At a certain point, they stopped having a full guest panel, and it was just 2 show contributors and a single guest. So for the past few months, it was really just "Larry and 2 contributors discuss shit, and occasionally the guest will chime in".
Felt like the team was firmly in "no more fucks to give" mode from what I saw/heard last night before falling alseep. I don't usually make it to the panel discussion, but have been enjoying the first one or two segments each week for a while now.
Mike Yard won last night. It was great.
Also I really felt that the nightly show gave me a look at the minority viewpoint on shit that is going on. Samantha Bee is great, as are John and Jon, but as far as being black or another minority they were still reporting on the outside of the issue (Less so Samantha since being a woman there is still a ton of marginalizing and discrimination going on). I'll miss that voice and insight that Larry and his crew brought.
As a minority Larry and his crew had very little appeal to me. They certainly don't speak for all.
At a certain point, they stopped having a full guest panel, and it was just 2 show contributors and a single guest. So for the past few months, it was really just "Larry and 2 contributors discuss shit, and occasionally the guest will chime in".
Which was for the best, since at least most of the Nightly people were dependably funny, while being no less informed than the random celebs. Still annoying when Rory or Ricky would whine about Hillary being a liar or some other low-hanging false equivalence jokes, but Larry actually shut that shit down the last time. He needed to do more of that.
I had originally thought it would've more of a My Dinner with Andre sort of thing. People just sitting and talking about whatever topic.
The monologue/skit at the open and the Keep It 100 at the end took too much a way from the panel format. And then them trying to be funny in the panel was always a bit awkward for a show trying to be about 'keeping it 100'.
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I am inordinately pleased that last night's LWT did an extended riff on Trump and the book The Kid Who Ran For President, a comparison I made a few weeks ago in the presidential campaign thread.
There's a subtle brilliance to that segment too: because there's always been a non-zero chance Trump would get to September, see his polls, and bail so he wouldn't "lose". Now LWT has called it out.
I am inordinately pleased that last night's LWT did an extended riff on Trump and the book The Kid Who Ran For President, a comparison I made a few weeks ago in the presidential campaign thread.
I have to admit to being tempted to buy the book as a gift and have it shipped to Trump's campaign headquarters (or whatever passes for an HQ), but that would require me looking up the address.
But, I'm sure I'm not the only one so tempted. I imagine they'll get a fair stack of them in the coming week.
As someone who otherwise has a lot of love for Philadelphia: The cheez wiz cheesesteak is terrible. It's basically a prank the locals play on themselves.
As someone who otherwise has a lot of love for Philadelphia: The cheez wiz cheesesteak is terrible. It's basically a prank the locals play on themselves.
Seriously. The "original, authentic" version of some local food is traditionally supposed to be the BEST version, not the worst.
Maybe its just me, but when you are accused of being a for profit fuck the children group, maybe offering some contest with a 100k winner is not the best idea...
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Thanks for the link, sent it to my wife that teaches in a non-profit public (owned and operated by the local school district) charter school. It truly is one of the good ones, but that is in part due to the generally well regarded charter school laws that Wisconsin has.
Now, if I could get the state to stop sending public funds to private schools through it's stupid voucher program that would be great.
Also how does that prove him wrong? His argument was that there are good schools, but due to awful regulation there are also many failures which shouldn't be possible with the education of children on the line.
Also that schools are a shitty thing to gamble on because its not like kids can just take their business elsewhere, nor should parents have to be worrying if the school they are funding with tax dollars will turn out to be a fucking scam.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
How much do you want to bet they'll find a way to enter?
To be honest, I'm still surprised that that segment didn't end with a "...and so we opened our own charter school".
While I agree that it'd be funny in principle.
I don't think John would want to fuck with a kid's future just to prove a point.
Hey, they'd only need the kids there for attendance count day. Rent a community center, advertise free ice cream for that day. Do they even check to see the IDs or ages of the kids? Could just be a building of adults that like ice cream.
