|
pwn posted:Was the LGBT bit part of the main segment? yeah
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 06:42
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 28, 2024 23:13 |
|
|
Someone probably spent $100 to mail that massive bag of seed.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 06:49
|
|
|
pentyne posted:Someone probably spent $100 to mail that massive bag of seed. Or whatever the cost of seed + Amazon Prime so like not that much...
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 06:50
|
|
|
 Jet-ski
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 09:08
|
|
|
I'd like to own a trillion dollar note. Seems cool.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 09:33
|
|
|
Rand Paul: still full of poo poo.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 13:39
|
|
|
Echo Chamber posted:Rand Paul: always fill of poo poo. ftfy
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 13:53
|
|
|
Doctor Reynolds posted:I'd like to own a trillion dollar note. Seems cool. I'd wager it was someone else from here that sent that in.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 15:04
|
|
|
Good, two weeks off. Maybe that'll give John time to make the show less stale than a week-old loaf of bread. We need more stuff like the televangelism main story (whose payoff was almost as good as the Colbert Super PAC) and less preachy editorials with some funny moments thrown in so that we don't give in to the urge to shoot ourselves- or, at the very least, the desire to watch something else.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 17:47
|
|
|
Jamesman posted:I am pleased that whenever LWT reaches out to the presidential/party candidates, Bernie Sanders is always on the list of people that responds and is always giving the right answers. Dude probably watches the show or something. I'm honestly surprised Trump didn't respond in person as it seems the kind of thing he'd do.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 19:21
|
|
|
I heard trump thought he should be getting paid to be interviewed by cnn or to go to debates. Probably not showing up on LWT.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 22:13
|
|
|
Off for two weeks? You better record a new episode of The Bugle, you rat-faced bastard!!
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 23:21
|
|
|
IRQ posted:It's easy to say that when you only see megachurches and televangelists scamming people. Actual churches that try to practice what they preach often are doing a lot of good running food banks etc. I say this as a life-long atheist fwiw. Yeah, I'm inclined to agree. I work at a small homeless shelter on the weekends and we typically get huge religious groups making sandwiches, pizzas, pasta, etc every Saturday. Even as an agnostic atheist, I certainly can appreciate how many organized religious groups are actually able to come together an impact tons of people's lives. And they're typically people who don't brag about it either, which is why you only hear from the worst of all religious communities, the douchey ones asking you to pay for their second jet. They're not representative at all, they're just loud. I've met so many chill moderate muslims, christians, hindus, etc on weekends and our residents are pretty grateful for them as well. Our shelter probably wouldn't even have survived without the countless donations of food and money poured in from churches/temples/small businesses. 
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 23:41
|
|
|
Timett posted:I heard trump thought he should be getting paid to be interviewed by cnn or to go to debates. Probably not showing up on LWT. Trump for all his faults knows the internet and what kind of impact Oliver has. He more then likely wants a full 20 minutes. Also he better do the bugle
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2015 00:26
|
|
|
Or maybe Trump is smart enough to know that if he wants to be taken seriously as a candidate, he needs to avoid doing interviews on "comedy" shows.
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2015 00:55
|
|
|
Irish Joe posted:Or maybe Trump is smart enough to know that if he wants to be taken seriously as a candidate, he needs to avoid doing interviews on "comedy" shows.
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2015 00:58
|
|
|
JT Jag posted:Because everyone who went on the Daily Show was written off as unserious. If you're a fan of the Daily Show, you're obviously smart enough to know the difference in how the public perceives a career politician like Ted Cruz and an entertainer like Donald Trump, and the accompanying need for Trump to go to greater lengths than the other contenders to establish his credibility as a serious candidate.
