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The dead silence and John speaking to us from a white void is deeply unsettling.
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It was a weird episode. I think it was meant to be. They wanted you focused on the information which was effective. I assume this is going to be on Youtube in its entirety tomorrow.
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Djarum posted:It was a weird episode. I think it was meant to be. They wanted you focused on the information which was effective. It already is, and it's so drat weird. It also feels so much more personal, which multiplies the weirdness.
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Episode is up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_066dEkycr4
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Jamesman posted:The dead silence and John speaking to us from a white void is deeply unsettling.
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Mar 16, 2020 10:33
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Yeah, John sticking to his usual delivery without audience responses was a bizarre viewing experience
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Mar 16, 2020 11:09
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Never thought most of the jokes on Last Week was very good but without an audience it's even worse
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I wonder if John even wants to do another show under these circumstances. This was deeply unsettling.
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Mar 16, 2020 12:47
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Kamrat posted:Never thought most of the jokes on Last Week was very good but without an audience it's even worse Yea, it felt really stilted and awkward any time he made a joke, gave a half second beat to let it land and then continued on as before. It works with an audience, because he can bounce off their energy and if a joke makes them laugh, he can react to it and maybe improv a tiny bit based on that reaction. Here, it's just nothing.
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Oliver, Meyers, and Colbert need to throw money at the Some More News guy to coach them on being funny without a live audience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKDgE1rcEoA
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Mar 16, 2020 13:21
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I don't think Oliver is particularly funny but whoa man neither is that fuckin guy
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Mar 16, 2020 13:43
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That was unsettlingly 'apocalypse in progress' poo poo. I'm really curious to see what sort of generational scars this leaves, like how my grandpa, who grew up during the depression, simply never threw away food.
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TheCenturion posted:That was unsettlingly 'apocalypse in progress' poo poo. If nothing else we'll have the cleanest hands and arseholes ever known to man.
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It's emblematic to this entire past decade that the thing people are most concerned about is the quality of the stuff they wipe their asses with.
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Hakkesshu posted:I don't think Oliver is particularly funny but whoa man neither is that fuckin guy I’ll update my logs, ty
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The whole telling Geraldo to kill himself bit made me uncomfortable. he's a piece of poo poo, of course, but making one of those goes-on-too-long jokes about urging a person to die was a little much. maybe the messed up format exaggerated it.
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Crusty Nutsack posted:The whole telling Geraldo to kill himself bit made me uncomfortable. he's a piece of poo poo, of course, but making one of those goes-on-too-long jokes about urging a person to die was a little much. maybe the messed up format exaggerated it. It is physically impossible to kill yourself by voluntarily cutting off your air supply using your own body, whether by holding your breath, choking yourself with your hands etc. You'll just pass out, and then stop doing whatever it was that was inhibiting your ability to breathe, before starting to breathe as normal again. All he was encouraging Geraldo to do was pass out. I'm not sure if that was the intent of course, but given Oliver's general disposition, I'd prefer to believe it was.
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Mar 16, 2020 21:38
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tsob posted:It is physically impossible to kill yourself by voluntarily cutting off your air supply using your own body, whether by holding your breath, choking yourself with your hands etc. You'll just pass out, and then stop doing whatever it was that was inhibiting your ability to breathe, before starting to breathe as normal again. All he was encouraging Geraldo to do was pass out. I'm not sure if that was the intent of course, but given Oliver's general disposition, I'd prefer to believe it was. Right but... it was just extra squidgy for some reason. Maybe rooting for someone to cut off their own oxygen as a joke falls a little flatter when there's no audience to laugh and lighten the mood
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Yeah, the whole thing was just off because the show is written and delivered for an audience reaction and without that the timing and pacing of jokes feel odd and drawn out and the absence of laughter subconsciously makes you react like when a crowd is silent. But like, it wouldn't have made a lot of sense to work harder and longer hours to adjust for 1 show that they were just doing to say "be smart" so like lets not read into and do that "I Took the Laugh Track Out to Prove Its Not Funny" thing.
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STAC Goat posted:Yeah, the whole thing was just off because the show is written and delivered for an audience reaction and without that the timing and pacing of jokes feel odd and drawn out and the absence of laughter subconsciously makes you react like when a crowd is silent. But like, it wouldn't have made a lot of sense to work harder and longer hours to adjust for 1 show that they were just doing to say "be smart" so like lets not read into and do that "I Took the Laugh Track Out to Prove Its Not Funny" thing. what? I don't think anyone's trying to prove the show's not funny or whatever... sorry for commenting.
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That wasn't really directed at you. Sorry about that. Its just that the "off timing for jokes" thing was kind of the answer to both things.
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Tiggum posted:On the plus side, I'm curious to see if, as I've always suspected, this show would be better without a live audience. Turns out you were wrong
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It might be better without a live studio audience if it was written and constructed that way entirely. But this show was one that was written with the intention of a live audience but then filmed without one. This is definitely a lower quality product, but I'm sure if you told the creators of the show a month in advance that they had to do one without an audience they would script it differently, pace it differently, shoot it differently, edit it differently and the product would be as good as normal.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Turns out you were wrong
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I thought the bit where he asked Geraldo to hold his breath came off as a bit serial killer-y, and both me and the life partner adored it.
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https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/last-week-tonight-john-oliver-and-real-time-bill-maher-hbo-coronavirus-1203544022/ LWT is back this Sunday, filmed from John's house in quarantine. There better be PJs involved.
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We know there won't be a laugh track because he's talked about how his wife does not find him funny.
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Oddly enough I think I prefer TDS without an audience. It's still not great mind you but it's somehow better
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Hopefully it goes OK. Seth Meyers has been doing his closer look segments from home for youtube and it's been pretty solid, hopefully they adjust to the home format well and don't put in as many audience laugh breaks
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Conan and Colbert were loving golden when they had no audience or staff.
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Lurdiak posted:Conan and Colbert were loving golden when they had no audience or staff. That was visibly Conan’s strong suit even before the Writers Strike. John just seems too married to his format to deviate from it at all.
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Baronash posted:That was visibly Conan’s strong suit even before the Writers Strike. John just seems too married to his format to deviate from it at all. Steven. But yes. He's fallen a long way since he left Comedy Central.
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Oh my. The last segment. As soon as he started talking I knew immediately what he was going to show.
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Game of Thrones Season 8 (2019)
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