Steve Bacher has this to say and ask…
Your item about the forthcoming Colbert Trump spinoff show reminds me of something that has always annoyed me about the show. (And no, it's not the fact that Colbert doesn't seem to know how to comfortably bring an interview to a close. He always sounds like his guests are just getting into the groove when he thanks them and cuts to commercial. But that's another annoyance.)
The Late Show has numerous talented contributors who make the comedy bits stand out, including the fellow who voices the animated Trump and the animated God, but they've never received any credit and to this day I still have no idea what their names are. I think this is tremendously unfair to the performers. When you think about how many successful careers have been spawned by The Daily Show, for example, imagine if those men and women had never had their names put out there during the show.
My main annoyance with Mr. Colbert's show is how clearly (and sometimes, heavily) it's edited and I think that's one of the reasons his interviews often have awkward endings. It's like they consciously over-record and then cut, which makes it not feel organic. I still like the show — it's the only one of those shows I TiVo every night — but I wish the interviews weren't so choppy and, sometimes, hurried.
The other night, he had Gilbert Gottfried on and (a) the spot was too short to get anything going and (b) I've never seen two funny men who fit together worse. Gottfried on a talk show is usually about making the host feel uncomfortable and I don't think there's anything anyone could do in Colbert's guest chair that would make the host uncomfortable.
I believe the voices of the animated Trump on Colbert's show and also of God are done by a member of his writing staff named Brian Stack. He's the guy with the red hair who is nearly always involved in the cold opening blackout. He was a writer for Conan O'Brien both in New York and Los Angeles and often turned up on those shows in sketches — like he was the ghostly crooner, the traveling salesman, a member of the Slip-Nuts, the Interruptor and many more. Funny guy. Colbert ought to bring him out as Brian Stack occasionally even if he doesn't have something to plug.