Oh, right, he's out of a job for having too many principles in Apple's vicinity.
Man, this century turned out so weird.
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
667 points (99.0% liked)
politics
18129 readers
3553 users here now
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect!
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
I kinda want his first big story to be the report on China and he titles it "TOO HOT FOR APPLE!"
I guess I missed what happened with Apple.
tl;dr - Apple told him he had creative control. Then he wanted to do a story on China that China didn't like and Apple said he couldn't do it, so he walked.
But capitalism promised me that doing business with China would make them more freedomer, not that capitalism would bow to auth's capital?
The daily show needs to just grant him a segment called the problem
load more comments
(22 replies)
He won't change any MAGA assholes' minds, but if we're lucky, he will change some independents' minds.
Or motivate apathetic folks.
This is the real way to win elections. It's a lot harder to change political opinions than it is to simply get people off their asses to vote. ~50% turnout in most elections, and that's true for both parties.
I just need some one to soothe me in these troubled times
Colbert, Meyers and Kimmel have been a big help there. I watch them on YouTube the next morning and all three have been hitting Trump hard.
load more comments
(2 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
I don’t care how many times I see this posted today I’m upvoting every single one of them
Jon Stewart is going to be on TV and Tucker Carlson is not. Nature is healing.
Please invite Tucker on as a guest.
The Jon Stewart Crossfire episode is still one of my favorite interviews ever. It might not have been Jon's shining moment, but it did cost Tuck his job. Though, thinking about it, tuck did pretty well for himself afterwards.
Oh God. Did Jon Stewart create Tuckers Fox success?
Kind of like Seth Meyers wondering if he was the catalyst for Trump to run for president after mocking him at the White House correspondents dinner.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Daily Show replacement search:
Fans: AUTHORITY IS NOT GIVEN TO YOU TO DENY THE RETURN OF THE KING
load more comments
(4 replies)
Nice, will definitely check it out. Haven’t watched since he left really.
I tried Noah. Dudes stand up is legitimately good, but his Daily Show stuff could be summed up as "what's all that about shrug". Just wasn't the right man for the job.
Yeah, and unfortunately, some of the correspondents seemed to be more about representation than being legitimately funny. I thought Noah was affable enough, but maybe too affable, if you know what I mean. I like Jon's persona very much and the format suits him well. Craig Kilborn's version of the show was barely memorable for me. I think I Tivo'ed it just because, but once Jon made it his own, I forgot all about the prior version.
The best thing on the show in recent years has been, ironically enough, a white dude - Jordan Klepper does standout work, especially when out talking to the magabunch. But he is rarely part of the show.
Comedy Central need to give him full employment, TBH. His show only lasted about a minute there, but it was great. The other funny people on there are the one white guy that is sort of the everyman and the white woman ( I think they were both given a chance to guest host too, and did pretty good), and then there is Ronnie Chang, who is usually hilarious. Love it when he's on the screen.
As for many other guest hosts and correspondents - I don't know, I guess some audiences confuse being very loud with actually being funny, but that is not my thing.
Desi Lydic seemed to be the most comfortable in that host chair. But I'd be perfectly happy with Klepper. Hard no from me on Ronnie Chang though. He's an alright in small doses kinda guy.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Don't sugarcoat it. Noah was pure garbage on the show. Makes me want to avoid anything he does like the plague.
load more comments
(2 replies)
That's because Trevor Noah was objectively a terrible choice to fill that roll.
He might of have been a fine choice to take over from Craig Kilborn's Daily Show, but not the deeply political satire show that Jon Stewart had turned it into.
His comedy isn't for me, but he's not an unfunny person. But his entire knowledge of American politics and culture seemed to mostly come from watching MSNBC, CNN, and reading the New York Times. His lack of nuance and a deeper understanding, well, it showed in the final product.
It's almost like they looked at how well Jon Oliver did as a guest host and just assumed he'd be a diverse Jon Oliver.
load more comments
(8 replies)
i really hope he a) brings some of the problem w/ jon stewart writers with him, because they did a great job there b) he gives desi lydic the host chair eventually and c) he refrains from doing that awful centrist "rally for sanity" nonsense this cycle since republicans pretty much want me dead as a trans person.
The "rally for sanity" was not centrist. It was a direct attack on the right wing media ecosystem
JS isn't much of a centrist
"Rally for sanity" was such a timely thing too, the naivety of appealing to people's reason is a lot more obvious now.
I got it confused with the Reason Rally at first, it's a pretty hilarious lineup in today's context, but another thing from that time in US politics.
load more comments
(2 replies)
While he is enlightened, he ain't no centrist.
Daddy's Home!
OH HAPPY DAY!!!!
Oh hell yes.
Put Michelle Wolf on all the time you cowards!
Is there any way to stream TDS? No way I'm getting cable for 1 show
They upload almost all the show in segments on YouTube a few hours later, though I don't know if that's geolocked in the US.
If it is just get a VPN and set it to Spain or something.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Paramount+ might have it, as Comedy Central falls under their network.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(4 replies)
Big fan of Stewart! So excited for this.
But can't stop thinking of the story that Hasan Minhaj was pushed out of this role. He was supposed to be at the front of this race, then The New Yorker does an "expose" in him, he gets dropped from the race and he makes a video where he has receipts against the New Yorker piece. So some people claim that it was done just to get him dropped from the race.
load more comments
(4 replies)
Oh glad to have him back. Frankly, I don't think Trevor did nearly as good a job. A few of the guest hosts were not too bad and quite a few were wayyyyy obnoxious and not all that funny at all.
Can he do it for another 16 years?
view more: next ›