i watched a clip of him on letterman. he wasn't funny at all. i don't know why they couldn't get wyatt cenac or, like i said upthread, aasif mandvi. even without the junior high bully humor on twitter i didn't get dude's appeal in the first place
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:23 (nine years ago) link
a lot of comics' twitters are clearinghouses for their worst ideas but it's really glaring just how different, in both tone and content, those tweets are from his standup, which can be a little blue but not all lowest common denominator like that
― some dude, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link
I really wanted Cenac to get the Late Night job that Seth Meyers got, and then the Late Late job that James Corden got. It would've been neat for him to come back to TDS, but I don't get the sense based on the type of things he's done after leaving that he wants to focus on politics.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:26 (nine years ago) link
Wonder what Wyatt went to go do instead of being a correspondent. I mean I haven't researched it, but to the unengaged it looked like he just went back to occasional gigs at the Bell House in Gowanus and whatever else. I'm sure he writes regularly as well? You'd think The Daily Show would be a pretty secure well paying job when you're great at it like he was.
― Evan, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
Cenac gets supporting roles in the odd indie film that lasts exactly one week in NYC theaters
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link
wonder if trevor noah will make 30 million per year off of the daily show like jon stewart does
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
― Evan, Tuesday, March 31, 2015 10:33 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
He put out a comedy record not too long ago, and he gigs regularly. Maybe he just prefers doing standup, and didn't see it as just a stepping-stone to tv/movies.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:38 (nine years ago) link
Right.
― Evan, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:39 (nine years ago) link
Trevor Noah more like Trevor Shoah am I right?
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:42 (nine years ago) link
uh no u are not
― Mordy, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link
idgi just sounds like Joan Rivers is writing for him from Hell
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/03/31/yes-the-new-daily-show-host-is-black-and-hes-spent-his-career-making-fun-of-african-americans/
― Mordy, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
Then Noah joked that black people are misidentified as African Americans. “They’re not African, but we’ll play along,” he said, adding, “Many of them really try to connect with Africa, you know? Some of them have these African names. They’ll be like, ‘Yeah, yeah, that’s my girl Wanda, yeah, yeah. Yeah that’s right, that’s Dashiqua, or dat’s Taniqua.”
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBY7d4HUUAAkGEe.jpg
oh those jews what with their exploiting gentiles and accumulating obscene wealth
― Mordy, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link
My theory on that one was that he started with "#BeatsbyDreidel" and was reaching to come up with context for it
― Evan, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
the german car joke i don't even know what to do w/ - obv it's a holocaust joke about the joke teller killing jews?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i rarely watched the daily show since i graduated from college anyway. i doubt i'll watch it much now.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
I doubt JS made that much his first year and besides he had already done a zillion MTV hosting and was already a hugely established name.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link
Wait where's the German car joke one?
― Evan, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBZvscXWQAA468j.jpg:large
― Mordy, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:38 (nine years ago) link
i think they are going to rescind this offer. at this point, everyone seems to already hate this guy
― primal, intuitive, and relatively unmediated (Treeship), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
Oh weird, the german car one was not showing up in the article for me at all. Yeah he clearly was going for an edgy irony thing but it's not at all funny enough to distract from the nagl-ness of it.
― Evan, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
I nominate Treesh to be the next daily show host
― 龜, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link
Quick start digging through old Treeship tweets.
― Evan, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link
#banfrats
― And let’s say a new Hozier comes along, and Spotify outbids you (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link
banf rats?
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link
Seems like most people on Twitter are defending him "Ever heard of comedy? It's his job!"
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
Noah's job will be to push liberals' pleasure buttons with toothless gibes at the expense of Republicans, then fawn over whichever Republican has been invited on as a guest; he'll do fine.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
― Evan, Tuesday, March 31, 2015 11:51 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the fact that this was the least offensive of all his jokes is never a good sign
tbqh the shit directed at women seems far more bilious & mean-spirited than any of the jewishness jokes but they're still NAGL, in any case dude is so fired...
...probably. then again daniel tosh is still employed by comedy central, iirc, and he is literally one of the biggest pieces of shit in comedy full stop, so their tolerance is def high
― are... are you saying you fucked a gazelle? (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:32 (nine years ago) link
all these tweets were publicly available before they hired him. CC would look like true dummies if they dropped him now.
