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Shekhar Suman goes Stephen Colbert way as Saurabh Dwivedi ‘reinvents’ himself after Lallantop

Let’s hope Shekhar Suman's 'Tonite' show survives. If there’s one thing we’ve been missing on Indian television, it’s socio-political satire.

What do Shekhar Suman, Saurabh Dwivedi and Stephen Colbert have in common? Nothing but that their first names begin with the letter ‘S’.

Suman and Dwivedi have some other similarities. Suman is an actor. He played a journalist in the Doordarshan TV series Reporter and also anchored two satirical talk shows — Poll Khol on Star News and Movers & Shakers on Sony.

Dwivedi is a journalist, popular for his long stint on ‘The Lallantop’ video news show. He made his acting debut in the Netflix film Kartavya last Friday.

Coincidentally, Suman began a new talk show called Shekhar Tonite last Friday on his own YouTube channel while Dwivedi launched his latest journalism venture, `Indian Express Hindi’ on YouTube.

Colbert and Suman are on opposite sides of the exit-entry doors.

Colbert, the American comedian, political satirist and host of The Late Show on  CBS, will walk away from his decade-long stint there, a week after Suman had walked onto the sets of Shekhar Tonite, which is modelled on talk shows like Colbert’s.

Change: that’s something else the three men share.

Need for socio-political satire

Suman will be hoping that Shekhar Tonite lasts at least a fraction of the 10 years Colbert did on The Late Show, but that he doesn’t suffer the same fate as Colbert, whose show is widely believed to have been cancelled by CBS for political reasons, although financial problems were the public........

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