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2015 01:06
|
|
|
JT Jag posted:Because everyone who went on the Daily Show was written off as unserious. Bernie Sanders, Obama, both Clintons, McCain, Rumsfeld, etc were all established politicians before going on the Daily Show. Nobody's going to take them lightly, and they'll easily become more appealing in a more casual environment. Donald Trump was just some rear end in a top hat hosting The Apprentice, someone who's done really nothing but make racist and misogynistic comments and actions his entire career. No democrat takes him seriously already, and if he went on LWT, he'd just be skewered. It makes no sense for him to even consider going on comedy shows of this type, which are typically filled with more liberal viewers. If he doesn't want to look like a complete fool, avoiding comedy shows is his best option.
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2015 01:20
|
|
|
Y-Hat posted:Good, two weeks off. Maybe that'll give John time to make the show less stale than a week-old loaf of bread. We need more stuff like the televangelism main story. "This show is so stale. They need go back to the days like literally one week ago when it was fresh"
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2015 02:22
|
|
|
Ravane posted:Bernie Sanders, Obama, both Clintons, McCain, Rumsfeld, etc were all established politicians before going on the Daily Show. Nobody's going to take them lightly, and they'll easily become more appealing in a more casual environment. Donald Trump was just some rear end in a top hat hosting The Apprentice, someone who's done really nothing but make racist and misogynistic comments and actions his entire career. No democrat takes him seriously already, and if he went on LWT, he'd just be skewered. It makes no sense for him to even consider going on comedy shows of this type, which are typically filled with more liberal viewers. Funny how arguments actually make sense when they come from someone other than Irish Joe.
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2015 20:21
|
|
|
MizPiz posted:Funny how arguments actually make sense when they come from someone other than Irish Joe. Whats it like to care so much about forum politics you actually can't understand that people you dont like for whatever reason can have knowledge that you don't?
|
|
#
?
Aug 26, 2015 03:19
|
|
|
I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who exists anyway, so it's not like it matters. You're all just a bunch of philosophical zombies!
|
|
#
?
Aug 26, 2015 03:51
|
|
|
Apparently if you mail them money you get this in return.   
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2015 04:10
|
|
|
John Oliver's lack of perspective disturbs me.
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2015 15:48
|
|
|
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a37484/john-oliver-cited-guam-decision/quote:You can now legitimately call John Oliver a popular political critic—that's because a real-life, Ninth Circuit judge is doing so, too. In her recent opinion on Paeste v. Guam (a class-action suit levied at Guam by its residents over a sketchy, arbitrary tax-refund program), Judge Marsha S. Berzon has cited Last Week Tonight's recent segment on U.S. territories. Oliver in March pointed out the disgusting hypocrisy behind a Supreme Court decision made more than 100 years ago (still unchanged) that has left U.S. territories without meaningful representation. Guam in particular, as noted by Oliver and Co., gives a quarter of its land and an eighth of its people to the U.S.; however, its residents still can't vote on certain monumental national issues (e.g. the commander-in-chief). In short, legally speaking, things can get muddy with Guam and the other territories because certain laws have not been updated. Part of the judicial ruling in mention. quote:We do note, however, that the so-called "Insular Cases," which established a less-than-complete application of the Constitution in some U.S. territories, has been the subject of extensive judicial, academic, and popular criticism. See, e.g., Juan Torruella, The Insular Cases: The Establishment of a Regime of Political Apartheid, 77 Rev. Jur. U.P.R. 1 (2008); Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: U.S. Territories, Youtube (Mar. 8, 2015), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CesHr99ezWE
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2015 20:05
|
|
|
pentyne posted:http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a37484/john-oliver-cited-guam-decision/ God bless the underpaid law clerks who actually write opinions. They got scammed into practicing law, but at least they can reference tv shows and call things pure applesauce.
