hope this is all an elaborate stunt to give the anchor chair to kristen schaal. trevor ryan is the ted cruz to her carly fiorina? because this kid couldn't walk into 'crossfire' and get it cancelled like jon stuart leibowitz could, i don't think
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
Also they became a stupidly easy target. It makes sense that Stewart got bored, even though he has had no shortage of praise for the past decade
― primal, intuitive, and relatively unmediated (Treeship), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
stewart walking reminds me of how we heard zip from matt taibbi and alex perrine during the last midterms. go gop
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:49 (nine years ago) link
As grotesque as fox news is, they are not the root of any of the issues we face
No one's said they are though
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:49 (nine years ago) link
I associate stewart with a self congratulatory "smh" style of progressivism that feels pretty pointless to me
― primal, intuitive, and relatively unmediated (Treeship), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:50 (nine years ago) link
Stewart also refuses to tear into his guests like he really should if he kept it so so real
but then he would have no guests.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link
"I associate stewart with a self congratulatory "smh" style of progressivism that feels pretty pointless to me", he said, self-congratulatorily
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link
u guys are watching the show all wrong
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link
If the people behind the scenes are mostly the same, all Noah has to do is give long deadpan looks to the camera after the (useful) montages of Republican journalists/politicians repeating the same talking points.
― with HD lyrics (Eazy), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link
someone should start a news/comedy combination channel that's just conservative news with a little box in the corner featuring a left-leaning comedian staring forward, deadpan, 24 hours a day
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 21:00 (nine years ago) link
It's too bad Portlandia is such a hit, because there's an obvious perfect choice for Daily Show host:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WX9uFpqma18/SM2kQPfcraI/AAAAAAAAAOY/F6Pbe6XNjsY/s1600-h/Picture+1.png
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
Sorry; image of "Nicholas Fehn, Political Comedian" from SNL failed to embed properly...
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
well, that character is based on Marc Maron, so I doubt Stewart would have gone for it
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
stewart was into jewish blowjob jokes too! http://www.mediaite.com/tv/stewart-bibis-congress-reception-was-longest-blowjob-a-jewish-man-has-ever-received/
― Mordy, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
these jokes are fucking terrible, but they're also pretty old. they don't fill me with hope for his tenure as host on the other hand, the host isn't the writer.
― akm, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
the one thing team lib has on the koch borg is humor. why concede that, com.cen?
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 22:39 (nine years ago) link
once aristophanes retired it was all over. see you in 3615
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 22:44 (nine years ago) link
"my mother is half jewish" is such a weird defense, it's like half-Jewishness is only ever referenced in the context of having to apologise for making a dumb joke
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 03:01 (nine years ago) link
i'm dying to know which half
― Mordy, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 03:04 (nine years ago) link
he didn't literally mean she had a jewish parent, he meant she performed 50% of the oral sex acts his father would have preferred
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 03:22 (nine years ago) link
which half do you hope Mordy
― conrad, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 08:10 (nine years ago) link
― primal, intuitive, and relatively unmediated (Treeship),
Actually, they are. Manufactured Consent. Chomsky. Get into it ya'll.
― Arctic Noon Auk, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 13:19 (nine years ago) link
one of the roots, for sure. pretty sure there's going to be more than one root.
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 13:19 (nine years ago) link
treeships have no roots
― gr8080, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 13:24 (nine years ago) link
Trevor Noah was the talk of the Edinburgh Fringe two years ago, where the entire run of his show "The Racist" was sold out and had all these huge comics begging for tickets - he is a protege of Eddie Izzard, who mentored him, and that seemed to get him a bunch of interest from the start.
When I saw it at the start of the festival it was a very surreal experience. It was in the tiny upstairs Pleasance attic room, and when Noah came out, the crowd went INSANE. It was like seeing One Direction or whatever. People taking pictures, screaming stuff, etc. - it turned out the audience was like 85% South Africans, and he's massive there.
