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I've had a wicked flu all week so I've been binging past episodes of the opposition in the background while I work. It can be a bit over the top but when it hits its point well it's absolutely gold.
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I really enjoy The Opposition. It's no Colbert Report, but it's way better than The Nightly Show and even better than a lot of The Daily Show episodes these days. The best part about it is the hilarious cast, especially Kobi Libii. He knocks it out of the park every segment he's in.
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Kobi Libii’s report a few weeks ago where he confronted the Breitbart “reporter” was incredible.
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Hi, Trevor? Yeah, no, the fact that Trump is pretending to support some gun control measures isn't because he's been swayed by the words of the shooting survivors. He's doing what he's been doing with DACA for months, ie: pretending to support a sane position, making dumb people like you believe that he's turning a corner, and then pulling a 180.
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The Daily Show is now releasing the entire show as a podcast with no ads. It's fantastic and it's become my getting ready in the morning background noise. Only downside is obviously it ruins visual gags but I can live without the few of those for the sheer convinence. It's called Daily Show: Ears Edition.
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Majorian posted:Hi, Trevor? Yeah, no, the fact that Trump is pretending to support some gun control measures isn't because he's been swayed by the words of the shooting survivors. He's doing what he's been doing with DACA for months, ie: pretending to support a sane position, making dumb people like you believe that he's turning a corner, and then pulling a 180. Would you say he is playing chess in more than two dimensions?
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http://www.thirdmonthmania.com/ The Fox News stuff probably deserves to win. Because gently caress Hannity. But I want to see The Daily Show's writers grapple with their audience choosing Rachel Maddow's tax scoop or Pelosi's Wall Street money comment as the ultimate victor. Echo Chamber fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Mar 14, 2018 |
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Mar 13, 2018 22:11
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Echo Chamber posted:http://www.thirdmonthmania.com/ There was no way the Rachel Maddow thing was going to beat the Paul Ryan tweet.
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jojoinnit posted:The Daily Show is now releasing the entire show as a podcast with no ads. It's fantastic and it's become my getting ready in the morning background noise. Only downside is obviously it ruins visual gags but I can live without the few of those for the sheer convinence. So it’s come to this: The Daily Show Clips Show
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Boywhiz88 posted:So it’s come to this: The Daily Show Clips Show Well sadly that was only the first few episodes, now it's clips and extended interviews (which are a good idea). And they've been doing clips forever, it's just part of any modern shows social media. Don't see it as a bad thing.
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Klepper's guest last night reminds me that Log Cabin Republicans are among the worst.
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Meanwhile TDS did another extended segment on the taint. Everything old is new again.
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Every comedy show on the planet is going to give a hot take on the taint this week, strap in for all the fresh hilarity.
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IRQ posted:Every comedy show on the planet is going to give a hot take on the taint this week, strap in for all the fresh hilarity. Oh sure, on Monday I tuned in late to Colbert and Amy Schumer was talking about her "taint team" and I was completely lost since I'd avoided the "real" news all day. The Daily Show's just felt like a weird knockoff of the one they'd done years ago that's stuck in my head.
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I had to turn of Colbert early during that, which is saying something because I like Amy Schumer a lot. The whole thing is just so lazy.
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If you can't laugh at taint jokes you're just dead inside.
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PT6A posted:If you can't laugh at taint jokes you're just dead inside. I've had a really awful week so far so a little bit yeah.
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Whoever put this graphic together for The Daily Show's social media game should be applauded for including Hannity as a joke. https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/973541882658684928 He was in there since they started the gag: https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/888438762153418752 Actually he wasn't in the most recent one, but that could easily be amended. https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/979112046250938368
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This Daily Show guest sucks. Both sides. Both sides. Both sides. Both sides. Populism  Identity Politics edit: i'm not even done with this interview and i'm hating this guy more and more. Echo Chamber fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Apr 25, 2018 |
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This Jordan Klepper guest sucks. Edit: I just realized I'm talking about the same guy as the post above. Echo Chamber fucked around with this message at 20:55 on May 8, 2018 |
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May 8, 2018 20:51
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Echo Chamber posted:This Jordan Klepper guest sucks. Just guessing, Jonah Goldberg? No matter what the guy does or ever will do, I will always remember him for being eviscerated by Jon Stewart in 2008. I am assuming this is the right clip, can't check since CC decided to geoblock their poo poo. http://www.cc.com/video-clips/rlt7ia/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-jonah-goldberg
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May 9, 2018 11:01
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The gently caress is the taint in political / political satire context?
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May 9, 2018 13:08
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Really good interview with TCrews on wednesday.
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May 18, 2018 12:40
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Jon Stewart: Live From Below Stephen's Desk
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May 23, 2018 14:50
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Trevor Noah's cameo in Black Panther has been discovered- the voice of the computer in Shuri's lab.
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haveblue posted:Trevor Noah's cameo in Black Panther has been discovered- the voice of the computer in Shuri's lab. I can’t believe I missed that, it sounds so obvious now!
