GHScorpiosRule January 25 Share January 25 Discuss Jon's return and upcoming episodes here!😊 Link to comment
Superb Owl January 26 Share January 26 Ronnie Chieng was on Late Night with Seth Meyers last night and confirmed tht the correspondents will handle hosting duties Tuesday-Friday. 2 2 Link to comment
Sarah 103 January 26 Share January 26 Do we have a return date? I heard sometime in February but I wasn't sure if that was a rumor or something official. Link to comment
IvySpice January 26 Share January 26 OMG. I feel better about living in the world for the next 10 months knowing that Jon will be there to help us. 4 Link to comment
grawlix January 26 Share January 26 3 hours ago, Sarah 103 said: Do we have a return date? I heard sometime in February but I wasn't sure if that was a rumor or something official. Every Monday starting Feb. 12 2 Link to comment
scarynikki12 January 27 Share January 27 Clarification: this thread is for talking about Jon specifically in the same vein as the Trevor and correspondents threads. 1 Link to comment
marina to January 29 Share January 29 (edited) For those who didn't see The Problem with Jon Stewart, I really encourage you to check out the YouTube channel to watch the clips and/or listen to the podcast. He made a point on that show to have a diverse room and to promote his writers to share their perspectives so it seems he took the diversity criticism to heart. This makes me very excite to see what happens now. Edited January 29 by marina to forgot about the podcast! 1 1 Link to comment
marina to January 29 Share January 29 Also found this interview from 10 months ago, before things went south with Apple. He's very reflective here. Link to comment
possibilities January 29 Share January 29 3 hours ago, marina to said: For those who didn't see The Problem with Jon Stewart, I really encourage you to check out the YouTube channel to watch the clips and/or listen to the podcast. He made a point on that show to have a diverse room and to promote his writers to share their perspectives so it seems he took the diversity criticism to heart. This makes me very excite to see what happens now. Did he hire any women? Link to comment
ebk57 January 29 Share January 29 39 minutes ago, possibilities said: Did he hire any women? I didn't watch the show, and I haven't watched this video, but this came up as the first behind-the-scenes video on the YouTube channel. There are 6 women listed, including the head writer. 2 1 1 Link to comment
marina to February 11 Share February 11 On 1/28/2024 at 11:06 PM, possibilities said: Did he hire any women? Yes, and POC were in the room too. 1 Link to comment
revbfc February 12 Share February 12 I hope they have a “Previously on…” before tonight’s show where they pull up the clip of Jon responding to Trump’s campaign announcement back in 2015 with “Do it.” Link to comment
iMonrey February 13 Share February 13 On 1/28/2024 at 8:07 PM, marina to said: Also found this interview from 10 months ago, before things went south with Apple. What happened with Apple? Link to comment
GHScorpiosRule February 13 Author Share February 13 Oh Jon! How I’ve missed you!!!! The doodling and scribbling on those papers! I really missed that and didn’t know it! I loved his segue to the camera to zoom in on his face and then showing us what he looked like 20 years ago. Won’t lie: I was howling at Dulce’s shade and Jon’s tiny voice in response. Ronny grossed me out and was a waste of air time. Welcome Back Jon! 4 2 Link to comment
iMonrey February 13 Share February 13 8 minutes ago, GHScorpiosRule said: Ronny grossed me out and was a waste of air time. That grossed me out too. Other than that it was a great episode. 1 Link to comment
Bastet February 14 Share February 14 I'm still very bitter over the show not managing to hold onto Roy Wood Jr., but am going to take the start of this new format - Jon on Mondays, correspondents taking turns for the rest - as the moment to start watching again and try to move past that disappointment to appreciate who is here, rather than just keenly missing who isn't. I like all the Indecision 2024 titles: American DeMOCKracy, Electile Dysfunction, What the Fuck Are We Doing, and Antiques Roadshow. I wonder how many they'll come up with between now and Election Day. "The leading cause of early-onset dementia is being deposed." That's nothing new, but no one is doing a particularly good job with this issue. Jon's simple statement yes, Biden has lost a step, but Trump routinely says things that warrant a wellness check is where this ought to begin and end. But I will definitely leave room for: "They are the oldest people ever to run for president, breaking by only four years the record THAT THEY SET THE LAST