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Mr. Funny Pants posted:That's not what I said. It has nothing to do with him being religious; Colbert teaches Sunday school for Christ's sake. If I got pissy about every media figure who was religious, I'd not have much to watch or hear. The issue is that his opinions are/were so loving dumb. I welcome intelligent opposing opinions. Stewart said poo poo I disagreed with regularly, but there was usually evidence that he had put thought into his opinion. The stuff in those tweets is sub-O'Reilly level. You're a grown man who lives in the age of the internet and you're mad someone didn't think a tweet through.
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Apr 4, 2015 18:44
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Tatum Girlparts posted:You're a grown man who lives in the age of the internet and you're mad someone didn't think a tweet through. Welcome to the new world.
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Apr 4, 2015 20:35
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:For the record (as if anyone cares), I don't think he should lose his job over any of this stuff. It's worrying to me because of what it might bode for the quality of the show. Don't be absurd, even if he earnestly believes that poo poo now it's not like he's suddenly going to use the Daily Show desk as an evangelical soapbox. I mean even when you're consider those, who the gently caress ever took Christopher Hitchens seriously? Also: IRQ posted:Yeah the tweets are profoundly dumb, but it's loving twitter, being dumb is basically all it does. Mr. Funny Pants posted:This! I don't give a crap that he's religious! Then why are you so "concerned" about these lovely posts from 4-5 years ago as opposed to his other lovely posts from 4-5 years ago? raditts fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Apr 4, 2015 |
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Apr 4, 2015 21:32
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raditts posted:Then why are you so "concerned" about these lovely posts from 4-5 years ago as opposed to his other lovely posts from 4-5 years ago? If you decided that being offended by his jokes is dumb, then yeah it's pretty hypocritical to suddenly have that reaction when you're the one being made fun of.
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Apr 4, 2015 22:43
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raditts posted:
I don't care about any of them. My position all along has been "yeah that was dumb, but it's twitter from years ago so who loving cares?" Maybe you confused me with someone else.
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Apr 5, 2015 00:14
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IRQ posted:I don't care about any of them. My position all along has been "yeah that was dumb, but it's twitter from years ago so who loving cares?" Maybe you confused me with someone else. I was just quoting you for the apt line about Twitter being dumb. Sorry for the confusion.
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Apr 5, 2015 03:16
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I just watched African American and I wasn't really impressed. It was basically "black guys do this but white guys do this" but instead off white guys it was "mixed race south African guy." The jokes just drag on too long too. He'll do an impression but do it so long it's no longer funny. I like the correspondent character he plays on the daily show. I hope it's more of that and less of his stand up persona. Craig Ferguson was pretty similar in that I found his stand up to be grating but loved the late late show.
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Apr 5, 2015 05:15
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Well, it looks like Larry won't be baby-birded. I guess I'm now hoping for a Wisconsin win to have a Knightly show instead of a spandex one.
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Apr 5, 2015 15:31
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GutBomb posted:The jokes just drag on too long too. He'll do an impression but do it so long it's no longer funny. Jon Stewart does the exact same thing, though?
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Apr 5, 2015 18:14
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GutBomb posted:I just watched African American and I wasn't really impressed. It was basically "black guys do this but white guys do this" but instead off white guys it was "mixed race south African guy." I watched it this morning as well, and I felt the same way, but then I took a step back and thought about it as compared to TDS. Jon Stewart also does a lot of impressions, and not as well as Noah did in that routine (all of Jon's eventually devolve into jewish grandmother). TDS also does a LOT of softball low hanging fruit jokes, which African American was absolutely rotten with. You can carry the comparisons out and really while the standup routine was bland and tired, what he was actually doing is very close to what TDS does on a regular basis. A 90 minute standup set is not a 21 minutes minus the ~7 minute interview nobody cares about tv show. With a writing team and the skeleton of skills that match up very well to TDS's Jon Stewart years a fairly mediocre standup special has made me think he could be a solid pick.
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Apr 5, 2015 20:22
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Jon Stewart does the exact same thing, though?
