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Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine

Fresh Like Zafo posted:

How dare you say I take money.
This 50 times in a row. Literally. That's what's literally on a cable news network. And I thought America's media was already as bad as things could get.

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Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine

Thurm posted:

It seemed like John, Andy and gently caress You Chris all needed the week off. John had his new show, Andy was in Luxembourg and Chris had a baby.

Sounds like Chris has been getting some 'gently caress you' action on the side. Am I right? (I am.)

By the way, there's some content that wasn't on the first episode on the Last Week Tonight YouTube page, including a bit on Obama with the Asimo robot.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
We should feel sorry for Kentuckyans: They're responsible for Mitch McConnell ever being in the Senate. I, frankly, don't understand how anyone can live with that moral burden for any length of time. Is it the Oxy that helps?

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
Also, just a very basic point about coal: Mining it is literally one of the worst jobs a human being can still suffer in America. The only reason why women don't work the mines is that prostitution is less dangerous. PART of the cancer rates might have something to do with that all. gently caress coal.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine

On the right, a convicted pedophile in a fantastic film. On the left, someone whose crimes in reality outnumber the person on the right. In both number and victim count. (It's funny because it's true.)

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine

Vincent posted:

Is the Vice show good?

The show's good, and the online component is so insane in how wide its coverage goes that you absolutely need to watch some of it. Ukraine coverage (actually the best on-the-ground coverage of the situation I've seen, period) and Colombians who believe that penetrating donkeys makes their penis larger? Same site.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
John ALSO had experience hosting The Daily Show for that bunch of time, although he went into that as effectively as he did LWT as well. He's just a really great performer.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
Andy delivering his son is hilarious, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmawrm801ng

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
Hey does anyone else recognize the voice from the Commonwealth Games commercial they played last night? I'm pretty sure it was Richard Madden (Robb Stark) doing the VO, but can't confirm.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
gently caress you, Giuseppe! Also, for anyone who loves this show and SOMEHOW doesn't listen to The Bugle, new episode FINALLY happened, after a long, Last Week Tonight-incited hiatus. https://soundcloud.com/the-bugle/bugle-273-season-2

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
I came to quote one line: "Swallow the Yellow Dick's Load"

UltimoDragonQuest posted:

It's like The Daily Show if somebody gave a poo poo.
Larry Wilmore's show might have a panel. I'm surprised nobody has tried a weekly Tough Crowd knockoff in the last 10 years. It's a really good format as long as you don't burn it out.

gently caress burning it out. I remember hating Tough Crowd half the time and loving it the other half. Now that I know the stand-up careers of the various people involved, I could probably watch all of them and love it. Especially if they brought Patrice back from the dead for it.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine

SlothfulCobra posted:

I kind of miss the days of the daily show when they would occasionally bring up some goofy story from a small town somewhere about how they're trying to make a robot to tase hobos or something.

R.O.T.O.R. becoming a reality? Hell yeah, lovely local US police departments with R&D divisions!

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
That segment about drones was literally the only report they could find about the ones specified, and it was on Iran's English-speaking news channel. That's how low drone strikes have fallen in the American mind is that A LOT OF THEM don't even get in the news, period.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
They didn't even have to bring up her love for an imprisoned serial killer.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
EIN!! Rand actually sounds more like a name for fitting in with the Germans than Americans.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
You know the ONE quote from Jeff Goldblum's long and illustrious career I would've loved for him to, with the context being as it is, reprise? GODDAMN RICH oval office! I KILL RICH CUNTS!

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
Look at the news from yesterday. It's a good thing to not get any news.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
"This is my The Room Room, where I watch The Room." Hahahahahaha

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
Haha, I had to check who played Jeff in the costume was. Noel MacNeal, turns out! :credits:

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine

gently caress yeah. Color me unsurprised, though-- the show is a loving massive hit, critically and otherwise. HBO would be foolish to not lock down John with the TDS change-over coming up in the future. Imagine if he jumped ship back to TDS after season 2? It'd be a coup.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
And the Oxy drug trade, since Florida is, or at least was, one of the last states to be so loving ignorant and incompetent that they won't track prescription drug purchases.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
So, uh, was there a new episode tonight?

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
Hot ostrich sex was the best part of any show in a long time.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
Statehood might be over-reaching. Why isn't DC a district of one of the states it borders?

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
An hour-long LWT would be great, but I also want to see VICE join it. HBO has two of the best news shows in the US right now.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
Not being a piece of poo poo is one of the reasons to support Bernie. I doubt he watches the show, he just has the right opinions in general.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
Everyone knows about the Saddam-Detroit thing if they've been on Reddit before. It comes up as a TIL practically weekly.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
Dennis Miller was loving awesome pre-9/11. He's a horrible hack now, but check out Dennis Miller Live from his HBO days. He was loving great and hilarious then. I don't know if he knows that his conservative audience he's gunning for doesn't like big words, though.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
He didn't even birth the child on his bathroom floor? For shame, John!

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
Janice in Accounting jokes have gotten to be loving hilarious.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
Also, was the guy who appeared just before Seth Rogen Mike Birbiglia? I think it is.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
$5 says there's no new Bugle in the coming time between now and February. :(

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
"Continues to be stale..." Nice. Because this isn't one of the best things on TV right now.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine

IRQ posted:

Season 2 was a real slog because instead of trying to be funny it felt like the show started trying to play to the acclaim season 1 got for being journalism. I don't need a 20 minute jag on reason 42934723990 america is hosed up with a few pop culture references and yelling at Janet from accounting. I already know about it. I'm sure it's helpful for people who don't pay any attention to news otherwise but I'm tuning in for frozen gently caress lizards and trout cannons, not prison reform.

John Oliver isn't even a real journalism. That's right.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
Clarence Thomas would deserve one if he ever gave any indication of having two brain cells to rub together against some unwilling secretary.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
I still laugh each time I think of her because of Andy and John's title of the segment on her death: Maggie Thatcher: Death Catcher.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
There's nothing funnier in that segment on Hollywood whitewashing than the noting that Asian man Glenn from The Walking Dead was played by a white person in the TWD porno parody.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
I've been re-watching the show from the first episode, because why not, and god drat was the Stephen Hawking interview great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPV3D7f3bHY

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
Hey, it's Eugene Mirman! MIIIIIIIIR-MAAAAAAAAN! MAN OF THE SEAAAAAAAAAA!

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Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine
I watched almost all the Louis Theroux documentaries a long time ago and, on the 'exotic dangerous pets' one, I'm pretty sure he showed Joe Exotic at one point. At least, I think that's the same gay guy in a threesome relationship who had a tiger rescue.

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