“The Late Show”

Stephen Colbert returned to nighttime television this week with his premiere as new host of “The Late Show.”

Colbert was announced as David Letterman’s successor in April 2014 after Letterman’s retirement was announced by CBS.

His first episode as host premiered Tuesday to a large viewership — a 4.9 household rating according to Nielson, which deter- mined that almost 5 percent of Nielson ratings households were tuned in to watch Colbert.

These numbers beat out every other late night talk show for the week, with Jimmy Fallon coming in a close second with a rating of 2.4.

Bringing in elements from the “Colbert Report,” his long running Comedy Central show, Colbert started the show by singing the national anthem in true patriotic style with various people around New York City before dancing out on stage to a roaring audience.

Chanting “Stephen,” the audience brought a large smile to Colbert’s face as he started his first opening monologue.

Colbert was quick and witty as always, earning many cheers and laughs from the crowd.

In true “Colbert Report” fashion, Colbert spent some time cracking jokes about the presidential race. Colbert started with “I will be covering all the presidential candidates... who are Donald Trump” before ‘treating himself’ to several jokes about the Republican candidate.

His first guests were actor George Clooney and politician Jeb Bush. Clooney’s interview was rather dull, with a cheesy skit to go with it. Sadly, Bush’s interview was not much better.

While Colbert was certainly trying, participation on Bush’s end was dry and boring, which also reflects his attitude in the political world.

Politics are Colbert’s forte and he led his interviewee perfectly to create some giggles and disappointing quotes from the candidate.

The show certainly needs to catch its footing — it goes off in every direction too much in the first episode.

makes you want to keep watching. Colbert had a great, long-running night show in the past and will most likely make “The Late Show” just as

successful in his own way.

Miley Cyrus’ new album

Miley Cyrus recently announced at MTV’s “Video Music Awards” her fifth studio album was available on- line, with no prior promotion.

Cyrus was the host of the VMA’s and after closing the night with new single “Dooo it!” she told the audience her new album, “Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Pets,” could be streamed on her website.

The album brings a whole new sound to Cyrus’s already expansive discography.

It also proves that, for someone who is only 22, Cyrus is clear in her views and can present them in a musical and interesting way to her audience.

While Cyrus brings power and variety, the album lacks everything else. She repeats theme after theme, making it difficult to distinguish one track from the next. “Space Boots” comes right after “Some- thing About Space Dude,” which is example enough for how this whole album plays out.

There are various middle school jokes about weed and sex, such as, “You take me higher than I’ve ever been before / Don’t laugh when I say that ‘cause we just smoked a bowl,” and there are many lyrics that fit this same mold.

There is barely any editing on the album, which makes it very hard to listen to any track all the way through.

Cyrus cries through some of her songs (i.e. “Pablow the Blowfish”), which is distracting and could have been edited out.

The album is 92 minutes in length, but it feels twice as long.

Even though the whole album may be a mess, there are a few songs that have potential.

“Lighter” has the sound of an ’80s power ballad in a very good way. “Karen Don’t Be Sad” almost sounds like a Beatles song, soft and simple.

Cyrus may have broken from the Disney mold that made her famous, but it seems she takes it to a higher degree than necessary. 

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