Trevor Noah’s reign of terror comes to an end.

[Davis Lane 5,583]

On 9/30/2022 at 10:50 AM, Post Oak said:

Now he gets to spend more time banging Dua Lipa.  Some guys never catch a break.

 

[hayden_horn 11,362]

21 hours ago, PilotsError said:

 

Stewart bombed hilariously on Apple.  Whatever he once was, has died.  His episode on how horrible white people are was probably the kill shot in his career.  You can't call him cringey because it's beyond that.

But the groomers and pedo supporters will still rally around him I'm sure. 

so this is a joke that just missed the mark right? 

or are you a legitimate crazy person who can't keep cloak room in cloak room?

[henrygandorf 29,190]

21 hours ago, PilotsError said:

But the groomers and pedo supporters will still rally around him I'm sure. 

it's the movies and tv board, so you can just say "republicans".  you don't have to dance around it.

[henrygandorf 29,190]

also the show that so hilariously bombed has its season 2 premiere this friday, in case any of you pedo's are interested.

[Red Five 40,855]

39 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

also the show that so hilariously bombed has its season 2 premiere this friday, in case any of you pedo's are interested.

I am neither a groomer or a pedo. Will I still enjoy it? 

[WhatTheBuck 28,778]

6 hours ago, Red Five said:

I am neither a groomer or a pedo. Will I still enjoy it? 

You might. Here’s a sample from season 1. (Notice one side laughing at itself.)

 

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11,669]

NYT giving us 3000 words on Trevor’s reign.  Managed to never mention whether this show on Comedy Central was funny   

 

 

 

When Trevor Noah was announced, in 2015, as the replacement for Jon Stewart as host of “The Daily Show,” he was met with a resounding “Who?”

In fact, he was not entirely unknown. He had very recently joined the comedy-news show as a correspondent. What’s more, he was an accomplished stand-up comedian with a considerable following beyond his home country of South Africa.

Still, he had not exactly dominated the lists of top candidates to host a show that, for all the world maps in its graphics, was still America-centric. As Noah put it during his surprise announcement in September that he was stepping down, Comedy Central had taken a gamble on “this random comedian nobody knew — on this side of the world.”

America, after all, is a big country with a lot of blind spots. And one of Noah’s accomplishments, as he took a late-night institution in his own direction, was to expose them, and to widen, ever so slightly, late night’s field of vision.

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Noah, whose last “Daily Show” airs on Thursday, was of course a rarity as a Black host in a line of work still dominated by white guys, taking over a show that had taken deserved hits over its treatment of race. (At the time of his hire, he joined Larry Wilmore, whose “The Nightly Show,” also on Comedy Central, was canceled in 2016.)

 

But he was further distinguished by being African, representing a part of the world often neglected by American news, much less comedic news about the news.

 

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In one of his most inspired early bits, Noah compared the glitzy, boastful Donald J. Trump to Jacob Zuma, then the president of South Africa.Credit...Comedy Central

 

 

Beyond a special allowance for natives of the British Isles like John Oliver, James Corden and Craig Ferguson, many of late night’s most famous hosts have performed some form of Americanness as part of their act. Johnny Carson’s Midwest-meets-Burbank cool was a big reason for his broad palatability, while David Letterman played up the affect of the Indiana weatherman gone twisted. On “The Daily Show,” Stewart’s act was to survey the media circus with the befuddled exasperation of a Jewish guy from New Jersey.

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If Noah was an exception in late night, he invested his show with the awareness that “exceptions” are the rule worldwide. Everyone has to be aware of America, but not everyone is like Americans, nor does everyone always see us as we see ourselves.

 

So he helped his audience see through his eyes. One of his most inspired bits in his early years managed to find a new angle on the most ubiquitous of late-night subjects — Donald J. Trump, then a 2016 presidential candidate — by joking that his glitzy aesthetic, boastfulness and outrageous claims made him seem most like an African dictator. “Donald Trump is presidential,” Noah said. “He just happens to be running on the wrong continent.”

Noah played the outsider, but he didn’t play dumb. He had a crisply pressed cool, a worldly intelligence and a versatile voice. (He developed a range of regional American accents on top of his various international ones.) He was as much in his element hosting the Grammys as he was hosting the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

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And when the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted live studio productions, he adapted to the home-casual environment as well as any of his peers, shooting “The Daily Social Distancing Show” in his apartment wearing a rainbow assortment of hoodies.

