The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

when Noah said criticizing Obama for making million-dollar ex-POTUS Wall St speeches was racist, I concluded he can shove his pinhead up his ass (it would fit).

I didn't realise "Drumpf" was anything more than a silly nickname.

I've stopped watching Samantha Bee as regularly as I used to, but she's significantly better than Noah, mostly because it feels like she has an actual dog in the fight, and because she gravitates to female oriented issues that the rest of late night ignores (I wonder why...). At her best, she has a seething anger that adds real bile to her punchlines.

She's also done a few good deep dives, like in the history of the religious right and on crazy congressmen like Louis Gohmert

I thought the problem with Bee was you can't watch her with regularity because she doesn't seem to have a reguklarity to watch her with. Is she off at the moment until the 13th of September?
& is Oliver off for a couple of weeks o0r was he back last week?

_I think John Oliver really killed the golden goose of comics at desk spitting truth tbh

That and yeah, trump winning_

I think... it's a bad format

Kinda kicking myself for not busting out "what a disaster for the golden goose of comics at death spitting truth" tbh

lol autocorrect otm?

death spits truth at us all

i love full frontal and idk why bc i find the rest of these shows tiresome. (the desklessness of it still feels awkward to me but i've adjusted.) oliver's deep dives are ok but the jokes with which he interrupts them relentlessly are exaggerated just enough that they cross over into unfunny pretty much immediately

love shows with desks

Full Frontal is very good for what it is, I just have no patience for angry american liberals these days

Me too, can't stand 'em. That's why I hang out on ILX.

Desks guys desks

xp lol

i still love Bee, even if her enthusiasm/super-bitchery can be over the top i'd rather see it in that direction than what we generally get with Noah

lmao tombot

yeah Bee is still the best

lmao

COMEDY CENTRAL® EXTENDS TREVOR NOAH THROUGH 2022

The bits of Trevor Noah's Daily Show that I've seen have been exactly like the bits of Jon Stewart's Daily Show that made me tired of watching the whole thing and bail three years before Stewart quit, so I have a very hard time buying at face-value all of the left-leaning people who suddenly decided these jokes were unfunny when a black South African was telling them rather than a white Jew.

― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Friday, September 1, 2017 2:27 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not going to deny that outspoken lefties can be hueg racists but this is such a disingenuous post considering when Jon Stewart CAME to the job in 1999 he already had years of experience being a comedy writer, cable talk show host and New York Times bestselling author.

When Trevor Noah came to the job he

https://bossip.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/screen-shot-2016-12-07-at-4-38-59-pm.png

And, on top of that, Larry Wilmore's show was pretty much the same Daily Show schtick and it WAS funny!

Yeah but Larry's show itself was kind of a drag

on second thought maybe "disingenuous" isn't the right word but RONG is in the running

I watched and enjoyed The Daily Show when Jon Stewart took over. As it went on and people began to take it more and more seriously, it became more and more of a drag and I tapped out sometime around 2012. I checked in sporadically in the last 3 years and it still sucked. I checked in when Noah took over and it still sucked in pretty much the same way it had been for Stewart's last few years. It is not disingenuous to have this opinion, neither is it disingenuous to notice that ALL OF A SUDDEN a certain segment of Daily Show viewers had a big problem with the show's format when a black South African was doing it.

I mean, maybe I missed Trevor's "The Daily Show: LOL Chris Brown Beat Rihanna" special

I will say that it doesn't help that Noah's run does coincide with lefty twitter's rise

or that he doesn't have "was Funny as Daily Show host from 1999-2012" on his resume

i enjoyed the daily show in the 90s/early 2000s when i was a teenager. it was and is an awful lot of toothless, self-congratulatory, smug, liberal pabulum.

iirc a *lot* of people were bemoaning the last couple years of Stewart's run as being on a persistent downslide

Larry's show was so great i miss him. lot of genuine awkwardness and stuff on his show, it felt very honest w little of the bloated self-importance these shows often fall prey to.

yes. it didn't suffer from the pompousness of Sam Bee or Oliver at their worst

but even if you now go back and watch some "golden age" bush era daily show it's pretty crap.

*plays a video of george w. bush making a spoonerism*
Jon Stewart mugs for the camera.

Real mordant political satire guys.

There are plenty of Stewart clips circulating that have not aged well, most famously the transphobic shit

And of course the Rally to Restore....etc is mortifying to think about now

god, that rally. i had friends drive across the fucking country to attend that thing, because they were so excited. it was beyond mortifying. no one even talked about it afterward, like it was a terrible secret, like a good friend barfing all over themselves while giving a speech or something.

in retrospect that was the shark jumping moment for liberal comedy generally; it was all downhill from there

*looks up rally date* ah, so it was 2010 when I bailed

god, that rally. i had friends drive across the fucking country to attend that thing, because they were so excited. it was beyond mortifying. no one even talked about it afterward, like it was a terrible secret, like a good friend barfing all over themselves while giving a speech or something.

― Karl Malone

thats amazing

in retrospect that was the shark jumping moment for liberal comedy generally; it was all downhill from there

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.)

otm

his last big moment was screaming at jim cramer

Stewart came off pretty bad in that iirc

'massive owns' that are not really good owns no matter how hard people tried to pretend, ranked:

1. Every single Twitter back and forth
2. Delete Your Account
3. "You want it to be one way, but it's the other way"
4. Stewart on Crossfire
5. Stewart v. Cramer

Yikes, that third one is bleak...

It was good when Marlo said it.

Champion: "Drumpf"

"Bullshit mountain"

Ah good, five more years of this kind of risky, power-challenging comedy pic.twitter.com/rW3EHIDUMD

— Jon Schwarz (@tinyrevolution) September 14, 2017

How much funnier would that joke be without the part after the hyphen that explains the joke? This guy fucking sucks!

i wanna give Noah some credit, he's improved a lot since he started at least

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g44ieAppvBo

at least it's better than this. he's like a fake conservative guy but it's not convincing so the character sucks and he's like craig kilborn with jokes off twitter? the studio audience or laugh track however it's mixed, loud, guttural, hitting over and over again. i feel upset.

Was that a video from the Klepper show? Looks pretty terrible.

https://thepointmag.com/2017/criticism/the-audacity-of-jokes

just saw an episode of this for the first time in a long time - it included a bit about trump and elizabeth warren which ended with noah suggesting trump was ‘woke’ for pointing out warren’s contested native american heritage

umm

noah suggesting trump was ‘woke’

haven't seen this but I've heard they've been known to tell jokes on that show