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| A news parody, like the Daily Show |
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15 | 13.27% |
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91 | 80.53% |
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Quasimango posted:On the other hand, I feel like an un-PC comic may be the best choice to take over the Daily Show, given the typical Daily Show viewer. I feel like this phrasing makes way more sense?
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Mar 31, 2015 10:19
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Y-Hat posted:I've hardly seen Irish Joe post but even I know his opinions aren't worth the bandwidth his posts occupy Even for him, that's pretty bad. I'd watch Hannibal host the Daily Show. Anyone follow TYT here? Their host had a bizarre meltdown because Noah used to do radio. I couldn't make sense of it, but I really love his standup. I'm very excited for TDS in a way I don't think I've ever been.
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Apr 2, 2015 02:20
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Four years is long enough he could be an atheist himself now. Calm your tits. His "without god there would be no atheists" is pretty bad, on the level of "how me a dog learn English," but the religious haven't understanded atheism for THOUSANDS of years.
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Apr 4, 2015 01:20
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Strobe posted:And I suppose it's totally impossible that he meant "God created athiests" which considering he's Christian is something that he earnestly believed? It's very funny next to his musings on Satan, when as an atheist, if you've realized the bible is fiction and heaven is mythical, Satan and hell just naturally follow suit. No mental activity or considering needed. in_cahoots posted:I read it as more of a philosophical statement - without the concept of God there would be no atheism, any more than people flock around the absence of a second sun or whatever. But either way, it's not exactly worth boycotting the show over. That is an interesting read, but doesn't really add depth to his comment. Without (a tyrannical religious structure sculpting societies for ages) there is no (lame attempt to counter religious claims, "militant atheism" indeed)
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Apr 4, 2015 02:27
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Bass Bottles posted:I feel like he was just making a dumb joke with that one. I feel like he was only making dumb jokes the entire time and this entire conversation (nationally, not here) is pointless. But any chance to preach the word of no lord!
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Apr 4, 2015 02:47
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kayakyakr posted:Alright, sorry about contributing to that derail, back to your regularly scheduled Larry Wilmore hating. I was actually considering going back and checking out the latest episodes that saw good reactions here. He's no Colbert, but if his show resembles Real Time without the smug or constant shouting it could be great.
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Apr 9, 2015 02:13
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spronk posted:I'm generally a pro-death penalty guy Knowing innocents have died?
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Apr 19, 2015 01:04
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Echo Chamber posted:So is it cool to make fun of Ben Affleck again? Ben Affleck went on Real Time and called out Bill Maher's lovely Islamophobia, he's cool in my book. Maybe not Batman cool but he can have a go at it. Clooney did.
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Apr 22, 2015 00:22
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Roughly 400,000-600,000 Daily Show viewers out of a million change the channel after the Moment of Zen. I'd be in that group. I stream the show myself (can we discuss how lovely the Comedy Central video player is here?) and I haven't bothered with Nightly since the third or fourth episode. Seriously though, let me pause with the drat space bar!
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Apr 27, 2015 17:34
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swickles posted:Why would they, there is no reason to cover it. That's interesting, it's like you don't understand geopolitical relations or human death in one fell swoop.
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Apr 30, 2015 10:06
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jerichojx posted:It's such a shame that this will end after the next month. Once the week starts, I'll miss many of the episodes I missed because I was too young I know they haven't announced anything, but why wouldn't they make every episode available online after this? Only makes sense to me.
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Jun 27, 2015 18:31
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Dr. Josef Mengele posted:
For the love of god, loving don't. Dr. Josef Mengele posted:Do you know how many babies I can rape in 20 seconds? Dr. Josef Mengele posted:If u had a time machine and could either kill hitlēr or GWB, who do you choose?
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Jun 27, 2015 23:00
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I am an android and don't need sleep so I will be liveposting all my thoughts here for the next 40 days, as I use no other forms of social media.
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Wow, Kimmel on The Daily Show. This is mature and hilarious. 
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Jun 27, 2015 23:12
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Mr. Fowl posted:I have a feeling that this episode is going to get uncomfortable. It's an episode from 1999 with Mo Rocca interviewing a transwoman. I'm sure it will be perfectly sensitive. We were just discussing how that piece probably wouldn't air today, though it didn't have much to it.