 

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When the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted live studio productions, Noah adapted as well as any of his peers, shooting “The Daily Social Distancing Show” from home.Credit...Comedy Central

 

 

He was also the late-night host who spoke most passionately about George Floyd’s murder and the protests over police brutality against Black people. It was an irony that the host who made “The Daily Show” the most global it had ever been found his moment when the world shrank down to the size of our living rooms.

Like some others coming out of remote work back to the office, Noah has said that his experience of the pandemic made him reconsider whether he wanted to keep doing the same thing with his life. After a visit to India, he told The Hollywood Reporter, “I found myself realizing just how much I’d missed out on.”

 

Departing at age 38, after just over seven years in the chair, Noah won’t have stayed long enough to define an era in late night, unlike Stewart (16 years), Carson (30) or Letterman (11 years with NBC, 22 with CBS). Let’s be honest: Late night is a less important part of the media universe than it used to be (and the story of its continuing decline is nearly as old as Noah). Maybe his tenure marked the beginning of an era in which hosts no longer cleave to late-night posts for most of their careers.

In the end, Noah’s departure may just reflect, like his comedy did, a more fluid, quick-changing media environment. In which case his biggest statement may be that he held on to his job just long enough to make a mark, then moved on to the next thing. After all, it’s a big world out there.

 

 

 

[Deej 76,766]

3 hours ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

Managed to never mention whether this show on Comedy Central was funny   

It wasn't, and they would never mention that. 

[Nivek 16,924]

He is funny.  But he seems to have guys like Ronnie and Jordan be the non-stop jesters while he dabbles in it much like how Stewart did.   But I don't think he can switch as fast as Stewart from comedy to serious quite like Jon could.   He did well enough with the show and made it his own.   

[WhatTheBuck 28,778]

When it comes to comedy shows, he was an exception. I’ll give him that.

[Burt 4,080]

Not sure if anyone is still watching The Daily Show, but its actually been pretty good the past couple of weeks.  Sarah Silverman hosted last week and did a much better job than Noah.  The host this week is Hasan Minhaj and he's been very good.  I wouldn't mind seeing him take over the show eventually.  

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11,669]

WaPo looking at what’s next, enjoying the guest hosts and ultimately leaning toward Hassan Manaj.  Blame’s Trump’s unseriousness for making him satire-proof, forcing Noah to go  “increasingly alarmed, predictable, even sanctimonious”.

 

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Can guest hosts save ‘The Daily Show’?

Hasan Minhaj, Wanda Sykes, John Leguizamo and a few others make a strong case.

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A series of celebrities guest hosted "The Daily Show" in the wake of Trevor Noah's departure. Can they save it? (The Washington Post illustration; Kevin Winter/Getty Images; Cindy Ord/Getty Images; Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images; Mindy Small/Getty Images; Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images; and Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)

 

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It feels exactly right that “The Daily Show” — once a comedy upstart, now a comedy institution — has remade itself into a reality show, at least temporarily.

Trevor Noah left his gig as the show’s host in December after a seven-plus-year run during which he covered (among other things) the Trump administration, the ongoing radicalization of the Republican Party and a global pandemic. Light stuff. He acquitted himself well, but many a revered institution flailed during this period, and “The Daily Show’s” recipe for satire was no exception. President Donald Trump was satire-proof, and so — in a strange twist — political comedy started to compensate by supplying the seriousness he lacked. It became increasingly predictable, alarmed, even sanctimonious.

The show was already in something of an identity crisis, and more creaky than nimble, when Noah decided to move on. His departure was therefore a major blow, leaving a gaping hole at the center of (arguably) Comedy Central’s most important program, particularly with its longtime host Jon Stewart hosting his own show about current events over on Apple TV Plus. The cable channel needed to make a splash.

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So for the past 10 weeks, celebrities ranging from Leslie Jones to Hasan Minhaj to Wanda Sykes to Marlon Wayans spent a week hosting the show, interviewing people they choose and platforming issues they care about. (Beginning in April, the show will hand over the reins to its own correspondents for a week each, as well.)

Rotating hosts has not solved the problem political comedy now faces, but the contest has at least revitalized a property that had started to feel stale. Ratings are up, partly because it’s fun to watch famous people compete — and these feel like auditions, even if showrunner Jen Flanz argues they’re no such thing. Favors are clearly being called in, causes espoused, connections displayed.

