Even though interview segments on television shows are usually the most boring part, no one likes to get stood up. Back when I worked in radio it was always annoying when I guest cancelled on us because the only thing worse than a boring guest is no guest at all. But I have to say, I think this worked out much better for Colbert than if the band had showed up and performed as scheduled. I know that I personally could take or leave Daft Punk's song and probably wouldn't have watched their performance had they been on the air last night. (I have a policy that if a musical act's entire career is based around the facts that they don't speak publicly and wear funky costumes than I'm pretty sure they have nothing interesting to say anyway.) But instead the clip of Cobert dancing around New York has gone viral and gotten him more airtime on a bunch of different networks. (Some are saying that is the point and this whole "Daft Punk cancelled" is just an elaborate scheme to promote Colbert and MTV. I have to say, it seems like a lot more work than it would be worth but if that is the case than I'm fine with it. Remember, he's a fake news reporter.) There is a reason you never want to get into a war of words with a professional comedian and Colbert proved why that is the case yet again. I'm sure whichever act he books next year will be damned sure they can show up as scheduled.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Time To Fill
There are few things in life more annoying than when you make plans with someone and they cancel on you at the last minute. In that moment what the other person is essentially saying to you is, "Yeah, I like this other option better", only without common decency to even be that honest with you. It is one of the most rude acts anyone can do and the later the notice that they are cancelling the worse the offense when you consider how easy it is to contact people these days. (Seriously, it takes four second to send a text and you don't even have to explain yourself because no one is going to call you out on it because few people have the energy or the data plan to get into a long-winded text argument with someone who doesn't want to hang out with them anyway.) It is especially bad when you have spent several weeks making elaborate plans for the event like with, say, a TV show. Yet, that is what happened last night when Stephen Colbert had to come out and explain that after weeks of promoting their appearance, the musical group Daft Punk would not be performing on his show that night because MTV (which is owned by the same company with owns Comedy Central) had an exclusive agreement to the rights of their first American television appearance. The meant Colbert had to scramble to fill his airtime and I think he nailed it, creating a video to fill the void that had appearances by Matt Damon, Jeff Bridges and Bryan Cranston. Take a look for yourself.
Even though interview segments on television shows are usually the most boring part, no one likes to get stood up. Back when I worked in radio it was always annoying when I guest cancelled on us because the only thing worse than a boring guest is no guest at all. But I have to say, I think this worked out much better for Colbert than if the band had showed up and performed as scheduled. I know that I personally could take or leave Daft Punk's song and probably wouldn't have watched their performance had they been on the air last night. (I have a policy that if a musical act's entire career is based around the facts that they don't speak publicly and wear funky costumes than I'm pretty sure they have nothing interesting to say anyway.) But instead the clip of Cobert dancing around New York has gone viral and gotten him more airtime on a bunch of different networks. (Some are saying that is the point and this whole "Daft Punk cancelled" is just an elaborate scheme to promote Colbert and MTV. I have to say, it seems like a lot more work than it would be worth but if that is the case than I'm fine with it. Remember, he's a fake news reporter.) There is a reason you never want to get into a war of words with a professional comedian and Colbert proved why that is the case yet again. I'm sure whichever act he books next year will be damned sure they can show up as scheduled.
Even though interview segments on television shows are usually the most boring part, no one likes to get stood up. Back when I worked in radio it was always annoying when I guest cancelled on us because the only thing worse than a boring guest is no guest at all. But I have to say, I think this worked out much better for Colbert than if the band had showed up and performed as scheduled. I know that I personally could take or leave Daft Punk's song and probably wouldn't have watched their performance had they been on the air last night. (I have a policy that if a musical act's entire career is based around the facts that they don't speak publicly and wear funky costumes than I'm pretty sure they have nothing interesting to say anyway.) But instead the clip of Cobert dancing around New York has gone viral and gotten him more airtime on a bunch of different networks. (Some are saying that is the point and this whole "Daft Punk cancelled" is just an elaborate scheme to promote Colbert and MTV. I have to say, it seems like a lot more work than it would be worth but if that is the case than I'm fine with it. Remember, he's a fake news reporter.) There is a reason you never want to get into a war of words with a professional comedian and Colbert proved why that is the case yet again. I'm sure whichever act he books next year will be damned sure they can show up as scheduled.
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