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Apr 6, 2015 00:24
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Y-Hat posted:No, Jon's style is "make funny faces or laugh at something for 30 seconds before making a joke" These things are not mutually exclusive.
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Apr 6, 2015 00:28
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Y-Hat posted:No, Jon's style is "make funny faces or laugh at something for 30 seconds before making a joke" Go to your bathroom. Face the mirror. Say 'Elena Kagan' three times. The ghost of Jon Stewart will appear behind you and continue saying "Kagan" in every thinkable and unthinkable modulation and intonation stereotypical jewish grandmothers have and will ever have come up with until your soul has withered away into the aether. You can repeat this with "Rob Blagoyevich", or - to go in a different direction - try anthing Mitch McConnell related. I think the only thing I'll never get tired of is his impression of Lindsey Graham and I don't know why.
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Apr 6, 2015 00:40
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If you can't laugh at Mitch McConnell / Cecil Turtle jokes then I don't know what to say to you.IRQ posted:I watched it this morning as well, and I felt the same way, but then I took a step back and thought about it as compared to TDS. Jon Stewart also does a lot of impressions, and not as well as Noah did in that routine (all of Jon's eventually devolve into jewish grandmother). Hey now, he's also got "Jersey tough guy."
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Apr 6, 2015 02:00
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raditts posted:Hey now, he's also got "Jersey tough guy." You are totally right, a-gabbagoo. Point is that Noah's knack for impersonations is a huge plus for his run at TDS.
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Apr 6, 2015 02:10
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I could care less about impressions. I really dug the part of the standup where he talked about having to "Trade up" to being black. Admittedly, the whole riff on the metric system was some low hanging fruit. Nowhere near as good as John Oliver's riff on america goofiness, which including a bit about an inflatable barbecue that is still one of the finest bits I've witnessed.
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Apr 6, 2015 02:43
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I guess singling out the impressions as what I thought went on too long wasn't exactly what I meant. He would just say the same poo poo over and over and I just didn't think it was FUNNY the first time he said it but he just kept going. I guess the difference is that I find Jon Stewart funny, even with his dumb impressions, giggling, and beating dead horses. And it's a good point that a 22 minute show with an interview and a correspondent bit will probably keep that stuff down to a tolerable level.
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Apr 6, 2015 02:51
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The Blagoyevich voice isn't Jewish Grandmother. It's Jerry Lewis/Professor Frink.
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Apr 6, 2015 04:59
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Steve Vader posted:The Blagoyevich voice isn't Jewish Grandmother. It's Jerry Lewis/Professor Frink. I never saw the Professor Frink comparison until now. Well played. For me, nothing matches Stewart's Queen Impression. I have no idea why that cracks me up so much.
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Apr 6, 2015 05:59
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Narcissus1916 posted:I could care less about impressions. I really dug the part of the standup where he talked about having to "Trade up" to being black. From what I've seen, one of Trevor's better bits was about Malibu. It involved a dumb American surfer girl, aids, chocolate, and it was all a set up for a joke about Jacob Zuma being Jacob Zuma. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NuKhW3sJsA Jacob Zuma was in a sex scandal with a girl who was HIV positive. When it came to light that he didn't use a condom, he was asked what he did to prevent contracting HIV. His response was that he took a shower. Also I learned that Zambia didn't have any escalators until 2013, which was pretty amazing.
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Apr 6, 2015 06:04
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I'm surprised that nobody's mentioning John Oliver's grilling of Edward loving Snowden. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M
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Apr 6, 2015 15:45
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Grouchio posted:I'm surprised that nobody's mentioning John Oliver's grilling of Edward loving Snowden. Well, they are. In the John Oliver thread.
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Apr 6, 2015 15:56
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Duzzy Funlop posted:I think the only thing I'll never get tired of is his impression of Lindsey Graham and I don't know why. The more people that treat him like McCain's Southern Belle the better.
