Amazing to see Jon back. I watched The Daily Show with Jon Stewart obsessively for years, and never thought to see this again. He's still got it. Just a few more white hairs.
I liked the Apple TV show, too. The podcast was one of my absolute go-to's every week, even if I was not that interested in the topic. He said something in one of them similar to the idea he had at the end of Monday's TDS where he said that if you want to do change, it takes hard work on the local level. If you want to get out of the mind-fuck that is national politics in the US (and I'd argue in most places), you need to actually pay attention to what is happening in your own neighborhood and try to fix that.
Just watching the beginning and seeing him scribble on a piece of paper gave me chills. Such a little thing but I've never seen anyone else do that, and I guess it just means the Daily Show is about to start!
Some More News sort of does this. There's a bunch of blank papers in front of Cody that's basically a prop to shuffle around. I bet it was inspired by Jon.
I think Colbert is happy to be done with that character. Besides, it's been proven that no matter how ridiculous the character gets, people will still vote for it
I’d almost argue that the Colbert Report is more relevant now because it was a satire of Fox News and right wing news has gotten even more crazy than it was 10+ years ago.
My hot take is that he’s also much better when given constrained time. The Problem was interesting, but his comedy and commentary is forced to be much more clear and concise on the Daily Show. And when something bombs, the Daily Show doesn’t leave time to wade through a segment that isn’t working.
Not a bad take. I agree he's funnier in the constrained time, but I also liked the The Problem where he had more time for thoughtful discussions, interviews and debates. A lot less funny though.
I found this concerning too, until I watched the beginning again. He was chewing on his lip during the intro, and they might have done a few takes of that shot. He says superbowl perfectly fine at 8:11
I've seen some complaints about him not going hard enough on Trump and trying to do a false equivalency with Biden being old. I don't see that. My impression was he was trying to appear impartial at first so when he does go hard on Trump later people won't question his motives. It's a marathon not a sprint.
Also by him saying they are both old he takes that issue off the table when comparing the two. So now it's not "one has dementia, the other is a fascist". It becomes "one is not a fascist, and the other is a fascist".