BAPTIST BATISTE !!!!!!!!!

I swear this guy thinks he's in a gossip church. For anyone not familiar with that particular domination, the church attendees will often repeat (out loud) what the reverend has just said. When they aren't repeating him word for word they'll call out "Amen" or something else to show their agreement of what is being said.

The above description seems to fit for Batiste. If anyone thought he was obnoxious in the first season, he's only become more obnoxious in the second. He is RUINING every one of Stephen's monologues. Fans of Colbert's brand of comedy are in the audience or at home to see and hear STEPHEN (and not his desperate for attention band leader). More and more you can hear Batiste repeating every joke (or part of ) right after Stephen verbalizes them. When he's not doing that he's responding to Stephen's monologues with repetitive phrases such as: "I like that; Oh Oh OH!; MmmHmm ...... not to mention singing "Oh Lah Dee" .... whatever the hell that means. And do I even need to mention Batiste's over the top laughing and clapping? I haven't heard anyone on late night talk shows go out of their way to FAKE such an annoying laugh since the days of Ed McMahon (from Johnny Carson's old show).

For the love of God, will someone PLEASE TURN OFF BATISTE'S MICROPHONE during the monologues. In essence he's having his own private conversation with Stephen throughout the entire monologues segments. If Batiste's ego grows any bigger his head will explode !!!

P.S. Just thought of something else he does that is annoying. At the beginning of every show, just as Stephen is coming out to the stage, you can clearly see Batiste standing in front of the audience over-exaggerating how difficult it is to play his instrument; he's bobbing his body up and down. Afterwards, when he's back with the band and the theme song is over, he throws his head and hand up in the air, laughs (who knows why) and mugs for the audience and camera as if he's just played a concerto at Carnegie Hall.