I guess what could be considered a new era of The Daily Show has begun: the studio's moved from the Terra Incognita of the west side to Times Square, there's (obviously) a brand new (poorly-lit) set, and they're processing the video to look like film (a move I hate on pretty much any show).
Unfortunately, nothing else has changed. The first 15-20 minutes are Noah doing crappy dialects and worse impressions, they're doing that stupid thing of insert shots from the side while he talks into another camera, and he's still not a very good interviewer (which makes him a part of the continuum of current hosts). The oddest segments so far: a segment with Roy Wood, Jr., but seated across from each other at a table like they were hanging at a coffee shop, and Tuesday's panel with Gabrielle Union, which boiled down to "Wasn't the Met Gala awesome?" "Not as awesome as you!" "No, -you're- awesome!" --Dave Sikula On Monday, September 13, 2021 at 2:42:38 AM UTC-7 Dave Sikula wrote: > I think I've expressed how much I think Noah has driven TDS into a ditch. > Hopefully, things will improve once he's back in the studio this week, but > I'm sick to death of his terrible dialects, the pretty awful writing, and > probably the weakest lineup of correspondents in the show's history. > > On Sunday, September 12, 2021 at 4:51:04 PM UTC-7 Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote: > >> I have heard Noah do stand up and guest on panel shows… I like him much >> more in those capacities than I do as a host >> >> On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 4:43 PM Jon Delfin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> by Dominic Maxwell, who recently gave much less enthusiastic reviews to >>> Russell Brand, Olga Koch, and Simon Amstell >>> >>> >>> How good is Trevor Noah? I’ll tell you. After well over an hour of >>> queueing to get into this Greenwich enormodome via airport-style security >>> checks, I texted a friend to say that if this didn’t turn out to be the >>> greatest stand-up show of the year I’d have wasted my evening. Ninety >>> minutes later I texted again. “Evening not wasted. Face sore from laughing.” >>> >>> Noah, the 37-year-old South African host of American satire programme >>> The Daily Show, will take this tour to the US next. Yet while his material >>> about masks and Zoom and sci-fi film tropes will play anywhere, he here >>> added in UK-only material (the Euros final! Scousers! Punting in >>> Cambridge!) that showed off his prodigious gift for accents and for seeing >>> the big picture while making small details deliciously vivid. And somehow >>> he kept dancing between the daffy and the dark, the trivial and the epochal. >>> >>> The son of a Xhosa mother and Swiss-German father, Noah can cut through >>> racial and national stereotypes and preconceptions with accuracy and vim. >>> He was ironic yet acidic, cordial yet acute as he argued that Britain gets >>> more stick for colonialism than other European nations simply because it >>> lacks the sort of interesting cuisine that might compensate for its sins. >>> He suggested that the US was built on a spite towards the English that has >>> curdled into a spite towards other Americans. >>> >>> Written down, some of his topics could be considered hackneyed: the >>> French are haughty; white people love swimming but can’t dance. Yet every >>> time, he found something of his own to add. “Black people are dancing to >>> the beat,” he said. “White people are dancing to the lyrics.” And he always >>> made it look casual as he padded around the stage in combat trousers and a >>> hooded top, delighting a diverse audience of 20,000. He is a virtuoso, an >>> artist who conceals the art. He’s the new gold standard of stand-up. >>> >>> -- >>> 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/CABCcf4dYOrmU5WMdWxJmSPuZR%3DT76AhUTzYP2GFD2H-JohDQLw%40mail.gmail.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABCcf4dYOrmU5WMdWxJmSPuZR%3DT76AhUTzYP2GFD2H-JohDQLw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/251f3743-0080-4dfb-ae70-baea4bb586dfn%40googlegroups.com.
