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Zero One posted:It feels exactly like The Daily Show. Which I'd be very happy with.
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raditts posted:What the gently caress was that even supposed to mean? I guess the real joke there is "McCain is senile as gently caress and lol you people wanted him to be president."
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Kristofenpheiffer posted:Is the FCC's connection still being throttled or did they work that out?
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ClydeUmney posted:As much as I love this show, the fact that they tweet out some of the big jokes and cameos as they happen on Twitter is a bit annoying - I always forget they do that and ruin some of the things for me before it plays out.
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richardfun posted:Well, that didn't take long. Must be people too old for Daily Show/John Oliver and too young for CNN/MSNBC.
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Narcissus1916 posted:Drones are not "war". In the american public mind they're thought of(perhaps wrongly) as assassinations. And it is goddamn disturbing to realize the government has NO idea who they are killing.
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comes along bort posted:Or accepting Social Security and Medicare when she became eligible for them. Her justification for it is pretty
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Y-Hat posted:Here's something to whet your appetite before the next new episode.
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Oct 19, 2014 06:58
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SlothfulCobra posted:Really this show is just what The Bugle would be with an actual research staff.
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With the midterms coming in 2 weeks, I thought of doing animal court for Citizens United, but it's 90 minutes long and I'm not sure there's much tolerance for that. Maybe for the announcement of the decision? Ugh.
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Grand Fromage posted:Nope. Afghan is the people, Afghani is the currency. The country is pronounced Ih-rahn, the adjective is pronounced Eye-rain-ian.
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I couldn't really come up with a good hashtag, which is unfortunate since a lot of people get their news that way: #YouDownWithDPP
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SurgicalOntologist posted:TED talks are stupid but not because the talks themselves are empty or contentless, but because of the philosophy they implicitly espouse: the "one clever trick" approach to solving the world's problems. That what we really need to solve XYZ is the right billionaire pet project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixgp9c_sGv4
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slomomofo posted:It's been a while now and who knows, maybe they've changed their approach, but I do know they were looking for general counsel attorneys using craigslist when they first opened their office in Austin.
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JohnSherman posted:This would be less of a problem if the IOC wasn't so deadset on the concept of the Olympic Village. Most developed countries have a lot of that required infrastructure already in place, just not all in one location. It's absurd to put world class facilities all in one city and expect people to make use of them.
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Mr. Fowl posted:John really does have too much money if he's buying time on Trinidadian television just because he can.
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OhYeah posted:They are completely different formats. They probably share a lot of the same viewers, but nonetheless, as far as talkshows go, they are about as different as you can get.
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hemophilia posted:Bill Maher sucks, he's been intolerable since forever unless you're a really specific kind of liberal, and even though I'm really far left, i'm not his kind of liberal, and I'd be happy if the world just moves on past him and his idiocy.
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socialsecurity posted:I love the term SJW because as soon as someone uses it as some sort of insult or whatever I instantly know how worthless their opinion is really cuts out a lot of guesswork.
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xcore posted:I always thought it was a cleanliness thing. Untrue?
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Comrade Fakename posted:So, basically, "queer" just means you're not one of the squares, right? It increasingly seems like queer has no actual, useful real-life meaning, but instead is just an identifier to claim that you're in with the cool kids.  Queer means not heterosexual. That's it. Period.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I too love Publix, and it's hard to explain my enthusiasm for a grocery store to people here. "It's like a not-poo poo version of Co-op!" doesn't really cut it.
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mik posted:I was at the taping and they filmed that whole bit twice, and the second time wasn't as funny as the first time - the back and forth between John and his "wife" was a lot funnier the first time, but it seems like the used the second go-round in the actual airing.
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bobkatt013 posted:The two of them ending might cause a split vote and John sneaks in.
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Y-Hat posted:There is no effort put into Last Week Tonight anymore. It's less like The Daily Show or Stephen Colbert, and more like Jimmy Fallon or Family Guy. Unlike Fallon or MacFarlene, John Oliver has talent, but he clearly isn't using it. I'm just glad that Trevor Noah made a positive impact to The Daily Show and Colbert is about as sharp as ever, because if it weren't for them, the landscape for this kind of show would be barren. But hey, at least he isn't mugging for the camera with funny faces like Jon Stewart did. You don't want to waste time that could be spent making a joke about Taylor Lautner, after all! 
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Nichael posted:Honestly, I've never found Last Week Tonight that funny. It's the straightest of the "fake news" shows, and it fills that niche extremely well. I'm not seeing at all how you think there's no effort put into it. The effort is there, but the majority of it seems to go into research, which is fine.
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LWT is basically a newsmagazine show, and we need that much more than comedy fake news satire. If you want laffs, there are plenty of other options.
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GutBomb posted:Yeah I don't know if anyone really sent in jizz. It could have just been a funny way to end a recurring bit. Wouldn't really call it a debacle.
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Propaganda Machine posted:Americans learn how to pronounce Trudeau itt
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IRQ posted:Stephen Harper obviously ate that kitten and I've hated him for years. 
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Astro Nut posted:So I'm a little confused - why is Fantasy Football illegal if it were gambling? Just because they didn't apply for a proper license (in which case, why don't they), or because its gambling on sports specifically? I apologise if that should seem obvious, but when my country has companies going by the name of 'Betfred', that the US companies should be playing sheepish is kind of... baffling. Gambling should be regulated, lest things turn into a Martin Scorsese film.
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I fall into a different category: Oliver is the only one drawing attention to important issues. He is co-opted by the journalism tag, even if that wasn't his original intent.
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Echo Chamber posted:I'm not against abolishing state governments and turning the United States of America into the United State of America. But that's not going to happen in my lifetime. Also, get rid of the U.S. Senate.
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Demiurge4 posted:If John Oliver is the one who takes down Donald Drumpf I might as well go buy lottery tickets because we live in a magical world 
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