Dentist
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sure, but it's timely which is of value compared to a lot of his pieces which could be done any month or any year
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John Oliver is the best thing on TV. (4 Viewers)
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dparker713
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Dentist
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and see sports guy isn't his target audience... someone out there watching knows more about infrastructure, or any of the topics he covers.
So NCAA and FIFA weren't new or exciting to me, nor were lotteries.... but several of his topics have been things I never thought of, like Drones or the Translators... but people who watch real news more often probably knew about those topics already also.
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I agree but I am not only sports guy, I like him but I just don't get much out of his sports segments plus he was fumbling through it too. Not trying to bring down others that do enjoy his sports stuff, I just enjoy his other stuff more.
dparker713
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Gr00vus
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There's only so much you can do in 30 minutes. I like this format better than the Daily Show or Colbert Report. I like that he spends more time and gets into more detail on a topic than the 5 minute segments they did on those shows. It's like a 60 Minutes segment, but funny. I don't think they should change much, if at all.
saintfool
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he's under the constraints of 30 minutes a week. i could see him expanding to a full hour and open things up as a result. his format now is barely connected to current events and the news cycle. he can still have that in-depth topic or item but he's free to comment/observe elsewhere.
The Big Guy
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You guys do understand that at the heart of it, this show and the daily show are both comedy news shows and not 60 minutes with cursing and hipper stories.
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saintfool
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Juxtatarot
Footballguy
Fantastic episode!
Yankee23Fan
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Snowden episode was brilliant. Except that my DVR killed it about 2 minutes after they started the **** pic stuff so I missed the end. Will have to try to catch it again.
tom22406
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SeveredHorseHeads
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He was pretty tough on Snowden, I thought. I actually didn't come away too impressed with Snowden for some reason I can't really put my finger on.
Yankee23Fan
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He couldn't keep eye contact. Although, I'm guessing he has learned to live looking over his shoulder every 3 seconds and will for the rest of his life. But he didn't come away confident at all. Which is probably to be expected. I actually thought Jon did a great job in the interview. Like better quality than "serious journalists."
SeveredHorseHeads
Footballguy
When he showed Snowden the video where no one knew who he was, it seemed to shake Snowden up a little bit.
SeveredHorseHeads
Footballguy
Agreed about he eye contact and the quality of the interview.
tom22406
Footballguy
I think the way Oliver tossed in some things Snowden didn't expect did shake him up a bit and I totally agree about how Snowden has to live his life now being paranoid every few seconds.
I don't know how I would handle something like that so I'm sure it weighs on him very hard especially being away from his family and friends.
He did show a few sides of going along with Oliver and how he was doing the interview by showing(what he could muster up)a sense of humor.
Loved the way Oliver did this though.
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Yankee23Fan
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Nice.
Yeah, this episode was brilliant in every way. And I love that he managed to take this story and turn into something so stupid yet so interesting to the general public. He's right. The technical stuff and the big words the legal speak and everything else is just making people ignore it all but when you break it down like this it's easy enough to understand that everyone should get it. Remarkable.
tom22406
Footballguy
The way he showed Snowden how very few cares or knows who Snowden is was brilliant in that we got to see his reaction and then turning it around showing people get upset about the #### pics and want it stopped and then have Snowden explain that this is going on.
Dinsy Ejotuz
Footballguy
My exact reaction. He asked him some tough, intelligent questions to his face.
What a great piece. I guess it's serving the same function as 60 Minutes or FRONTLINE, so not exactly unprecedented, but it's somehow both sharper and more accessible.
Joe Summer
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Snowden didn't do a very good job of presenting his talking points. He's not a very strong pointman for international espionage.
mcintyre1
Footballguy
Thought the Snowden piece was excellent. Could tell Snowden was a bit thrown off because Oliver was shutting him down as soon as he started into his "spiel" which, I realize now, can be pretty technical. All of the other interviews I've seen of him let him get into his cadence and start to get into the details of the programs, but Oliver made a great point that the vast majority of people are glazed over at the point. Great job simplifying the argument and having Snowden lay out how the programs can be used in layman's terms.
I thought Snowden came across as sincere. I like the way Oliver framed it - in terms of the complexity of the issues being too much for most Americans to understand, and thus care about.
Fundamentally, this is the approach that makes The Daily Show a source of news for so many people.
Fundamentally, this is the approach that makes The Daily Show a source of news for so many people.
cstu
Footballguy
Ridiculous.
Best Snowden interview I've seen. The documentary goes over all the technical stuff, but this spelled it out in a way the average person can understand.
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