New York, Sept. 8 (EFE) .- With George Clooney and Jeb Bush as guests Stephen Colbert began a new era today in front of one of the programs more Popular US television, with the difficult task of succeeding David Letterman.
The program, “The Late Show”, has for decades on television in this country. Letterman began in 1982 on NBC and in 1993 led him to CBS, where he was fired on May 21 last after more than six thousand episodes.
Today took over Colbert, a comedian it has gone through famous programs of American television shows like “The Daily Show” has won nine Emmy Awards and two Grammy by previous work and took months preparing his debut tonight.
The program, recorded this afternoon at the Ed Sullivan Theater in Manhattan and released around midnight, showed Colbert trying to make the audience laugh, sometimes falling into the grotesque, with a style different from that Letterman had something more sober.
Bush, presidential candidate of the Republican Party, he could just get notes of humor, and political advantage to try to seek votes with comments that were far light style of evening programs on American television.
Asked about his differences with his brother, former President George W. Bush, Jeb Bush said he was “younger and better looking,” and criticized during his tenure failed to control public spending despite a Republican Congress .
From the White House, Jeb Bush promised to be more austere spending and seek more fiscal discipline, but does not have the legislative support. “They called me ‘Veto Corleone’ in Florida,” the former governor of that state, referring to his management.
Meanwhile, actor George Clooney had a dialogue with Colbert hit, sometimes humorous, and during his appearance came several ads in a parody of an action movie in which Clooney plays the role of the UN Secretary General.
Colbert congratulated the actor for marrying a year ago with Amal, a lawyer human rights, and lamented, half joking and half serious, that had not been invited to the wedding, perhaps because the actor and he did not know.
But he gave Clooney as a wedding gift one paperweight engraved with the phrase “I do not know you”.
The program was joking references to the Republican candidate Donald Trump, musical breaks and some humorous monologue Colbert, who came to take on camera a bite hummus and chocolate chip cookies in the middle of fuss.
Among the few serious moments there was mention made Colbert Letterman is included, then said he did not intend to replace it, but honor him by successes was one of the most successful careers of American TV
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