The hosts’ topics overlap — classified documents in President Biden’s garage, George Santos, Tucker Carlson — but their emphases differ. D.L. Hughley covered the death of Tyre Nichols — a 29-year-old Black man who died after being beaten by Memphis police in January — every night. Sykes and Jones took on abortion rights. Sarah Silverman focused on the outrage economy’s role in driving polarization. John Leguizamo, a longtime advocate for Latino representation, joked about flaky solidarity (“I’m especially glad to be hosting during Hispanic Heritage Month!” he said as he greeted the audience. “No, no, no,” he yelled, waving his hands as the crowd cheered. “That was moronic. It’s not Hispanic Heritage Month. That’s in September! That was a test, y’all!”)

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This last was a refreshing way to highlight an artifact of the show’s success — namely, that “Daily Show” viewers who consider themselves relatively sophisticated will readily believe whatever the host of their favorite show says. The once-revolutionary format has fallen victim to its own polish and matured into respectable middle age. Not a wholly desirable change.

There’s some welcome edge, therefore, to this latest iteration, which asks celebrities to risk failing. Political comedy has gotten exponentially harder to do well since the show’s inception. Stewart’s rise mirrored that of Fox News, but the tactics that felt urgent and hilariously effective then — intelligent mockery chief among them — feel dated now. Anyone watching his current Apple TV Plus show can attest that not even Jon Stewart can be what Jon Stewart once was.

 

Trevor Noah, seen March 12 in Beverly Hills. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

This, of course, isn’t the first time “The Daily Show” has faced an identity crisis — no one knew what the original would look like after Stewart left.

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When he took over in 1999, Stewart threaded the needle between comedy and political passion with a heady and highly particular combination of rueful incredulity, ease and, occasionally, tremendously effective outrage.

It was catnip for a generation trapped between irony and earnestness, that wanted to mock everything but also needed to care. Stewart’s knack for skewering right-wing hypocrisies was unparalleled, and he was a much better interviewer than he needed to be. So were the correspondents. The show often seemed to drift closer to real journalism than the “straight” media it lampooned.

The sense of fun animating all this made rather meaty political confrontations feel joyful, almost like pranks. It also, on the flip side, made ridicule feel like activism. Or victory.

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Both are harder to pull off these days.

If satire requires its targets to at least aspire to something like seriousness or consistency, that basic condition went unmet during the alarming and consequential unseriousness of the Trump years.

So it isn’t Noah’s fault that “The Daily Show” lost some relevance. Blame that on social media, which cheapened the thrill of watching someone smart and funny process politics in real time. Virality and streaming took major chunks out of basic cable, and there’s been more competition on TV, too — from Seth Meyers and Sam Bee and Larry Wilmore and Michelle Wolf, among others.

It’s a good thing, in short, that the higher-ups at Comedy Central are looking to innovate in the wake of Noah’s departure. “We’re going to use the back half of the broadcast year — call it from now until June — to really experiment and try different things,” Chris McCarthy, the president and CEO of Paramount Media Networks, told Vulture. “And then our goal would be to relaunch in the fall.”

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Jones launched the proceedings with a raunchy and fantastic takedown of the widely mocked Boston statue of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife’s disembodied arms that many claimed looked like a sexual act. The SNL alum’s sketches were, unsurprisingly, the best out of the 10 hosts. Her rapport with the correspondents set a high bar, and she brought a level of energy to the monologue that only Minhaj, who hosted his own “Daily Show”-esque program on Netflix, could match.

Her interviews, however, were weak. So were Chelsea Handler’s, who made up for it with her pitch-perfect, dry, half-flirty delivery during the Headlines segment. “He walked off his big, strong plane and his aviator sunglasses,” she said of Biden during Balloongate, “looking like a real tough guy popping a balloon.”

Hughley’s conversations, by contrast, were riveting. A standout was his discussion of art with Mac Phipps, a New Orleans rapper whose lyrics were used as “evidence” that sent him to prison.

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Sykes’s exasperated calm made a bit on a bizarre Trump speech unforgettable. And while she seemed a little out of step with the correspondents, her segment on how police over-ticket poor communities — inspired by personal experience — was terrific “Daily Show” fare. Silverman, whose comedy chops are undeniable, gambled by toggling between being funny and responsible. Not an easy balance, but she mostly pulled it off.