TIME THEY RAN" because on the flip side of all the hand-wringing, the preposterous arguments their age is a non-issue or, worse, that these dudes are not old in the first place, is driving me out of my hair, too. "I like how Biden describes Israel's incessant bombing of civilians the same way my mother talks about the Super Bowl halftime show" made me laugh in the midst of all that. My favorite was Dulcé shading Jon: "This is the same shit all over again, it's just a reboot. We need more than the same show with an older, yet familiar face. They already had this job, now these old white dudes gotta come back and reclaim it? Let someone else run the show!" Jordan was good, too, with "Oh, biting, Jon. You must be so proud of yourself with all these little satirical bits exposing the absurdities of our political process. Did you save democracy yet, with your '90s brand of bothsiderism?" but she slayed it. 10 Link to comment
Sarah 103 February 14 Share February 14 I want Antiques Roadshow to the subtitle for Indecision 2024. 8 Link to comment
Hanahope February 14 Share February 14 back to "both siding" and, 'the country will go on.' yeah, tell that to women in Texas and other states where they no longer have bodily control. Jon is as bad as he was before. the two are not the same, never were. 6 Link to comment
DoctorAtomic February 15 Share February 15 2 hours ago, Hanahope said: back to "both siding" and, 'the country will go on.' yeah, tell that to women in Texas and other states where they no longer have bodily control. Jon is as bad as he was before. the two are not the same, never were. To your point in a way, the guest is saying how Biden is doing well, and is the right person for what's going on in the world, then says he shouldn't run for president. I just don't find a few gaffes mistaking another head of state, which he's done for 40 years, means now he doesn't remember anything. Comedy-wise, it's kind of low hanging fruit and not particularly satirical. 8 Link to comment
baldryanr February 15 Share February 15 On 2/13/2024 at 5:56 PM, GHScorpiosRule said: Ronny grossed me out and was a waste of air time. You didn't enjoy Desi hiding behind the shirt and doing her best to avoid cracking up? 3 Link to comment
marina to February 15 Share February 15 On 2/13/2024 at 5:44 PM, iMonrey said: What happened with Apple? Nothing official but the story is that the reason The Problem was cancelled was because Jon wanted to do stories on China and AI, Apple told him not to, and he refused. Now does his first joke make sense? 1 2 Link to comment
Bastet February 20 Share February 20 Jon's response to the criticisms of him deciding to, on his first show back, resort to his tired "bothsidesism" well was as clueless as his response to the Jezebel article back in his first run, so I had to turn it off and wait until I'm in a better mood to watch the full episode. 6 1 Link to comment
IvySpice February 21 Share February 21 Don't miss Jon tearing up Tucker Carlson. The classics never go out of style. 7 1 Link to comment
DoctorAtomic February 21 Share February 21 Jon's response was funny if you're looking at it as the set up to the Carlson bit. Yes, he didn't really address what I thought was fair criticism, but at the same time, it's people going bonkers on twitter, so saying, "I did one show! Come on!" is also somewhat fair. I don't quite get what the point Jon is trying to make. He says, "they're both old, people aren't jazzed about the rematch, and it's ok to call that out." (paraphrasing) Yes, it is. And? Then he says, but "Trump routinely says things that warrant a wellness check." It's not quite bothsiding, but it's also not really cogent either. Link to comment
GHScorpiosRule February 21 Author Share February 21 Call me petty and childish, but I want Jon to call out Sean Puffity, if only to see the latter's head explode. Link to comment
ch1 February 21 Share February 21 Did Jon always interrupt guests and I just don’t remember? He barely let his guests this week get a word in and it was really annoying to watch. 6 Link to comment
shok February 22 Share February 22 11 hours ago, ch1 said: Did Jon always interrupt guests and I just don’t remember? He barely let his guests this week get a word in and it was really annoying to watch. Yes he did. And yes, it was annoying back then too. It's one of the reasons Trevor managed to be successful in following an iconic host - he was a much better interviewer. 5 Link to comment
