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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (2 Viewers)

I think Trevor is doing an excellent job. He has grown into it very well in the first month. He was visibly nervous the first week but has gotten very cool and is starting to develop his own swagger.

From talking to a few guys I know from South Africa, he's pretty much the biggest star there and a very big deal, so I guess he's used to the fame, just not used to the US.

I also watched him in a standup a year or so ago before the announcement and thought he was pretty funny.

 
NCCommish said:
urbanhack said:
Oh HAI

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/03/454319142/jon-stewart-signs-new-four-year-deal-with-hbo?
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I think Stewart wanted to do more movies. This will give him a good outlet for that.
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I had read that his deal with HBO was to produce short burst content for a website. Almost like periscope stuff where he throws out quickly produced videos with a quick take on issues as they happen. He partnered with a cloud graphics company to help him. Here's the press release. Sounds really cool.

https://twitter.com/DanLinden/status/661604645324779520/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

 
Is it just me or does Trevor Noah need to smile less while telling his jokes? It seems like he has a huge ####-eating grin on his face for every single punchline he delivers. Over the past week, he has told jokes with punchlines that involved ISIS dumping bodies in mass graves and African children begging for food while sporting a huge smile from ear-to-ear. It's just ####### weird.

I know that Jon Stewart's shoes are impossibly big to fill, but I honestly don't see Trevor Noah being the long-term solution for the Daily Show.

 
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Buckfast 1 said:
Is it just me or does Trevor Noah need to smile less while telling his jokes? It seems like he has a huge ####-eating grin on his face for every single punchline he delivers. Over the past week, he had told jokes with punchlines that involved ISIS dumping bodies in mass graves and African children begging for food while sporting a huge smile from ear-to-ear. It's just ####### weird.

I know that Jon Stewart's shoes are impossibly big to fill, but I honestly don't see Trevor Noah being the long-term solution for the Daily Show.
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I like him but the jokes just don't resonate as much as they do with Stewart. I think they got the right guy though, it's just gonna take some time. Stewart was a unique genius. Maybe, just maybe after a few years he'll come back.

 
Is anyone watching the Daily Show anymore? I used to watch every night. I tried to watch Noah a couple of times but just did not like it. You can tell he's very pleased with himself and thinks he is very funny - much funnier than I think he is.

 
I always record it although I don't always watch it.  There are still many funny bits although it isn't as good as when Stewart was the host.  In particular, the quality of guests and the interview are much weaker.  Also, I don't like some of the new correspondents as much.

 
Yeah the correspondents and interviews both aren't as good, but Noah does pretty well with the opening 15 minutes or so where it's just him delivering a spiel on the recent political happenings.  Not Stewart level good but he hasn't been doing it for 15 years yet.  For his 1st year I think he's doing really well and still enjoy it.

 
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Stopped this spring after watching months and months of Noah devolving from the bright, talented comedian with a fresh take that Stewart hired to the pawn of the AwesomeEverything Army and an active campaigner for/against a 'side'. Gave him one more chance the first night of each convention - because it was conventions that rocked Stewart/Colbert over the top - and i'm done. His and Wilmore's Handslapper Hour remind me of those brainless Fox sitcoms of the 90s where every entrant to a scene mugs for the crowd and then says the sophmoric 'hunnit/LGBTLMNOP' buzzword that gets "wootwoot"s from the crowd. Stewart's last speech on the Daily Show was an impassioned plea to "beware the bull####". Afraid your successors have fallen into it deeper than OReilly. That's my hunnit...i value all y'all's awesomeness....wootwoot

 
There was some pretty unfunny shtick on the Nightly Show, unfortunately, but they weren't full of ####, quite the opposite, and they didn't really say "hunnit" though maybe that's what you heard

 
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JZilla said:
Again I don't think he said it that way
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Tell that to my PT each wk as she works out the tension in my "not-punching" muscle, much of which comes from not destroying my TV when i tune in for "@ Midnight" and see that smug, snide & smarmy li'l weasel purse his lips into "hunnit" every weeknight.

 
Well, I didn't watch it very much, what with it being pathologically unfunny most of the time - the panels were a ####show and the program clearly never figured out what it wanted to be - but what I did I don't recall him saying it that way.. might have sometimes just for shtick, or maybe he just shouted out HUNNIT at the very end of the show just to piss you off.  I'm sure I never hung around for the goodbyes, and @ midnight is awful too.  Come to think of it, all late night is now awful.