While all the hosts leaned on their personal brands, some arguably overdid it: Kal Penn’s many, many, many jokes about having worked in the White House yielded diminishing returns (as did hisinterview with Biden, clearly a called-in favor).

 

President Biden is interviewed “Daily Show” guest host Kal Penn at the White House. (The Daily Show/Reuters)

It all begs a question: What do contemporary audiences want from a “Daily Show”? Is the goal impish irreverence? If so, Handler or Leguizamo probably deserve to host. Is it to better understand (and combat) the media’s dedication to stoking political rage? If so, the desk should be Silverman’s. Principled single-mindedness? Hughley’s the clear choice. Is it polish? Penn’s optimistic approach found him lobbing softballs at his fancy guests (which included Grover the Muppet).

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Or is what’s wanted now rather the opposite of polish — a faux-naive approach to politics, say, that could be downright refreshing in a moment saturated with half-informed, Twitter-crazed know-it-alls? If so, Jones wins.

Is the point robust debate? Ex-Senator Al Franken courted tension by inviting his former friend Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) to debate Trump’s legacy on the show. The results were mixed.

Most of these performances were so surprisingly solid that a part of me wishes the show could stick to temporary hosts; an old formula can’t help but be more interesting when you don’t know what you’re going to get, week to week.

That still wouldn’t overcome the show’s main obstacle: that political comedy right now consists largely of thinly veiled affirmations, scoldings and sermons. It’s the kind of humor that in lieu of genuine laughs elicits the response some comics call “clapter”: whoops, hollers and applause for expressing the “correct” sentiments (or the appropriate insults).

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It’s better when a comic finds a new way to talk about old outrage. If what’s wanted is someone equipped to compete for prominence on the social media battlefields while deriding our internet-addled consumption habits (and the corporate entities profiting off American fury), someone who can work up a good head of steam over political misbehavior and channel it into challenging ideological enemies, and someone who can usually find a comparatively fresh angle, the answer is probably Minhaj.

He’s a young grumpy old man, an anti-tech guy whose show streamed on Netflix(he deleted his Twitter account on the air) and a “Daily Show” alum who dedicated his first day as host to roasting (and being roasted by) correspondent Ronny Chieng.

His coverage of pump-and-dump grifters proves he can tell a complicated story simply and well, milking every beat. He’s smart, quick and has a frightening amount of energy.

While “The Daily Show” faces some formidable challenges, Minhaj has occupied impossible positions before.

As he tells Chieng (who objects to having to cover a story about Asians), he was always the show’s one Muslim guy on the hook to cover subway bombings and the like while remaining palatable to a mass audience. It’s a searing indictment of the show he wants to host — exactly the shake-up “The Daily Show” needs.

“So yeah,” he says vengefully to Chieng. “The Asian guy has to do the Asian story. And it has to be funny, it has to be deep, and it has to be deemed comedically acceptable by Vulture.com.

 

Lili Loofbourow is the television critic for The Washington Post. She previously worked at Slate, where she wrote about news, politics, comedy, gender and internet culture. Twitter

 

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[Nivek 16,924]

Um, if the WAPO couldn't tell from the very first episode that Minhaj should get the job then I don't know what to say.  He was an order of magnitude better than anyone else.   

[GoPokes83 2,240]

The fact that they’re just going to throw some random “celebrity” in as the show’s host and keep it going just shows how interchangeable it now is with any other late night show. It’s dropped several rungs under Noah, may be time to let it die. But what would Comedy Central replace it with, more The Office reruns?

[YGIFS 19,450]

I don't think I ever watched a Trevor Noah episode until I saw him at the White House Correspondence Dinner and cracked up.  So I gave the show a few episodes, and meh.  I hadn't missed anything since Stewart left.  Impossible shoes to fill, but I think Noah could be taken or left.  

I still youtube individual field reports from Klepper and Roy Wood, Jr.  Those guys are never not hilarious to me.  And thought provoking, too. 

I watched a couple of the guest hosted ones with John Leguizamo last week.  didn't realize he had such comedic chops, though it was mostly him yelling about politics.  But all that aside, he's 62 years old.  Dude looks 42.  Gotta give 'em that.  

Stewart has an amazing rebirth since leaving the show and hanging on the sidelines for a bit.  Obviously, I don't agree with all his politics, but the guy comes to his interviews more prepared, and is quicker on his feet when a guest attempts to repivot to avoid a topic, better than any traditional journalist I can think of.  That's not nothing.  I suspect Noah, who I'm sure is a nice guy in real life, may suffer the same fate as another daily show host-Craig Kilborn and fade into relative obscurity.  

