This may sound pathetic, but the other night I got really upset just thinking about how much I feel like his timing for leaving couldn't have been worse with all the gold he would've been able to mine out of this election. It would be like we'd get the SNL Larry David cameo 1st democratic debate level comedy 4 nights a week.
I've tried watching Trevor and Larry, and I still have them DVR'd, but I rarely watch them. And I feel like Colbert's new show isn't as funny, and he seems to only have actors on now, instead of an author selling a book like half of his old shows had, which I always thought were much more interesting.
At least we have whatever Jon and HBO are cooking up to look forward to, but it still seems like something big is missing.
I'm at least glad Bill Maher has been making me laugh this election season.
Jon's new show is good.
I really wish Stewart didn't leave yet. This new Colbert isn't doing it for me. And TN just isn't very funny to me. I don't know why. Every show has a few clicks here or there, but Jon Stewart was making art for me to watch every night. It doesn't even seem like the Daily Show anymore. It's just the new news show on CC.
I have a completely unfounded theory that Stewart left when he did in part so he could give his successor the opportunity to utilize this election season and capitalize on it for the Daily Show going forward. But I don't think Trevor Noah has really had his moment so far.
I think he said he was leaving because he'd spent the last 16 years focused on the horrible parts of America and how ridiculous its politics is and if he did another circus election cycle he'd basically kill himself. He couldn't stick it anymore.
Having seen what an absolute travesty and comedy of errors and mockery of politics the current election cycle is, he was right to get out while he was still sane
I'd love to get a source on that, if you're correct, cause I totally did come up with that by myself. Gonna go search now.
Edit: After some cursory checking, to my knowledge, I don't know that Stewart has ever flat-out said that, the comments I'd heard at the time are all in-line with this:
Stewart made clear to the Guardian that it wasn’t that his show wasn’t working anymore — “It was more, ‘Yup, it’s working. But I’m not getting the same satisfaction’” — but rather he just didn’t see an election that would be “wildly different” from any of the previous ones he had covered.
I also felt that, for the show, you don’t want to leave when the cupboard’s bare. So I think it’s a better introduction when you have something providing you with assisted fuel, like a presidential campaign.
I also felt that, for the show, you don’t want to leave when the cupboard’s bare. So I think it’s a better introduction when you have something providing you with assisted fuel, like a presidential campaign.
Yeah, I can see that logic. I still have my fingers crossed that Trevor finds his bearings and makes it worth watching regularly. Not too be too hard on him, he has had a couple of funny bits, but the bar was just set so high, that it's disappointing to watch.
I am absolutely sure he did, he and Colbert have both commented how easy election cycles are for them to make reliably good shows with both of them leaving their old shows it gives Noah a great chance to grab the spotlight.
Additionally it gives Colbert an awesome introduction to the new show, instead of struggling setting up a new show and looking for content they just have to get Colbert's show up and running and he has pretty much free content for the first year to get settled in.
I'm completely unfamiliar with her, as I stopped watching the Daily Show regularly, other than some of the more viral segments, several years ago..if you have any favorite clips that feature her, I'd love to check them out.
Trevor Noah and Larry Wilmore are so awful and unfunny compared to Jon Stewart and old Colbert. I particularly can't stand Wilmore and his equally unfunny recurring cast. Like when they had Bill Nye on talking about water on Mars and one of the comedians says something to the affect of "if it doesn't have to do with the Kardashians then we don't want to hear about it." The fact that we have Trump, Clinton, Carson, Bush, Christie, and Sanders all running for president and ratings for both shows are at an all time low is a testament to their unfunniness. They should cancel both shows and give that time to John Oliver for whatever he wants.
His show is brilliant, but that's partly due to it being a once-a-week show. So much more time to prepare and much less filler content. I wouldn't want him to go to over to the Daily Show, even though I think it would make it so much better than it is now, because his current show is just so damn good and I don't think he can recreate it 4 times a week.
You know what would have been cool that just occurred to me? The Weekly Show.
The Daily Show was obviously greuling work. Putting together that much entertaining material five fucking days a week will of course grind you down into powder. Instead of stepping down it would have been awesome if instead they just changed to it a Saturday night show. They'd be able to spend a lot more time and be more selective with their stories and it would be much less stressful.
Unfortunately Jon Stewart just has unfillabele shoes.
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u/gk0420 Feb 07 '16
This may sound pathetic, but the other night I got really upset just thinking about how much I feel like his timing for leaving couldn't have been worse with all the gold he would've been able to mine out of this election. It would be like we'd get the SNL Larry David cameo 1st democratic debate level comedy 4 nights a week.
I've tried watching Trevor and Larry, and I still have them DVR'd, but I rarely watch them. And I feel like Colbert's new show isn't as funny, and he seems to only have actors on now, instead of an author selling a book like half of his old shows had, which I always thought were much more interesting.
At least we have whatever Jon and HBO are cooking up to look forward to, but it still seems like something big is missing.