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".
I don't know why Jon went back other than money. Daily Show has been on life support since he left and he's only doing the Monday shows until they can find a permanent host. This isn't going to last. Whoever they find is going to be just as lackluster as Kilborn at the best or as awkward as Noah at worst.
Yeah Jon Stewart, the guy who is famously all about the money lol. Also everyone knows it's not going to last because all the marketing says he's a temporary host only on Mondays... What exactly is the point of your post here? You've provided no new or interesting information but seem desperate to neg TDS and are failing to do so miserably. This is one of the dumbest takes I've seen in a while.
A few things probably, because CC surely isn't throwing money around.
He needed a break
Apple cancelled his other show because he talked shit about some things they didn't like, effectively censoring him.
That's what the opening here was about with the topics he feels free to discuss on TDS. He doesn't want to be boxed in, and TDS gives him the platform to say what he wants to say, and just doing Mondays is a fair way to get involved again as a creative voice on the show, and let everyone else associated with it get reinvigorated about it as well after months of it being in limbo. I expect the ratings to climb again now that he's back. The content of this one show speaks for itself. He's great here.
I mean clearly not. The dude took years off after the Daily Show, made this Apple show, it gets shitcanned because Apple is Apple and Jon is now upset he doesn't have a platform anymore. That's not looking for a break. That's looking for a platform. Now that's perfectly fine because plenty of people do that bit it's kinda ridiculous for him or anyone to assume he's looking for a break when he's actively increasing his workload considering he was unemployed three weeks ago.
Tevor Noah was really good, but he's not on Stewart's level, and unfortunately it seemed like all of the pressure and attacks on Noah really started eating at him, I hope Noah finds his groove again and continues to do good, but I'm glad Jon is back, we needed his gravitas for what we're facing politically this year.