The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Seems like most people on Twitter are defending him "Ever heard of comedy? It's his job!"

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.

My theory on that one was that he started with "#BeatsbyDreidel" and was reaching to come up with context for it

― 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

all these tweets were publicly available before they hired him. CC would look like true dummies if they dropped him now.

That the beatsbydreidel is least offensive is def a pretty good sign, since it's the most recent one.

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.

Yeah, the shoddiness of the jokes is a bigger strike against him than the content. They're so basic.

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

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.

so, maybe the South African Craig Kilborn

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!

Eh those jokes about as funny and tasteful as anything else on Comedy Central in the past 20+ years.

Also he probably won't be writing the little jokes he says after they roll a montage of Fox News clips.

half the time they just resort to Jon starring horrified/confused speechless in those cases right now anyway.

network releases offish statement, about what you'd expect
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBcxei4UsAA_oHd.jpg

I told you guys that Craig Kilborn went to my high school, right

to be provocative is brave
to react to provocative is unfair

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

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.

^ BRAGGIN 2015

lol

there are some old jap stereotypes/jokes about frigidity

idk about blowjobs tho. maybe he had a jewish girlfriend who wouldn't go down on him and he extrapolated?

The only time a JAP will go down is on the escalator at Bloomingdale's

= cab driver joke

There was a Rachel Shukert piece about the subject in Heeb but its not online afaik--I thought the stereotype was the opposite

everyone who's anyone gets a network to stick up for them these days

like most bigotries about jews the stereotype probably works both ways. antisemites generally aren't bright enough to worry about paradoxes.

there are some old jap stereotypes/jokes about frigidity

― Mordy, Tuesday, March 31, 2015 4:00 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, my parents had the "Official Jewish Joke Book" and "Official Irish Joke Book" when I was younger and I remember "How do you cure a Jewish nymphomaniac? Marry her."

Those jokes are weak but I'm guessing they are the weakest jokes in a twitter feed designed for testing out material.

Larry Wilde for new Daily Show host xp

http://i.imgur.com/671BnKi.png

https://twitter.com/jeremymbarr/status/582612503152197632

xxxpost yeah his other stuff is pretty strong:

Trevor Noah @Trevornoah · Mar 17

Because your name is Neal! RT @nealbrennan: A Starbucks barista just called me the N-word. Why Starbucks why?

I'm coming around to the nihilism of casting a boorish jerk as the host of the daily show

if he got hired off those jokes they could at least have gone with a name, like Jerry Lewis or Rickles

he's young - jon stewart was grey - people don't like listening to advice and opinion so much from a guy that looks as young or younger than they are, especially about america, from a person who is not american

If a republican is elected they would. During the Bush years there was tons of self-loathing wrt American identity on the left. People blamed imperialism on "stupid voters" in "middle america" iirc

The daily show has always been complicit in this sort of misapprehension, or perceiving structural inequality, corruption, and militarism as issues that are more cultural than political. As grotesque as fox news is, they are not the root of any of the issues we face

hope this is all an elaborate stunt to give the anchor chair to kristen schaal. trevor ryan is the ted cruz to her carly fiorina? because this kid couldn't walk into 'crossfire' and get it cancelled like jon stuart leibowitz could, i don't think

Also they became a stupidly easy target. It makes sense that Stewart got bored, even though he has had no shortage of praise for the past decade

stewart walking reminds me of how we heard zip from matt taibbi and alex perrine during the last midterms. go gop

As grotesque as fox news is, they are not the root of any of the issues we face

No one's said they are though

I associate stewart with a self congratulatory "smh" style of progressivism that feels pretty pointless to me

Stewart also refuses to tear into his guests like he really should if he kept it so so real

but then he would have no guests.

"I associate stewart with a self congratulatory "smh" style of progressivism that feels pretty pointless to me", he said, self-congratulatorily

u guys are watching the show all wrong

If the people behind the scenes are mostly the same, all Noah has to do is give long deadpan looks to the camera after the (useful) montages of Republican journalists/politicians repeating the same talking points.

someone should start a news/comedy combination channel that's just conservative news with a little box in the corner featuring a left-leaning comedian staring forward, deadpan, 24 hours a day

It's too bad Portlandia is such a hit, because there's an obvious perfect choice for Daily Show host:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WX9uFpqma18/SM2kQPfcraI/AAAAAAAAAOY/F6Pbe6XNjsY/s1600-h/Picture+1.png

Sorry; image of "Nicholas Fehn, Political Comedian" from SNL failed to embed properly...