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:40 (nine years ago) link
That the beatsbydreidel is least offensive is def a pretty good sign, since it's the most recent one.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
not that it makes much difference but they're just poorly-constructed unsurprising jokes - it's not like you could even make the argument that he's doing something edgy or boundary-pushing or subversive, they're just hacky garbage. Like when Patton Oswalt did that stupid series of psuedo-rape joke Tweets... he was being an idiot but at least you could have an argument about what he was doing. A guy who stretches to make a "BeatsbyDreidel" joke doesn't deserve the "Ever heard of comedy? It's his job!" defense.
― Brio2, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, the shoddiness of the jokes is a bigger strike against him than the content. They're so basic.
― Continue your brooding monologue (Re-Make/Re-Model), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
yeah it's not so much that they're offensive (which whatever) but that they're not funny and sort of politically naive, which is not what stewart's replacement should be
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
it's not like you could even make the argument that he's doing something edgy or boundary-pushing or subversive, they're just hacky garbage.
exactly.
― are... are you saying you fucked a gazelle? (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
so, maybe the South African Craig Kilborn
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link
even the stand-up stuff I saw of his was along the lines of "The mexican asked me if I wanted a napkin. In my country a "napkin" is what you Americans call a "diaper". How messy is this taco going to make me?" What a country!
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 18:27 (nine years ago) link
Eh those jokes about as funny and tasteful as anything else on Comedy Central in the past 20+ years.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 18:34 (nine years ago) link
Also he probably won't be writing the little jokes he says after they roll a montage of Fox News clips.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
half the time they just resort to Jon starring horrified/confused speechless in those cases right now anyway.
― Evan, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
network releases offish statement, about what you'd expecthttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBcxei4UsAA_oHd.jpg
― are... are you saying you fucked a gazelle? (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
I told you guys that Craig Kilborn went to my high school, right
― DJP, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
to be provocative is braveto react to provocative is unfair
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
I've used it myself sometimes but "it's unfair to be provoked by this person doing provocative things" is one of the weakest arguments
― DJP, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:46 (nine years ago) link
I have to admit I don't really understand the Jewish girls/blowjobs tweet. Is that really the stereotype? Maybe the Truly Tasteless Joke Book Noah learned all he knows about Jewish people from had some incorrect information.
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:54 (nine years ago) link
^ BRAGGIN 2015
― 龜, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
lol
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:56 (nine years ago) link
there are some old jap stereotypes/jokes about frigidity
― Mordy, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:00 (nine years ago) link
idk about blowjobs tho. maybe he had a jewish girlfriend who wouldn't go down on him and he extrapolated?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:01 (nine years ago) link
The only time a JAP will go down is on the escalator at Bloomingdale's
= cab driver joke
― Josefa, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
Her explanation is that her family always told her she was part Native American and she never looked into her genealogy
― President Keyes, Saturday, 2 December 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
TDS knew that suggesting trump was woke would make some waves, so they made out happen, however labored and clumsy
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Saturday, 2 December 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
that clip of his stand-up routine downplaying the Marikana massacre of striking miners is fucking insane.especially the presumption that strikes are things to be broken.the tear gas wasn't working so what else can you do but spray machine gun fire into a crowd?
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
So new neighbor moved next to us a few months ago. Was walking the dog and chatted with him briefly. Dude wasn't wearing a shirt and is covered in tats. Noticed one tattoo on his abdomen said "Fuck Trevor Noah". Spent the last several days trying to process this.
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Friday, 18 March 2022 17:39 (two years ago) link
Like I know from watching my wife and friends go through getting a tattoo that it's a process, right? You have to conceive of the tattoo, sketch it out, make an appointment, wait a while, get it inked, make another appt for more ink, etc. At no point did this guy think "am I making good choices?" or "will my beef with a Comedy Central host subside in time?" So many questions!
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Friday, 18 March 2022 17:43 (two years ago) link
maybe it's the first item on a to-do list
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 March 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link
Please ask him about it and report back. He wants to tell you about it, promise.
― brisk money (lukas), Friday, 18 March 2022 23:21 (two years ago) link
Jon Stewart fanatic
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 18 March 2022 23:28 (two years ago) link
The other arm says "I want to"
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 18 March 2022 23:28 (two years ago) link
You have to conceive of the tattoo, sketch it out, make an appointment, wait a while, get it inked, make another appt for more ink, etc
You're vastly overestimating how long it takes for a stupid idea to be permanently etched on the human body. The tattoo artist didn't have to invent a font to make that transfer.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 18 March 2022 23:30 (two years ago) link