Yeah, though now that I back on it it, since Noah took over I've found myself thinking "huh, that's pretty blatantly liberal" far more often than I did during Stewart's run. Stewart would bash the right for stupid thing but he always kept it fair and some of the recent segment have seemed very slightly more willing to lean openly towards the left and Hillary Clinton especially. That might be because I gave Stewart more leeway or it might be an actual change.
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Don't forget that what Jon took over was a three year old late-night talk show. What Trevor took over was a 17-year news parody legend, and the internet is a very different animal now. There's a lot less leeway in how you can interpret The Daily Show now.
Which I personally think is for the better. Who really wants the show to be that different?
They hired a bunch of new correspondents, and were showing them off pretty exclusively for a while. It took until the end of the first week for Jessica Williams to come back.
Oh Jessica Williams, how I love you so~
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Yeah, but they were still doing typical correspondent things. And Jordan was around a lot too.
Frankly, hiring a bunch of new correspondents was something that probably would've been happening anyway. The regular stable was down to only three, with Aasif and Al being part-time.
All I'm saying is, we need more Jessica Williams. All I'm sayin'!
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No we don't. Her misses are far more common than her hits.
Boo! Booo! Get off the stage Bad Wolf! Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad :P
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Trevor discussed his hospital experience on the show last night, specifically, being asked to fill out forms and asked about how he would be paying whilst fainting from pain due to a perforated appendix. One imagines he's used to more civilized treatment at South African hospitals.
It is rather remarkable that the technology of laparoscopic surgery has made it so ridiculously easy to have routine procedures like appendectomies without extensive recovery time.
I really hope he has insurance through Viacom; it would be rather silly if he did not, even though the "how are you paying" bit got a laugh on the show.
edited 6th Nov '15 7:45:34 AM by Fighteer
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As someone who actually works with a program that's trying to manage ED visit rates, all I can really say is that there's a lot of people in there for non-emergency needs, and managing those people with the finite resources the ED actually has available is a fairly difficult task.
My ex-girlfriend had an appendectomy and she was in the hospital for a few days. We sent her to the ED, and it took a while before they were able to confirm what was wrong with her. Took a cab to get there, since an ambulance would be too pricey.
Ahhh memories.
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So funny!
Agreed, although "Carson's Public Break-up" and "Huckabee's Food-Based Politics" are probably my favorites thus far, with Noah busting the RNC Debate BS as an honorable third.
edited 8th Dec '15 9:01:13 PM by terlwyth
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So uh...new format? Kinda?
I'm reminded of Pre-Stewart Daily Show.
Very disappointing.
It's actually reminding me of The Colbert Report where Stephen would announce what he was going to talk about before the intro.
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I don't mind that bit, and the new mix of the theme song is kinda cool, but getting out from behind the desk isn't my favourite.
Trevor seems more comfortable delivering jokes standing. I think it's actually made his cadence more natural, and he doesn't look so fucking excited every time he sets up a punchline. Seriously when he was sitting at the desk, he was doing a Jon Stewart impression. Now that he's standing he's finding his own voice.
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I don't mind saying that the quality of his work is improving steadily.
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Really? I kind of found the opposite. It feels old hat.
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I find it's a mix. Be seems more comfortable, but the format seems like a backstep.
The format changes, especially the walking, are leaving me pretty lukewarm. It feels like it's not really adding anything so they seem superfluous and unnecessary. The same with the new opening tune. The old one needed an update but somehow the new one feels like it's trying too hard.
Really not impressed by Noah's interview style. He doesn't seem to have a good grasp of the flow of conversation just yet and his weird tangents seem even weirder than Jon's, and not in a good way. In other segments his style seems a bit closer to the other late night fare, which is a bit of a shame. Jon never sounded like that to me which kept him fresh. That's solely a taste thing though, it's not that his style is bad.
The main segments still have their old bite to them and are a pleasure to watch, so the whole picture isn't as bleak as I've painted it as. The format's still good and there are good writers and correspondents there plenty. Most of my gripes could just be put down to teething pains.
edited 20th Jan '16 5:56:17 PM by GabrieltheThird
Show's still good, but it's definitely a big step down from the Stewart era.
Stewart always looked like he was the butt of jokes - he was the one being made fun of, rather than the one poking fun. Remember all those times he said the name of the segment and it was, like, "John Stewart's Glory Hole" or something? Yeah, it was all pretty much self-deprecating humor, because that was John's thing.
Trevor Noah, on the other hand, seems like he's winking at us, that he's "in" on the joke. Which is a lot harder to take, because, uh, sometimes the joke's not funny. When it wasn't funny with Stewart, we didn't really care because Steward didn't care - he was the one being made fun of. But with Trevor, when the joke falls flat and he laughs (and yes, that is kind of annoying), it just doesn't work.
Now, I mean, he's getting better - the jokes are certainly better. But he's not at John's level and I don't know if he will ever get there because, honestly, John Stewart was a fucking master at self-deprecation.
When Stewart took over the show from Kilborn, he radically changed it to match his vision. Noah has not tried to do that at all; he's basically preserved the show's format and content and message. Whether this is good or bad will be for posterity to decide, but I do still enjoy watching it.
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