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Jun 28, 2015 19:08
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kayakyakr posted:Oh Irish Joe, I'm going to miss you the most. Unfortunately reports of his retirement have been greatly exaggerated. Too bad, would really make the Last Week Tonight thread tolerable.
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Aug 8, 2015 01:05
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Irish Joe posted:Stewart (or anyone who supposedly 'talks truth to power') Irish Joe posted:every clip was of John wagging his finger at some politician. Will you finally stop posting? You're contradicting yourself in an effort to poo poo all over people celebrating a man's work on an excellent show.
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Aug 8, 2015 15:35
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Lord Lambeth posted:I don't think the show really declined when obama came into power. It shifted tone, because of course it had to, but I still found it really funny to watch. The whole Superpac thing with Colbert is another favorite of mine. The latest episodes have had biting satire as well, the writers have really been on-point even while Jon was in short time mode. I don't think they need all this time off, but what do I know.
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Aug 8, 2015 18:29
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Ginette Reno posted:The problem with TDS correspondents is virtually all of them just imitated Colbert's character and none of them do that character half as well as Colbert. The newer ones don't do this as much, it's why I hope the show has legs.
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Aug 10, 2015 04:45
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quote:Without the GoT boost, LWT does about as well as reruns of Modern Family. That's awesome, Modern Family is very popular and HBO is more restricted than most cable  Especially considering those numbers don't factor in pirates and Youtube viewers, I'm really happy with how popular this show is. Every time I show a clip to a friend it's a hit.
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Aug 13, 2015 03:19
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jerichojx posted:The Daily Show is usually my source for messed up things in the US. Other than LWT, are there any other shows that try their best to cover such stuff without being pants-on-head stupid or lying? The Young Turks on YouTube?
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Aug 18, 2015 16:23
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IRQ posted:Maher is very fond of the old "you know who else did X?" This is an understatement. I've watched a lot of Real Time, he loving loves that joke. I really enjoyed the end of Religulous, but yeah it was a complete tonal shift. It wasn't a conclusion to anything the movie set up, but it was a drat strong closing point.
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Aug 19, 2015 22:14
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MrPablo posted:I can't say I disagree with that assessment, but I do agree that focusing on Sanders seems kind of counterproductive. Does it? He's a populist pledging real change, I'd expect more results out of him. And people are noticing and talking, so I'd say it was successful in the moment.
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Aug 20, 2015 02:13
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Zero One posted:Well at least this is solved: https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/648697410894594048 loving took long enough.
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Sep 29, 2015 07:17
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Charles Martel posted:I'll always miss Jon with his knowledge, intuition, and his Jersey/Wiseguy accent and wish he would do something like a stand-up show, podcast, etc., but I think the show is going to be just fine. Unless he dives right in to movie production, I fully expect a stand-up special from Jon Stewart. I think he's entirely capable and has plenty of subject matter. I don't care what he does with his life, honestly, it just seems like a logical progression.
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Sep 30, 2015 06:06
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mcbexx posted:So wait, if I'm a stoner and I open a parody twitter account, step on a couple of toes with some lewd tweets ... chances are that Jessica Williams will show up on my doorstep? And I might get 125,000 dollars out of it? I basically said this watching the show. We may never be as funny as bill_nye_tho or dick_nixon, but goonspeed.
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Oct 17, 2015 05:24
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zakharov posted:Klepper's really good at NOT being the straight man. He's an excellent correspondent, stop messing with success! He's really getting the chance to show how versatile he is, Jason and Jon tended to fill the spotlight well (I loved it all the same, miss u guys).
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Oct 24, 2015 21:22
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Echo Chamber posted:Is there something cynical about this CEO trying to make himself look good? That's healthy cynicism at work. I've read a few articles and even applied to work for Gravity Payments, he sounds genuine to me. Seeing him speak helped me drop my cynical attitude too - he looked like he gives a poo poo.
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Nov 11, 2015 23:37
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Everything's been excellent and all fears regarding TDS should be laid to rest. The only correspondent I haven't genuinely enjoyed yet has been Ronnie Chieng, and I think that will change over time. (Or he'll just constantly be playing Ken Jeong's character from The Hangover...)
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Dec 25, 2015 00:05
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