I thought The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore got off to a decent start last night. They've got a way to go before folks will see the show as an acceptable replacement for The Colbert Report but I can see them getting there. The opening monologue-type material was certainly in the ballpark.
I was a bit disappointed with Jon Stewart's interview with Mike Huckabee, though less so this morning when I watched the Extended Version, which was about six minutes longer. (I was also impressed with how skillfully and fairly they chopped it down for the broadcast version.)
In case you couldn't guess, I think Huckabee — another one of those Republicans I liked before he began pandering to the L.C.D. of his party — is full of it. I haven't read his book but Stewart had and he clearly felt Huckabee, upon being challenged in front of an audience that doesn't buy the theory of Conservative Victimhood, was backing off on what he'd written. Personally, I think the main way in which right-wing folks are victims these days is how folks like Mike Huckabee try to sell them on the idea that they're victims.
I suspect some who watched the interview were expecting/hoping Stewart would try to rebut Huckabee by bringing up certain incidents which suggest, or could be sold as, examples of Huckabee not being the most effective parent. That's not how Jon Stewart rolls. He challenges guests like this just enough that they'll continue to engage with him and only be uncomfy when they say things that the audience audibly does not buy. Anyway, it was a more interesting conversation in the longer version so you might want to give it a look.