Someone In Desperate Need Of The Colbert Bump
Friday 3 October 2014 • 3:17 PM
Dick Cavett, writing on his NYT Opinionator blog, back in 2013:
And speaking of Dave’s presumably stepping aside some sad day, if CBS is smart, there is in full view a self-evident successor to The Big L. of Indiana.
I can testify, as can anyone who’s met him and seen him as himself, how much more there is to Stephen Colbert than the genius job he does in his “role” on “The Colbert Report.” Everything about him — as himself — qualifies him for that chair at the Ed Sullivan Theater that Letterman has so deftly and expertly warmed for so long. Colbert is, among other virtues, endowed with a first-rate mind, a great ad-lib wit, skilled comic movement and gesture, fine education, seemingly unlimited knowledge of affairs and events and, from delightful occasional evidence, those things called The Liberal Arts — I’ll bet you he could name the author of “Peregrine Pickle.” And on top of that largess of qualities (and I hope he won’t take me the wrong way here), good looks.
Should such a day come, don’t blow it, CBS.
Wow did Mr. Cavett nail it, over a year before Letterman announced his retirement in 2015– which means you could argue that Mr. Cavett called it over two years before everything would transpire. I wholeheartedly agree that Stephen Colbert will do a phenomenal job.
And as an aside, Northwestern University will be nicely represented across both networks: Stephen Colbert at CBS and Seth Meyers at NBC.