Like I did with the Republican National Convention last week, I will provide commentary, wisecracks and analysis for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night's speakers and events. I'll try to be as unbiased as I can, but given the fact I am rather liberal, chances are I will be slightly kinder to the Democrats and their convention than the Republicans and theirs last week. Anything is possible, however. If, like Clint Eastwood, Joe Biden starts talking to an inanimate object, I will need to have some fun with that.
After its first week, I gave The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore a B+ grade. While I didn't think the show appeared to be perfect by any stretch of the imagination, I also liked the Daily Show meets Politically Incorrect vibe I got from it, and thought, with the proper adjustments, the show would indeed provide a great fill-in for The Colbert Report . In the show's succeeding weeks, however, I've been less impressed by it and think that if it doesn't make certain adjustments, it could be in jeopardy of losing many long-time viewers of the show's time slot. One major issue I think the show's had to this point is a lack of direction. It's been unable to decide whether it wants to be a comedy show with serious conversation sprinkled in or a serious show with comedy sprinkled in. It's almost as if the show's writers want to give The Nightly Show a Real Time with Bill Maher feel. The problem with that idea or format is the fact Real Time is an hour lon...
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