Bastet February 27 Share February 27 Jon made me cry talking about his dog. "He was ready, but I wasn't" is a place all of us who've loved and lost pets have been. I remember seeing a picture of them together long ago, and loving that he had a pit bull (and a three-legged one at that). I watched that lying in bed with my cat purring away on my chest, so she got extra snuggles. It was cute that he had a box of tissues at the ready, even though he thought he was going to get farther before needing it. I've always loved what a pet person he is, especially that he's also had cats (and he had them prior to meeting, let alone marrying, a vet tech, so it wasn't her influence). 4 2 1 8 Link to comment
DoctorAtomic February 28 Share February 28 I did find that dog in 2005. Jon was positively stone-faced compared to how I dealt with her passing. For the show, I liked that they focused on a single theme. I do think Jon's point is totally fine - no one is going anywhere. I don't remember so well, but I thought the Oslo accords were fairly well regarded at the time. I don't know if re floating that idea is in play. I liked the guests. 3 Link to comment
gesundheit February 28 Share February 28 Jon does definitely interrupt his guests more than Trevor did, but it always feels like Jon's engaging in a conversation that he knows enough to participate in -- Trevor often respectfully sat back and yielded the floor because he just rarely knew enough to really engage. I like both styles, but I consider Jon's guests to typically be there for a conversation and Trevor's guests to typically be there for a interview. (Not that constant interruption is okay for a conversation, either! I just mean I think the basic premise usually means hearing more of his voice than we were meant to hear of Trevor's, and that's okay depending on the topic. But I definitely want to watch all the extended versions because many thoughts I wanted to hear the rest of get cut off!) 5 Link to comment
Bastet February 28 Share February 28 Aw, I wondered if Tia Torres (of Villalobos Rescue Center, subject of the series Pit Bulls & Parolees) would post anything following Jon's story about Dipper, since he had her on the show way back when. She did. 5 Link to comment
DoctorAtomic March 12 Share March 12 Good joke on Jon's expense to look in the little fancy hand mirror. I only saw a few snippets of the rebuttal, and I didn't think she was like that for the whole speech, but wow. I can't really put it on her totally. Who was directing her? No one chimed in with a 'maybe dial it down?' I don't know if she was going for 'folksey' or something like that. Don't they have multiple takes? I assume the rebuttal is prepared when the speech is released, so there's time to film the rebuttal. I was under the impression they didn't *watch* the speech and just filmed the rebuttal off the printed copy. After a few bumps, well noted here, Jon was stronger tonight. The question of why the gop thinks they're the direct descendents of the Revolutionaries is a good point. It's kind of a condescending stand to take. Those people talking about wanting a dictatorship was chilling. 8 Link to comment
Sarah 103 March 12 Share March 12 4 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said: Don't they have multiple takes? I assume the rebuttal is prepared when the speech is released, so there's time to film the rebuttal. I was under the impression they didn't *watch* the speech and just filmed the rebuttal off the printed copy. The rebuttal is a prepared speech delivered live, much like the State of the Union itself. Link to comment
DoctorAtomic March 12 Share March 12 Is that so? Then she needed someone in her ear like a live newscast. They have to had prepared it based on the published speech earlier though because it wasn't reflective of the actual live SOTU. Link to comment
Bastet April 16 Share April 16 (edited) I liked Jon's talk with the Middle East (although I dearly missed a "Meet me at Camera Three" rather than just an "Over here") -- when we gerrymandered your homelands in exchange for oil, we expected more. I had just this weekend watched one of the "Best of Jon Stewart" episodes promoted on Paramount+, an interview with Barack Obama, and Jon did the same bit about not knowing who the teams are. It was tired then and it's tired now, but I did for some reason get a little chuckle at last night's quip about needing jerseys. The sound of Trump's voice drives me batty, so I keep up with what he's saying and doing via print media, but I'll sometimes leave the room during my nightly dose of TV news on PBS if they show too much of him. I can handle a clip better on a show like this, where there will be the palate cleanser of imitating him. I know I cannot be surprised any more by incoherence, but I am still somehow sitting here asking Seriously? about that Gettysburg speech. Jon's leprechaun impression was just what I needed. My favorite bit of Team Mandela vs. Team Jesus Christ was Desi saying "Jesus Christ, it's Jesus Christ" -- until Josh burst in with his Team O.J. argument, and blew them out of the water. Apt comparison, about fans who think he's not guilty know he is but don't care. Edited April 17 by Bastet 9 1 Link to comment
