I liked Stephen Colbert's live show that followed the Great Debate…and I'm wondering how much of it was actually done live. The cold opening certainly wasn't but after that, it seemed like it was all in real time. When he did those "live" shows following the conventions, a lot of the interviews were recorded earlier in the evening. This one was pretty good, though I am still not enjoying Colbert's Late Show as much as I should or even as much as I did his first few months on the air.
By the way: Two different people wrote me in the last few days to ask who the new female announcer is. One wrote, "And why doesn't she get her name in the end credit?" Well, she does but as one of the writers. It's Jen Spyra, who also has a nice career as a performer and who also does the voice of the cartoon Hillary Clinton who sometimes appears on the program.