If so, bad idea, IMO.

 

[Annber03]

I'd love to see Brandon Scott Jones take the questionnaire - it was fun to see him on the show last week, I'd love to see what his answers would be to some of those questions. 

[partofme]

I just watched last night’s episode, I don’t really approve of Colbert implying that Reagan wouldn’t approve of everything Trump is doing, Reagan was just as bad, he was just more polite about it.  

[DanaK]

2 hours ago, partofme said:

I just watched last night’s episode, I don’t really approve of Colbert implying that Reagan wouldn’t approve of everything Trump is doing, Reagan was just as bad, he was just more polite about it.  

I mean, I liked Reagan for the most part at the time, but he acted very aggressively towards the Soviets and scared them, not too far off how Trump acts aggressively towards other countries, though mostly towards our allies. Of course, then Reagan sat down with the Soviets and made deals. I do think Trump is way worse and pretty stupid

[partofme]

1 minute ago, DanaK said:

I mean, I liked Reagan for the most part at the time, but he acted very aggressively towards the Soviets and scared them, not too far off how Trump acts aggressively towards other countries, though mostly towards our allies. Of course, then Reagan sat down with the Soviets and made deals. I do think Trump is way worse and pretty stupid

I was young when Reagan was elected, but Reagan is the cause of a lot of the problems we have today.  He substantially cut taxes for the rich while raising taxes on regular people and cutting the social safety net and eliminating the Fairness Doctrine, which is the reason Fox News and other biased right wing media outlets are allowed to exist.  

[kav]

On 2/3/2025 at 6:53 PM, Annber03 said:

I'd love to see Brandon Scott Jones take the questionnaire - it was fun to see him on the show last week, I'd love to see what his answers would be to some of those questions. 

Would he take it as himself or Higgenstooth?

[Annber03]

14 minutes ago, kav said:

Would he take it as himself or Higgenstooth?

Haaaaaaa, good question :D! Either option would be fun, I'm not picky :p!

[kav]

On 2/4/2025 at 10:05 PM, Annber03 said:

Haaaaaaa, good question :D! Either option would be fun, I'm not picky :p!

Wonder how Issac would answer the question of what happens after death?........Well, I fall in love with a person I killed and then get a Dinosaur bed.

[shapeshifter]

I noticed last night Stephen seemed to be jokingly/seriously avoiding saying anything p0l!t!cal. 

[lookeyloo]

23 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:

I noticed last night Stephen seemed to be jokingly/seriously avoiding saying anything p0l!t!cal. 

I have maintained on several forums and sites that I think there are people who threaten other people. As in audits, no fly lists, investigations, etc.  Even if the people didn't do anything wrong this all makes their lives miserable and expensive.

[DanaK]

2 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

I noticed last night Stephen seemed to be jokingly/seriously avoiding saying anything p0l!t!cal. 

He was totally getting political during his monologue. Maybe he just wanted to avoid it during the Valentine thing with Evie

[SoMuchTV]

6 minutes ago, DanaK said:

He was totally getting political during his monologue. Maybe he just wanted to avoid it during the Valentine thing with Evie

I noticed that Evie got a little (what shouldn’t be but apparently now is) political when she expressed sympathy for federal workers. “They were just doing their jobs!”

[DanaK]

1 minute ago, SoMuchTV said:

I noticed that Evie got a little (what shouldn’t be but apparently now is) political when she expressed sympathy for federal workers. “They were just doing their jobs!”

That surprised me from Evie but we don’t see her that often for me to know how political she is. She even said she knew “we weren’t supposed to be political”. I don’t know if she meant an edict from CBS or just shouldn’t given society right now

[DanaK]

Stephen was on fire again last night with his monologue. One of the funniest was his riff on DEI weather. “Snowflakes are girls, tornadoes are boys and sleet is bisexual. Is it rain? Is it snow? It can go both ways.”

The audience wildly cheering when Stephen was talking about the bird flu being in raw milk and then that RFK Jr only drinks raw milk totally threw Stephen. He was clearly not expecting that

And Melanie Lynskey was adorable in her interview

Edited February 7 by DanaK

[Annber03]

9 hours ago, DanaK said:

The audience wildly cheering when Stephen was talking about the bird flu being in raw milk and then that RFK Jr only drinks raw milk totally threw Stephen. He was clearly not expecting that. 

LOL, yeah, I had a similar reaction to that as well :p. Talk about coming full circle. 

[possibilities]

I usually skip the questionairre, but I watched Elton John's.

Him not knowing what window or aisle seating was... clearly he's only been on his private jet for the past several decades, but it still surprised me. I like him enough that I didn't think it made him seem snobby, though, which is really something!

[JustHereForFood]

On 2/5/2025 at 1:25 AM, partofme said:

I just watched last night’s episode, I don’t really approve of Colbert implying that Reagan wouldn’t approve of everything Trump is doing, Reagan was just as bad, he was just more polite about it.  

I am not disputing any of the things that Americans hate him for, but from an international perspective, he did a lot of good work to take down USSR and end the Cold war. We are lacking the global leaders like him today who would not be afraid to put terrorists like Putin in their place. He must be turning in his grave seeing what Trump did to the Republican reputation by being a bootlicker for Putler and other dictators.

[DanaK]

John Oliver was a fun guest last night and in the sketch. The War and Treaty musical performance was fantastic and rightly got a big ovation from the audience

[DanaK]

I shouldn't be but I was tickled when Stephen said he was going to lead with a light subject at the beginning of the monologue as a gentle lead in to all the bad stuff happening and it was about the plane crash in Toronto (and somehow he made that funny)

Edited Wednesday at 04:52 PM by DanaK

[Annber03]

My favorite bit was when he was like, "Remember the good old days, when the doors just blew off the planes?"