Interesting - we had the exact opposite take on this. Re Oliver:I don’t think his Hill interview was really about the jokes, and that is why I liked it.
Re Colbert: What bothers me about his take was that it struck me as fundamentally dishonest - something I do not associate with him. It seemed like he was trying to have it both ways: create the impression that he was dangerously speaking truth to power, even though he reallly didn’t make any jokes specifically about the charges, and in his desk top did not say anything beyond that sexual assault is bad, and anyone found to have done it should suffer the consequences. On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 12:10 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought Oliver's interview with Anita Hill mostly fell flat because the > jokes didn't work. Perhaps he should have done a shorter serious interview. > > Colbert's response of calling Moonves an important supporter but saying > the guilty need to be held accountable was interesting. I was surprised he > devoted so much time to it. > > Not sent from an iPhone > On Jul 31, 2018, at 7:28 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. > -- 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.
