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IDK if it's an unpopular opinion on here, Jon Stewart was head and shoulders above any other late night comedy/news personality of both his time and the modern time. Trevor Noah, Colbert, John Oliver, etc. haven't got shit on him
I think he's one of the only ones (minus maybe Trevor Noah) who's heart is at least in the right place. I think he honestly does care and want to make the world a better place, he's just maybe a bit out of touch with what that concretely means.
trevor did something or had a nuclear take that really annoyed the fucking shit out of me but i can't be bothered to remember what it was. idk political comedians are pretty universally awful to me personally lol
He cut a video of Bernie short to make it look like he called a child dumb, and then didn't even show the rest of the clip so it wasn't even a joke, it was literally a smear.
He also laughed about South Africans getting shot while striking from their jobs.
I think basically everyone has some nuclear take that would annoy the shit out of me. I hate celebrity worship, but I also hate pointless celebrity hate. I read TN's book and it was really good.
It's something I think is very relatable. We all looked up to someone who we found out was a garbage person. That doesn't negate the good they did, but hero worship elevates some real shitheads sometimes
The more I see Oliver the more it becomes blatantly clear that his whole schtick is to employ progressive domestic politics as a Trojan horse for frothing at the mouth CIA propaganda when it comes to foreign affairs. And once he gets the audience going about something like abortion rights or gerrymandering, they keep on clapping like seals for the manufacturing consent portion of the program when he tells us "XYZ must go."
The guy is a mercenary. He knows exactly what hes doing. You say all of the right things about a subject people are familiar with, then they take at your word when you start talking about a country they've never even heard of.
I forgot about Hasan, I actually did like him. He felt the most in touch with my "age group". Definitely a slightly different vein from me, but it was kinda a trip seeing someone "my age" (he's 9 years older than me) doing a Late Night type show
Man Trevor Noah has been such a disappointment. I liked his standup specials, but maybe I was just a :LIB:. His show is just absolute shitlib all the time.
IDK if it's an unpopular opinion on here, Jon Stewart was head and shoulders above any other late night comedy/news personality of both his time and the modern time. Trevor Noah, Colbert, John Oliver, etc. haven't got shit on him
my take is hes better than them but its not really saying much bc they're awful. He's pretty :LIB: still tho
I think he's one of the only ones (minus maybe Trevor Noah) who's heart is at least in the right place. I think he honestly does care and want to make the world a better place, he's just maybe a bit out of touch with what that concretely means.
trevor did something or had a nuclear take that really annoyed the fucking shit out of me but i can't be bothered to remember what it was. idk political comedians are pretty universally awful to me personally lol
He cut a video of Bernie short to make it look like he called a child dumb, and then didn't even show the rest of the clip so it wasn't even a joke, it was literally a smear. He also laughed about South Africans getting shot while striking from their jobs.
that was it. honestly fuck him forever for that shit
Yeah, there's really no coming back from that. The guy is and always will be garbage.
I think basically everyone has some nuclear take that would annoy the shit out of me. I hate celebrity worship, but I also hate pointless celebrity hate. I read TN's book and it was really good.
It's ok to take inspiration from people, but having heroes is for children.
That's a hell of a quote.
It's something I think is very relatable. We all looked up to someone who we found out was a garbage person. That doesn't negate the good they did, but hero worship elevates some real shitheads sometimes
i agree even though they are all still libs
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Same for the most part.
I think Oliver's show is pretty good (China excepted, they're all bad on China), politics-wise, if not jokes-wise.
I also liked Hasan Minhaj's show before it got cancelled.
The more I see Oliver the more it becomes blatantly clear that his whole schtick is to employ progressive domestic politics as a Trojan horse for frothing at the mouth CIA propaganda when it comes to foreign affairs. And once he gets the audience going about something like abortion rights or gerrymandering, they keep on clapping like seals for the manufacturing consent portion of the program when he tells us "XYZ must go."
The guy is a mercenary. He knows exactly what hes doing. You say all of the right things about a subject people are familiar with, then they take at your word when you start talking about a country they've never even heard of.
I forgot about Hasan, I actually did like him. He felt the most in touch with my "age group". Definitely a slightly different vein from me, but it was kinda a trip seeing someone "my age" (he's 9 years older than me) doing a Late Night type show
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Man Trevor Noah has been such a disappointment. I liked his standup specials, but maybe I was just a :LIB:. His show is just absolute shitlib all the time.