The reason for the delay in blog posts over the past few days is the fact I'm hard at work on a new book. It will be the shortest of all my books, I will be entering it into a contest for $20,000, and hope to have it available for purchase in the next month. Well, speaking of which, I better get back to working on it. I just thought I'd update my regular readers on why I've been posting fewer blogs over the past week. Hopefully I'll be able to provide you a great deal of new reading material soon!
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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