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Got to see Oliver do stand-up on New Year's Eve. It was pretty great to see him bring his style of comedy in a completely different format. He also had quite a few jokes stocked specifically for Boston/New England, which gave it extra charm. The guy has a really entertaining perspective on the USA, too. His jokes all have the underlying idea that the only unifying trait that Americans share is being defiant and spiteful, which explains a lot about the jokes he writes.
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inthesto posted:Got to see Oliver do stand-up on New Year's Eve. It was pretty great to see him bring his style of comedy in a completely different format. He also had quite a few jokes stocked specifically for Boston/New England, which gave it extra charm. He loves his jet skis. He also had an amazing burn on Bill Cosby.
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bobkatt013 posted:He loves his jet skis. He also had an amazing burn on Bill Cosby. What was the Cosby burn? Kinda wondering if it can top the one he dropped on The Bugle when talking about having learned about seals raping penguins. "Seals are like Bill Cosby, they're universally loved and naturally funny but that has covered up some absolutely unforgivable behavior in the past."
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Season 2 Promo I'm hyped! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1EtSBxm0S4
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So this comes back on Sunday. A very pleasant surprise.
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Scorpion 3-2 posted:Season 2 Promo I'm hyped! So basically the same.... HOORAH!  Although I dunno the crime fighting pony seems like it could of been cool
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Kibayasu posted:He called Boondock Saints a terrible movie, just lost a few thousand viewers. Boondock Saints is an incredibly inept and bad film that really only appeals to people who don't know better. Everything it tries to do and be was done better before and after it. It tries (and hugely fails) so hard that most of the runtime induces a gigantic cringe for me. It really doesn't help that it's unlike-ably juvenile either. I understand that people like it and I think I even understand why, but it makes me sad.
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Boondock Saints is on the long list of movies I can never rewatch as an adult because it's probably as bad as everyone says.
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You are watching it wrong be drunk and flip off your brain instant classic. Also Willem Dafoe is fantastic in anything he does.
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InfiniteZero posted:Boondock Saints is an incredibly inept and bad film that really only appeals to people who don't know better. Everything it tries to do and be was done better before and after it. It tries (and hugely fails) so hard that most of the runtime induces a gigantic cringe for me. It really doesn't help that it's unlike-ably juvenile either. Boondock Saints was loving fantastic, when I was a college freshman.
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Cerepol posted:You are watching it wrong be drunk and flip off your brain instant classic. This actually supports John Oliver's point about the film. Also Dafoe couldn't save some of the working-actor poo poo he's been in, like XXX2 or even the Spider-Man films, (and Boondock Saints) but I agree with you that he's great.
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InfiniteZero posted:This actually supports John Oliver's point about the film. Never forget Speed 2: Cruise Control.
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The best part about Oliver, is that he thinks that his celebrity is one of the most patently ludicrous things imaginable.
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InfiniteZero posted:Boondock Saints is an incredibly inept and bad film that really only appeals to people who don't know better. Everything it tries to do and be was done better before and after it. It tries (and hugely fails) so hard that most of the runtime induces a gigantic cringe for me. It really doesn't help that it's unlike-ably juvenile either. You could always do them a favor by turning them onto a genuinely good film in the same vein like Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels.
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inthesto posted:Got to see Oliver do stand-up on New Year's Eve. It was pretty great to see him bring his style of comedy in a completely different format. He also had quite a few jokes stocked specifically for Boston/New England, which gave it extra charm. I saw him back in November, and he did this bit about weird things around the country. When told about a local, charming festival, he had to stop the show and google Frozen Dead Guy Days. The whole show was funny, but that was a standout moment for me.
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John Oliver is featured on the Bullseye podcast this week. I haven't listened yet I just saw that it popped up on my feed. Potentially an old interview or more likely John is going to be turning up on a lot of stuff this week.
