I like Dan Bakkedahl (one of the new correspondents).
I like Bakkedahl, Bee, and both Corddrys.
(That “Brother vs. Brother” routine last night was summer-camp skit painful, though.)
I agree with folks who’ve said that some bits often fall really flat – but when it clicks, it’s gold. Harvey and I warm ourselves in these golden moments.
I like him too… a lot. I think he’s got real potential to become one of the great ones. It would be difficult for anyone to come right in and make an impression while trying to fill the shoes of Colbert/Carrell (I’d imagine it’d be just as difficult for Colbert/Carrell in this situation).
But when Dan Bakkedahl did the segment with the superman impersonator:
(paraphrased)
Dan: I once fought myself in a parking lot too
SM: What happened?
Dan: I lost.
SM: Well, at least one half of you won.
Dan: (with the perfect facial expression and comic timing) I don’t think anyone won that day.
It’s that kind of improvisational talent that separates the ones who have it from those who don’t.
Frankly, I haven’t seen “it” in Samatha Bee’s husband (forgot his name).
Nate Cordry comes off with an unlikeable arrogance IMHO, probably because he looks so young.
I still consider both TDS and TCR essential TV.
Yeah, that’s always the first thing I think of when I think of him - that exact exchange.
His bum-vertising segment was also great.
Is that Jason Jones? They seem to like him for the Washington stuff, he’s got that kind of quality about him. (Somebody else said that he did a little acting, including an appearance in one of the Left Behind movies!) But Bakkedahl seems like the funniest of the new crop.
Demitri Martin’s segments put me to sleep, I have to say. I think I see him the way some of the posters to this thread see Jon Stewart. Everything about Trendspotting - content, style, delivery - seems really lazy, and as a result he comes across (to me) as a guy who’s enamored of himself.
Me too, but I just assumed it’s because I’m not in that demographic. I get that he’s a total caricature of the sort of young person that exists largely in the venal imaginations of marketing executives, but it’s still hard for me to watch or find humour in.
Maybe it’s infectious apathy.
Demitri Martin’s segment on My Space was funny last week.
I haven’t seen any others that I remember.
Jim
What would be disingenuous about that?