possibilities April 24 Share April 24 Rushdie has been doing a lot of interviews. I am finding them quite interesting. He gets to talk in more detail in other places, because they give him more time and are not trying to be funny. Link to comment
GHScorpiosRule April 29 Author Share April 29 I have missed Jessica so, so, so much! Loved seeing her again!!! Now I’m hoping to see Asif Mandvi! 3 1 Link to comment
DoctorAtomic May 13 Share May 13 (edited) Gas stoves are now are new national crisis? This is why nothing can get done. Everything is always a catastrophe. I have to agree with Jon pushing back on the interview. Yes, there are unprecedented challenges and we need new ways to deal with them, but this isn't the 'worst it's ever been.' And there always were. It's just now, I'd say the acceleration thereof is new. While I'd agree that social media is a serious issue, I think the lack of context and trying to build on past achievements is more severe. Not to discount what people are concerned about, but I also don't think we're as polarized as we really are either. Edited May 13 by DoctorAtomic Link to comment
gesundheit June 4 Share June 4 Yikes, I wonder what the uncut version of that interview with Ken Buck is like. 1 Link to comment
possibilities June 4 Share June 4 I loved Biden's smile when asked about the convictions of his opponent. I was surprised Jon didn't get how smart and hilarious that was. Jon seems to me to have really lost a step, or maybe the world has gained some. He comes across manic, to me, and lacking an appreciation of even the less subtle forms of nuance. I hope Ronny is able to give us more than one emotion this week. 2 Link to comment
IvySpice June 4 Share June 4 Jon blew that Rep. Buck interview, if you ask me. I want to hear the man speak! Especially about what was going on in the Republican cloakroom. I already know what Jon Stewart thinks about the Trump prosecution. Jon wouldn't shut up. 3 Link to comment
ebk57 June 4 Share June 4 All of the above! That "interview" was mostly Jon spouting off about whatever he was spouting off about. Buck was just sitting there smiling, once in a while saying "can I answer that?". I have no love for Ken Buck, but how would anyone know what he was thinking since he wasn't able to actually say much. 2 Link to comment
possibilities June 5 Share June 5 Jon never lets anyone talk during an "interview". It's irritating. He needs ADD meds, in my unprofessional opinion. Was he always like this? 2 Link to comment
Bastet June 6 Share June 6 I didn't watch the Buck interview, as I tend to skip interviews other than with guests I like (I'll read what others say, I just tend to reserve my viewing, which takes much longer, time for something I'll enjoy), and it sounds awful. But I enjoyed the rest of Jon's episode, especially this: Quote To admit their own political gamesmanship, their own attempts at weaponizing justice, their own relentless pursuit of opponents, their own dehumanizing rhetoric towards the left, would be to allow a molecule of reality into the airtight distortion field that has been created to protect MAGAdonians from the harsh glare of actuality. Bless. As someone dealing, via family members, with the increasingly stupefying and dangerous effects of marinating in a cesspool of hate and misinformation, I am so ever-fucking sick of that distortion field I am at my wit's end. I also liked him telling the media, no, there are not two different realities; there is one, and it's your damn job to state it. I do think time has passed his particular style by, and he's even more plagued by false equivalencies and trivial distractions now, so I don't ever want to see him more than once a week again on this show, but Jon still has his moments. 7 Link to comment
monakane June 6 Share June 6 I wanted to hear what Rep. Buck had to say. Jon kept interrupting. He does that a lot. Let your guest speak! 1 Link to comment
GHScorpiosRule June 6 Author Share June 6 When Buck did manage to speak, and he did manage to do a little bit of it, what he said just had me rolling my eyes. Because of course. So frankly, I'm glad Jon kept interrupting him, because I could see where it was going, and NO THANK YOU. No matter how congenial Buck sounded. 2 Link to comment
possibilities June 6 Share June 6 A good interview should have a guest with something worthwhile to say and an interviewer who elicits that info. I think Jon failed on both counts. 1 Link to comment
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