That site had me thinking I had colon cancer due to chronic diarrhea.
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Every late night political comedy talk show sounds the same to me.
Blah blah blah lame joke blah blah blah lame joke
Definitely oversaturation
Whoever said that you can tell the jokes write themselves because they are hackey and repetitive had the right read. None of this shit is even funny at this point.
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John Oliver had his moments early on when heād do weird splurging of an apparently large HBO budget. Based on his recent shows, it seems that his showās budget got cut and the show has suffered due to that.
I saw John Oliver at a local casino when he was doing a stand up comedy tour, well before Last Week Tonight (or whatever itās called)āhe was really funny. Iāve always thought the show was trying too hard and definitely not a good use of his talents.
Last Week Tonight is? was? a good show but formulaic and I ended up getting sick of it. The others are not good. Apparently the Daily Show under Trevor Noah is getting all time high ratings, which is amazing because itās pretty much unwatchable imo.
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The employees might prefer if the owner didnāt get out of that business.
Yeah I saw him do standup live on NYE maybe 3 years ago and he was pretty funny. His show is painfully unfunny to me.
John Oliverās show? I donāt watch it a lot, but I think itās good. Itās not funny though. The jokes are the bad part.
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Those shows are way overproduced to snatch up the lowest common denominator. If you break formula, use too much innuendo, too much sarcasm, too much complexity, you probably lose like one third to half of the viewers right off the top. Same reason every sports show is about TIM TEBOW and JOHNNY FOOTBAW.
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Yeah I mean the show isnāt bad, it has good deep dives on various topics. Itās one of the few tv shows I watch that is consistently educational, to me at least. I almost wish theyād just drop the comedy entirely, though.
Agreeāif thereās going to be humor, I much prefer that worked into the segment rather than the minute-long shouty metaphors that he launches into from time to time.
I miss Jon Stewart.
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I guess Iām going against the grain here, but I like Last Week Tonight a lot.
I still am a weekly watcher of the YouTube clips but laughs definitely donāt come all that often.
The last one that got me good was the Turkmenistani dictator piece.
Yea I should have caveatedāI still watch ~every episode, but mostly for the long-form pieces which I find pretty informing/interesting.
Trying to find an in-network dermatologist - surprisingly complicated. And always fun to do at work when you canāt make phone calls w/o 10 people hearing.
Are there any non-5-star doctor review on Yelp? I donāt trust them at all on this. Literally every single review is 5-star for every doctor Iāve looked at.
Those John Oliver derail ājokesā are so formulaic, itās like:
OLIVER: AND IF YOUāRE NOT FAMILIAR WITH STEVE MNUCHIN, I KNOW YOUāRE FAMILIAR WITH HIS WIFE [PAUSE WHILE GRAPHIC LOADS], MISS CRUELLA DE VIL.
[LAUGHTER]
OLIVER: YES, THATāS RIGHT, THE DOG KILLER FROM THE MOVIE ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIONS.
[CUED LAUGHTER]
OLIVER: NOW SHEāS BACK FOR THE SEQUEL, ONE HUNDRED AND ONE BEN FRANKLINSā¦
[CACKLES FROM AUDIENCE]
OLIVER: ā¦THAT THEYāVE FRESHLY MINTED FROM PELTING OUR DEMOCRACY. FUCK YOU, MISSES DISNEY VILLAIN LADY! FUCK. YOU.
[UPROARIOUS LAUGHTER]
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What are they even reviewing? The competency of the doctor? How many patients are going to be able to correctly ascertain that? Seems like it will basically be a review for bedside manner or if the office staff can tie their own shoes.