[66BUFF 2,562]

On 4/3/2023 at 10:20 AM, YGIFS said:

I don't think I ever watched a Trevor Noah episode until I saw him at the White House Correspondence Dinner and cracked up.  So I gave the show a few episodes, and meh.  I hadn't missed anything since Stewart left.  Impossible shoes to fill, but I think Noah could be taken or left.  

I still youtube individual field reports from Klepper and Roy Wood, Jr.  Those guys are never not hilarious to me.  And thought provoking, too. 

I watched a couple of the guest hosted ones with John Leguizamo last week.  didn't realize he had such comedic chops, though it was mostly him yelling about politics.  But all that aside, he's 62 years old.  Dude looks 42.  Gotta give 'em that.  

Stewart has an amazing rebirth since leaving the show and hanging on the sidelines for a bit.  Obviously, I don't agree with all his politics, but the guy comes to his interviews more prepared, and is quicker on his feet when a guest attempts to repivot to avoid a topic, better than any traditional journalist I can think of.  That's not nothing.  I suspect Noah, who I'm sure is a nice guy in real life, may suffer the same fate as another daily show host-Craig Kilborn and fade into relative obscurity.  

[UpperWestside 6,163]

I got a ticket a couple of weeks ago and got there early since I get off work earlier on Tuesday. I was the 3rd person in line so I got to sit in the 2nd row and man am I glad I made it to this show with who showed up and did a skit. The warm-up comedian called on me because I let my hair down after work and he decided to cal me Jesus. I played along and enjoyed it.  
 

Klepper was on tonight as well. Love that guy. I am pulling for Roy Wood Jr. to get the job full-time. I chose this week because he’s hosting and when I served him right before Christmas I told him I would come out and watch him live the first chance I had to. He did not disappoint.

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10 hours ago, 66BUFF said:

[TankedBevo 2,482]

And that was the last time anyone saw Craig Kilborn

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11,669]

My wife surprised me with tickets. He’s coming to Austin in January.  Great. 

[UpperWestside 6,163]

7 hours ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

My wife surprised me with tickets. He’s coming to Austin in January.  Great. 

People can say what they want about his tenure on The Daily Show, but his autobiography was a great read. The parts about his mother are both heartbreaking, but awesome as well.

[WhatTheBuck 28,778]

13 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

People can say what they want about his tenure on The Daily Show, but his autobiography was a great read. The parts about his mother are both heartbreaking, but awesome as well.

That’s what I’m looking for in a comedian. Heartbreak. 

[hayden_horn 11,362]

actually, the very best comedians are all heartbroken.

i never got the hate for trevor noah. most of the people who hated him seemed to hate stewart too? i dunno, it's a weird dynamic. you can never take over from a master of his craft without some hate. but he did a good job, made it his own, and i just don't get the hate. if you didn't like him, i dunno, don't watch? very confusing.

[Longhornsnus 200]

1 hour ago, hayden_horn said:

actually, the very best comedians are all heartbroken.

i never got the hate for trevor noah. most of the people who hated him seemed to hate stewart too? i dunno, it's a weird dynamic. you can never take over from a master of his craft without some hate. but he did a good job, made it his own, and i just don't get the hate. if you didn't like him, i dunno, don't watch? very confusing.

I mean, that is exactly what happened.

People can complain about the restaurant on Yelp and not go as often or go back again. People complaining about Trevor Noah likely are the ones who stopped watching. Apparently, according to this link (https://www.thewrap.com/gutfeld-tops-late-night-total-viewers-august-ratings/) Noah's first show after being handed the baton was equivalent in viewership numbers to Stewarts last, and then:

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"By August of [that] year, The Daily Show averaged just 383,000 viewers, a 65% drop from its [previous year] ratings and a far lower figure than any network late-night programs, according to Nielsen ratings..."

 

[Longhornsnus 200]

That said, this was actually a really great listen and I think Noah showcased and shined better in the 52 minutes here (w/Reid Hoffman) than any 52 minutes of his Daily Show tenure:

 

[WhatTheBuck 28,778]

3 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

actually, the very best comedians are all heartbroken.

i never got the hate for trevor noah. most of the people who hated him seemed to hate stewart too? i dunno, it's a weird dynamic. you can never take over from a master of his craft without some hate. but he did a good job, made it his own, and i just don't get the hate. if you didn't like him, i dunno, don't watch? very confusing.

