I can see where, given his past popularity, people might want to defend
Stewart that way, but for me, the opposing evidence is that 1) Stewart doesn't
do character work that way Colbert did, 2) Colbert was apparently unprepared
for it and couldn't react to it in any effective way (either by reining him in
or responding comedically), and 3) Stewart's proclivity for calling out what he
sees as bullshit in an emphatic way.
My feeling was that Stewart thinks there's some kind of coverup (and there may
well be, but we don't know) and wanted to call attention to it in the only way
he could. That he came off as an obsessive lunatic is an unfortunate
side-effect. It was a Q-level rant.
--Dave Sikula
On Wednesday, June 16, 2021, 9:59:16 AM PDT, Jim Ellwanger
<[email protected]> wrote:
I didn’t see the episode, but I’ve seen people on Twitter opining that Jon
Stewart’s rant was supposed to be satire, along the lines of him doing Stephen
Colbert’s “Colbert Report” character at the current incarnation of Colbert.
(Presumably, it wasn’t particularly successful, given that Dave thought it was
Maher-esque, as opposed to Colbert-ish.)
On Jun 16, 2021, at 9:34 AM, M-D November <[email protected]> wrote:
Not making excuses for Colbert & company, but given that H.E.R. was promoted in
the logline for Monday's show, I wonder if they didn't have to make some last
minute changes which threw everyone off? I'm also sort of curious to know what
got edited out of the Jon/Stephen segments that might have provided some
context to that whole Wuhan rant. (Although the closing bit about Jews aging
like avocados made me properly laugh out loud.)
Truth be told, I'd rather have seen Jon go on his rant for an extra segment
than sit through Carvey's Biden impression again. Even by modern SNL
standards, it was terrible. (Which could have been forgiven if it was well
written, which...no.)
On Wednesday, June 16, 2021 at 1:00:02 AM UTC-4 Dave Sikula wrote:
I'd imagine no one will be surprised to learn I thought the return show was a
dismal failure, since it never recovered from whatever the hell Carvey was
doing. I know he and Colbert go way back, and that a lot of comedians who find
him influential (but then they also feel that way about Farley, Sandler, and
Spade). I've always been baffled that anyone could find him anything less than
annoying, and last night was a prime example. On top of that, Stewart's
morphing into Maher -- or at least into a first-class crank -- is now complete,
what with his unending COVID rant.
I imagined there would be glitches going back to live shows, but didn't think
it would be this bad. I just don't think Colbert quite knows what to do without
the former guy to bitch about.
--Dave Sikula
On Tuesday, June 15, 2021 at 6:44:24 AM UTC-7 PGage wrote:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/15/media/stephen-colbert-audience-coronavirus/index.html
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