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[Daily Show, Nightly Show, Last Week Tonight, & Full Frontal] Noah makin' it rain!
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The Daily Show has seen one spinoff come to an end, yet like Hydra, two have risen to take its place. With Jon Stewart retiring this year, Trevor Noah has been given the nod to take up his role. No one knows when exactly that will be, but the current rumour/estimate is later this year.
John Oliver, having done such an exemplary job as the guest host while Jon was filming Rosewater, has been given his own show, and is knocking it out of the park once a week on Sundays.
Larry Wilmore has taken up Colbert's old slot following the Daily Show.
This thread is to discuss those shows and their topics/segments. While there's no hard and fast rule, in general if something is big enough to discuss for several days, it might deserve its own thread, or perhaps even have one already, where that discussion would be better served.
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Here's the mainstream summary of the lead argument: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline
Pretty sure he meant bullets.
I had heard a bit about lead before but actually in the context that the younger generations have higher IQ's than their parents because of it.
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TLDR: The best correlation for the rise and decline of violent crime is rise and fall of leaded gasoline. The study wasn't just on one area, but on many areas. Violence in lightly leaded areas was lighter than heavier leaded areas. The same with higher violence areas, the lead was also higher. The research also correlates with other countries that banned leaded gasoline, but in accordance with the time table of their lead ban. Police actions, social economics, and other factors count, but they vary wildly from area to area. Lead is so far the only constant between regions, that's why I personally believe it holds up
The reason it's a theory is cause there is a time delay between children being poisoned and then growing up to commit violent crime. It's difficult to prove, because who (aside from fuel companies) would poison thousands children to confirm or deny it?
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Who the fucking hell decided that came within a million miles of satisfying the 5th amendment?
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God this show is hilariously depressing in a way TDS and Colbert just can't match.
I was reading an interview John did somewhere where he was saying HBO is giving them a lot of leeway, that if they want to do any hour-long specials they can, that HBO is open to the possibility of the show being longer or more times a week. Ah, it's from Rolling Stone ("20 Things You Learn Hanging Out With John Oliver"). His answer to that was "This show is exhausting to produce in 30-minute form, and it's intense enough to watch that I'm worried that at 60 minutes, it could be exhausting to watch." He is totally right about that, I think.
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Though probably better than Chuck Todd.
A bar so low Hermes Conrad can't get under it.
Too low for James Cameron to reach?
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I think one factor in his declining the offer is that he could no longer use the, "I'm just a comic!" defense to respond to criticism.
"To make fun of" is a markedly different purpose than "To inform", and criticizing Stewart/Colbert (not so much Oliver) for doing the former rather than the latter misses the point entirely - even if they do a better job of the latter than some organizations for whom the latter is their stated purpose. It should be an indictment of these other supposed "news" organizations, rather than a "criticism" of a comedy show.
No-one goes around criticizing Minecraft for not promoting itself as a logic circuit teaching tool to schools, even if many people find it more fun to create logic circuits in Minecraft than in dedicated education packages.
But John Oliver sure does like to a take a joke and ram it into the ground. He tends to yell the punchline over and over and over again as though the louder and more repetitive it is, the funnier.
his delivery is not great, though his material itself is good
Considering that most of the time the punch line comes from either the absurdity of the situation being talked about or how mind-numbingly depressing the issue is I tend to read his delivery less like he's getting to the punch line and more like he's just genuinely flabbergasted at how bullshit the stuff he normally talks about is.
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Often accompanied by statements noting that they didn't believe it themselves, that it's actually true/not exaggerated, etc.
John's big (often going viral) videos on subjects seem to attract these a lot.
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And this was the ringtone. Truly glorious.
minhaj is... indian right? so we're probably getting a senior hindu correspondent
I'm pretty sure they already had one of those. Hell, they even have a senior junior senior hindu from the northern 10% of India correspondent.
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Jon or a guest? Seems like the kind of stupid thing Jon would say that made me stop watching nearly as much.
EDIT: Looked up the guest. Also seems like the kind of stupid thing Matt Bai would say.
That is until you look at local elections and you see Chevron dumping one million dollars in a town in California against one guy with a budget of $22,000.
Then you can either do unto others, or die.
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I believe the consensus was "Mauled by a Bear".
The Democratic Party spending more than the Republican Party isn't news. Obama outspent McCain by a lot. So if that's all you're comparing, sure, it makes the Dems argument seem meh.
The difference is PACS and Super PACS. Conservative PACS outspend liberal PACS five to one, if memory serves.
That's what Pelosi and Reid were talking about Jon. Quit getting your news exclusively from Fox.
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Even when you know they're shit, too much exposure is still harmful to your health.
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Sweet Potato. It has everything that Pumpkin pie does without being composed of Pier 1 vomit.