Charter School!
Learned something new from TDS--apparently, Americans thought Vladimir Putin was taller than he actually is?
For 16 years now, Russians have jokingly called him, "That short, bald (or boring) colonel." I assumed everyone knew he wasn't a tall guy. And of course, as a short person, I recognize one of my own, so to speak.
Also I've never seen a judo practitioner who wasn't considered "short" by American standards. That might be a coincidence though....
Learned something new from TDS--apparently, Americans thought Vladimir Putin was taller than he actually is?
For 16 years now, Russians have jokingly called him, "That short, bald (or boring) colonel." I assumed everyone knew he wasn't a tall guy. And of course, as a short person, I recognize one of my own, so to speak.
Also I've never seen a judo practitioner who wasn't considered "short" by American standards. That might be a coincidence though....
Since the taller candidate wins like 70% (I may have made that up, but it feels true and is thus thread appropriate) of our elections, we assume all leaders are tall.
Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
Learned something new from TDS--apparently, Americans thought Vladimir Putin was taller than he actually is?
For 16 years now, Russians have jokingly called him, "That short, bald (or boring) colonel." I assumed everyone knew he wasn't a tall guy. And of course, as a short person, I recognize one of my own, so to speak.
Also I've never seen a judo practitioner who wasn't considered "short" by American standards. That might be a coincidence though....
Since the taller candidate wins like 70% (I may have made that up, but it feels true and is thus thread appropriate) of our elections, we assume all leaders are tall.
Learned something new from TDS--apparently, Americans thought Vladimir Putin was taller than he actually is?
For 16 years now, Russians have jokingly called him, "That short, bald (or boring) colonel." I assumed everyone knew he wasn't a tall guy. And of course, as a short person, I recognize one of my own, so to speak.
Also I've never seen a judo practitioner who wasn't considered "short" by American standards. That might be a coincidence though....
Since the taller candidate wins like 70% (I may have made that up, but it feels true and is thus thread appropriate) of our elections, we assume all leaders are tall.
Learned something new from TDS--apparently, Americans thought Vladimir Putin was taller than he actually is?
For 16 years now, Russians have jokingly called him, "That short, bald (or boring) colonel." I assumed everyone knew he wasn't a tall guy. And of course, as a short person, I recognize one of my own, so to speak.
Also I've never seen a judo practitioner who wasn't considered "short" by American standards. That might be a coincidence though....
Since the taller candidate wins like 70% (I may have made that up, but it feels true and is thus thread appropriate) of our elections, we assume all leaders are tall.
Learned something new from TDS--apparently, Americans thought Vladimir Putin was taller than he actually is?
For 16 years now, Russians have jokingly called him, "That short, bald (or boring) colonel." I assumed everyone knew he wasn't a tall guy. And of course, as a short person, I recognize one of my own, so to speak.
Also I've never seen a judo practitioner who wasn't considered "short" by American standards. That might be a coincidence though....
Westerners almost certainly don't know shit about what Russians call Putin or think of him beyond "They seem to really like him". And photos of him in the news media and such never seem framed to highlight his height so people just kinda assume he's at least average. It's just not a thing that comes up ever really.
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Yo I really wish these shows woulsn't take breaks at the same time.
Also I've never seen a judo practitioner who wasn't considered "short" by American standards. That might be a coincidence though....
Heh, I know almost only tall judo practioners (Anton Geesink probably the first that comes to my mind), then again Netherlands. I myself was pretty terrible at it though, because I had the wrong build: tall and thin.
Learned something new from TDS--apparently, Americans thought Vladimir Putin was taller than he actually is?
For 16 years now, Russians have jokingly called him, "That short, bald (or boring) colonel." I assumed everyone knew he wasn't a tall guy. And of course, as a short person, I recognize one of my own, so to speak.
Also I've never seen a judo practitioner who wasn't considered "short" by American standards. That might be a coincidence though....
