# When threads don't fit perfectly in any forum, can there be a little more leeway?

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There is a P&E thread now and a Pit thread now.  
One thread in the Cafe to talk about the show and not politics needs to be allowed.

So my answer to the OP, is no.

If you want a politics thread put it in P&E.

> [@Politics on The Daily Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-on-the-daily-show/997619):
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> I’m making a thread here because The Daily Show will be, for the rest of the year, a political program. The show is not about Jon Stewart and his return. He’s there only one day a week; if that’s all anybody watches that’s their loss. Jordan Klepper is the host the rest of this week and the other four correspondents apparently will take turns doing three-day stints - maybe in pairs as they did late last year. People are rightfully criticizing Jon for his glaring bothsiderism on Monday. I’m dism…

Here is the Pit thread:

> [@Jon Stewart - Return to the Daily Show - The Pit Edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-return-to-the-daily-show-the-pit-edition/997614):
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> Splitting off from a Cafe Society [thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-returns-to-the-daily-show/996614/78). Jon Stewart is back on the Daily Show – Monday nights. His recent show took shots at both Biden and Trump – some would argue, in equal measure – for their cognitive status and abilities. Opinions … vary about whether or not Stewart did the right thing. Maybe this thread will ease the load on the other thread, and – more importantly – on our long-suffering moderators. So … let’s hear it?? ETA: The YouTube Vid of the show can be viewed [here (20min)](https://youtu.be/NpBPm0b9deQ?t=2). …

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