I loved the Convention coverage from 4 years ago, been really looking forward to seeing the Daily Show take on the conventions again. Last night was good, not great. Lotta funny, but I thought the only really funny bit was the sequence with the anti-Obama Hillary supporters.
Still, “Guess Who’s Coming to Denver” is a great title for the special coverage.
Yeah, I don’t see why they couldn’t have done most of last night’s bits on Monday instead of just airing a rerun. Still, while this may be fun, next week will be golden. 
Oh, man, that was brilliant.
Boy, I really am stupid, I just got that now.
Yeah, it’s a great title. Tuesday’s just seemed like a setup for the rest of the week. I suspect they’ll be funnier.
Wow. Looking forward to this so much, I’m really disappointed.
Two more shows left- Since they don;t usually do Friday shows I was worried tonight would be it (which would mean, being a day behind they’d miss the Obama speech), but according the the Comedy Central website there will be a Friday episode this week.
John Oliver, who is perfectly capable of delivering the funny, delivered a lackluster segment about healing the Party’s Hillary-Obama rift. The barely funny segment was preceded by an over-long and strangely awkward intro by Oliver and Stewart.
My hopes soared when Jon introduced a segment by both Samantha Bee and Wyatt Cenac- both of whom I love (Wyatt hasn’t really been given a chance to shine on the show yet, but I’ve for years been digging the work he’s been doing in the clubs around L.A., particularly his work at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater). Beyond the default level of happiness I automatically feel just seeing Samantha Bee on screen, it was pretty lame segment- two really really funny people, but a lame segment.
And the interview with Howard Dean was just painful. Stewart and Dean were both in the same city, they couldn’t have managed a set-up that didn’t impose such an interview crippling time delay??? Colbert interviewed an astronaut in outer space with no more delay than the Daily Show interview that only had to span the city of Denver. Dean did use the opportunity to make a joke comparing the time delay to the time delay in John McCain’s head- not a great joke, but for someone who doesn’t work in Comedy thinking on his feet, it was a pretty good joke.
Overall, really disappointing episode.
Two more left. Here’s hoping for marked improvement.
Yeah, “Guess Who’s Coming to Denver” is the best thing about the coverage so far. There isn’t really much to make fun of other than the crazy Hillary people. Once the republican convention starts, though, things will get interesting.
let me in on the joke/title please
It is a play on the classic movie, “Guess who is coming to Dinner”
This was the 1967 movie where Sidney Poitier is the unexpected fiancee of Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn’s daughter.
I’d say the funniest parts were the last half of Friday’s episode where you just had the entire staff pulling all sorts of hijinks with conventioneers, journalists (esp. Anderson Cooper) and anyone unfortunate enough to be in the way. Nothing prolonged–mostly drive-by stunts–but quite funny and deadpan. Dems tend to be good sports about it, wonder how things will go in M/StP.