Westerners almost certainly don't know shit about what Russians call Putin or think of him beyond "They seem to really like him". And photos of him in the news media and such never seem framed to highlight his height so people just kinda assume he's at least average. It's just not a thing that comes up ever really.
Given the American fascination with him as a foreign politician (he is by far the best known I think), I'm surprised Americans would be surprised by this. Lots of public photos show thedifference. I guess Americans only see very specific photos of him, since in China and Taiwan, it's a known fact that he's "closer to our size." Then again, we short people are probably not as enamored with it as Trevor Noah (and his childlike glee--which is part of his charm? ).
Now I have to wonder...do we "shorter" countries trust foreign leaders more or less if they're particularly taller than we are? Are we suspicious of tall foreign leaders? Hmmmm....
Also I've never seen a judo practitioner who wasn't considered "short" by American standards. That might be a coincidence though....
Heh, I know almost only tall judo practioners (Anton Geesink probably the first that comes to my mind), then again Netherlands. I myself was pretty terrible at it though, because I had the wrong build: tall and thin.
I've heard that the Scandinavian countries are, on average, taller than North Americans, so I imagine that's the cause. And I don't think being tall is much help with it, though I only practice Taekwondo, the most mocked of martial arts.
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Learned something new from TDS--apparently, Americans thought Vladimir Putin was taller than he actually is?
For 16 years now, Russians have jokingly called him, "That short, bald (or boring) colonel." I assumed everyone knew he wasn't a tall guy. And of course, as a short person, I recognize one of my own, so to speak.
Also I've never seen a judo practitioner who wasn't considered "short" by American standards. That might be a coincidence though....
When Putin not Putin was on House of Cards he seemed very tall.
Learned something new from TDS--apparently, Americans thought Vladimir Putin was taller than he actually is?
For 16 years now, Russians have jokingly called him, "That short, bald (or boring) colonel." I assumed everyone knew he wasn't a tall guy. And of course, as a short person, I recognize one of my own, so to speak.
Also I've never seen a judo practitioner who wasn't considered "short" by American standards. That might be a coincidence though....
When Putin not Putin was on House of Cards he seemed very tall.
I'm not sure if this is a sign of a end of congenial, "trying to be a network late show host who treats both sides sort of the same" Colbert, or if Trump just temporarily broke his brain, but Colbert laid the fuck into Trump last night. Not, "oh, look at the latest wackiness, isn't it funny?", but flat out "Fuck you for exploiting this racist Birther shit for years, and now trying to unload it on Hilary during a media-supported hotel commercial". It was kinda amazing.
Him, Samantha Bee, and Seth Meyers all did really angry pieces about the Birther thing last night. Not that surprising from Bee or Meyers, but it was the angriest I've seen Colbert for awhile.
I'm not sure if this is a sign of a end of congenial, "trying to be a network late show host who treats both sides sort of the same" Colbert, or if Trump just temporarily broke his brain, but Colbert laid the fuck into Trump last night. Not, "oh, look at the latest wackiness, isn't it funny?", but flat out "Fuck you for exploiting this racist Birther shit for years, and now trying to unload it on Hilary during a media-supported hotel commercial". It was kinda amazing.
Him, Samantha Bee, and Seth Meyers all did really angry pieces about the Birther thing last night. Not that surprising from Bee or even Meyers to an extent, but it was the angriest I've seen Colbert for awhile.
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As a minority Larry and his crew had very little appeal to me. They certainly don't speak for all.
Which was for the best, since at least most of the Nightly people were dependably funny, while being no less informed than the random celebs. Still annoying when Rory or Ricky would whine about Hillary being a liar or some other low-hanging false equivalence jokes, but Larry actually shut that shit down the last time. He needed to do more of that.
I liked it, I will miss it.
