I am going to defend Carvey a little: 1. His Biden was 1000% better than Jim Carrey’s
2. Carvey has repeatedly said that his approach to impressions is more to find a phrase and a gesture to exaggerate than to imitate their sound. In many ways I thought he did a good job of capturing some of Biden’s idiosyncrasies, but the choice to focus on him as being super mellow to calm Trump-rattled nerves sidesteps other aspects of his presentation. And in this case Carvey seems to have completely ignored trying to sound like his target. 3. Carvey is vastly overrated by those who love him, but that doesn’t mean he is horrible. For me he is the Derek Jeter of comedians- not the #1 best of all time, but even if he is only the 75th best player of all time he still deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 at 10:00 PM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/3967f2d9-224d-4e7c-825f-d10034d964fbn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/3967f2d9-224d-4e7c-825f-d10034d964fbn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLKKa6uEGYXsJo7GD2VF-1jhUMOV50rNok-P6Ve7D9v%2BA%40mail.gmail.com.
