First, Steve Carell is back! Whoop! He finally reappeared last night as the show’s senior race relations analyst.
Second, has John finally sold out, or is he doing a favor for a friend? He’s been consistently pimping Colin Quinn’s abysmal show at the end of TDS. Didn’t he not so long ago refuse to have the guys from “Battlebots” on, despite pressure from Comedy Central?
I’m assuming that he’s just doing a favor for Colin since they’re friends, not that it’ll matter for long. That show is awful awful awful.
correct. jon, colin, chris rock etc are all freinds from back when they did stand-up together in nyc. colin quinn is frighteningly unfunny - he makes pat robertson look like carl reiner. if I had quinn’s agent I’d be the sultan of brunei
I think he’s plenty funny as a writer, he just has dead-fish delivery.
The show was OK last night, there’s plenty of worse stuff out there. Unfortunately, I don’t really dig on a bunch of comedians competing to see who’s the funniest.
Quinn’s show is just one of those “what did they pass on if this was the best idea pitched to them?” deals. It’s too unstructured and too “look at us look at us we’re talking naughty”. It’s like POLITICALLY INCORRECT minus the occasional wit. (Now I think a good show would be POLITICALLY INCORRECT minus Bill Maher; he was the first hard evidence I ever saw that a show could have a host who was more annoying, more obnoxious, and whinier than Phil Donahue.)
BTW, do some of the interviewees on The Daily Show actually not realize they’re being interviewed for a comedy program? Some of them actually seem earnest even when telling the most ridiculous stories.
Last post, I promise: Stewart’s most brilliant moment in the past few weeks was his savaging of the Whitney Houston/Bobby Brown interview. Last night’s interview with John Cusack was really awkward, though, and I’d like to have heard more about the movie MAX.
According to TDS - they’re all real people thinking that they’re interviewing for a real news program. You’ll see people laughing on occasion at the bizarre questions from the reporters, but a lot of 'em are dead serious.
I think Jon was pimping the Colin Quin show because it was a network thing. Like how the guys who call football games don’t give a damn if we watch the Very Special Episode of Providence or ER or Judging Amy (or whatever), but the network makes them plug the show during downtimes anyway.
Nah, with Battlebots we can safely assume that Jon didn’t pimp for the network, because he constantly trashed that show (which pissed me off, btw, because not only was it a fun show to watch, it was one of the few things on TV that was both fun for kids and encouraged them to learn in school).
Yep. He mentioned off-handedly one time that he refused to have the hosts on as guests.
Incidentally, I don’t think Jon had a problem with the show per se, he just didn’t think it was funny. IMO he was right - that show had no place on a comedy channel.
