Amid the swarm of post-Colbert commentary, James Poniewozik’s acute observation on his blog at Time stands out:
Colbert wasn’t playing to the room, I suspect, but to the wide audience of people who would later watch on the Internet. If anything, he was playing against the room — part of the frisson of his performance was the discomfort he generated in the audience… What anyone fails to get who said Colbert bombed because he didn’t win over the room is: the room no longer matters. Not the way it used to. The room, which once would have received and filtered the ritual performance for the rest of us, is now just another subject to be dissected online. |
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