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2015 20:32
|
|
|
Found out yesterday that LWT had a youtube page and then proceeded to watch all main segments published. drat, this is a good show. A question. Beside the main segment that gets uploaded on youtube, what other segments are there? In essence I'm asking whether it is a good idea to torrent the show or not.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2015 10:05
|
|
|
Dante80 posted:Found out yesterday that LWT had a youtube page and then proceeded to watch all main segments published. It's the best idea you could have, short of buying a subscription to HBO.  Seriously, the episodes are well laid out and paced, plenty of punchy comedy between serious points.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2015 10:11
|
|
|
I don't think I can get an HBO subscription here is Greece, so torrenting it is.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2015 10:26
|
|
|
I just got back from his first show in Sydney, Australia. That man knows his crowd, full of material about his shows he just did in Melbourne, including 10 minutes on Australia dipping our toe into Nazism two days ago before deciding it wasn't for us, so he's still drat fast without his writing team. Of course, poking fun at Melbourne went down solidly in Sydney. "Melbourne panicking about a Tram strike from 10am to 2pm ? That's not a strike, that's a long lunch" He then continued poking fun at various bits of Australia, (he did "Casually Racist" "Wagga Sheep Herding" and "British Transportees", which is about the only parts he reused]. But he was using that as a leadup because the night before he had been taken to dinner at Sydney's Custom's House . He said that was Sydney's version of the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool - something so insane that Australians just ignore it. I had front row center seats, and he actually pulled out his phone to show me (in reality the six people in my general area, but it was facing me as well) an email his office has just sent him for his church : A parcel has arrived with a 3 foot tall, exquisitely carved timber penis with a card something like "and here is my seed". (Also, he has what seems to be an old approx 4-inch Samsung or iPhone if you care) He walked off the stage, then walked back on and said "So, any questions" and did a fifteen minute question and answer session - The church has taken several thousand dollars before he left, and it's now "worryingly more". - All money goes to Médecins Sans Frontières, "or as they called it in America, Doctors without Borders." and a little sketch about the amount of donations MSF would have gotten if they kept the French name - "It's a round figure" - vs the English Translation vs Harrys Health Hamburger Shack."We'll have the middle one" - Strangely, other countries can mail money to him, just not the four US states mentioned. - His interview with John Howard as part of Gun Control in Australia almost ended at the first word - he said "G'Day" and John Howard threatened to end the interview there. He also said a flash of rage went across Howard's face at the "Whoop-de-loving-do" line, so he was in the room with him at the time - something I'd always wondered. - John Howard has a "worryingly large amount" of Donald Bradman memorabilia in his office.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2015 11:42
|
|
|
Did anyone ask if he was going to spare some time to record a loving Bugle?
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2015 12:19
|
|
|
Thurm posted:Did anyone ask if he was going to spare some time to record a loving Bugle? VV That seems to be true, yeah. And it's a shame. Woebin fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Aug 30, 2015 |
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2015 12:33
|
|
|
Woebin posted:Much as I love The Bugle, I think John may have outgrown it in the sense that he's now too famous and busy for it. Might as well just get used to Satirist For Hire: The Podcast (which I'm personally not against in the least). Except none of those are going up now either.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2015 14:52
|
|
|
Zaltsman on his own is a little too much for me. I prefer him having someone to balance his output if for not other reason than to curb the length of his insane metaphors.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2015 16:41
|
|
|
It's probably blasphemy but I absolutely could not stand Andy. I realize John liked having him to play off of but ..
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2015 18:04
|
|
|
Martytoof posted:It's probably blasphemy but I absolutely could not stand Andy. I realize John liked having him to play off of but .. You're not alone. i skip it when it's just Andy. I like him fine when they are both together, but Andy alone just grates on me.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2015 19:15
|
|
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACwenVzN2oU web exclusive for the week
|
|
#
?
Aug 31, 2015 04:37
|
|
|
I want that loving book.
|
|
#
?
Aug 31, 2015 06:23
|
|
|
Pyroxene Stigma posted:I want that loving book. I'm hoping we are getting inception'ed with a lie within a lie within a lie within a lie or however many you need to get it so that the book actually comes out next year. Daily Show had a book, Colbert had book, then they had multiple books, no reason why this can't be done.
|
|
#
?
Aug 31, 2015 06:25
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 28, 2024 23:13 |
|
|
Pyroxene Stigma posted:I want that loving book. I was picturing it, complete with illustrations, then John crushed my dreams.
|
|
#
?
Aug 31, 2015 06:26
|
|
