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

Big M.I.T.T.

i'm neutral on john oliver, but the civil forfeiture thing he did was legitimately good broadcasting, bringing to light to a serious issue that was otherwise basically ignored.

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Carson is seeing this through to the bitter end, right? Like, he'll hopefully still be standing awkwardly on the side of the debate stage months after the nomination is already sealed up. That's all I ask for.

i'm neutral on john oliver, but the civil forfeiture thing he did was legitimately good broadcasting, bringing to light to a serious issue that was otherwise basically ignored.

― intheblanks, Tuesday, March 1, 2016 1:20 PM (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i think he's the best when doing things like this or the big thing regarding how lower income people often end up in jail for long periods of time for minor offenses like unpaid parking tickets, i mean get he can be a bit samey but he often does do things that the regular news media won't highligh

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/01/politics/paul-ryan-donald-trump-kkk/index.html

Here we have Paul Ryan playing Two Truths and a Lie:

"If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry. This party does not prey on people's prejudices," Ryan told reporters on Capitol Hill.

(I'm not sure he's clear on the rules, though)

more like 3 lies

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!

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"If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry. This party does not prey on people's prejudices.

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lol Tarfumes I see what you did there

The Oliver 'Drumpf' piece seemed to be working on a couple of levels, one being the obvious-to-us* idea that being anti-immigrant in the US is a foolishly ahistorical idea, and another seemed to be (though I don't watch his show regularly at all) that the go big at the end is a parody of Trump and intentionally jarring with the "let's just sit and research these claims" air of the earlier stuff. And another is that Drumpf is a funny name.

*which is is the big problem, only 'us' are watching it

i am so sorry

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he has two belly buttons

The Smurfs was first created and introduced as a series of comic characters by the Belgian comics artist Peyo (pen name of Pierre Culliford) in 1958, where they were known as Les Schtroumpfs.

Disappointed that John Oliver didn't take five seconds of the 20 minutes to point out what 'trump' means in British English.

Smurfs are anti semetic bastards

we really can't have a SFW thread about Trump/primaries can we

Tracer what the hell

It's a brilliant painting but it would indeed be super cool if a mod could transform it into a NSFW link.

it's ART!

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.

BADUMTJIJ

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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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

BADUMBADUMTJIJ

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

OH

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