Gary England

[Tydude]

End of a Era good newscast tonight

[zookeeper]

Best of luck to Gary England. It will be very different without Gary during severe weather. I wish him nothing but good things.

[venture]

Good send off tonight, even though he'll still be around. Would have really liked to see some of the old gang back, but that probably all happened off camera earlier today.

[Plutonic Panda]

Man, it will be so weird turning on the TV with the sirens going and not hearing Gary England, and I'm only 19! Can't imagine what it is like for people who have been around since he started.

When I was little, I was really interested in meteorology and wanted to become a forecaster for News9 really bad, and luckily had the pleasure to meet Gary England and Jed Castles. Gary England will be missed and he served a great purpose.

said it before and I'll say it again, I really wish Michael Armstrong would be the chief meteorologist there

[Mel]

Goodbye Mr. England, you will be missed.

[Plutonic Panda]

Not sure if this has been shown yet.

[Dustin]

So... Gary will be on the Colbert Report on Wednesday. Set your DVR's!

https://twitter.com/garyeOK/status/374332598857637889

[venture]

Reminder tonight is the night Gary will be on Colbert. Should be entertaining.

[Mel]

It's starting!

[Mel]

First time I have ever watched this show. I am tragically unhip. I would have enjoyed more Gary and less plastic parakeet.

[venture]

First time I have ever watched this show. I am tragically unhip. I would have enjoyed more Gary and less plastic parakeet.

You are missing out if this is the first time. Tonight's show was pretty blah overall. Much better when he does is "The Word", "The Threatdown", and other segments.

Overall good appearance for Gary. Felt it went pretty well and Gary kept up with Stephen's humor.

[Mel]

Gary did very well for what little time he was given. I will try and catch this show a little more often. First impressions are not always the best of anything. Except maybe a bear attack.

[Jim Kyle]

First time I have ever watched this show. I am tragically unhip. I would have enjoyed more Gary and less plastic parakeet.

First for me also, and probably also the last. I enjoy humor when it's done well, as in "That Was The Week That Was" or "Laugh-In" but the Perfect Polly routine reminded me of Monty Python's dead parrot only much less funny...

However, Tom Lehrer quit doing his satirical act because, he said, it had become impossible to tell the difference from real life. I guess that's what happened to real humor, too.

[venture]

Gary did very well for what little time he was given. I will try and catch this show a little more often. First impressions are not always the best of anything. Except maybe a bear attack.

Funny you should mention that...

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[kwhey]

ALways something to do with bears lol

[dankrutka]

Quite a generation gap I suppose. I think Colbert is an absolute comic genius.

[TaoMaas]

Quite a generation gap I suppose.

I don't think it's a generation gap, really. It's more a matter of last night not being an example of Colbert's best work. I thought Gary did well, but I was a little disappointed in Colbert. I'm just guessing here, but the interview made me feel like maybe a producer had read the article about Gary in the New Yorker Magazine...found it interesting (It was)...and booked Gary for the show. However, it appeared that Colbert had NOT read the article because most of his schtick with Gary was very superficial, which is unlike him. Colbert just didn't seem all that prepared for the interview to me.

[boscorama]

Would that Gary had had a different national outlet. He did well, anyway.

[Mel]

OK. I am guessing the bombastic delivery is a parody of all talking head programs. I don't watch any of those. I promise I will try and watch a few times. Gary did deserve more time and a knowledgeable host.

[venture]

OK. I am guessing the bombastic delivery is a parody of all talking head programs. I don't watch any of those. I promise I will try and watch a few times. Gary did deserve more time and a knowledgeable host.

Colbert is a parody of "Papa Bear" O'Reilly and a mix of the other loud mouths with TV shows. I too wish the segment was longer, but the interview segments are normally pretty short. Though the day before he gave the Archbishop a longer segment.

[Mel]

It might have just triggered my "National Media don't know s**t about Oklahoma" nerve. It felt like Gary got disrespected. I watch Chelsea Latly and most of the time it makes me laugh, when it doesn't go all left wingnut. I too would have stopped a subway to save some kittens though.

[shriekingviolet]

It might have just triggered my "National Media don't know s**t about Oklahoma" nerve. It felt like Gary got disrespected.

I don't wouldn't take it as any disrespect to Gary or Oklahoma in general. Colbert interviews in-character and since his character is self-obsessed, opinionated and ill-informed, the focus of the interviews is often as much on Colbert himself as it is the guest. So when he says things that sound rude or ignorant, it's generally meant to be a statement about Stephen Colbert the character and not the guest. The show's shtick is that it's a parody of shows of big media blowhards, and Stephen apes their worst habits (such as interrupting, talking over, and patronizing guests plus using the interview as an opportunity for self-aggrandizement) in his interviews. And the guests do know this. At least in the early days of the show (and maybe still now), Colbert always talked to the guests off-camera and let them know what to expect so that there weren't any hard feelings. While Gary's interview wasn't the best one Colbert's ever given, I don't think he was treated any differently than most guests.

[ou48A]

I can't believe Gary lower him self so much as to appear on such a trashy low intellect show as what Colbert has.
Gary is better than this and a hell of a lot smarter.

[Jersey Boss]

"Hey you kids, get off my TV"

[kevinpate]

... appear on such a trashy low intellect show as what Colbert has.
...

Given who Colbert mimics and makes fun of, that's actually some high praise right there.