That’s why he’s funny, IMO. He’s a big Marine Corps badass, and yet he acted just as goofy as the little Jewish guy. He was like Patrick Warburton Lite, and I love Warburton.
I do think Lewis Black needs to part amicably from TDS. His stand-up is fantastic, but his segments on TDS these days are limp. He’s just going through the motions, and acting like he’s telling jokes, but there’s just nothing there.
Did anyone else see the Even Stevphen reprise when Carrell was on The Colbert Report Thursday night? I got a kick out of it and they seemed to enjoy it very much.
My list would look something like this:
Back in the old days I liked A. Whitney Brown, Nancy Walls and Stacy Grenrock Woods. I don’t remember a lot of specific pieces they did so I’m not ranking them. I wasn’t a fan of Bakkedahl but I can’t remember any specific bits for him either. I like Kristen Schaal but she’s not on much. It’s too soon to rank Olivia Munn in my opinion. I liked her first segment and she’s easy on the eyes but I haven’t made up my mind yet.
I dunno, I thought his segment on Glen Beck’s Nazi Tourettes problem was really good.
You will now. You all will. Muuhahahahahaaaaaa!
The problem is that wasn’t anything we haven’t seen on TDS before, and Stewart mocks Beck better than Black did.
I don’t get the hate for Samantha Bee, I think she’s usually hysterical.
FUTURE SHOCK!
Never mind, scooped.
To each his or her own I guess. I don’t hate her, I just don’t think she’s funny…at all. Ditto for her husband, although he has better material to work with at times.
I like Larry Wilmore.
I’m not sure why he’d be seen as “one trick” any more than the British guy, the Muslim guy, the angry young black guy, the big doofus, or the woman on the rag.
Because Oliver, Mandvi, Cenac, Riggle, and Bee do more than simply act as Brit, Muslim, black, jock, and feminist stereotypes, whereas you know what Wilmore’s shtick is going to be as soon as Stewart turns to him. It does get kind of old.
Seriously? You don’t think most if not all of Larry Wilmore’s appearances follow the same pattern? He’s brought behind the desk to discuss some current topic related to African-Americans. He’s introduced as "Senior African-American Correspondent. He “surprises” Jon Stewart by saying things that seem to encourage and reinforce stereotypes of African-Americans. Jon Stewart protests at first, but then joins in. Larry Wilmore calls him a racist. Jon Stewart gets nervous and defensive. Larry Wilmore says “Gotcha!”
I’m not aware of anyone ever being introduced as the “Senior Big Doofus Correspondent” to address big-doofus issues on the show, although that would be funny.
The British guy actually does a lot of segments that don’t revolve around him being British, and those that do don’t adhere so consistently to the same, predictable formula. The “Muslim guy” and the “angry young black guy” do use their ethnicities a lot, but in a variety of ways. I think I may have missed the “the woman on the rag.” Is that a current recurring character?
Onomatopoeia read it right; I meant Samantha Bee. “On the rag” meaning, you know, a woman bitching about some damned woman thing.
Yes, Larry Wilmore’s appearances are all riffs on the same idea, and in my experience that’s true of all the others I listed as well. If somebody has a link to a clip that clearly runs counter to those, I’ll take a look; I’m sure most readers of the thread watch the Daily Show more faithfully than I, and I could have missed something.
But everything I’ve seen from them fits their respective patterns, and it it was always my understanding that this was kind of the point. My guess is that their slots would be less successful if they deviated much from type.
I like Sam Bee more than most, and I also like her husband.
As has been said, Oliver is very good, and the class of the current crop. Overall, I htink they have a very good group right now. I like Mandvi and Wyatt. Munn hasn’t grown on me yet, but she is still new.
Josh Gad is probably my least favorite right now, but he did do a decent job on the “obesity” piece a week or two ago. I laughed out loud when, in the middle of a stereotypical series of “fat people” camera shots, where they show people walking down the street from the neck to the thighs, he suddenly yelled at them to raise the camera up, and you saw the last one was him.
Colbert was obviously great. I also liked Ed Helms quite a bit. I thought Rob Corddry was good, but would have been better if he didn’t think that the funniest thing in the world was the idea of him giving oral sex to someone, and felt that he had to work it into every piece he did.