I don’t hate him. He’s just not funny. 

[UpperWestside 6,163]

4 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

actually, the very best comedians are all heartbroken.

i never got the hate for trevor noah. most of the people who hated him seemed to hate stewart too? i dunno, it's a weird dynamic. you can never take over from a master of his craft without some hate. but he did a good job, made it his own, and i just don't get the hate. if you didn't like him, i dunno, don't watch? very confusing.

Absolutely true. They are human beings just like us, but they excel in turning heartbreak into humor. Born A Crime is a great read mostly because it focuses on stories he tells about growing up in Apartheid and some of the things that happened to him.
 

The stories that stuck out were really funny. Crapping on the floor as a five or six year old (Just didn’t want to walk outside to use the facilities) and his mother bringing everyone from church over to pray for this evil omen as well as the Hitler story about a performance he did as a DJ. Watching him piece together his existence from childhood to becoming a comedian is pretty cool. 

[UpperWestside 6,163]

26 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

I don’t hate him. He’s just not funny. 

To you he is not and that’s fine. 

[WhatTheBuck 28,778]

41 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

To you he is not and that’s fine. 

Maybe he needed more heartbreak in his life. 

[UpperWestside 6,163]

1 minute ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Maybe he needed more heartbreak in his life. 

Okay, cool.

[GoPokes83 2,240]

I kind of felt the fact he was British and mocking Americans every night was one of the main reasons he was resented. Same thing happened with Piers Morgan. We can make fun of us, not you.

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Yeah, I think there's an element of truth to that.  But there are also glaring examples of the opposite---Eddie Izzard, Jim Jeffries, Flight of the Conchords, and Ricky Gervais relentlessly, but very cleverly, shove our faces into the mirror to look at the bumbling cauldron of stupidity this country now prides itself on being.  But perhaps they're so smart in doing it, they go over the heads of the people who would likely be most resentful of it in the first place.  But yeah, most foreign comics who have a "America is so this and that..." as a hook don't usually succeed.  We certainly have the ability to laugh at ourselves, and can revel in others insulting us too.....but it can't be your 'prop' or your 'gag'...it's gotta be more subtle, more erudite, and cunningly artful.  

There's a reason why Larry the Cable Guy's 7 minutes on Western Europe bombs every single fucking time he tries it.  Because the packaging is, "let me tell you something about America you folks over here may not appreciate..."  The joke is dead before he's got the setup out of his goofy ass mouth.  

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[YChang 3,443]

1 hour ago, GoPokes83 said:

I kind of felt the fact he was British and mocking Americans every night was one of the main reasons he was resented. Same thing happened with Piers Morgan. We can make fun of us, not you.

South African… and him poking fun of his new home is a big part of why I liked Noah on his show

[Wilcox Cummingtonite 2,944]

3 hours ago, GoPokes83 said:

I kind of felt the fact he was British and mocking Americans every night was one of the main reasons he was resented. Same thing happened with Piers Morgan. We can make fun of us, not you.

[YGIFS 19,450]

I didn't realize there were college educated adults in this country that couldn't tell the difference between a British accent and a South African one.  

That's to say, I have a hard time to this day discerning between Aussie and Kiwi accents.  And I know a lot of Aussie ex-pats in Austin.  But I think I've only ever met two Kiwis, an Uber driver and Jemaine Clement.  But they're very close together geographically, separated only by the narrow Tasman Sea.  Great Britain and South Africa are 8000 miles apart.  That's akin to thinking people from Tijuana and Tierra del Fuego are the same because they both speak Spanish, 7000 miles apart from one another.  Being South African, not British, is like half of Noah's schtick.  I don't watch his show, but even I picked up on that. 

Anyway, more Jordan Klepper and Roy Wood, Jr. PLEASE!  And they need to bring on the Good Liars as their next field correspondents.  If you don't know them, you're welcome for the work rabbit hole you're about to go down.  If you like Klepper/Wood, you're gonna love these guys. 

[Nivek 16,924]

Hassan should have the job, with Desi and Jordan as a stand in. Roy and Ronnie need to star in a buddy cop comedy. Ronnie is the best at playing off others and his bit with Hassan was fantastic.

