Il Douché and His Discontents: The 2016 Primary Voting Thread, Part 4

dude i am in the library

John Oliver has one schtick that he uses over and over again. Every bit has the exact same rhythm and uses the same "it's like (non-sequitur cultural reference)!" joke construction

― micro brewbio (crüt), Tuesday, March 1, 2016 2:01 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I know what you mean. Every time I sit down to watch him I think, well, he's generally appealing; maybe this'll be a good show. But it's like biting into a chocolate-covered cherry, but instead of a cherry, there's a live bee! That's not a cherry! That's a bee! How'd that bee get in there? This isn't pleasant at all! This is very, very painful!

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), 1. marts 2016 20:29 (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think you're confusing Last Week Tonight and Full Frontal.

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as a britishes it's weird and perplexing to see someone like oliver failing up from being an unsuccessful jobbing stand-up in britain to having his own tv show in the states

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I think Tracer's the one who has issues with full frontal. xxp

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@realDonaldTrump, Bless your heart.

o shiii

i hate that little exasperated "can you believe this?! uf uf!" laugh oliver does. he reminds me of rachel maddow in that he has to underline sarcasm eight times; even as they both sometimes do good work, i feel my intelligence insulted as they talk.

do you guys really think oliver is trying to "change" people's way of thinking about trump, or do you think he's trying to get people who are concerned about trump to laugh? he's stating he's a comedian first and foremost, and that's the way i watch the show. i don't think he's going to change anyone's mind. if you're watching it that way, you're watching it wrong

he certainly spends some of his energy calling attention to issues he thinks his audience neglects but that's not what's happening here

I think Tracer's the one who has issues with full frontal. xxp

― Sorry To Be The Bearer Of Bad Poos (Leee), 1. marts 2016 21:05 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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the john oliver trump thing was fine. it's actually not that smug, he admits there is appeal to trump and then takes the top things people say in his favour and then gives specific examples of trump being the opposite of them. it may be shouting into the void, but maybe not

ilx just doesn't like middlebrow shit that insults their intelligence as amateurist puts it

ftr i agree that some of oliver's tics are annoying

his tics are annoying, sure, but he's funny as hell, funnier than Stewart was at times

as a britishes it's weird and perplexing to see someone like oliver failing up from being an unsuccessful jobbing stand-up in britain to having his own tv show in the states

― Cornelius Pardew (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 20:04 (17 minutes ago) Permalink

any moron has a tv show on cable television in (north) america

his billboards were up in beverly hills a while ago. i guess he thinks he is "edgy"

in his trump bit he used the phrase "shattering orgasm", which reminded me immediately of the 11oclock show/tvgohome ca. 2000, when men said things like that instead of being funny.

Anyone know which states John Oliver is projected to win today

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WAIT

as a britishes it's weird and perplexing to see someone like oliver failing up from being an unsuccessful jobbing stand-up in britain to having his own tv show in the states

― Cornelius Pardew (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 20:04 (17 minutes ago) Permalink

Craig Ferguson.

... unsuccessful as a stand up because garbage and talentless.

as a britishes it's weird and perplexing to see someone like oliver failing up from being an unsuccessful jobbing stand-up in britain to having his own tv show in the states

― Cornelius Pardew (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 1 March 2016

didn't Churchill do this

Isn't this just a thing people do? They can't seem to make their mark at home so they go to another country where they don't have to be as talented because now they have an accent? Let it goooooo.

I'm not surprised his standup was awful but Ferguson was by far my favorite late night host for a few years there. His interviews were actually interesting and human on a regular basis instead of canned dialogue leading to a discussion of whatever new thing the guest needed to promote.

US:rock bands::UK:comedians

ferguso >>>>>>> the numnuts doing late night now

lol "ferguson"

Never saw any of that, only know him as an unfunny chancer from Cumbernauld.

truly a super tuesday on ilx

as a britishes it's weird and perplexing to see someone like oliver failing up from being an unsuccessful jobbing stand-up in britain to having his own tv show in the states

this from a country that feted Soul Asylum

*obligatory MN post abt how pre-Grave Dancers Union Soul Asylum was a great band*

this from a country that feted Soul Asylum

Don't think so.

Pirnerbro

feel the pirn

what about Piers Morgan? was he also a terrible stand-up in the UK before having his show in the US?

it's a shame oliver's modest talent couldn't propel him to the heights of jimmy carr

No, just a terrible cunt. (xp)

Piers Morgan's success baffles me, I remember seeing a hoarding advertising his return to Daybreak with the tagline "back by unpopular demand", but tbh I don't even think he's someone that people 'love to hate' à la Simon Cowell, people just hate him

i've seen his cnn show once, when he interviewed ellen barkin. he was like the most obnoxious leering dude, she was so uncomfortable.

hey guys Hello, buglers! John Oliver has a weekly show, "Last Week Tonight"

in non-late night tv news,

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(sorry for largeness)

he's a uniter, not a viable candidate

I like how he doesn't capitalize Democratic.

Aw, that's just so gosh darned CUTE!

He's "concerned with the lack of civility."

Don't you just want to hug the stuffing out of him?

no

He could probably make that even more emphatic with an image of the cherries and the bananas and the pears in a fruit salad co-existing peacefully.

Is this meeting also going to happen in a closet?

Apart from the lower-case d, he apparently didn't get the memo that you're supposed to call the opponent "the democrat party."

demoncrat

LIEberal!

carson is def planning to stab the remaining GOP contestants in his closet meeting

Dude has no idea he's in a den of wolves I guess

they're all gonna look at each other's hands

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