I didn't enjoy King's appearance on Colbert's show. It wasn't the fault of either party, I think it was just the nature of the forum. Colbert has to be funny, and then he has to force King to try to be funny, and King really isn't a comedian. I would have rather seen King on something like Charlie Rose instead of Colbert.
It was too short, the questions were the usual suspects, etc. Of course, you could say this about a lot of King interviews, I suppose. I wish we could get some really good questions. What is the last thing you worked on that you stopped working on -- what would have been the name of the project? Is self-publishing making the industry worse or better?
A note on Colbert: I never watched his other show, but he appears to be an annoying interviewer (from that point of view, I suppose my disappointment with the interview was the fault of Colbert, but in a sense, I still won't blame him because at that point the template was set, and he has to do what he has to do to be consistent). If anyone caught the Scarlett Johansson interview, you surely would have noticed when she told him to stop, because he seems to do this thing where he constantly interrupts to inject some humor into the conversation. He seems to want the density of humor to be high. His interview with Bush was awful, no insights at all. I'm only somewhat familiar with his other character, but it seems as if he might be doing the same thing.
He needs to be more serious, and to get the most out of his guests. I get the impression he wants to book more guests like Elon Musk, but if he is going to talk to interesting people like that, drop the funny stuff and ask some interesting questions. Why wasn't King asked about the solemnity of the day, for instance? (I don't remember that he was asked about that, anyway.)
It was too short, the questions were the usual suspects, etc. Of course, you could say this about a lot of King interviews, I suppose. I wish we could get some really good questions. What is the last thing you worked on that you stopped working on -- what would have been the name of the project? Is self-publishing making the industry worse or better?
A note on Colbert: I never watched his other show, but he appears to be an annoying interviewer (from that point of view, I suppose my disappointment with the interview was the fault of Colbert, but in a sense, I still won't blame him because at that point the template was set, and he has to do what he has to do to be consistent). If anyone caught the Scarlett Johansson interview, you surely would have noticed when she told him to stop, because he seems to do this thing where he constantly interrupts to inject some humor into the conversation. He seems to want the density of humor to be high. His interview with Bush was awful, no insights at all. I'm only somewhat familiar with his other character, but it seems as if he might be doing the same thing.
He needs to be more serious, and to get the most out of his guests. I get the impression he wants to book more guests like Elon Musk, but if he is going to talk to interesting people like that, drop the funny stuff and ask some interesting questions. Why wasn't King asked about the solemnity of the day, for instance? (I don't remember that he was asked about that, anyway.)
Although... he is improving with age! Don't tell him I said that, Marsha...)