 
JZilla said:
Well, I didn't watch it very much, what with it being pathologically unfunny most of the time - the panels were a ####show and the program clearly never figured out what it wanted to be - but what I did I don't recall him saying it that way.. might have sometimes just for shtick, or maybe he just shouted out HUNNIT at the very end of the show just to piss you off.  I'm sure I never hung around for the goodbyes, and @ midnight is awful too.  Come to think of it, all late night is now awful.
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There you go - be ANGRY at your comedy. Now if only they would...

when do they add P/A after the Q?

 
Nightly Show was cancelled last week, BTW.  No viewers.  I thought it was a shame that a host who was able to present a black American perspective in today's society the way Wilmore was able to, was hamstrung by a sloppy format and bad writing.  Actually should have tried less to be funny, and stuck with one guest at a time.. NEWS guests not celebrity goofwads and second rate comedians.  There was potential.

 
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JZilla said:
Nightly Show was cancelled last week, BTW.  No viewers.  I thought it was a shame that a host who was able to present a black American perspective in today's society the way Wilmore was able to, was hamstrung by a sloppy format and bad writing.  Actually should have tried less to be funny, and stuck with one guest at a time.. NEWS guests not celebrity goofwads and second rate comedians.  There was potential.
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agreed. always like wilmore's take and style... but that format stank- and the guests were mostly pointless and not given the best opportunity to highlight whatever knowledge or skills they had.

 
Wilmore was getting 700K viewers. The show he replaced was getting 1.7 million, and he had to go against that same guy. Tough situation. 

 
I like the clips of Trevor Noah's stand-up that I've seen. He hasn't grown into The Daily Show role yet, and I'm not sure whether he will. He still appears uncomfortable, which makes him talk too fast, which is made more problematic by his accent. The Daily Show has lost a lot of talent recently besides just Stewart (Samantha Bee, Jessica Williams, Jason Jones...) I think Jordan Klepper is the funniest one still there, but I could be missing some others because I currently only watch about one episode every three weeks.

 
Maurile Tremblay said:
I think Jordan Klepper is the funniest one still there, but I could be missing some others because I currently only watch about one episode every three weeks.
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You're not missing any.  Klepper is the only consistently funny one on there.  Hashan Minaj has his moments too but each is surrounded by 5 misses.

 
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Yeah Nightly Show was bad.  You know it's bad where there is a show arguing stuff that you mostly agree with and you're still thinking "man this sucks, can we get to @midnight already"?

 
I would think the bulk of the success or failure of these shows depends on the writers. Yeah it helps to have the right person in front delivering the material, but in these formats, if the writing isn't good not much else is going to matter. I have to believe a decent amount of that talent got promoted to elsewhere around the time Stewart and Colbert left. Wilmore is funny, hopefully he lands in a good spot.

 
The quality of correspondents Stewart had -- Carell, Colbert, Oliver, etc.-- was really amazing.  There were some misses included but you have to go back to previous decades' SNL to find a show that was so good at identifying and developing talent.  

 
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I would think the bulk of the success or failure of these shows depends on the writers. Yeah it helps to have the right person in front delivering the material, but in these formats, if the writing isn't good not much else is going to matter. I have to believe a decent amount of that talent got promoted to elsewhere around the time Stewart and Colbert left. Wilmore is funny, hopefully he lands in a good spot.
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Like the NBA, the talent is now spread way too thin

 
Anger. That's all of it. Ever since Seinfeld and then Ferrell & Fey showed you can be funny and still be a nice person (though most of their stuff was to-the-brim with anger), comedy has gone all to hell. They paved the way for a gen of passive/aggressive Q-rating snarksters that match the millenial vibe with mere sarcasm and no courage of their convictions. Branding is the opposite of comedy, and branding is 99% of media now, so all you got now is rude on one side and smarmy on the other and a whole lotta not-real in between. And that's where anger is supposed to live. Since Newhart's album brought bits to the burbs. modern man's plight has fueled the move of comedy from vaudeville. And now, with women and men of all races bulging the middle out of its pantsuits, things should be funnier than ever. But networks have no slot for anger. Comedy Central got incredibly lucky to find two guys who were the nicest AND the smartest AND THE ANGRIEST people in comedy. But they're gone now - one to retirement and one to Network, which may even be a greater exile (God does Colbert suck without Report). Now we have Noah. He's mad at Trump. Clue: If you're mad at Trump, milennial, you are mad at yourself, because it's the ineffectuality of your brand-buying, passive/aggressive kind that made him not only possible but necessary. And you CAN'T embrace the difference and be funny. The difference is the Funny. Get over yourselves, screw your jobs and get mad so we can laugh again. I'll be at Howard Beale's gravestone if you need me. *drops weedwhacker*

 
Not following the anger logic but we can all agree Colbert is a massive disappointment

Can't believe Conan is the best again.  And he's not very good.

