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Yeah, I think it was unrealistic to expect Trevor to be a drop-in replacement for Jon. The show is still more or less the same, but Trevor has his own approach to it because he comes from a radically different background than most of us. He's definitely getting more focused now, and it's because Trump is, as you said, Trevor's "9/11 moment," except for the fact that Trump is far, far worse for America than 9/11. 
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banned from Starbucks posted:hes worse than 3 wars and trillions lost? It's a slight exaggeration, but only in the sense that he hasn't even been inaugurated yet and doesn't have any real power at the moment. Trump is a racist, narcissistic, climate-change-denying demagogue who thinks he's always right, is always the smartest person in the room, is ignoring the expertise of all of this nation's intelligence agencies, will have control of the entire US armed forces and nuclear arsenal, is easily manipulated and is buddying up with our greatest enemy, Putin's Russia. Like, I admire you for being optimistic but I honestly can't see anything good about Trump in the White House. I don't want to get too off-topic and have to go into too much detail, but suffice it to say I really think that Trump is worse than the 9/11 attacks* and is the analogue for Trevor as his "national tragedy" moment. *Also I was referring to the attacks themselves, as in the direct loss of life and the immediate economic consequences rather than the wars started afterward and their effects, particularly considering the Iraq invasion is kind of Bush's vendetta anyway.
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mdemone posted:So it's back on ye olde DVR list, but having kids kind of makes it hard to work through even a small backlog. Urgh. I generally skip the guests on talk shows unless I'm really interested in them; I just don't have the time to watch everything I want to so have to cut things out where possible. TDS is only ~22 minutes in the first place, but at least the guest segments chop off maybe 1/3 of that. I watch the first segment of The Late Show and fortunately it cuts the 60 minutes down to about 15.
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Eh, I don't know, I remember the pre-Stewart days (shudder!) and I still like the show. Trevor's different but the show's
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rujasu posted:I don't think the actual quality of the show is the only issue. During the Bush admin, there was Stewart and that was it. Eventually he had Colbert batting cleanup behind him, but you still watched Jon first either way. Now Colbert, Oliver, Bee, and probably like 8 other people I'm forgetting are all doing unofficial TDS spinoffs on other channels and drawing away attention. There are some people who will watch all of the shows, but that's a lot of TV. I watch TDS, LWT, FF, and the first segment of TLS, but none of those other late night talk shows (sorry Seth, gently caress Fallon, etc.) Only the Daily Show alumni.
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JazzFlight posted:Yeah, felt like an ARG/viral thing where they try to make it seem like someone hacked the feed. Something to do with Russia and the president. Twitter account followed by Comedy Central.  Still, looking forward to seeing where this goes!
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-Blackadder- posted:So I've been watching The Daily Show since it's Bush-era heyday. Years and years of great bits many of which did a fantastic job of communicating complex political concepts in a quick and very laymen way. I'm sure a lot of it was edited to make their point not every argument was that well made, but I was always impressed with how they were able to make politics accessible and completely drive a point home. "Nice guy" + "watches and is easily fooled by Faux News" != "a nice guy" unfortunately. Or at least not an intelligent guy. Anyways, what you're asking for is kind of a difficult proposition because there's almost 2 decades of material to go through (not the Kilbourne years, though.) I guess you could watch the show on an ongoing basis, or catch the clips posted to FB or YT or wherever and share the ones you like. In general the stuff you're asking for is when the research department finds A/V of Recucklicans contradicting themselves and then Jon/Trevor rips into them for their hypocrisy (e.g. the Recucklicans endorsing Merrick Garland before he was nominated by Obama.) Really though, what you need to do is to get him to stop watching Faux News. The antidote isn't going to help if he keeps drinking the poison.
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PicklePants posted:A lot of the parts of The Nightly Show were better than the whole. This was pretty much it. A discussion among comedians cracking jokes in-between trying to have a serious conversation can work, but not really between like 5 people on a 30-minute show, that's really 22 minutes without commercials, and even less when you take out the intro/outro and any skits, etc. I think I was mostly interested in TNS because it reminded me of Tough Crowd (and I guess also to an extent Bill Maher's shows.)
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