The best take on sexual harassment so far on late night was when The Mash Report host Nish Kumar stepped back and let a woman handle the subject.
https://youtu.be/TMfStd3v330 On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 8:26 PM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > One thing I noticed was that Jon Batiste was deathly quiet during the desk > piece, even in those certain parts of the piece where he'd normally be > tinkling or screaming. > > Mark Jeffries > Saints Spotlight Editor > [email protected] > > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 9:51 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. >> > -- > 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. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- 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.