Hassan brings the the sharp “don’t you dare fucking lie to me” edge that is missing in media. Desi and Jordan just point out the bullshit and move on, Hassan will stay on that point until it is clear the janitor understands the guest was lying.

I love how some think it was because we don’t like foreigners making fun of us, I guess John Oliver doesn’t register.

[YGIFS 19,450]

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Good points.  Especially about Oliver.  Being from Rhodesia, he holds up a mirror to America that some here resent, and understandably so.  

[HookEm 2,467]

If someone is actually funny we don't care where they are from.  Ricky Gervais is hysterical and is an equal opportunity offender.  John Oliver is not nearly as funny, but is clever enough that he keeps my attention despite being overly condescending.  Trevor Noah isn't very funny and isn't very clever.  He bores me.  So when he makes fun I just find myself saying "fuck off" in my head.  

[Braff Zacklin 13,561]

On 7/10/2023 at 10:58 AM, hayden_horn said:

i never got the hate for trevor noah. most of the people who hated him seemed to hate stewart too? i dunno, it's a weird dynamic. you can never take over from a master of his craft without some hate. but he did a good job, made it his own, and i just don't get the hate. if you didn't like him, i dunno, don't watch? very confusing.

No hate for Noah or Stewart whatsoever.

I've always found Jon hilarious yet cogent, and I really wanted to like Trevor when he got TDS job. Unfortunately, his version of the show quickly degenerated into a series of hammy impersonations. Even the teasers that would come on advertising that night's episode were groanworthy. Noah's writings and standup specials are much better, but for whatever reason, that talent didn't translate to TDS format at all.

Maybe that's a testament to how good Jon Stewart and his co-players and writers during that era were.

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I didn't realize there were college educated adults in this country that couldn't tell the difference between a British accent and a South African one.  
That's to say, I have a hard time to this day discerning between Aussie and Kiwi accents.  And I know a lot of Aussie ex-pats in Austin.  But I think I've only ever met two Kiwis, an Uber driver and Jemaine Clement.  But they're very close together geographically, separated only by the narrow Tasman Sea.  Great Britain and South Africa are 8000 miles apart.  That's akin to thinking people from Tijuana and Tierra del Fuego are the same because they both speak Spanish, 7000 miles apart from one another.  Being South African, not British, is like half of Noah's schtick.  I don't watch his show, but even I picked up on that. 
Anyway, more Jordan Klepper and Roy Wood, Jr. PLEASE!  And they need to bring on the Good Liars as their next field correspondents.  If you don't know them, you're welcome for the work rabbit hole you're about to go down.  If you like Klepper/Wood, you're gonna love these guys. 

I’m pretty good at telling Lampassas accents from Amarillo, but that’s about as good as I can get. Once you get away from South Asia and Australia /NZ many of the Commonwealth accents seem very similar to me. Except Canada, but fuck those guys!

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Aren't they still doing weekly guest hosting for pretty much every comedian and comedian-adjacent personality on television?

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4 hours ago, BeardIP said:

As mid as Trevor Noah was, he was George Carlin and Jon Stewart rolled into one compared to this new guy hosting TDS. Completely jumped the shark by being hosted by an unfunny guy with very bad delivery named Charlamagne the god.

CTG hosts the daily show? CTG is a fucking weirdo, loser ass radio host. how the hell did he get the job?

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3 hours ago, aggie08 said:

Aren't they still doing weekly guest hosting for pretty much every comedian and comedian-adjacent personality on television?

They are rolling through guest hosts while looking for a replacement.

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from john stewart, to trevor noah, to this:

perhaps the producers are giving us a real life, cutting critique on the fall of modern society? 

 

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48 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

perhaps the producers are giving us a real life, cutting critique on the fall of modern society? 

Performance art is rarely appreciated in it’s time. 

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On 7/9/2023 at 2:39 PM, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

My wife surprised me with tickets. He’s coming to Austin in January.  Great. 

Turns out we are going to out of town this weekend.  Oh No!  What about our tickets? She says she’ll try to get rid of them and buy us some for another day. “…but they’re more expensive now.” So I’ll be paying double for a show I actively don’t want to see.  That was enough for me to step in. “You know sweetie, let’s just call those tickets a loss and have a good date night somewhere else instead.”

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On 1/24/2024 at 11:36 AM, henrygandorf said:

 

PSA: His first show back is tonight.

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Will he have anything to talk about?