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cool kids inc. posted:I saw him back in November, and he did this bit about weird things around the country. When told about a local, charming festival, he had to stop the show and google Frozen Dead Guy Days. The whole show was funny, but that was a standout moment for me. he brought that up on the bugle
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cool kids inc. posted:I saw him back in November, and he did this bit about weird things around the country. When told about a local, charming festival, he had to stop the show and google Frozen Dead Guy Days. The whole show was funny, but that was a standout moment for me. Yep he did the same in Boston. He had to look up pants off t ride.
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cool kids inc. posted:I saw him back in November, and he did this bit about weird things around the country. When told about a local, charming festival, he had to stop the show and google Frozen Dead Guy Days. The whole show was funny, but that was a standout moment for me. Is that the corpse that's frozen in dry ice somewhere in a Colorado cabin? A friend of mine wrote an article about that, and even turned it into a little temporary museum exhibit here in Amsterdam. A truly insane story. richardfun fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Feb 5, 2015 |
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He brought that up in the finishing show in New York, too. It was hilarious in conjunction with him shutting down the "Woo!"s in the audience that popped up with every place he named. "No, I am not taking that for Minneapolis. You know why." "If I didn't accept that reaction for Minneapolis, what the gently caress makes you think it's okay for Virginia?"
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I can't believe they only had one researcher last year.
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I watched the Miss America bit maybe 5 or 6 times now, and it's still amazing.
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Can this be seen live on HBOGO or do you need to wait a day again?
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That high school boyfriend joke was just perfect.
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Feb 9, 2015 05:12
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So was the PoliSci major joke. I'm a PoliSci major 
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DaveWoo posted:That entire segment about doctors and pharma reps was great, but now my mom is using it to argue that we shouldn't trust doctors when they talk about vaccinations, either Yeah, I don't want to be the guy who says "This is the worst time to do this story," because there's always going to be a reason to not do a story, and it never feels good to censor yourself because of what crazy people might think. But doing a story about doctors getting payoffs from Big Pharma at a time when anti-vaxxers are looking for any reason to double down on their beliefs? Gotta admit, tasted a little sour going down.
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"If something is a joke on Scrubs, you know it's common knowledge." Amazing. Welcome back, John.
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My parents are no longer practicing doctors, so I can't use the Open Payments website to see their shady kickbacks. I did look at the info of a family friend who's a doctor and she's received a whopping $105 for nine transactions, all involving food and beverage. So she's doing things right, at least.
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devoir posted:https://www.theverge.com/2015/2/4/7976983/john-oliver-interview-best-of-last-week-tonight I'm not sure if this was common knowledge before this article, but 35 shows this year? wow, that's completely brilliant. what was it, like a 12 show run last year?
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dr_rat posted:I'm not sure if this was common knowledge before this article, but 35 shows this year? wow, that's completely brilliant. what was it, like a 12 show run last year? He did 24 episodes last year, starting from the last week of April through the beginning of November. Thank goodness this is back, that was a painful 3 month break.
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DivisionPost posted:But doing a story about doctors getting payoffs from Big Pharma at a time when anti-vaxxers are looking for any reason to double down on their beliefs? Gotta admit, tasted a little sour going down. PhRMA doesn't give two shits about vaccines because they're the least profitable and most heavily regulated part of the drug industry. One boner or cholesterol pill can account for twice as much revenue as an entire vaccine division.
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DivisionPost posted:Yeah, I don't want to be the guy who says "This is the worst time to do this story," because there's always going to be a reason to not do a story, and it never feels good to censor yourself because of what crazy people might think. But doing a story about doctors getting payoffs from Big Pharma at a time when anti-vaxxers are looking for any reason to double down on their beliefs? Gotta admit, tasted a little sour going down. If you're looking for more on this sort of thing, Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre is an excellent read: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Pharma-companies-mislead-patients/dp/0007350740
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Toona the Cat posted:So was the PoliSci major joke. Graduated last June, moved back in with my parents last September. Still laughed though
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I'm a creative writing major; the only people I can make fun of are philosophy students.
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Welp looks like John Oliver managed to break http://www.openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/ . The site is now down.
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Try this link: http://www.cms.gov/openpayments/ I got to that one just now, but I definitely couldn't get to it at 11:30PM last night.
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