Yeah, starting to get incredibly sick of that joke! The millions of different versions of that joke are probably the weakest part of his show.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 00:31 (nine years ago) link
sometimes he dips too deep into the Family Guy well, yes.I also tire of the "No [silly name], nobody wants to see your [odd referent]. I hate you [silly name]!" set up or the "That's just a fact!" punchline.but he's generally funner by a factor of five than Stewart
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 01:05 (nine years ago) link
how did u arrive at "five"
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 01:09 (nine years ago) link
counted the number of episodes i can stomach Oliver's patter and preset approach vs Stewarts; about 5 to 1
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 01:16 (nine years ago) link
alright, watched it. the opening bit before the interview is surprisingly annoying - I was never that bothered during any of the other videos I've watched. i think the writers were afraid they were going to lose the audience and threw in a bad punchline every 30 seconds
that said - i think the interview - and even the main part about the dick pics - was great. it actually was an effective, incredibly silly way to demonstrate the issue. yeah, most of us on this board probably already get the picture, but still
― Nhex, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 02:05 (nine years ago) link
pelis have a small lead over the dubs w/ a minute to go btw
― Clay, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 02:11 (nine years ago) link
oops sorry wrong thread!
yeah the stuff where he has a stock photo or maybe a photo of someone from his staff and he says "No [silly name], nobody wants to see your [odd referent]. I hate you [silly name]!" is kind of like something colbert used to throw off but oliver guy does it with such regularity and invarying formulation leans on it so heavily with a pause for laughter after that it is v v unfunny
― conrad, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 12:31 (nine years ago) link
no it is v v funny u wrong
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 13:20 (nine years ago) link
Cool if you like this dude, but I'm not that hip on him.
And every time I see some Buzzfeedy post on Facebook or somewhere that says something like John Oliver Just Explained in Two Minutes Why the Iran Treaty Matters followed by a screencap that looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/p0XCEXp.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/4CtUW81.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/SueCVFA.jpg
It just kinda turns me off even more.
― pplains, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 13:45 (nine years ago) link
one thing in his favor is that he keep the pace up and doesn't mug for the camerai really really like this show btw but after a full season some of the cliches are beginning to show and wear
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
xpost 60% of the audience for Oliver/Daily Show/Late Nights Shows/SNL seems to be aggregation servants looking for content
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 14:50 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i think i've made the joke several times, but i wouldn't be surprised if someone starts aggregating all the daily show/john oliver aggregation articles on a weekly basis
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
I also tire of the "No [silly name], nobody wants to see your [odd referent]. I hate you [silly name]!" set up or the "That's just a fact!" punchline.
I haven't completely tired of these yet, only because there haven't been any outright duds. But I really wish he'd stop going on and on at the end of a joke, e.g., "You're a dingo! Yes you are! You are! You're a dingo! You are!" and he gets stuck in a loop that goes on longer than the laughter/applause, and I feel bad for him, but not really, because he should've known when to stop.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
I'm not sure I fully understood the joke "The only people who should be excited about a Rod Stewart concert are those who want to have sex with Peter Gabriel". Does that just mean: people who are old enough to remember Peter Gabriel as a heartthrob?
― Evan, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
i felt like they flubbed that joke by using a contemporary rod stewart pic but an old old old pic of Gabrielmaybe they thought no one would recognize nu-gabrielhttp://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Music/Pix/pictures/2010/3/28/1269786651743/Peter-Gabriel-001.jpg
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah the young Peter Gabriel pic definitely confused me. A young, fit pic of Peter Gabriel doesn't really drive the point home...
― Evan, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
I didn't get the joke--people who really wanted to date Peter Gabriel instead get the less attractive Rod Stewart?
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
The joke was something like: 'The only people who should be excited when the substituion is a night with Rod Stewart are people who wanted to have sex with Peter Gabriel'
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link
strange joke
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 16:16 (nine years ago) link
Well, the context was that Obama wasn't coming, but Rod Stewart was. So... Yeah, it's still weird.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link
i was mainly amazed that a show with a target demo of 18-35 would attempt a joke featuring either rod stewart or peter gabriel
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Music/Pix/pictures/2010/3/28/1269786651743/Peter-Gabriel-001.jpg
Hans plays with Lottie, Lottie plays with JaneHemingway and Eichmann,Richard Nixon coming back again
― pplains, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
I really liked the ending of last night's show. Calling one representative a piece of shit, and accusing a bunch of others at being potential chicken-fuckers. Basically trying to bully laws through the chamber. Kinda ballsy.
― Frederik B, Monday, 18 May 2015 13:51 (nine years ago) link
they seem to have stopped allowing non-US people to see the youtube version of this. it used to take a few days (which is fair enough) but now there are things weeks old that are still blocked.
you can sometimes find third party recordings, often people just pointing a camera phone at a tv, but a lot of these are silent or still frames.
― koogs, Monday, 18 May 2015 13:58 (nine years ago) link
(actually, last week's Standardised Testing was available, but that was the first in a month)
― koogs, Monday, 18 May 2015 14:00 (nine years ago) link
It's on Sky Atlantic
― tayto fan (Michael B), Monday, 18 May 2015 14:10 (nine years ago) link
but i don't have space tv.
― koogs, Monday, 18 May 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link
That's as helpful as saying "it's on HBO"
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Monday, 18 May 2015 23:39 (nine years ago) link
I can watch the youtube from Denmark. Might it be HBO UK who are blocking?
― Frederik B, Monday, 18 May 2015 23:44 (nine years ago) link
Again, not for me.
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 02:06 (nine years ago) link
john oliver says "mom"
― conrad, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
he doesn't want to confuse the americans
― NotKnowPotato (stevie), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 16:16 (nine years ago) link
UK seems un-regionblocked now, meaning i have 4 or 5 to catch up on.
― koogs, Monday, 15 June 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
The song on last weeks episode was gold. I've liked a lot of ranting, but this was the first time in a long while that the final sketch-thingy was top tier.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link
The DC/states one? That was good.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
link?
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:08 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z4j2CrJRn4
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
It's a pretty well written lyric, and the glee on Oliver's face really sells it.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link
that dc outrage was p dumb tho.. like the college basketball one.
― chaki (kurt schwitterz), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
I liked the bit this week when he had up a photo of some juggalos and turned to it and said "call your parents, sean, they don't know what's happening to you" and no one laughed
― conrad, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 19:08 (eight years ago) link
i liked the DC bit. and i didn't know about those weed/needle/gun control things, so it's educational
― Nhex, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 01:51 (eight years ago) link
I recently noticed that Rory Albanese, who used to do the character "The American" on the Bugle, often appears on the Nightly Show now
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Friday, 21 August 2015 14:29 (eight years ago) link
Oh how I miss The American.
― franny glasshole (franny glass), Friday, 21 August 2015 14:41 (eight years ago) link
He is now Executive Producer of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.
― conrad, Friday, 21 August 2015 15:02 (eight years ago) link
he was something similar on the Daily Show for a long time, but rarely if ever appeared on-screen there
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Friday, 21 August 2015 15:15 (eight years ago) link
i hate john oliver
― conrad, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 19:23 (eight years ago) link
i'm sorry, but you're going to have to phrase your criticism in the form of a series of similes to get through to me
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 19:28 (eight years ago) link
i hate john oliver the way pig pen from the peanuts hates taking a bath no, pig pen, you cannot come to school with circles of stink lines around you, pig pen! no, pig pen!
― chaki (kurt schwitterz), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
^not bad
― conrad, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link