Served up to me by the y/t algorithm for some reason (I clear cookies after every session, otherwise it would be a weird mix of climbing vids, 'not my job' construction-worker fails, and people restoring rusty WW1-era pick-axes):
'Sugar Vladdy' har har har (not) - what kind of moron would watch this and find it funny?
'As you know, October 7th marks the one year anniversary, the horrific attack against Israeli citizens, the kidnapping of hostages, many of whom have died, many of whom are still being held. Since then, there's also been a horrific war in Gaza, which doesn't seem to have gotten us any closer to getting those hostages released [...] The whole point was we're gonna downgrade Hamas, we're gonna attack the terrorists there, we're gonna get the hostages home[...]'
Wow, what a thorough, in depth, evidence-based, critical analysis(!) Then a tired, unfunny segment about pagers, making fun of a terrorist attack in which thousands of people were maimed, real classy. Didn't know he was back on the show, and it doesn't make me want to watch it any more, knowing what he's been up to in recent years, eg: https://thegrayzone.com/2022/08/31/jon-stewart-pentagon-ukrainian-nazi-disney/
Posted by Morrissey on October 12, 2024, 1:04 am, in reply to "Jon Stewart"
JOHN OLIVER: Venezuela. Not to be confused with Venezuela, which is just Ben Affleck FUCKING A VUVUZELA!"
AUDIENCE: Hahahahahahaha!
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Re: John Oliver
Posted by RaskolnikovX on October 12, 2024, 7:14 am, in reply to "John Oliver"
That Venzuela segment was, rightly, condemned as the worst of that sort of late-night comedian chat-show propaganda and he should never be allowed to forget it.
However, he did this recently, and the fact that it appeared on US TV at all is pretty astonishing. It is almost like an E.I. video (obviously not really but relatively, compared to the normal coverage allowed on these shows).
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AS for Jon Stewart, he was one of the good guys for a long time, but he is a perfect demonstration of how just the fact that you are in that position alters what you can say and shows how the filters come into play immediately, even on light entertainment. Since coming back to the chair (why he did that I don't know, he earned more than enough money to do whatever he wanted, champion whatever causes he wanted) he has been on steady downward slide, regressing to the mean of the late-night supposedly edgy talk show host. They let him have his first couple of come-back shows being as edgy and truthy as he wanted to be, but then (from what I've seen in passing) it's back to the norm. Sad really. He's much better than that.
The worst fall of all of them is Colbert (unless Maher is in the converstation and he's always the bottom of the pile). I'm starting to think he (Colbert) was always a reactionary, establishment hack and was only acting before, rather than now so it's more a reveal/unmasking than a fall.
Also, Samantha Bee is a toxic tnuc and hands down is the worst of the lot (but that's obviously sexist and I'm only saying that because she's female...apparently). She did her duty savaging Bernie and there was something else that she did that really turned me against her a few years ago but I can't dredge it up right now.
I don't regularly watch any of these people though and they are only comedians in the sense that they have comedians writing for them. ...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
I'll never forget Stewart's smarmy "Team Civilization" quip after the Charlie Hebdo shoootings.
Posted by Morrissey on October 12, 2024, 5:19 pm, in reply to "Re: John Oliver"
All her humour is black, and unintentional, of course.
'It should have been you'?
Posted by Ian M on October 12, 2024, 7:26 pm, in reply to "Re: John Oliver"
Rask said: 'Also, Samantha Bee is a toxic tnuc and hands down is the worst of the lot (but that's obviously sexist and I'm only saying that because she's female...apparently). She did her duty savaging Bernie and there was something else that she did that really turned me against her a few years ago but I can't dredge it up right now. '
I actually found her appearances on the old Daily Show quite amusing, before she found her calling as a Hilary Clinton groupie and all-round dreadful sh!t-lib. Here she is, close to tears, introducing Clinton for a 'women in the world summit' back in 2017 (warning, sick bag required):
I agree with you on her and the old Daily Show. I acrually think she could have the best comedic chops of all of them, maybe after J.S.
I also agree on her turn to blue-dog, Hill-shill and now she's like Neera Tanden but with comedy writers.
The West Bank segment from Oliver is pretty astonishing for a mainstream US show, while still showing plenty of the constraints that come with the big contract. Just calling it apartheid is fairly ballsy.
...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Wow, that vuvuzela 'joke' really tickled my un-funny bone... (nm)
Posted by Ian M on October 12, 2024, 6:55 pm, in reply to "John Oliver"
on October 11, 2024, 3:50 am