The monologue/skit at the open and the Keep It 100 at the end took too much a way from the panel format. And then them trying to be funny in the panel was always a bit awkward for a show trying to be about 'keeping it 100'.
I haven't had a chance to see the episode yet, but that's no reason to hold it up here.
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I have to admit to being tempted to buy the book as a gift and have it shipped to Trump's campaign headquarters (or whatever passes for an HQ), but that would require me looking up the address.
But, I'm sure I'm not the only one so tempted. I imagine they'll get a fair stack of them in the coming week.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Seriously. The "original, authentic" version of some local food is traditionally supposed to be the BEST version, not the worst.
How much do you want to bet they'll find a way to enter?
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Nothing in the rules appears to exclude them. Just need to rep a charter school that arguably exists.
Now, if I could get the state to stop sending public funds to private schools through it's stupid voucher program that would be great.
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To be honest, I'm still surprised that that segment didn't end with a "...and so we opened our own charter school".
While I agree that it'd be funny in principle.
I don't think John would want to fuck with a kid's future just to prove a point.
Battlenet ID: MildC#11186 - If I'm in the game, send me an invite at anytime and I'll play.
Hey, they'd only need the kids there for attendance count day. Rent a community center, advertise free ice cream for that day. Do they even check to see the IDs or ages of the kids? Could just be a building of adults that like ice cream.
Charter School!
For 16 years now, Russians have jokingly called him, "That short, bald (or boring) colonel." I assumed everyone knew he wasn't a tall guy. And of course, as a short person, I recognize one of my own, so to speak.
Also I've never seen a judo practitioner who wasn't considered "short" by American standards. That might be a coincidence though....
Since the taller candidate wins like 70% (I may have made that up, but it feels true and is thus thread appropriate) of our elections, we assume all leaders are tall.
Really? That often?
I know like...100% of American presidents are not bald since...President Eisenhower, I think. There is, of course, a gag about Imperial Russian and Soviet communist leaders alternating between bald and hairy for almost 300 years.
You learn something new every day.
Also, facial hair-less for over 100 years now!
Well, that's just being cautious. It moderately lowers the chance of electing a dictator.
Westerners almost certainly don't know shit about what Russians call Putin or think of him beyond "They seem to really like him". And photos of him in the news media and such never seem framed to highlight his height so people just kinda assume he's at least average. It's just not a thing that comes up ever really.
I need my fiiix.
Heh, I know almost only tall judo practioners (Anton Geesink probably the first that comes to my mind), then again Netherlands. I myself was pretty terrible at it though, because I had the wrong build: tall and thin.
Given the American fascination with him as a foreign politician (he is by far the best known I think), I'm surprised Americans would be surprised by this. Lots of public photos show the difference. I guess Americans only see very specific photos of him, since in China and Taiwan, it's a known fact that he's "closer to our size." Then again, we short people are probably not as enamored with it as Trevor Noah (and his childlike glee--which is part of his charm?
Now I have to wonder...do we "shorter" countries trust foreign leaders more or less if they're particularly taller than we are? Are we suspicious of tall foreign leaders? Hmmmm....
I've heard that the Scandinavian countries are, on average, taller than North Americans, so I imagine that's the cause. And I don't think being tall is much help with it, though I only practice Taekwondo, the most mocked of martial arts.
*scurries away*
When Putin not Putin was on House of Cards he seemed very tall.
Viktor "Not Putin" Petrov is the weird synthesis amalgamation of three different Russian leaders. Biology says he has to be taller than all three.
Also, by the series' own rules, he must've come to power after Pres. Mevedev (hair), who replaced Pres. Putin (bald) around 2004 for whatever reason.
Can't wait for them to come back, it's going to be another long couple of weeks.
We will all reminisce about the before time...
Him, Samantha Bee, and Seth Meyers all did really angry pieces about the Birther thing last night. Not that surprising from Bee or Meyers, but it was the angriest I've seen Colbert for awhile.
Don't just talk about it, show it!