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The Opposition is cancelled effective June 28 and will be replaced by a new weekly What the hell? I really started enjoying the show and the cast. I hope they will tag along to the new show, although it sounds like it will be more field pieces. And just So no, I guess?! mcbexx fucked around with this message at 10:45 on Jun 19, 2018 |
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Jun 19, 2018 10:42
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I don't know how its ratings compared to Larry Wilmore's in that same time slot, but if it was comparable, I thought the show was safe. Clearly, it was not. If that time slot does not go to another Stewart-era TDS alum or Kobi Libii, I'll take this opportunity to cut my bloated talk show diet. I'm now down to Noah, Colbert, Oliver, and Robin Thede. If anyone here hasn't checked out The Rundown, it's way better than Nightly. I still haven't seen Michelle Wolf or Wyatt Cenac's shows.
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Echo Chamber posted:I don't know how its ratings compared to Larry Wilmore's in that same time slot, but if it was comparable, I thought the show was safe. Clearly, it was not. Wyatt Cenac's show is honestly pretty amazing in it's deep dive into American policing.
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Some of the talk in the articles about "The Opposition" being cancelled sounded like it might have been an all around mutual thing. Really sounded like they felt it wasn't working when real life conspiracy theories are even more out there but less fringe than anything the show can come up with. Jordan seems to have an affinity for field pieces (especially after his gun special), so this may be what he really wants to do instead. You just can't have all all field show run 4 days a week.
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he could do a once a week show like Jim Jeffries but with all road trips I guess.
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The best part of Klepper's show was just shining light on the rabbit hole of right wing media without having to consume it directly. While the cast was solid, I was never too fixed on the general "Colbert Report, but in the Trump era" act in general. The media personalities the show is mocking are openly malicious. Colbert's old character was based on conservative pundits who still had the pretense of respectability. And as I said before, it's sometimes difficult to gauge whether the show is mocking Right Wing shitheads punching Left, or whether the show itself is a Liberal program sincerely punching Left. Because the liberal/left friction is still frequently on my mind as much as people try to pretend the rift is overblown. So better that Klepper wants to pivot.
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Echo Chamber posted:I still haven't seen Michelle Wolf or Wyatt Cenac's shows. Cenac's is stellar in both comedy and depth of material it hits (but this is aided by the fact that the majority of it is on one continuous topic for the season - kinda curious what they'll do if it comes back next year). Wolf's show is... remember how when she started on Daily Show she was really uneven in delivery and didn't quite have her footing? So far it's that issue all over again but it's definitely improving week by week. The last episode having Hannibal Buress was a huge bonus. Echo Chamber posted:And as I said before, it's sometimes difficult to gauge whether the show is mocking Right Wing shitheads punching Left, or whether the show itself is a Liberal program sincerely punching Left. Because the liberal/left friction is still frequently on my mind as much as people try to pretend the rift is overblown. So better that Klepper wants to pivot. I find this take interesting because from what I saw (and I confess there were weeks where I was more burned out and Klepper got skipped of the two shows), Klepper's program decidedly leaned more left than liberal. I remember one night being Trevor criticizing people for wanting to push "too far" and then Jordan's show had a correspondent argue for the thing his counterpart was just making GBS threads on.
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Wyatt has a new show? What's it called? I thought he was still doing that People of Earth show.
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Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas on HBO. People of Earth was cancelled even after being renewed.
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END ME SCOOB posted:I find this take interesting because from what I saw (and I confess there were weeks where I was more burned out and Klepper got skipped of the two shows), Klepper's program decidedly leaned more left than liberal. I remember one night being Trevor criticizing people for wanting to push "too far" and then Jordan's show had a correspondent argue for the thing his counterpart was just making GBS threads on. I know I'm going into semantics here, but "liberal" wouldn't be the first word I'd use to describe the Bernie Left or student campus activism. Conservatives and fascists that The Opposition mocks clearly don't distinguish the difference between radical Labor unions or the Hollywood elite, for example. But ironically, establishment liberals, also aware that "liberal" is a dirty word again especially in the post-2016 hellscape, throw that word onto the Left and away from themselves. Obviously, at this point my sympathies are more with the Left than mainstream liberalism. The nature of the Opposition's gimmick sometimes unintentionally highlights this confusion and tension (Is it self deprecation? Or actual progressive gatekeeping?) more so than The Daily Show. Trevor Noah sometimes flat out says what he thinks without hiding it behind a joke, so I can at least settle whether or not I agree with him and move on.
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I'm sad that they're canceling The Opposition. The cast has been excellent, especially Kobi Libii and Laura Grey. Tim Baltz is pretty great too. The show is head and shoulders above The Nightly Show, which was just painful to watch. Hopefully the cast will move over to the new show along with Jordan. Edit: Just wanted to take a second to say gently caress YOU RICKY VELEZ. That's all.
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I'm watching Thursday's Daily Show. A Stewart-era TDS could have wrote a bit about obnoxious cable news panels in their sleep. This bit flat lined.
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Man, just found out about the Opposition. Really pissed off about it, it’s my favourite satire around at the moment. The whole cast were great too. I hope this new show is at least similar in tone.
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