Ben Karlin
Ben Karlin
Ben Karlinis an American television producer and writer. He is an eight time Emmy-winning American writer and executive producer best known for his work in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. He is one of three co-creators of The Colbert Report along with Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. Karlin left Comedy Central in December 2006. Ben Karlin has also been a writer for TV Show Modern Family...
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Those reports will invariably be shoddily produced, poorly reported and sloppily edited,
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With any show, no matter how great your material is, it sinks or swims with the talent that's delivering the words,
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We definitely wanted to go deep into the cult of personality that these kind of people have with their fans.
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People hate change; we knew we'd be fighting against that. They miss the couch and the globe,
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We've got some stuff coming up that will really continue to expand the universe more and more and more, and make people realize that this is not just a parody. There's a whole world we're exploring here, and so far there's nothing but (comedic) possibility ahead.
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We haven't figured out how to use them yet, ... It's like anything else, when you get a new computer, you know it has all these cool features, but you haven't figured it out, so you just use Word. That's where we are with the new set. It's just a process of discovery. We're a little freaked out about it, but we're excited about what we can do with the new space.
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It's funny to us -- we have no attachment to the couch. The couch is so incongruous with the show. One thing that's been made really clear over the last few years is that it's not a talk show. We don't know what it is. It's a thing unto itself.
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Oh, that's got the NBC logo on it.