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Apr 6, 2015 17:08
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What kind of loving rear end in a top hat do you have to be to drop a Godwin on this "religious freedom" business and not realize at all how stupid it makes you look. Also, this whole thing with the homophobic pizza place is like the story of the Racist Tree, if it ended with a bunch of racists stacking a wall of money around the tree at the end.
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Apr 7, 2015 04:16
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Did anybody else see the catastrophically bad and unconvincing SeaWorld commercial, trying to rebut the allegations that they treat their animals terribly?
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Apr 7, 2015 04:20
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Majorian posted:Did anybody else see the catastrophically bad and unconvincing SeaWorld commercial, trying to rebut the allegations that they treat their animals terribly? Yeah, I got a good laugh out of that flailing PR attempt. "They're just as happy and healthy in an 8x10 pool as in the wild! Honest, guys!"
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Apr 7, 2015 04:25
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raditts posted:What kind of loving rear end in a top hat do you have to be to drop a Godwin on this "religious freedom" business and not realize at all how stupid it makes you look. Hilariously this has been settled, even. A bakery not wanting to put an anti-gay message on a cake was just sided with in court, it's almost as if offensive messages are different than blanket hate for groups.
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Majorian posted:Did anybody else see the catastrophically bad and unconvincing SeaWorld commercial, trying to rebut the allegations that they treat their animals terribly? As soon as they said "Government studies show that our whales live just as long as in the wild" I burst out "BULL loving poo poo!!!!!!!" so I don't think the commercial had the intended effect.
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Apr 7, 2015 04:26
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Presidential Bees e; Spandex it is.
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Apr 7, 2015 04:32
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Guess we're getting Spandex :/ gently caress you, Duke.
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Apr 7, 2015 04:34
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They're brothers, Larry 
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Apr 7, 2015 04:46
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Mario Batali? That's an odd choice. Edit: He's doing okay though. Maxwell Lord fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Apr 7, 2015 |
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Apr 7, 2015 04:47
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Gotta give Nightly Show some credit here, it's really great that they cut to the core of the issue, it really is that people find dudes putting their dicks in other dudes butts icky. Don't cut these assholes any slack (uhhhh pun uhhhh not intended uhhhh)
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Apr 7, 2015 04:47
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I wonder why they only went with 3 people at the table this time along with Larry. Someone backed out at the last minute maybe?
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Apr 7, 2015 04:51
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berserker posted:I wonder why they only went with 3 people at the table this time along with Larry. Someone backed out at the last minute maybe? It feels like there's no token conservative which is helping.
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Apr 7, 2015 04:53
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berserker posted:I wonder why they only went with 3 people at the table this time along with Larry. Someone backed out at the last minute maybe? Batali needed a side of the table for himself.
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Apr 7, 2015 04:53
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berserker posted:I wonder why they only went with 3 people at the table this time along with Larry. Someone backed out at the last minute maybe? Hopefully it's some kind of retooling, the panel segment seemed a bit less worthless today. I feel like they should have figured that out the first time they had to bring out a staff member to fill out the panel though. Maxwell Lord posted:Mario Batali? That's an odd choice. He was probably in the neighborhood since he's a co-host of The Chew.
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Apr 7, 2015 04:55
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Maxwell Lord posted:It feels like there's no token conservative which is helping. Yeah I really hope that this is due to some conservative shill backing out due to realizing they'd look like a total rear end in a top hat for the entire conversation - if that's the case then the producers should be able to sense the positive reaction to how the episode plays out because of it. Also this whole pizza thing was pretty hilarious. Maybe it really is that defending lovely positions sucks the funny out of everything?
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Apr 7, 2015 05:00
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Maxwell Lord posted:It feels like there's no token conservative which is helping. Yeah, this was the most watchable episode I've seen in...a while. Maybe ever? It was odd that Batali had the best showing, by the way. I absolutely worship James Adomian, and while I was disappointed that he didn't get too many words in edgewise, I was genuinely impressed with Batali. He's a very smart, well-spoken dude, it would seem.
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The one thing I wouldn't mind seeing more of on the panels is people who I wouldn't expect to have political opinions to be on the show, such as Batali.
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