Somewhat related, AMC should do everything it can to continue "Unapologetic" with Aisha Tyler. What started out as an after-show (for "Dietland") morphed into a powerful alternative to (white/male) late-night fare, and it deserves to stick around.
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 10:28 AM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I wanted to take note of what a great job John Oliver did Sunday Night on > this topic. He told jokes but toned down the snark. Highlight for me was > his closing interview, in which he kept in a few segments which made him > look less than woke. > > Interesting contrast was Colbert’s take on Moonves last night. I am not > sure what to make of it. On the one hand he gets credit for commenting on > the situation in two segments, on the air that Monves controls and gave him > access to. OTOH, the few jokes he told in The Monologue were mostly about > himself and the situation he was in with his powerful boss in the > headlights, not about Les. And his attempt at Letermanesque honesty in the > second segment felt flat to me - mostly “Sexual Harrassment is bad” plus > “Les has been very good to me.” He did emphasize that the hammer has to > fall on guilty parties regardless if you like them or not, but he did not > acknowledge that he seemed to be slower to drop his comedy hammer on “his” > guy than other guys. > > I have noted that I think the court of popular opinion should await the > outcome of some credible investigation, but even so, I think if it was the > head of any other network we would have gotten a few more pointed jokes. > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
