JS should actually pay Tucker Carlson to do stuff every week, because he is a never-fail foil. They could make him a Monday correspondent for the show, except instead of having to write and produce segments they just send him out into the world to be himself.
Would have been just funny, except the context that made TC relevant and worth talking about was one of the most heartbreaking, outrageous and momentous political murders of our time so, hard to laugh too much, when I was still wiping away the tears from reading pieces about Navalny and his widow like the one by Julia Iofee at Puck News. What I found most of note about Week 2 of the new Stew was how apparently pissed off he was at criticism of his both siding Trump and Biden, especially apparently at Mary Trump (who I think is the kind of person Stewart would like to have as a “Friend of the Show” during the Fall campaign). His brief response really confirmed for me how much he does not get it. The criticism is not that he owes it to democracy and Democrats to only make fun of Trump. JS painted himself as the heroic truth teller who had the balls to say out loud what everyone else knows but is afraid to say (that Biden is old). But of course that is the opposite of what is going on. For the last year at least Everyone has been joking and complaining about how old Biden is. There is nothing new, insightful or courageous in that. Stewart is telling hack jokes that are the equivalent of how bad airplane food is on the flight from LA to NY, ir how White people walk like this, but Black people walk like this, and pretending he is on the cutting edge. I don’t think most liberals expect or even want Stewart to give Biden a pass, just to put in the effort to make jokes that get at Biden’s real weaknesses or failures, and not designed to normalize and minimize Trump’s villainy. Sent from Gmail Mobile On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 6:20 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > Right, and that (lazy and obvious) is the real damming criticism for a > comic. Regardless of the political implications, his act has been hack - > nothing more than we might expect from the opening act on a week night at a > suburban comedy club. I think we have a right to expect more from him. > > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > > On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 1:31 PM Dave Sikula <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I watched the rest of the week because I like Klepper, but the other >> correspondents leave me cold. >> >> I suppose Stewart will hold onto his following, but the more I've seen >> him since he left the show the first time, the more I've disliked him. I >> don't think he's setting himself up for being harsher on Trump, though; >> for, what, a decade?, he's been too much "a pox on both your houses" for my >> tastes. I'm not saying that either the Dems or Biden haven't earned >> criticism, but what he does in that regard is lazy and obvious. >> >> --Dave Sikula >> >> On Friday, February 16, 2024 at 10:20:04 AM PST, M-D November < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Fun fact - it was only about 2 years ago that I finally realized that the >> "I want my MTV" riff from Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" is the same >> riff as The Police's "Don't Stand So Close to Me". I'm not sure how I >> managed to miss that for several DECADES, but there you are. >> >> I thought Jon's return succeeded where it needed to; yes, he leaned into >> "both choices are horrible" during act 1, but he quickly called himself out >> re: the "ravages of age"; the BFNTP got in some good shots at Stewart >> (particularly Dulce Sloan and Jordan Klepper) during act 2, so you get the >> feeling they were turning into the skid re: some of the criticism leveled >> at Stewart's return. >> >> >> -- >> 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/29563849.2893504.1708119085018%40mail.yahoo.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/29563849.2893504.1708119085018%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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/CAKGtkYLLrF6tkcPwspyPxt7-q1pPBe575bdFWWX9eenqKpV5Ew%40mail.gmail.com.
