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    "The Daily Show": Week of 12/15/14

    in The Daily Show With Jon Stewart [V]

    I want him to ask Tim Burton to do something about Johnny Depp (or, perhaps more accurately, to stop doing whatever he's doing about Johnny Depp), but I don't know how to find the words that express this particular blend of nostalgia, regret, embarrassment, and exhaustion that I feel whenever I catch a performance by Depp now.

     

    Chris Rock is the only interview I'm looking forward to.

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    "The Daily Show": Week of 12/1/14

    in The Daily Show With Jon Stewart [V]

    I join you in your minority opinion, trow125. I know that I'm a little hopeless and transparent in that regard. Not that I think about it on a nightly basis, but every once in a while either on the show or in other interviews, there will be some moment where I think, "I can see why he's a fake news anchor on TV." The appearance on Bassem's show in Egypt was one of the first things I saw of him, and I always wish he'd bring that look back. Just that, though; not the full beard he later grew.
     
    I still need to catch up on his old movies. I know y'all have said that he wasn't too bad, but I still cringe in anticipation. I saw The Faculty long ago when I didn't know who he was, but, thankfully, there was enough in that godawful movie to distract me from thinking too much about anyone's acting ability.
     

    Also, can't we please just keep Trevor Noah?  Please?

    He knocked it out of the park so well that I'm in a mild state of panic that he'll get offered the moon and leave the show.

    "The Daily Show": Week of 12/1/14

    in The Daily Show With Jon Stewart [V]

    I like that he doesn't hit on every beautiful guest of the opposite sex, the way some TV hosts do. He only hits on or gushes about the beautiful women he knows well. Actually, he does that with the beautiful men he knows, too (and some that he doesn't). Maybe he just enjoys playing up the fact that he's friends with some very beautiful people. Depending on how the friend plays it, it can come across as really cute or really awkward. The best moments are when they feel comfortable enough to give it right back to him. For that reason, I can't hate it when someone like Gervais or Williams comes on the show; it's almost always a flirtfest.

     

    His gushing about every new movie as the best thing ever is tiresome, but I can't hold it against him after reading the recent interview where he admits to being one of those people who is awestruck by every movie they see. At least he comes by it honestly.

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    "The Daily Show": Week of 12/1/14

    in The Daily Show With Jon Stewart [V]

    Here are Trevor and Jon, from Trevor's twitter account.

    Tonight I lived a dream. Thank you Jon Stewart and @TheDailyShow and everybody that watched.

     
    Based on his previous work that I've seen and that segment last night, I'm ready for him to take over for Jon whenever he retires, or as early as January. Next week too soon? Trevor or Jessica. Trevor and Jessica. One of them, both of them... Any one of these options would be quite excellent. At the very least, Jon should go make another movie next summer, perhaps a "Stephen Colbert" biopic, and let another of his progeny run the show for a while.

    "The Daily Show": Week of 12/1/14

    in The Daily Show With Jon Stewart [V]

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    What a fantastic debut. Damn, I wish he were a correspondent, not a contributor. I'm already missing him in anticipation of the weeks (or months!) in between his appearances.

     

    Their coverage of the Eric Garner case has been superb. Jon's comments last night were beautiful, and I'm so glad they came back to it tonight, with more direction but no less outrage and humanity. I hope they stay on it for some segments next week.

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    In the Media: The Blogs Must Be Crazy

    in The Daily Show With Jon Stewart [V]

    I remember when he was first going on about it with her, everyone thought it was absurd. Then, a few months later I think, blogs were posting this video of Helen Mirren in Herostratus (probably NSFW), and people started talking about how they are similar, after all. I'm not sure if that's an argument for the power of suggestion or if Jon just saw it before anyone else did.

    "The Daily Show": Week of 12/1/14

    in The Daily Show With Jon Stewart [V]

    I hope Napolitano stayed around for the MOZ and inadvertently educated himself. ...Probably not.

     

    He's explained it in interviews, but the more I see him in these conversations, the more I'm convinced that Jon's family gatherings are very similar to mine: full of people who consider O'Reilly and Napolitano "too liberal." It's no wonder he's managed to fine-tune the art of gently telling them they're full of bullshit; I'm still at the stage where I can only debate so long before the obstinacy destroys my ability to articulate my thoughts. It's probably very familiar to most people, and the question at the heart of Jon's approach seems to be: do we just cut people off at some point, or do we keep trying to communicate and educate? I keep trying, although it's like talking to myself at times. (The problem with cutting them off, of course, is that they're still there and we still have to coexist in the same country (and planet) together. Not that they care, which makes us not care, so the answer seems to be to cut them off. But then what? We're all still here together. There is surely a philosophical law for this sort of situation, but I don't know what it is.)

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    "The Daily Show": Week of 11/17/14

    in The Daily Show With Jon Stewart [V]

    I'm sorry you're having difficulty with coverage, dubbel zout. I hope things don't change drastically with the ACA, so that you can have the best options available at a reasonable price. I wish conservatives and libertarians would get with the program and support the shift to some form of universal healthcare. My parents had several surgeries over the 27 years they lived in Japan, and not once did it result in the threat of bankruptcy. It's an outrage that people without insurance have to debate whether or not their chest pain is worth going into debt for $3000+ so that the local ER can give them a cursory once-over and send them back on their way. A friend of mine has said, "I'll just die when I die." Because the financial burden of medical attention would be life-changing. She's older than me, and I always wish I could help somehow, but I'm in essentially the same boat.

     

    I feel dumb asking this, but what is the joke about Cumberbatch's name? I keep feeling it whoosh over my head.

    In the Media: The Blogs Must Be Crazy

    in The Daily Show With Jon Stewart [V]

    That's a good point about symmetry, trow125.

     

    Were this a few years into TNS instead of its vulnerable freshman season, it would be hilarious if Jon and Larry were doing a Toss on Stephen's first night, and Stephen hijacked it somehow. Given the circumstances, I know it would only be detrimental to one show or the other, so it won't happen. Still, I'd love for them to somehow work in a joke between the three shows, once both of the new shows have found their feet. Maybe on Jon's last night, whenever he finally retires.

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