The show itself, weirdly, was like 75% "This American Life"-style autobiography about his unique upbringing, and then 25% horrible hacky stand-up. Like, he had a 15 minute bit on how he doesn't trust the female voice on his GPS system because women can't drive. There were other fat chick jokes, and multiple stupid American jokes. (Actually nobody's reprinted one of his other iffy Tweets in this thread I don't think, but he Tweeted one this year that said "when you fly over the USA there's lots of turbulence in the middle of the flight because of all the ignorance rising up from that part of the country" or something - not a great look for The Daily Show)
The rumor was that he was going to win the big Edinburgh prize, but then it turned out he was disqualified by a technicality (you can't have hit DVDs or have sold out arenas since the award is for newcomer types, and Noah had done all of that stuff - plus hosted shows, had millions of Twitter followers, etc.).
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 13:49 (nine years ago) link
he's no patrice o'neal.
― Arctic Noon Auk, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 13:54 (nine years ago) link
I hope you're exaggerating a few points there because that implies someone much less creative than Daniel Tosh.
xp
― Evan, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 13:59 (nine years ago) link
I do get the sense from his stand-up that he may just be taking the Daily Show gig to get more "lol dumb Americans" material for his future world comedy tours
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 14:08 (nine years ago) link
it's pretty hard to be less creative than daniel tosh but this guy does seem like a fairly shitty comedian
― pimento is a cheese, some call it the caviar of the south (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 14:09 (nine years ago) link
(xp)
bring back kilborn
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 14:09 (nine years ago) link
it's looking dumber and dumber that they passed over JW
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link
or that they didn't snag up oliver before he left for HBO.
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link
Except that she was really outspoken about not even wanting the job.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 14:15 (nine years ago) link
And that Trevor Noah has experience hosting his own show in South Africa. I'm guessing the people who hired him has looked at that, and based their judgement of him on that more than on what he tweeted five years ago.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 14:18 (nine years ago) link
it is really mystifying that they let John Oliver jump ship to HBO after he was being groomed to take over the Daily Show. Maybe HBO had really deep pockets, or Stewart didn't let on that he was planning to leave the show so soon... would be interesting to find out what went down with that.
― Brio2, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
As grotesque as fox news is, they are not the root of any of the issues we face― primal, intuitive, and relatively unmediated (Treeship),Actually, they are. Manufactured Consent. Chomsky. Get into it ya'll.― Arctic Noon Auk, Wednesday, April 1, 2015 9:19 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Arctic Noon Auk, Wednesday, April 1, 2015 9:19 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
In a way the Daily Show is cos it provides such a convenient scapegoat and sacrificing him each episode.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 14:50 (nine years ago) link
Uh, not sure if there is much evidence that this is directly a Trevor Noah defense besides timing:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/04/01/396782993/patton-oswalt-tweets-in-defense-of-comedy-and-trevor-noah
It just seems like a general extension of the points he made in that recent interview with Salon.
― Evan, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
one of the final 2 tweets is "so welcome to comedy in 2015 trevor noah!"
― pimento is a cheese, some call it the caviar of the south (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 15:01 (nine years ago) link
That extended joke is about as funny as I think Patton Oswalt is. Which is not at all.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 15:01 (nine years ago) link
oh! oops i skimmed past that.
xpost
― Evan, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link
xp the general point he's making is (somewhat) reasonable, despite the way he's making it. but trevor noah is too lame a comedian and the things he said too legitimately offensive to deserve the defense
as for oswalt himself i greatly enjoy his standup most of the time, which rarely if ever contains the sort of stuff that he is defending other comedians for employing! idk why he bothers.
― pimento is a cheese, some call it the caviar of the south (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
comedy suckscomedians suck
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
Well, one of his tweets received similar attention in the past right?
― Evan, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link
wrong login lex xp
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
no this is just part of my new tough guy persona where i say everything sucks
this thread sucksthe internet sucks
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link
xxp yea him & salon were engaged in a long-term blood feud that they recently appeared to sort of quash but im sure this will bring it back to life bc salon knows they are obligated to write the "it's problematic" piece, they have a #brand to preserve
― pimento is a cheese, some call it the caviar of the south (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link
(and to be fair, in this instance he might deserve it a bit bc idk why patton is bothering to defend a p obvious douche who isn't even funny!)
― pimento is a cheese, some call it the caviar of the south (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 15:09 (nine years ago) link
i think he's defending the rights of unfunny douches everywhere
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 15:12 (nine years ago) link