 
Colbert.. man.. those bits, with the hat, and the laying on the ground with a guest whatever that is, and the confessions.. jesus #### that is so bad.  Like they called Fallon and asked if they could go through his trash.

Even that nobody James Corden has landed on a successful recurring bit, like six months ago

 
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JZilla said:
Not following the anger logic but we can all agree Colbert is a massive disappointment

Can't believe Conan is the best again.  And he's not very good.
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Yea I am not following that either in Wiki's post.

The " no courage of their convictions." comment  when talking about Jon Stewart sounds like you have not heard about what he did for the 911 first responders  or his sanity rallies.

 
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Blaming millenials for Trump is almost Trumpian shtick, though
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*hand to God* Have not listened to Trump - except for clips in bits - since he began. Have changed the channel when he's on since long before the Apprentice, like i do with Fox cartoon Nazis and all the suckrakers. Will not put money in their pockets and that's what watchin is. So i don't know his shtick.

 
wikkidpissah said:
*hand to God* Have not listened to Trump - except for clips in bits - since he began. Have changed the channel when he's on since long before the Apprentice, like i do with Fox cartoon Nazis and all the suckrakers. Will not put money in their pockets and that's what watchin is. So i don't know his shtick.
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Trump is a direct product of years of racism/xenophobia spewed by the GOP and their mouthpieces.  Far cry from millenials.  Bernie was their boy.

 
JZilla said:
Trump is a direct product of years of racism/xenophobia spewed by the GOP and their mouthpieces.  Far cry from millenials.  Bernie was their boy.
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Trump's a fascist (or a fascionist or a farscist). Ineffectuality is the ground they grow in and brandsucking millenials are their hoes (see what i did there?)

 
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wikkidpissah said:
Trump's a fascist (or a fascionist or a farscist). Ineffectuality is the ground they grow in and brandsucking millenials are their hoes (see what i did there?)
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The ineffectual ground he's growing in is hoed by generally older white racists, and the press.  Maybe take your focus off the kids and look at society as a whole?

 
George Jefferson Airplane said:
Which is stupid to say of course.  People who don't think Jon Stewart is funny should be put on a watchlist IMO. 
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Stewart's fan base is getting old. Advertisers aren't chasing after the older demographics like they are the younger group. Folks don't like Noah? That's unfortunate. I find him funny. But I also recognize I'm no longer the audience they're chasing after. Neither are the rest of us. 

 
JZilla said:
Lot of bitterness in some of these wikkid posts
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Caught me on the "Jesusinthetemple" day of my biocycle but, nonetheless, i have an acidic view of a generation that looks at the pitiful farce our institutions have become and their best response is handslappin' the hatahs and falling in love with a political bag lady from Vermont for a few months before going back to their babble & brands. I worry that they become like Obama, who didn't ruin it but became a ruiner by not fixing it. Worst of all, though, they ain't funny. Pardon me for suggesting why.

 
wikkidpissah said:
Caught me on the "Jesusinthetemple" day of my biocycle but, nonetheless, i have an acidic view of a generation that looks at the pitiful farce our institutions have become and their best response is handslappin' the hatahs and falling in love with a political bag lady from Vermont for a few months before going back to their babble & brands. I worry that they become like Obama, who didn't ruin it but became a ruiner by not fixing it. Worst of all, though, they ain't funny. Pardon me for suggesting why.
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The farcing of the institutions started before this generation or are we forgetting Kent State and the like.  Maybe it was a farce all along and now the illusion is just fading with all the constant exposure of the 24 hour new cycle, the need to feed and stay on top for the next scoop.   We think about our great leaders but I wonder how such people would be viewed today - imagine fighting WWII with today's exposure.   

 
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